A bear roaming a runway at a Japanese airport forced staff to cancel flights and declare itself off-limits to passengers for the day. The black bear reappeared on Thursday at northern Japan’s Yamagata Airport, after an initial disruption that caused flight delays and the closure of its runway. Staff used a car to chase it...
The first Britons evacuated out of Israel have landed back in the UK after a “long and intense” journey. The Royal Air Force (RAF) flight departed Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport with 63 British nationals and their family members on Monday afternoon, making a stop in Cyprus before landing at Birmingham Airport early on Tuesday...
The RAF has evacuated 63 British nationals from Israel as Tel Aviv and Tehran continue to exchange fire, the foreign secretary has said. The flight left Tel Aviv on Monday afternoon, taking vulnerable Britons and their immediate family to Cyprus. A British national was also injured in Israel during an Iranian missile attack, David Lammy...
The UK government is organising a chartered flight to take British nationals out of Israel next week. Britons are being asked to register interest in the flight via online forms but have been told not to travel to the airport unless told to do so. Over the past week the government has been working with...
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is yet to decide whether flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Air India flight that crashed last Thursday will be sent overseas for decoding and analysis. At least 270 people, most of them passengers, were killed when the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute...
Bhargava Parikh BBC Gujarati Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Bhumi Chauhan Bhoomi Chauhan says she missed her flight to London after arriving late at Ahmedabad airport Bhoomi Chauhan remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport – so much so that she missed her Air India flight to London...
A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. Using footage and flight data, BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has been taking a look at the final moments before the crash to find out what might have happened. Read full article at source...
AP An Air India passenger plane bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after taking off in Ahmedabad, western India on Thursday. More than 240 people were on board the flight when it was involved in what the airline has called a “tragic accident”. Details are still emerging from the scene. Here is what we know...
Eight passengers were injured on a Ryanair flight that diverted to an airport in southern Germany after experiencing “severe turbulence” due to bad weather, police said. Among those injured on Wednesday night was a two-year-old who suffered bruising and a woman with a head injury, according to Bavarian police. Three people were taken to a...
Plans to fast-track the remodelling of the UK’s flight paths could lead to quicker flights and fewer delays for passengers, the government says. Ministers are set to announce the creation of the UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS) later which will re-design the routes planes must take over UK airspace – many of which were decided...
Craig Williams BBC Scotland News PA Media Almost 40 years on, it seems surprising there are still new stories to tell about the Lockerbie disaster. The destruction of Pan Am 103 in the skies above the small Dumfries and Galloway town on 21 December 1988 is one of the most chronicled events in recent British...
Watch: How two astronauts were left in space for nine months When astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore approached the International Space Station (ISS) last year with failing thrusters on their Boeing Starliner capsule, they were unable to fly forward to dock. And if they couldn’t dock, they didn’t know if they could make it...
A Chinese paraglider has survived being accidentally propelled 8,500m (27,800ft) into the sky above north-west China, state media report. Peng Yujiang was testing new equipment over the Qilian mountains on Saturday, when a rare updraft or air current known as a “cloud suck” pulled him higher into the air. Mr Peng narrowly survived death –...
A Chinese paraglider has survived being accidentally propelled 8,500m (27,800ft) into the sky above north-west China, state media report. Peng Yujiang, 55, was testing new equipment at 3,000m above sea level, over the Qilian mountains, when a rare updraft or air current known as a “cloud suck” pulled him about 5,000m higher into a cloud...
SpaceX on Tuesday launched its ninth Starship test flight from Starbase, Texas, but the rocket encountered issues in orbit due to a booster exploding shortly before its expected splashdown. The early explosion lead to fuel leaks, which caused the rocket to begin spinning uncontrollably. SpaceX said its flight team had lost attitude control as the...