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A Delta Air Lines jet slipped off the runway at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a snowstorm moves across the Twin Cities. Metropolitan Airports Commission spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski says the plane had landed and was taxiing to the gate when its right main wheel slid into a grassy a...

Are there any other Gvt planes expected for the EU top?

No, should be from Ukraine Gvt for EU top.
No flight#

Hello,

there are rumours that an Ukrainian IL62 will visit BRU tomorrow?
Can anyone confirm and have ETA/ETD?

Thanks in advance,
Joop

Lufthansa's first A380 aircraft will visit several locations in Germany during training flights in early June, before transporting the German football team and fans to Johannesburg for the World Cup. The carrier takes delivery of its first superjumbo, officially named Frankfurt am Main, on May 19, a...

Hong Kong - A Swiss Air passenger plane was undergoing repairs Thursday in Hong Kong after four of its tyres exploded on the taxiway of the city's airport, wrecking one of the plane's engines and forcing it to abandon take-off. The Airbus, with 243 people aboard, suffered extensive damage in the inc...

Boeing Co. says it delivered 108 commercial jets in the first quarter of 2010. The number announced Thursday is down from 121 jets in first quarter 2009 and 122 for the fourth quarter of last year. Boeing Commercial Airplanes spokesman Jim Proulx (Proo) says that's due to normal variation and custom...

The Qantas plane landed without incident after an indicator in the cockpit showed a defect with one of the aircraft's flaps. A Qantas flight from Sydney to Canberra was forced to abort a landing this afternoon. Qantas says an indicator in the cockpit showed a defect with one of the plane's flaps as ...

Qantas's horror run of technical problems continued today, with a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet grounded in Melbourne after a cockpit window cracked on a flight from Los Angeles. It's the second occurrence for Qantas of a cracked pane this month, the other occurring on a Boeing 737 domestic flight. The p...

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Oman intends to buy Eurofighter jets from the U.K., the BBC reported Friday, citing a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The sale of the aircraft, also known as Typhoon, to the sultanate will help secure British jobs and "further enhance the strong strategic rel...

CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) -- United Airlines says it is reconfiguring and jazzing up the planes the U.S. air carrier uses for some of its long-haul overseas flights. The updates to 46 of United's Boeing 777 aircraft include such things as video-on-demand even for passengers flying in cheaper seats, lie...

The fatal crash of a Yemeni Airbus jet into the Indian Ocean is heightening scrutiny of the safety standards of developing nations and their airlines. The European Union said it will assess whether to add Yemen to a list of countries with unsafe airlines that includes Swaziland and Indonesia, follow...

Boeing's first 787, ZA001, is two days into its planned seven-day intermediate gauntlet test that will test integrated functions of the aircraft systems while fooling the aircraft into believing it is flying, the company confirms. The testing got underway Friday evening and rolled into Saturday morn...

British Airways is to defer replacing by at least three years its 19 Boeing 737-400s, as the carrier tries to reduce capital expenditures to offset the impact of the economic downturn. BA chief Willie Walsh told analysts at a 26 May luncheon in New York that the carrier's 737-400 fleet, which is bas...

Brasilia - Eleven people died when a private plane crashed on landing at an airport in the northern Brazil state of Bahia, rescue officials said. The accident occurred in a heavy rainstorm as the King Air 350 plane was landing at the Trancoso private airfield Friday night, Lieutenant Gilmar Santos o...

The airspeed of a Thomsonfly Boeing 737-300 on approach to Bournemouth airport, UK, dropped to 82kt (151km/h), the aircraft stalled, and the maximum pitch-up during the crew's go-around manoeuvre was 44°, according to an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report. The crew recovered control of the ai...

Qatar Airways plans to invest $1bn on infrastructure expansion at Doha International Airport to cope with rising passenger traffic and fleet size until the new airport opens in 2012, reported The Peninsula. The plan includes the increasing the seating capacity of the airline’s Premium Terminal to 57...

Royal Jordanian airline is considering launching a compensation plan against Boeing, after its orders for eight 787 Dreamliners was pushed back by three years. The planes were originally scheduled for delivery from the fourth quarter of 2010. Samer Majali, CEO of the airline, said it is working with...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released its preliminary report regarding the take-off of an Airbus A340-500 flown by Emirates that nearly turned into a disaster. http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2009/AAIR/pdf/AO2009012_Prelim.pdf http://xrl.us/bescyd The p...

May 15, Colombo: Sri Lanka has ordered a number of military transport helicopters and other weaponry from Russia, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said today quoting Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. The Russian state-owned news agency reported that the Defence Secretary in an exclu...