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Travel worries ease as Airbus delivers quick software fix
AFP, Published on 29/11/2025
» PARIS - Fears of days of travel chaos across the world eased on Saturday after the plane manufacturer Airbus intervened rapidly to deliver a software upgrade it had said was immediately needed on 6,000 of its stalwart A320 passenger jets.
Global flights in chaos as top-selling Airbus jet hit by recall
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/11/2025
» HONG KONG — Airlines across the world cancelled hundreds of flights and scrambled to adjust schedules, as a major Airbus SE software glitch threatened to derail a crucial holiday travel season.
War, trade and Air India crash cast cloud over Paris Air Show
AFP, Published on 14/06/2025
» PARIS - War, tariffs and the Air India crash will cast a shadow over the Paris Air Show as the aerospace industry's biggest annual gathering opens on Monday.
AirAsia flight to China turns back due to engine issue, lands safely
Reuters, Published on 27/03/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR — An AirAsia flight bound for China returned to Kuala Lumpur due to an engine issue shortly after takeoff and landed safely with no injuries reported, Malaysian authorities and the airline said on Thursday.
Austrian flight lands safely after hailstones rip away nose cone
Bloomberg, Published on 10/06/2024
» An Austrian Airlines flight landed safely in Vienna after a severe hailstorm tore away much of the plane’s nose cone and left the front windows riddled with cracks.
2 Indonesian Batik Air pilots suspended after falling asleep in cockpit
Bloomberg, Published on 10/03/2024
» Batik Air, full-service carrier of Indonesia’s Lion Group, temporarily suspended two pilots after they fell asleep in the cockpit during a domestic flight in late January, the carrier said in a statement.
Indonesia probes case of sleeping pilots
Published on 09/03/2024
» The Indonesian transport ministry has opened an investigation into Batik Air after two of its pilots were found to have fallen asleep during a recent domestic flight.
Israel foreign minister opens embassy on landmark visit to Bahrain
AFP, Published on 01/10/2021
» MANAMA - Israel's top diplomat Yair Lapid began a landmark visit Thursday to Bahrain where he opened the Israeli embassy one year after the US-brokered normalisation of ties.
New Flight Simulator game takes off with French studio in cockpit
AFP, Published on 18/08/2020
» BORDEAUX - Many aircraft are still grounded due to the coronavirus pandemic, but would-be and real pilots took to the virtual skies on Tuesday with the first update in years of Microsoft's venerable Flight Simulator game.
Pilots' virus chat blamed for deadly Pakistan plane crash
AFP, Published on 25/06/2020
» ISLAMABAD - The pilots of a plane that crashed last month in Pakistan, killing 98 people, were pre-occupied by the coronavirus crisis and tried to land with the aircraft's wheels still up, according to initial official reports released Wednesday.