An experimental jumbo-jet sized plane powered by solar energy left Switzerland Thursday for its first transcontinental flight. After stopping in Spain, the pilot hopes to arrive in Morocco next week.
Aeroflot, Russia's main airline, said on Thursday it will continue flying its fleet of Superjet 100 planes, despite one of them crashing during an exhibition flight in Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people.
Helicopters have located the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet that went missing Wednesday night during a flight demonstration near Indonesia's Salak mountain with at least 47 people on board south of the capital, Jakarta.
All 127 people on board a Bhoja airlines flight from Karachi were killed on Friday when the passenger jet crashed near Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport in stormy weather, Pakistani officials said Saturday.
A Bhoja airlines flight from Karachi crashed near Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Friday with 127 people on board, Pakistani officials said. Police said the Boeing 737 came down in the village of Hussain Abad.
The airport in the Yemeni capital Sanaa was closed on Saturday after forces loyal to General Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar, who has refused to step down, threatened to shoot down planes. Ahmar is the half brother of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Around 20% of flights in and out of Paris Orly airport are expected to be cancelled on Tuesday as a strike by French air-traffic controllers enters a second day.
Six parties accused of responsibility in the 2000 Concorde crash that claimed 113 lives go on trial again Thursday in Paris as the court reconsiders technical evidence. A 2010 trial found US carrier Continental and one employee guilty of negligence.
The European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has infuriated the Chinese, which has banned its airlines from contributing, while a bill has been approved by the US Senate calling on the government to use “all tools” to keep US operators exempt.
China said Monday it will bar its airlines from paying charges on carbon emissions of flights in and out of Europe. The United States and Russia also oppose the EU-imposed measures to rein in climate-changing gases, which came into effect this year.
