LATAM A320 Engine Fire in Lima: Passengers Off Before Take-off
Share this story LATAM flight LA2302 never left Lima for Piura. On the morning of Monday 19 October 2026, a LATAM Airlines Perú Airbus A320 caught fire on the ground at Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport, minutes from departure. Videos shared by...
North Atlantic Tracks: How Airliners Actually Cross the Ocean
Share this story Somewhere over the middle of the North Atlantic, a few hundred airliners are flying through airspace where nobody can see them. There is no radar out there. For most of the crossing there is no VHF radio either. The nearest controller is in Prestwick...
Airline Fuel Reserves: What the FAA and EASA Actually Demand
Share this story A Boeing 747-8 holds 238,610 litres of fuel. Boeing prints the figure in its own airport planning document, to the litre, alongside the 63,034 US gallons and 191,565 kilogrammes that are the same quantity in other clothes. It is the number search...
SyberJet SJ36 Mockup Unveiled: A Mach 0.88 Light Jet Promise
Share this story In Las Vegas today, on the eve of NBAA-BACE, SyberJet Aircraft is pulling the covers off a full-scale mockup of the SJ36 at Henderson Executive Airport. It is a nine-seat light jet that, on paper, would fly faster and farther than anything else in its...
Four-Engine Airliners: Why the 747, A380 and A340 Are Vanishing
Share this story On Monday morning, Lufthansa flew its last Airbus A340-600 passenger service into Frankfurt. The Boeing 747 has been out of production since 2022. The last Airbus A380 was delivered in 2021. In barely five years, the four-engined long-haul airliner...
Bomb Threat on a Plane: What Pilots and Crews Actually Do
Share this story On Sunday night, an Austrian Airlines A320 flying from Tel Aviv to Vienna received a bomb threat, diverted to Sofia under a Bulgarian MiG-29 escort, and landed safely. Nothing was found. That is how almost all of these end. But the crew could not know...
R34 Airship: The First Return Flight Across the Atlantic, 1919
Share this story In the small hours of 2 July 1919, at East Fortune in Scotland, the order came to walk her out. Ground crews hauled a 643-foot hydrogen airship out of its shed into a cold, misty north-easterly wind. On board were around 30 men, a kitten called...
Samora Machel’s Tu-134: The Mbuzini Crash, 40 Years On
Share this story It was a clear night over the Lebombo Mountains, with ten kilometres of visibility and only scattered cloud. At 21:21 on 19 October 1986, a Tupolev Tu-134 carrying the President of Mozambique flew into a hillside at Mbuzini, just inside South Africa...
San Jose Plane Crash: Cessna Cardinal Nosedives Onto an Expressway
Share this story It was a little after three on Saturday afternoon in East San Jose when a small propeller plane came down nose-first onto the roadway near Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive. The aircraft crumpled. Somehow, all three people inside survived: two...
Lufthansa A340-600 Retires: D-AIHW Flies the Final LH419
Share this story At Frankfurt on Monday morning, a very long white airliner rolled out on the runway, slowed, and turned off for the last time with passengers aboard. Lufthansa flight LH419 from Washington Dulles had landed on schedule after eight hours and five...
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