The pilots of Jeju Air Flight 2216 signaled three different plans for landing the stricken plane in the minutes before it crashed and killed 179 people in December, according to a partial transcript of their communication with air traffic controllers obtained by The New York Times. The transcript shows that the pilots reported a bird…
Addressing the British House of Commons in August 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the pilots of the Royal Air Force who were staving off an impending German invasion of the British Isles in what would be known as the Battle of Britain. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much…
Hong Kong’s Cathay Group is planning to hire up to 4,000 employees globally this year with three consecutive recruitment roadshows in the city, Shanghai and London, as the company embarks on a planned expansion to 100 destinations. Patricia Hwang, Cathay’s director of people, said after a recruitment roadshow on Saturday that the group would step…
An Australian couple’s dream trip to Venice turned into a nightmare when flight attendants asked them to stay seated next to a dead body for the final four hours of a 14-hour flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Doha, Qatar. What happened? When a passenger collapsed during a flight, flight attendants tried to save her but…
Valérie André was 10 years old in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator Maryse Hilsz at the Strasbourg airfield in France. She was already committed to becoming a doctor, an ambitious career goal for a young lady at the time. But she was so warmly received when she presented…
The Army has identified the third crew member of a Black Hawk helicopter who died in the collision with a commercial jet in the skies over Washington last week as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, 28, of Durham, N.C. On Friday, the Army released the names of two male aviators who were killed in the crash,…
The Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system to send real-time safety alerts to pilots late Saturday because its primary one was “experiencing a temporary outage,” the Transportation Department said. “The primary NOTAM system is experiencing a temporary outage, but there is currently no impact to the National Airspace System because a backup system…
The cause of the fatal plane crash in South Korea last month is still to be determined, but it thrust into the spotlight a subject little understood by the general public: how airplanes are maintained. Jeju Air, the airline that operated the flight in which 179 people died, said that checks before the flight had…
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has said it remains “very confident” it will return to 100 per cent pre-pandemic capacity by next month with “robust plans in place” for recruitment, but its pilots’ union has expressed doubts. Cathay Group, just two days ahead of the launch of the city’s long-awaited three-runway system on…