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Qantas' A-380 grounded by mechanical failure
Melbourne, Australia - Continuing a series of occurrences to the superjumbos
A Qantas Airbus Airbus A-380 aircraft has been grounded yesterday due to a mechanical failure. The 450 passengers on board of the superjumbo, bound for Los Angeles, could leave the airplane only after about 4 hours, when the flight had been definitively cancelled and rescheduled for today: the new security regulations on US-bound flights, in fact, wouldn't have allowed them to disembark and embark...
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AirportsChina: bad weather blocks Harbin-Taiping airport
This is the effect of an unprecedented snowstorm
In these hours China is shaken by an unprecedented snowstorm. According to the railway company China Railway Harbin Group, around 60 trains were blocked throughout the province, while others had to reschedule... more
Civil aviationScotland: plane carrying German national team makes emergency landing
The KlasJet airline plane had departed from Iceland and headed to Germany
The flight KLJ2703, operated by the Lithuanian company KlasJet, carrying the German national football team, makes an emergency landing in Edinburgh. The plane took off from Reykjavik airport, Iceland,... more
AirlinesZurich: United Airlines plane came back after bird-strike
The occurrence happened a few minutes after take-off
Yesterday, Monday August 9, 2021, an aircraft of the air carrier United Airlines was forced to cancel its take-off due to a bird-strike, specifically some birds entered the engine of the plane. It was... more