Aviation

Dutch Court Issues Guilty Verdict to Three Accused, Acquits Fourth in MH17 Trial
The verdict comes after years of controversial trials held in the Netherlands. Dutch judicial authorities willfully excluded the Russians from investigations into the plane crash and ignored evidence presented by Moscow. A Dutch court has issued a verdict in the trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian over their alleged roles in the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet an [...]
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Humanitarian flights for Ukraine loaded with weapons, protesting airport workers claim
Airport workers in Italy claim “humanitarian” cargo from Pisa was actually aimed at fueling the conflict. One of Italy’s largest trade unions has called for a protest outside the Pisa airport on Saturday, after receiving a tip from some employees that Ukraine relief flights were transporting weapons and ammunition, not food and medicine. Several workers at the Galileo Galilei airport refused [...]
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FAA Warned by Doctors in Letter Describing Vaccine Hazard, Health, FAA Violations
A group of doctors and others have penned a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration, explaining a problem that they’ve identified with the Covid-19 vaccine: Pilots are flying with unapproved medications in their bodies, in violation of FAA rules. According to the letter signers, which include attorneys and medical doctors, the airline industry is operating in violation of Title 14 of th [...]
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US announces new deal with Moscow to boost commercial flights through Russian airspace after firms warned planes could be grounded
Russia has given the green light for American airlines to lay on flights across the world's largest country, Washington has claimed, in a move that would likely see Moscow collect large sums in exchange for opening up the skies. On Thursday, the US State Department announced that Russia has accepted requests made by the American airline association for both international passenger journeys an [...]
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Southwest Airlines pilots and staff are flying in the face of corporate and government vaccine mandates – and about time, too 🎞️
Southwest Airlines’ top brass can deny the massive delays they’ve been experiencing have anything to do with their insistence staff take Covid shots or lose their job till they are blue in the face... but no one is buying it. Southwest is experiencing turbulence. Over the weekend, the Texas-based airline canceled over 1,800 flights. Monday was no better: almost 400 more flights were ca [...]
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JFK Jr PLANE CRASH – Setting the Record STRAIGHT! 🎞
It's now been over 20 years since the fatal JFK Jr plane crash. Even though this crash is one of the most scrutinized General Aviation accidents in history, it is extremely difficult to find an accurate account of what actually happened. A mountain of misinformation, speculation, and rushing to judgements, already exist that throw John F. Kennedy Jr Private Pilot under the bus without merit. It' [...]
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Open Skies no more: US breaks with its NATO allies to pull out of Cold War-era deal that aided global security, blaming Russia
President Donald Trump’s US government has on Sunday withdrawn from an international treaty that allows countries to monitor military hardware build-ups from afar, accusing Moscow – without evidence – of breaking its terms. The Open Skies Treaty was first considered by the US and the Soviet Union in the 1950s as a possible way to increase transparency around troop movements and the depl [...]
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Rolls-Royce junk? Legendary British firm’s credit rating cut below investment grade
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded engine maker Rolls-Royce’s credit rating to junk, citing the disruption caused to global air travel from the coronavirus pandemic. The British company’s rating has been lowered to “BB” from “BBB”, (below investment grade) in response to Rolls-Royce’s worsening near-term prospects as whole fleets of planes remain gro [...]
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Final Seconds of Doomed Ukrainian Military AN-26’s Flight Caught on Video
26 people, comprising 19 air cadets and seven flight crew, were killed after the Antonov AN-26 military transport plane they were traveling in slammed into the ground outside an air base about 420 km east of Kiev on Friday night. One cadet survived the crash. CCTV camera footage captured the final seconds of the flight of the An-26 aircraft which crashed in Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine [...]
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US Unable to Provide Extra Information on Missile Fired at Boeing MH17, Dutch Judge Says
US authorities have informed the Netherlands of being unable to provide additional information about a missile fired at the Malaysian Airlines Boeing, МН17, apart from a document sent in 2014, presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis has stated at the resumed hearings in the MH17 case. "The court asked whether classified satellite images of the missile launch, presented to Dutch special servic [...]
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‘Everything’s Going as Planned’: Russia Ships First of Dozens of Ansat Helicopters Ordered by Mexico
Russian Helicopters and their Mexican partner – the Craft Avia Center announced plans to form a partnership to market the Ansat multi-purpose helicopter in Mexico several years back, with the Mexican side opening a service center earlier this year. The global economic slowdown and coronavirus pandemic has not held Mexico back from taking delivery of its first Ansat helicopter, Jose de V [...]
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Hearings on MH17 Postponed Until 23 March
Earlier in the day, prosecutor in the MH17 case Thijs Berger said that the investigation into the 2014 downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine had almost been completed and the materials will be handed over to the court by June. The Dutch court announced on Tuesday that the hearings on the MH17 crash have been postponed until 23 March. [...]
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WATCH Aleppo intl airport receive FIRST flight ending years-long shutdown after Syrian troops clear recovering city of militants 🎞️
A Syrian Air flight has landed at Aleppo International Airport for the first time in years, marking a milestone in the recovery of the city, which has been returning to normal life from the abyss of its civil war. The commercial flight, carrying Syrian officials and journalists, landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, some 40 minutes after taking off from the capital, Damascus. The arrival of the Airbus A3 [...]
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Pentagon Testing Chief Blasts ‘High Risk’ Software Update Regimen for F-35s
The head of the Pentagon’s testing and evaluation department sharply criticized the F-35 program’s schedule for incremental software updates on the high-tech aircraft, calling it “high risk” as the program falls further and further behind schedule. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft is basically a giant, flying computer, and its greatest asset, according to Air Force st [...]
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Mission incapable? Pentagon review finds gun on F-35 fighter jet can’t hit targets & 800+ software glitches – report
The long list of problems plaguing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter continues to grow, with a Pentagon review finding over 800 software flaws in the costly aircraft, as well as defects that prevent its guns from hitting targets. The annual assessment by the Pentagon’s director of operational testing and evaluation, Robert Behler, revealed that the program that has cost over $400 billion so far has [...]
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Why Putin landed in foggy Kyrgyz capital, while defense minister’s plane turned away
Vladimir Putin’s plane landing in Bishkek despite heavy fog and high humidity is no reason to doubt the skills of Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s pilots, who decided to reroute to another airport, a veteran aviator has said. The Russian president’s Ilyushin Il-96-300PU was approaching the airport in the capital of Kyrgyzstan late on Thursday after the crew of Shoigu’s plane had already de [...]
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Plane Wrong Blame Game: How attacks on Iranian & Russian airliners are forgotten
The clamor to blame Iran and ‘Russian missiles’ for this week’s UIA PS752 plane crash in Iran is a reminder of how geopolitics plays its part in determining which disasters get the coverage, and which don’t. A missile taking down a passenger airliner, which had departed from Tehran airport, with heavy loss of life. No I’m not talking about this week’s Ukrainian International Airlines P [...]
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Top Secret Air Force One Facts That You Never Knew – So Goodly
Air Force One is way more than just a private jet for the President of the United States of America. There are many secrets within it that not many people know, but some information has been leaked about Air Force One that is quite interesting. Read on to find out some of those secrets. It is really interesting to know that Air Force One contains not just one kitchen, but two. These massive kit [...]
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US Observers Wowed by Unusual ‘Sexy Blue Colour Afterburners’ of Russia’s Tu-22M3 Bomber 🎞️
The Tu-22 strategic and maritime strike bomber is one of the mainstays of the Russian Aerospace Forces’ strategic bomber fleet, capable of fielding a broad range of standoff weapons including the Kinzhal, an air-launched, nuclear-capable hypersonic, maneuverable cruise missile unveiled by President Putin in a speech to lawmakers in 2018. [...]
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Bye-bye Boeing: Russia’s biggest airline cancels 787 Dreamliner order
Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot has formally canceled an order for 22 Boeing 787 Dreamliners valued at about $5.5 billion. This adds to the pressure on Boeing due to the grounding of 737 MAX jets after two recent crashes. The cancelation was not announced by either side but was buried in Boeing’s monthly order release. According to Reuters’ sources, the US plane maker faces the growing possi [...]
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Gotta Go Fast: MiG-25 Fighter Jet Frightened NATO With its Insane Velocity, US Media Reveals
The military aircraft, created in 1964 still remains faster than any other fighter plane even from the fourth and fifth generations. The world's fastest fighter jet, the MiG-25 (NATO reporting name Foxbat) frightened the US and its NATO allies when it was designed by the Soviet Union, according to the military-themed portal We Are the Mighty. [...]
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High-speed armed drones to complement MiG-35 multi-role fighter jets & other aircraft – manufacturer
Russia’s leading aircraft manufacturer has said it is developing a new type of an aircraft complex based on high-speed drones that can be used in concert with advanced MiG-35 lightweight fighter jets and other warplanes. Russia's MiG Aircraft Corporation, which marks its 80th anniversary on Sunday, said that it has been working on a brand new type of unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) that ca [...]
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