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Travel warning issued: This one mistake during airplane emergency could cost lives, IATA warnsA new safety campaign launched by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), with support from the FAA and EASA, is urging airline...
Akasa Air flight from Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar diverted to Lucknow due to bad weather, lands safely laterAn Akasa Air flight from Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar was diverted to Lucknow due to bad weather. The flight later landed safely at the destina...
IndiGo flight from Bengaluru to Chennai evacuated after smoke spotted on aircraft during taxingAn IndiGo flight from Bengaluru to Chennai was evacuated on Monday. Smoke was noticed on board the aircraft while it was taxiing for depart...
French hantavirus patient is critically ill, on an artificial lung as total cases grow to 11A French woman is critically ill with hantavirus, requiring an artificial lung, as the cruise ship outbreak reaches 11 cases and three deat...
Passenger's electronic device catches fire on IndiGo flight after landing at Mohali airportAn IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Chandigarh experienced a scare after landing at Mohali. A passenger's power bank caught fire, filling th...
Watch: United Airlines 787 engine catches fire, makes emergency return to LAX, passengers evacuatedA United Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner returned to Los Angeles International Airport shortly after takeoff due to reports of an engine f...
Watch: Delta aircraft catches fire before takeoff at Orlando airport, passengers evacuate using slidesA Delta Air Lines flight was evacuated at Orlando International Airport after an engine fire forced emergency procedures. All 282 passenger...
IndiGo passenger deploys emergency slide before takeoff at Delhi airport, airline respondsA passenger inadvertently deployed an emergency slide on an IndiGo flight from Delhi to Leh before takeoff, causing delays at the Delhi air...
Flying somewhere? This 90 second rule can save your life in a mid-air emergencyTo ensure safe evacuation, aircraft manufacturers must demonstrate that passengers can be evacuated within 90 seconds using half of the exi...
Bomb threat: IndiGo flight from Chennai makes emergency landing after unclaimed remote was foundAn IndiGo flight from Chennai to Mumbai with 172 people onboard made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat, safely arriving at 8:45 am....
A burning jet, three exits: How 379 flyers were saved in TokyoModern planes must be able to fully evacuate in as little as 90 seconds, using just half the number of their available exits. The Japan Air...
DGCA asks airlines to frame guidelines for rapid disembarkationA circular has been issued to all airlines that specifically mentioned that emergency exits and slides are not to be used in rapid disembar...
Situation in Sudan highly volatile; our focus is to ensure safety of Indians:FS Kwatra"Our focus has been to take out the Indians from the conflict zones to safer areas as soon as possible and then to bring them back home," t...
US military disabled scores of aircraft before leaving Kabul airportCentral Command head General Kenneth McKenzie said 73 aircraft that were already at Hamid Karzai International Airport were "demilitarized,...
Indian Navy ships, submarines to ensure helicopter evacuation of coronavirus affected crew, quarantine in compartmentsThe guidelines focus on what needs to be done if a COVID-19 case is reported on board a ship or a submarine while at sea, officials said on...
'Bilateral exercises useful during important naval operations'"Some of your (Indian) ships conducted evacuation of French nationals from Yemen. We have been very grateful for the support provided by th...
Flyers carry bags during evacuation: Panel to DGCAA government probe panel examining one such recent incident has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ask airlines to s...
Scare in Jet Airways flight, plane lands safelyA Mangaluru-bound Jet Airways flight with 65 passengers and four crew members on board today returned to the airport here shortly after dep...
Jet Airways pilot put passengers in danger in MumbaiThe passengers and eight crew members stayed inside flight 9W 354 from Delhi for close to 40 minutes even as fire engines sprayed foam on t...
Maintenance lapse caused fire in IndiGo flight last year: DGCAThe fire in an IndiGo aircraft at Kathmandu last year was due to "over tightening" of hose pipe at the time of maintenance work, according ...