When safety backfired: How five Spirit jets were disabled by their own protection systemSpirit Airlines faced an issue at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. A fire suppression system activated accidentally. This happened during a th...
07 Jul, 2025, 06.12 PM IST
Not a single aircraft will fly if it’s not 100% safe: Air India CEO promises maximum caution after AI171 crashIn an official communication, Campbell said, "Have our aircraft been deemed safe? Yes. We have completed the additional precautionary check...
20 Jun, 2025, 08.48 PM IST
Air India crashed plane's engines were 'inspected' in recent months, Tata's airline tells Maharaja Club membersFollowing the tragic crash of Air India Flight AI171, the airline is reassuring its customers. Air India is cooperating with the investigat...
20 Jun, 2025, 08.12 AM IST
Air India Crash: Boeing 787’s emergency power system was likely active before crashInvestigators suspect Air India Flight 171's emergency power system activated before its fatal Ahmedabad crash, raising engine failure conc...
18 Jun, 2025, 10.25 PM IST
Air India's 83 wide-body flights cancelled between June 12 to 17: DGCABetween June 12 and 17, 2025, a total of 83 wide-body flights operated by Air India were cancelled, including 66 Boeing 787 flights, the Di...
17 Jun, 2025, 11.45 PM IST
US picks 31 regional hubs to spur tech innovation with $500 million corpusThe new programme aims to spread the benefits of tech sector growth beyond traditional hubs from California's Silicon Valley to Boston, sai...
24 Oct, 2023, 02.47 PM IST
Biden administration picks 31 regional tech hubs to spur US innovationCommerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters the program aimed to diversify the United States away from its traditional tech hubs like S...
23 Oct, 2023, 02.47 PM IST
Biden administration picks 31 regional tech hubs to spur US innovationThe U.S. Commerce Department has announced the names of 31 regional tech hubs that will be eligible for $500 million in federal funding to ...
23 Oct, 2023, 02.44 PM IST
Here’s what you do with two-thirds of the world’s jets when they can’t flyAircraft can’t simply be dusted back into action. They need plenty of work and attention while in storage.
17 Apr, 2020, 11.59 PM IST
For the first time in 60 years: ‘Silver Spitfire’ to take to skies for round-the-world record flight attemptThe iconic WW2 Spitfire underwent a two-year painstaking restoration.
16 Jul, 2019, 05.18 PM IST
DGCA issues show cause notices sent to Chennai, Ahmedabad airport directors over safety lapsesThe inspection of the airports was done earlier this month by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
09 Jul, 2019, 07.51 PM IST
Air Works releasing planes without fixing defects: DGCA auditDuring the audit, DGCA also found that dedicated store inspectors had not been made responsible for the Juhu (Mumbai) and Pune facilities, ...
30 Dec, 2018, 10.32 PM IST
Poop-li live! When stink fell from the skyKalia said villagers believed it to be a meteor because the ice hadn’t melted, possibly because of the winter weather.
21 Jan, 2018, 09.53 AM IST
Air pollution, Art of Living and Ganga hogged limelight in NGT in 2016The year not only saw slapping of hefty fines on public authorities, but big corporate houses too were penalised for damaging ecology.
27 Dec, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
Poop falling from skies! NGT orders inspectionIt also asked CPCB that if excreta was found, samples should be collected for analysis and the report placed before the tribunal.
28 Oct, 2016, 03.52 PM IST
Hoax bomb threat in Jet flight; one passenger detained"Bomb squad as well as dog squad inspected the entire aircraft. Nothing suspicious was found," an officer added.
20 Apr, 2016, 02.13 PM IST
Xi Jinping boards new Chinese fighter jetXi, also chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited the training centre and the tarmac of a bomber squadron yesterday.
17 Feb, 2015, 06.58 PM IST