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Low-cost UK airline EasyJet is planning to try out a new lightweight painting method, in an effort to save on fuel usage and cut overall aircraft weights. ADVERTISEMENT The method will mainly cut the number of coats needed per plane to paint the iconic EasyJet white and orange design. The budget airline is working with Mankiewicz Aviation Coatings for the …

A small plane crashed into the roof of a California factory building on Thursday, Jan. 2, and burst, k!lling two people and wounding 18 others, according to officials.   The four-seat, single-engine aircraft nosedived into the furniture manufacturing building — where at least 200 people were inside working at the time — less than two minutes after it took off from …

A final photo has emerged of a three-year-old boy who died in the Jeju Air plane crash that k!lled all but two of the 181 people on board.   Five of those killed on the flight from Thailand to South Korea were children under the age of ten.   Among them was a three-year-old boy, who is understood to have …

Halifax Stanfield International Airport was closed for approximately 90 minutes Saturday night after a landing issue involving Air Canada Flight 2259, operated by PAL Airlines. The plane, arriving from St. John’s, skidded down the runway during landing, with part of the aircraft catching fire.   Passenger Nikki Valentine described the harrowing experience, stating that one of the plane’s tires failed …

A plane crash in South Korea has reportedly k!lled at least 179 people .   The accident occurred early Sunday morningwith the aircraft colliding with a wall at the Airport and exploding after landing on its belly at the Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea.   When it veered off the runway, the Jeju Air flight was coming …

Russian President, Vladimir Putin on Saturday, December 28,  apologised to Azerbaijan’s leader for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but refused to acknowledge that Moscow was responsible. The apology came amid mounting allegations that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defences attempting to deflect …

A Russian surface-to-air missile was responsible for the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432, which killed 38 passengers, Azerbaijani media reports.  Azerbaijani officials cited by the Baku-based news agency AnewZ said preliminary findings suggest the missile was fired from a Russian Pantsir-S defence system as the plane approached Grozny in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya on Wednesday morning, December 25. …

The haunting final words spoken by the pilot of the doomed Azerbaijan Airlines plane before the plane went down have been revealed. The plane crashed on Wednesday,  Dec. 25, and evidence was piling up today that Russian air defences hit the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane which crashed killing 38 people.  The Embraer jet was likely wrongly targeted as a suspected Ukrainian drone by …

  This is the horrific moment a passenger plane with 72 people on board hit the ground in a fireball in a Christmas Day crash landing in Kazakhstan.     The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan’s Aktau Airport close to the Caspian Sea on Wednesday morning, December 25, Kazakh authorities said, with up to 40 people feared de@d.   The aircraft …

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet with 67 people on board crashed near the city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday, December 25, local authorities confirmed. At least 32 survivors have been rescued from the wreckage.   The Embraer 190 aircraft was flying from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia, when it veered off its scheduled …