India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is yet to decide whether flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Air India flight that crashed last Thursday will be sent overseas for decoding and analysis. At least 270 people, most of them passengers, were killed when the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute … Read more
The federal government will help Canadians stuck in Iran, Israel and the West Bank leave the region on nearby commercial flights as the deadly conflict escalates. Those Canadians will have to reach a neighbouring country first, however, Foreign Minister Anita Anand said in a statement Thursday. Airspace over Iran and Israel has been closed since … Read more
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says one Canadian was on board an Air India plane that crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday morning, writing in a post on X that he’s “devastated” at the news. Carney said his thoughts are with the loved ones of the more than 240 passengers on board the plane that crashed, with … Read more
A man who posed as a flight attendant on four different airlines scammed 120 free flights over the course of years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced Tuesday. Tiron Alexander, 35, was convicted on June 5 of entering a secure area of an airport under false pretenses and wire fraud. … Read more
Reuters An Air India passenger plane bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after taking off in Ahmedabad on Thursday, leaving at least 204 people dead. The flight was carrying 242 passengers and crew when it was involved in what the airline has called a “tragic accident” in the city in western India. Ahmedabad’s police chief … Read more
An Air India passenger plane with 244 people onboard crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, the airline and local media reported. Visuals on local television channels showed smoke billowing from the crash site near the airport in Ahmedabad. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, told The Associated … Read more