Boeing close to securing a deal with IAF

The Indian Air Force is negotiating talks with Washington for the order of 10 C-17 Globe Master aircraft. If the talks go well then Boeing is set to bag an order worth $5.8 billion. This deal would mean a double boost to the US aerospace and defense group. India has become a focal point for the European and US contractors as it has plans for modernizing its Air Force fleet in the next decade and it is expected that India is ready to spend $100 billion in acquiring around 125 new fighter aircrafts and is considering bid's from US, Europe and Russia.

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Crack discovered inside the Emirates plane

The DGCA has found cracks inside the Emirates flight that took a plunge on sunday loosing almost 18,500 feet.
The flight which was carrying 350 passengers and 14 crew was hit by a Clear Air Turbulence (CAT). The incident had almost lasted for 15 seconds, the investigators in this incident think that the gravitational force and the oscillation the B777 experienced during the CAT might be the key reason for the cracks developed.

Hot air ballon crash kills two

A hot air balloon carrying 14 people crashed in Abu Dhabi on Sunday killing two. Two others were injured and one seriously injured. Among the two killed one was a French and other was an Indian citizen. The civil aviation ministry has probed an investigation into the crash and hasn't revealed the identity of the people who were killed.
The crash happened over a desert.

Emirates Kochi flight had a close call

A major air disaster was on the cards on Sunday morning, thanks to the pilot. A B777 Emirates flight bound to Kochi from Dubai with 350 passengers and 14 crew on board was hit by an air pocket. Passengers and the crew on board suffered anxious moments, it is learnt that the plane hit an air pocket at 20,000 feet and it went into a free fall and lost 18,500 feet before the pilot could regain controls of the aircraft at 1500 feet AGL and landed the aircraft safely at Kochi Intl airport.
The DGCA has launched an inquiry into the incident and has also grounded the aircraft. All passengers where examined by doctors at the Kochi airport and it was reported that 23 passengers were injured.

Man with weapon arrested at Asheville regional airport

A man allegedly carrying a gun, who came to drop off a car at a car rental company at the Asheville regional airport was arrested by the cops on Sunday afternoon. Shortly before the man was arrested the US President Mr Barack Obama was at the airport and the Air Force one had just then taken off. The police claim that the airport's runway was visible from the car rental company's drop off place and they are interrogating the man with a suspicion that he was there for the US President.

Jordanian B767 makes emergency landing in Poland

A Jordanian Royal Airlines B767 was forced to make emergency landing at the Warsaw airport on Sunday. The flight en-route Sweden - Iraq developed a cockpit windshield crack which forced the Pilot to declare an emergency and land immediately at Poland. This is the second of this kind in a very short interval where a same kind of issue was faced by Qantas Airline's Jumbo last month. All passengers on board both the flights where reported safe with no injuries.  

Passenger jet makes an emergency landing after a pressurization scare

An American Airlines B757 with 95 passengers on board, en route from Vancouver to Dallas made an unscheduled landing at the Seattle-Tacoma Intl airport. It seems that the crew had detected a cabin pressure leak and had immediately descended down for a landing at the Sea-Tac airport. All passengers on board were safe with no reported injuries.    

Air France flight 447 still a mystery

The three week search for the Air France jet that crashed June last year in the Atlantic proved to be unsuccessful. The AF 447 an A330 with 228 passengers crashed due to bad weather on-route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil killing all passengers and crew on board. The investigators are still in the hunt for the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) that could possibly explain how the plain went down.
It has been estimated that so far the French Government, Air France and Airbus have together spent nearly $40 million in search of the wreckage, where they have been searching approximately 1,200 square miles.

US Airways ends merger talks with United Airlines

The merger talks between the two major airliner's in US has come to an end. The US airways reported that after some serious consideration it has decided to discontinue the merger talks with the United Airlines. On the other hand the United Airlines has refused to comment on this issue.

Aircraft almost lost an engine in volcanic ash

A Thomas Cook Pilot had to divert back to Manchester airport shortly after take off. The B767 which took off from the the Manchester airport after the ban on airspace was revoked, suffered in the volcanic ash and was safely landed. It seems that there were no passengers on board the flight. The pilot reported that he smelt ash and a bad running engine when the aircraft was at 20,000 ft climbing to 39,000 ft its cruising altitude. Experts fear that the volcanic ash might have clogged the engine values.When asked by the ATC if the pilot wanted to declare an emergency, the pilot had not declared an emergency instead requested priority for landing without being put on holding pattern.