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A QantasLink Boeing 717-200 remains stuck in the mud at Rockhampton Airport on Queensland’s mid-north coast. The plane became bogged in the grass alongside a taxiway early on Monday evening after flying in from Brisbane. Almost 48 hours later, the jet stays firmly on the ground. It’s another aircraft temporarily out of action at Qantas and another headache for the airline.c

In its 2022 Global Market Forecast, Airbus forecasts the demand for 39,490 new passenger and freighter aircraft over the next 20 years. The 2022 forecast is 470 aircraft over last year’s, which Airbus attributes to boosted demand for the new technology and fuel-efficient aircraft to replace older planes. The forecast is also positively impacted by 2021, an especially weak year for aviation, falling out of the 20-year forecast time.

PM Narendra Modi is all set for his Bihar-Jharkhand visit on Tuesday and he will unveil developmental projects of more than ₹16,800 crores in Deoghar, including the inauguration of an airport, for which the Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone in Jharkhand on May 25, 2018. Notably, the Deoghar airport will be the second international airport in Jharkhand after Ranchi.