The Pawan Hans Aircraft crashed during landing at ONGC Rig due to poor visibility.
Aviation
Over 1.5 million domestic passengers and roughly.27 million international travellers passed through the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport last month, which is 93% and 86% more than pre-COVID-19 domestic and international passenger levels.
In a signal that Chinese President XI Jinping could be prepared to loosen the country’s vice-like grip on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and maintaining its ‘dynamic zero’ policy, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways is set to become the first international airline to resume direct flights with Beijing since the beginning of the pandemic.
Following more than 60 in-flight issues concerning the 737 MAX in the 12 months since the FAA approved the plane to fly again, including six crises, US plane builder Boeing is allegedly prepared to request an audit of its production oversight.
According to Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube, Akasa Air, India’s newest airline, plans to launch its commercial operations
Boeing is currently lagging behind on several of its projects. Dreamliner deliveries have been halted on orders from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the 777X program is running years after schedule, and the 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 aircraft are still awaiting recertification.
Europe’s spate of industrial action continued this week with a three-day strike by crew and pilots at Brussels Airlines. The strike, which ran from Thursday, June 23 to Saturday, June 25, forced the revocation of around 315 flights, disrupting the travel plans of about 40,0000 passengers.
Fuselage door warnings lit up on two separate Spicejet planes while taking off on Friday and Saturday, forcing the aircraft to abandon their journeys and return, informed officials of Indian aviation regulator DGCA, which ordered a probe into the incidents.
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had to make an emergency landing in Varanasi on Sunday after a bird struck his helicopter.
Due to staffing issues and strikes, the world’s largest airline, Lufthansa, plans to cancel more than 3,000 flights this summer.