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Air India terminated the pilot-in-command of its Phuket-Delhi flight after he tested positive for a psychoactive substance. The action followed an AAIB preliminary report flagging drug use as a serious safety concern after the flight suffered an altitude upset

A light plane crashed in Kazakhstan’s Akmola region on Monday, killing its pilot and passenger, authorities said. The Aerostar R40F did not catch fire, and investigators are on site. Separately, a small plane in Montana skidded during landing into parked aircraft, causing a fire; all four aboard escaped with minor injuries.

Following Rakesh Sharma, only individuals of Indian origin have ventured into space: Kalpana Chawla (1997), Sunita Williams (2006), and Raja Chari (2021) as NASA astronauts.

Vistara airline's decision to deny a pilot's request for leave has ignited a storm of outrage on the Internet.

Initially, the ground devices will be set up at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai and the pilots will undergo a five-minute test.

However, rescuers could not retrieve the bodies of Capt. Edzel John Lumbao Tabuzo and student pilot Anshum Rajkumar Konde from the crash site, official Philippine News Agency said

A native of Bibinagar, Umakanth has shown that poverty was not an impediment to reaching great heights in life.

Mumbai: A single-seater aircraft crash landed during a training session in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Monday, said an official from a private aviation academy to which the plane belonged. Its woman pilot suffered minor injuries, police and a medical officer said. The incident took place at Kadbanwadi in Indapur tehsil around 11.30 am. The aircraft […]

New Delhi: Isn’t it fulfilling to see your parents’ hearts swell with pride when they watch you do good in life? Everyone waits for that one opportunity in life to show their parents that they’ve made it in life. An Indian pilot recently shared a video on his Instagram account that went viral and made […]

New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on Vistara for letting an improperly trained pilot land an aircraft with passengers on board at the Indore airport, officials said. The pilot, who was the first officer on the flight, landed the aircraft at the Indore airport without first getting […]

Nalgonda: A woman trainee pilot of a private aviation training institute died when an aircraft crashed near Thungathurthy village of Peddavoora mandal in Nalgonda district on Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Maheema Gajaraj (29), a native of Ayanavaram in Chennai, who was training with Hyderabad-based Flytech Aviation Academy. The mishap took place at […]

Yeager rocketed into history by breaking the sound barrier in the experimental Bell X-1 research aircraft in 1947, helping to pave the way for the US space program.

The Russian-origin MiG-29K jet had taken off from aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, and went down at around 5 PM on Thursday, officials had said.