Chinese aircraft to fly Nigeria’s domestic routes
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports A deal might be underway for China’s state owned aircraft manufacturer, COMAC, to provide fleets of jets that would restore vibrancy to the domestic aviation industry and also make more vessels available for new destinations….
Flight captain on booze, Japan Airlines delays flights for 18 hours
Several Japan Airlines flights from Hawaii to Japan delayed up to 18 hours after a pilot was found drinking before his flight; becoming the fourth case a Japan Airlines pilot is caught drinking before a flight. The airline said in…
Passengers in horror as plane plunges 28,000ft in seconds
Terrified passengers texted worried messages to their loved ones as a Virgin Australia flight from Sydney to Brisbane suddenly lost cabin pressure at high altitude and plunged 28,000ft within seconds. Flight VA993 hit crisis just 40 minutes after taking off…
Some 242 Indians, Britons, Canadians dead as Air India flight crashes
Air India flight AI-171, bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, crashed shortly after takeoff near Ahmedabad airport on Thursday. The Boeing 787 aircraft belonging to Air India was carrying around 232 passengers and 10 crew members when it crashed. Indian television…
US accepts Qatar’s Boeing 747 for Air Force 1
The President Donald Trump administration of the United States government has formally accepted the goodwill gift of jumbo plane for the exclusive of the Pentagon as Air Force 1. The Pentagon said Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth accepted a Boeing 747…
How a Lufthansa flight with 200 passengers flew into Spain without pilot
Sopuruchi Onwuka The fate of 200 passengers who were approaching Spain in a Lufthansa flight from France was hung temporarily in the air when the pilot who went to use the toilet was unable to reenter the cockpit and the…
Stranded astronauts to return as NASA capsule docks at ISS
After spending over nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are preparing for their return to Earth. Director of the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Nilesh M Desai stated: “The crew mission is…
Alef Aeronautics proves flying car concept with test flight
Sopuruchi Onwuka Futuristic vehicle producer, Alef Aeronautics, has proved the electric flying car technology with its first vertical lift in a controlled traffic congestion scenario. In the video of the test seen by The Oracle Today, the meshed electric car…
Landing plane flips upside-down at icy Toronto airport
A plane with over 80 passengers and crew crash-landed on an icy runway at Toronto airport on Monday when it flipped, lost its wings and laid upside-down on its roof. The Oracle Today learnt that as many as eight people…
NIDCOM boss lauds ISDEVCOM for honouring AirPeace CEO with Humanitarian Award
Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has commended the local organising committee Institute of Strategic and Development Communication and Development (ISDEVCOM) of Nasarawa State University Keffi (NSUK), for honouring Chairman of AirPeace, Barr. Allen Onyema, with…
