LOS ANGELES - The first manned aircraft that can fly day and night powered only by solar energy set a new distance record Thursday when it landed after the second leg of a cross-country US tour.The Solar Impulse project, founded and led by two Swiss pilots, aims to showcase what can be accomplished ...

LOS ANGELES - Solar Impulse, the first aircraft that can fly day and night fueled entirely by energy from the sun, embarked Wednesday on the second leg of its historic journey across the American continent.The solar-powered airplane departed at 1147 GMT from an airport in Phoenix, Arizona en route ...

BLANTYRE - Malawi’s presidential jet has been auctioned off to a Virgin Islands company for $15 million, after the cash-strapped government disposed of it to raise funds, an official said Tuesday.Bohnox Enterprise Ltd beat three other bidders for the 14-passenger aircraft used by president ...

BEIJING  - Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday.Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all the threats. The planes were travelling from ...

KATHMANDU  - Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off a Nepal airport runway on Thursday and plunged into a river, police said.All 21 people aboard the Nepal Airlines Twin Otter aircraft were injured, five seriously, police spokesman Keshav ...

  MOFFETT AIRFIELD,California   The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on solar power alone landed in the dark at a major southwesternUSairport, a live feed from the organizer's website showed early Saturday. Solar Impulse, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand ...

  MOFFETT AIRFIELD   The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on the Sun’s power alone took off on the first leg of a trip across theUnited States. Solar Impulse, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, left the runway in northernCaliforniaat6:12 am(13:12 ...

BISHKEK : A military plane crashed shortly after taking off from aUnited Statesairbase inKyrgyzstanon Friday, officials said, though there were no immediate reports of any injuries. “According to my information, the plane broke up into three pieces. Information on the dead or wounded is being ...

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 747 developed a technical fault in one of its engines in early hours of 26th April at Jeddah Airport; the aircraft was to operate PK-732 from Jeddah to Karachi with around 500 passengers, it is learnt on Monday. Reportedly, the aircraft ...

KABUL : A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time. The plane came down inside the airfield boundaries and rescue crews rushed to the scene, ...

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airbase in Afghanistan on Monday, killing all seven crew members on board, officials said.Rescue teams rushed to the scene after the plane smashed into the ground inside the boundaries of Bagram airfield, a key transport hub for ...

Lahore - A private plane carrying country’s main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was forced to land on Friday after its windscreen was damaged midair. Luckily, all the 11 people on board remained safe.The plane was flying from Quetta to Hasilpur, where the PML-N president was to address a ...

A plane, with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-N president Mian Muhammad Nawaz Shairf on board, made an emergency landing here in Lahore after its windshield cracked down on Friday. The plane, was en route from Quetta to Hasilpur, was flying at the altitude of 9,000 feet when it's windshield developed ...

ACCORDING to its creator, this thing is the closest a human being can get to skydiving without actually leaping from a plane. From where I’m dangling, I’d say it’s closer to being Superman - with a hefty dose of Eddie the Eagle. It involves flying face-down, head-first, for a mile ...

A DRUNKEN passenger on a flight to New York was taped to his seat after allegedly spitting on other travellers, trying to choke a woman and yelling the plane was going to crash. A picture and account of the bizarre event was posted to Tumblr by Andy Ellwood, from New York, who said he was filled in ...

Rahim Yar Khan  - Pakistan International Airlines flight PK 743 on its way to Karachi from Multan developed a problem in one of its engines and had to land at Sheikh Zayed International Airport here on Friday. The Boeing 737 aircraft with 115 passengers and crew onboard had to land here as one ...

NICE - French authorities on Thursday evacuated a Norwegian Airlines jet about to take off from Nice after a piece of paper with the words “Al-Qaeda bomb” and Arabic inscriptions was found in the hold. The plane and all baggage were searched after the 127 passengers and the crew were ...

LAHORE - A PIA flight operated by ATR plane from Islamabad to Lahore strayed off the runway while landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday, injuring three people on board, said sources.After the incident, the runway  was closed down which could not be reopened till filing of ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian government jet carrying a medical team made a successful landing on an icy runway in Antarctica Thursday to rescue a sick scientist from the United States’ McMurdo Station base.The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), a branch of the government’s environment ...

SIALKOT - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that a comprehensive strategy will be evolved in consultation with major Chambers of Commerce and Industry to cope with electricity crisis in Punjab.The chief minister also announced the establishment of Sialkot Development Authority (SDA), ...

JAKARTA  - Buoyed by rapid economic growth, Indonesia has become a bonanza for international plane makers who are booking some of the world’s biggest sales as Western airlines suffer a downturn.Europe’s Airbus and US manufacturer Boeing have secured billions of dollars in orders ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was traveling from Chachran Sharif to Islamabad when aircraft made unscheduled landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport due to bad weather, sources said. However, Airport Manager Lahore and PIA official categorically denied any such landing. PM visited Chahran ...

RAWALPINDI - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday narrowly escaped a disaster when his special plane made an emergency landing at Chaklala Airbase shortly after taking off owing to some technical fault in the engine.The prime minister was due to visit Sukkur in his special plane while ...

MOSCOW  - Thirty-one people died Monday when a Russian jet crashed and burst into flames moments after taking off from an oil-rich Siberian region, where another jumbo jet aborted its flight a few hours later.The emergencies ministry said the French-Italian made ATR-72 was carrying 39 ...

A flight with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, several federal ministers and high profile people among those on board Tuesday made an emergency landing at Chaklala airbase minutes after it took off. The special Jet flight had to return to Chaklala airbase soon after it took off Tuesday afternoon ...

A Russian passenger plane carrying 43 people was crashed shortly after take-off in Siberia, officials said on Monday.Thirty-two people were killed and 11 survivors have been taken to hospital, Russia's emergencies ministry said.The ATR-72 turboprop aircraft had just left Tyumen on a flight ...

LAHORE – First-ever plane carrying Defence Minister Ch Ahmad Mukhtar landed at the newly-completed runway of New Benazir Bhutto International Airport (NBBIA) on Thursday, said spokesman of Civil Aviation Authority here. The work on runways and taxiways stands completed while the rest of the ...

CHICAGO - A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane on Friday was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said.The incident at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the ...

ISLAMABAD – Brigadier Ali Khan, currently facing court martial for alleged links with the banned Hizbut Tahrir, had conspired with an air force pilot to bomb the General Headquarters with an F-16 jet during a conference of the corps commanders, reported BBC on Thursday.Brig Ali Khan was ...

LAHORE - A teenage trainee pilot and his female instructor were found dead, shortly after a two-seater airplane on a training flight crashed in the porch of a house, situated in the Model Town area on Thursday afternoon, police and rescue workers said.The aircraft, Cessna 152, which belonged to the ...