Tag: airliner

01 SEP

‘We crashed, but it's OK’: Passenger records dramatic VIDEO after airliner skids into river

A passenger recorded a short video after a Russian Boeing 787 slid off a runway in Sochi, crashing into a river and catching fire on both wings. “We crashed, but it’s OK, I guess,” a man can be heard calmly saying in a short clip recorded minutes after the airliner crashed into a river in […]

26 MAY

Russian unit, GRU officer linked to 2014 shoot-down of airliner over Ukraine

Enlarge / Eliot Higgins (C), founder of online investigation group Bellingcat, addresses a press conference on findings within research on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, on May 25, 2018. – The Netherlands and Australia on May 25 accused Moscow of being behind the 2014 shooting down of flight MH17 over war-torn eastern […]

02 FEB

A South Korean Airliner Just Made an Historic Flight to North Korea (And Came Back)

South Korean Plane Just Made an Historic Flight to North Korea Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site […]

10 NOV

Nerve-shredding moment airliner makes epic nose-first landing caught on camera (PHOTOS)

Published time: 10 Nov, 2017 17:21 A passenger airplane was forced to make an emergency landing at Belfast International Airport without the aid of its front-end landing gear. Flybe flight BE331 took off from Belfast just after 11am Friday en route to Inverness, Scotland before running into trouble. The Bombardier Q-400 had to circle the […]

20 JUN

Inside Airbus’ (Empty) A380plus Double-Decker Airliner

Inside Airbus’ (Empty) A380plus Double-Decker Airliner Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include all credit […]

04 MAY

New Russian airliner set to take on Airbus and Boeing

Published time: 4 May, 2017 09:48 Russia’s МС-21 jet has left the assembly line at the Irkutsk aviation plant and is being prepared for its maiden flight, Izvestia daily reports. Read more Developed by the Irkut Division of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) group, the aircraft left the assembly plant on April 28, according to […]

06 FEB

First large airliner made in China to debut in 2017

China’s first large passenger jet is expected to make its first flight in the first half of this year, state media People’s Daily reported on Monday. The plane is part of China’s ambitious plan to challenge global aircraft makers, has reportedly completed almost all significant static and system integration tests as well as the onboard […]