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A Stunning Number of Aircraft Incident's This Past Weekend!
Where to start? Jeju Airlines: December 29, 2024 in South Korea Muan Airport when a Jeju flight Boeing 737 from Thailand to South Korea...

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Dec 30, 20242 min read
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Pan Pan! Quickly Turned into Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
At approximately 11:22a.m. on November 27, 2024 a Nolinor Aviation Beoing 737-400 flight NRL 662 with 87 passengers and 7 crew members...

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Nov 29, 20241 min read
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Is the F-35 Lightening II Right For Canada as Costs Spiral Out of Control!
Has Canada made a big mistake in purchasing the F-35 stealth aircraft? The Pentagon is second guessing their upcoming inventory numbers...

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May 27, 20242 min read
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Low-Cost Canadian Airline Lynx Air Shuts Down!
On February 26, 2024 Lynx Air Will Cease to Exist. Today the Calgary based airline had received an order from the Alberta Court of King's...

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Feb 22, 20241 min read
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Massive Travel Disruption!
All Boeing 737-9 Max Aircraft Grounded! On Saturday January 6, 2024 an Alaska Airlines flight 1282 Boeing 737 Max9 departed Portland for...
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Jan 7, 20241 min read
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US Military Grounds Aircraft!
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey one of the most interesting and utilitarian aircraft of today has been grounded after one crashed into the sea...
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Dec 7, 20231 min read
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Canada Receives First of Two NEW VIP Jets!
The Government of Canada has just received the first of two new (well almost new) VIP aircraft. They are former Kuwait Airlines Airbus...
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Nov 15, 20231 min read
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Canada's RCAF CC-150 Polaris Days Are Numbered!
What is replacing the CC-150 Polaris? On September 3, 2023 the first CC-330 (Airbus A330-200) arrived to replace the aging CC-150 Polaris....
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Sep 4, 20231 min read
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Canada to Replace Aging Maritime Patrol CP-140 Aurora!
Just announced this week that the US Government has approved the sale of P-8 Poseidon to Canada. The Boeing product is to replace the...
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Jun 28, 20231 min read
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RCAF Cormorant Helicopters Getting a Facelift!
Canada's Augusta Cormorant CH-149 Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters have been now scheduled to receive much needed upgrades. The fleet...
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May 2, 20231 min read
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Black Hawk Down!
A U.S. Army Helicopter Crashes! On Wednesday March 29th at approximately 10p.m. local time, two Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk medical...
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Mar 30, 20231 min read
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Final 747 Built is Delivered!
Boeing Says Farewell To The Last 747 Of The Production Line Atlas Air celebrates it's new addition to it's fleet while Boeing and it's...
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Feb 1, 20231 min read
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Aircraft Overshoots Runway and Ends Up In Water!
On September 24, 2022 a West Atlantic 737 cargo aircraft, flight SWN5745 had departed Charles de Gaulle Airport at 2:50a.m. overshot the...
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Sep 27, 20221 min read
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Good News! De Havilland Canada Restarts Production of the DHC-8-400.
The pandemic and slowing sales had caused DeHavilland to pause production of the DHC-8-400 better known as the DASH 8 back in 2021. De...
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Sep 23, 20221 min read
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Canadian Airline Startup to Hit The Skies!
2022 has not been very friendly for travelers looking to get out of the pandemic and into some sense of normalcy. Lost baggage and...
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Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Pilot "Jumps Ship" After Hearing Explosions And Leaves Passengers to Fend For Themselves!
On July 24, 2022 a Vueling Aircraft flying from Barcelona to Birmingham in the UK when the aircraft started to fill up with smoke. An...
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Jul 25, 20221 min read
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Red Air Crash Landing
Red Air MD-82 caught fire while making a crash landing at Miami International Airport on June 21, 2022 at approximately 5:30 p.m.. The...
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Jul 5, 20221 min read
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Fighter Jets Deployed To Intercept ITA Airway A-330!
May 30, 2022 an ITA Airways was flying from New York to Rome when there was no answer from cockpit crew for approximately 10 minutes. ...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Just arrived! Trans-Canada Airlines L-1049 Constellation
This 1/200 scale beauty just arrived and is currently on sale. Some models are harder to come by than others and this is one of them. ...
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May 15, 20221 min read
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Tibet Airlines Airbus A319 Veers Off Runway
On May 12, 2022 a Tibet Airlines, 10 year old Airbus A319, registration B-6426 skidded off the runway following an aborted take off in...
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May 15, 20221 min read
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