Dubai : An IndiGo flight from Abu Dhabi was diverted due to a technical issue, an IndiGo spokesperson told ANI. Flight 6E 1406 has been diverted to Muscat and is expected to return to service after necessary maintenance. An airline spokesman said customers were offered hotel accommodation in Muscat and made alternative arrangements to travel … Read more
New Delhi: Dublin Airport on Sunday said around 12 people were injured on the Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Ireland. The airport said the injury occurred during turbulence but that the plane landed safely and on time. Flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, landed shortly before 1 p.m. According to Dublin airport time. “Emergency … Read more
Kozhikode: The flight data recorders of the Air India Express flight that broke into pieces after it skidded off a tabletop runway amid heavy rain at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport late Friday evening have been found. The recorders – a Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) store crucial information about a … Read more
SpiceJet will launch daily direct flight between Hyderabad and Shirdi from November 3. The airline will be deploying its Bombardier Q400 aircraft on the route. SG 3576 will leave from Hyderabad at 9.35am and reach Shirdi at 11am, while on its return journey it will take off at 11.20 am and land Hyderabad at 12.40 … Read more
SpiceJet has operated the first direct commercial flight to Pakyong airport from Kolkata. The airline will operate direct flights on the Kolkata-Pakyong-Kolkata route daily under the Centre’s regional connectivity scheme UDAN. The airline has deployed a 78-seater Bombardier Q-400 aircraft on the route. From October 16, the airline will launch a second flight connecting Guwahati … Read more
A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), is presented in Science (14 September 2018). Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing robot — carried out in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research — improved our understanding of how fruit flies control aggressive escape … Read more
What do ancient seafaring explorers and fruit flies have in common? Caltech researchers have discovered that, similar to nautical navigators of old, fruit flies use celestial cues like the sun to navigate in straight lines. The research is described in a paper appearing online on August 30 in the journal Current Biology. The work was … Read more
