A Russian military aircraft, carrying supplies needed to fight the coronavirus outbreak, has landed in New York. The haul was sent after President Trump accepted an offer of assistance from Vladimir Putin. The plane, that took off for its some 8,000-kilometer trek early overnight, has landed in the worst coronavirus-affected US city. The cargo contains personal protective and medical equipment supplies. The delivery was agreed upon […]
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A cargo plane loaded with medical supplies and protection equipment may depart for the US by the end of the day Tuesday, the Kremlin said after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also on rt.com ‘Happily surprised’? Trump says Russia sent US ‘very, very large’ aid package to combat Covid-19 DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
US Air Force officials said they expect delivery of a new training simulator for the service’s Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS), a device that could be used to launch nuclear weapons from an airborne aircraft. A training simulator for the ALCS at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base that was damaged in a 2019 flood is slated to be replaced next month, base officials told Defense News […]
As the world self-isolates and engages in social distancing, social media influencers are more desperate for attention than ever before, including one woman who licked a toilet seat in what she called the “coronavirus challenge.” Online ‘personality’ and avid TikTok user @avalouiise showed no fear as she leaned over what appeared to be an airplane toilet and licked the seat in the equal parts shocking and […]
Kogalymavia and the Prince Group, the owners of the Russian plane, Airbus A231, that crashed in Sinai in 2015, launched a prosecution of Egypt before the International Arbitration Court in the Hague, Al Araby Al Jadeed reported on Friday. The two companies, the Russian RPK newspaper disclosed, are seeking $201 million in compensation from the Egyptian authorities for their losses resulting from the plane crash, as […]
The US called out China more than a week after Beijing allegedly fired a laser weapon at the Pentagon’s P-8A Poseidon, with Chinese defence authorities arguing the “aircraft’s behaviour was unfriendly in intention”. China’s Defence Ministry has dismissed as incorrect a report that one of its ships fired a laser last month at a US Navy surveillance plane: it “does not accord with reality”, the ministry […]
Beijing has refuted an accusation by the US Navy that a Chinese warship fired a “military grade” laser at its P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft somewhere over the South China Sea. The claims made by the US Navy simply “did not accord with reality,” China’s Defense Ministry said on its WeChat account, responding to the accusations made by the American military last week. The Chinese forces were […]
Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Iran in January, Reuters reports. “We do expect from Iran to give access to the black box without any further delay,” Francois-Philippe Champagne said during a press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Vadym Prystaiko, while on a visit to […]
They say bad things often come in threes, but Russians, as ever, like to do it differently. On Tuesday four jets didn’t make it to their intended destinations due to a clutch of mishaps. Early in the morning, a plane flying from the Far Eastern capital Vladivostok to Moscow was forced to make an emergency landing in Khabarovsk. According to a RIA Novosti source, the Airbus […]
Take one of the most mysterious places in Russia, Kamchatka, with its geysers and volcanoes; add roaring warplanes piercing the skies and you’ll get a video almost impossible to take your eyes off. The epic footage was taken during the recent Pacific Fleet exercises in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East. The remote and mostly uninhabited area is often called the ‘Land of Fire and […]
A Fly540 plane with 49 passengers and five crew on board was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when one of its engines failed. Footage from inside the plane shows the dramatic, rough landing. The jet took off from the Kapese Airstrip in Kenya on Friday morning en route to Nairobi, but an unknown object struck one of the engines resulting in its […]
An airline pilot was arrested on Monday after the Turkish passenger plane he was flying skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport earlier this month, according to judicial sources, Anadolu reports. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara decided to arrest the captain, identified as M.A., for causing death and injury by negligence after three people died among the 177 passengers and six crew members, said the sources, […]
Passengers of a small plane, who were filming it taking off an air field in Magadan, were horrified when they realized that the aircraft will not make it and crashed down instead. Luckily, nobody lost their lives in the incident. The video purportedly shot from inside an Antonov An-2 plane, which crashed on Thursday in Russia’s north, shows the aircraft trying to climb up just after […]
The black box of a Ukrainian passenger plane accidentally shot down over Iran last month is damaged but Iran will not hand it over to another country despite pressure for access, top Iranian ministers said on Wednesday, according to a Reuters report citing Iranian state media. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week he had “impressed upon” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that a complete […]
For the first time, an Israeli plane has flown through the Sudanese airspace, Ynet News reported yesterday. The plane had first taken off last Monday from Israel’s Tel Aviv for Congo’s capital city of Kinshasa, passing through Egypt’s Suez Canal, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, spending a total of seven hours in the air. However, the same plane returned back at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport through […]