Boeing 757-200 hit by lightning

Incident above Canada. Boeing 757-200, Astraeus airlines, registration G-STRX was performing a flight 5W-483 from Keflavik, Iceland to Winnipeg, Canada. Airplane was on approach to Winnipeg when the aircraft was suddenly hit by lightning. The crew continued for a safe landing on runway 13.
Flight inspection after landing revealed lightly damage to a door.

Pilot detained in Brazil for showing underwear

Funny story from sunny Brazil. A pilot, who works for United Airlines, was detained at the international airport Rio De Janeiro after lowering his pants during a standart security check, police said Saturday.
Michael D. Slynn (49) was asked to remove his belt and shoes as part of a routine security screening. In response, pilot laughed hard at security guards and brazen-faced lowered his pants to ankles, said a police spokesman.
Slynn was detained in the friday's afternoon, but released shortly and allowed to fly back to Washington, D.C., after signing a document promising to appear before a judge the next time he arrives in Brazil.
Federal Police Chief Rafael Andreatta was quoted by the Internet site of the Brazilian newspaper as saying the pilot "did not respect security rules and made fun of officers."
It was not the first time an american pilot has gotten into trouble for allegedly responding inappropriately to Brazil's airport security measures.
In 2004, another American Airlines pilot Dale Robin Hersh was fined $13,000 for allegedly giving the finger as he was being photographed at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport. The photograph was among entry requirements for U.S. citizens implemented by Brazil at the time in response to similar rules in the United States.
Police accused Hersh of showing contempt for authorities and took him to a federal courthouse. Hersh agreed to a prosecutor's offer to pay a fine in exchange for no charges being filed against him.

source:Associated Press Writer Sophia Tareen

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New Airport in Berlin - 2012

The new airport in capital of Germany Berlin will open in June 2012. It's seven months later than previously announced.

Officials said that new security demands for Berlin's new Brandernburg International airport had changed the opening date from October 30 to June 3.
Klaus Wowereit (Berlin Mayor) said: ''It would have been too risky to ignore the new security measures just to open the airport on time.''

The new airport is being built on the compound of Schoenefeld airport, southeast of Berlin. Once it is finished, 25 million passengers will be expected annually.
Tegel airport, which is currently Berlin's busiest and also one of the busiest airports in Europe, will then be closed.

Princess Juliana International Airport @ St Maarten Island

You may have already heard about Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) - awesome airport located in the Dutch sector of the Island of St Martin in the Caribbean. The airport was started as a airplace for military aircrafts in 1942. In 1943, it converted to a civilian airport. There were several upgrades and remodelings. In 1964 main airport was relocated and a new terminal and control tower was built. The facilities were upraded once more in 1985 and 2001. Passenger traffic to St Martin increased several times, so Princess Juliana International Airport was heavily modernized and reorganized.

What's so interesting and extraordinarily in this airport?

Because of awesome and difficult landing. Runway on this airport is just 2,180m long (7,407ft). Although, the ''big'' planes are landing here - B747, B757, A340... So, can you imagine altitude on the landing? In fact the departure for pilots is more difficult than the approach, because pilots required to avoid mountains in the departure path.
Incoming airplanes approach the island on short runway 10 flying very low over the famous Maho Beach. At any other airport aircraft fly at the same altitude at that point in the approach. Pictures and videos of low-flying airplanes were published in several news magazines, portals, social websites worldwide in early 2000 and looked so unreal that some were rated it as fakes. The thrilling approaches and excellent way to shoot images made the Princess Juliana airport one of the world's favorite places for planespotters and tourists.

Despite the big difficulties in approach, there have been no records of major incidents and crashes at the airport, though ALM Flight 980 crashed about 30 miles from St. Croix on 1970, after several unsuccessful landing attempts at Juliana airport.



In year 2007, the world's most notable airport handled 1,647,824 passengers and 103,650 aircraft movements. This airport are serving famous airline companys : Air Canada, Air France, American Airlines, American Eagle, Delta Air Lines, KLM, US Airways, WestJet and many others...

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Number of airBaltic passengers grows by 29% in May 2010

airBaltic - Latvian airline carried overall 295,809 passengers in May 2010 (from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn), representing 29% increase comparing with the May in 2009, when airBaltic transported total of 229,475 passengers. This year, the number of passengers at the base of airBaltic in Riga has increased by 25% compared to the same period last year.

During the first five months of 2010, airBaltic transported a total of 1,131,503 passengers, or 19% more than during the same period in 2009, when the total number of passengers was 947,180.

In May, airBaltic operated 5,381 flights, or 41% more than in May 2009 when airBaltic operated 3,825 flights. Between January and the end of May, the airline provided 21,156 flights in all.

The airline’s load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, in May 2010 was at a level of 69%, or 3% points more than in May 2009. During the first five months of 2010 airline’s load factor was at a level of 64%, or 1% point more than in the same period in 2009.

The 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic was at a level of 88.6% in May 2010. This means that more than 88 of every 100 airBaltic flights in May departed at the planned time or with a delay of no more than 15 minutes.

source: airBaltic.com

Alitalia A330-200 @ Boston on Juny 15th 2010

An Alitalia airplane Airbus A330-200, performing flight from Boston(USA) to Rome(Italy) (AZ-615) with 244 passengers and 14 crew, total 258, was in the initial climb out of Boston's runway 15R when the crew reported that their left hand engine (CF6) had failed. The crew levelled off at 2000 feet, shut down and secured the engine and returned to Boston. The airplane landed safely on runway 15R 20 minutes after departure from Boston's airport, fire engines reported smoke from the aircraft, the airplane came to a stop on the intersection runway 15R/runway 09 and shut down on the runway. Fire engines then reported the left hand engine on fire. Boston Airport closed all runways. 5 minutes later the fire chief reported the fire extinguished. The passengers disembarked via mobile stairs and were bussed to the terminal.

About 10 minutes after touch down Boston Airport began to resume flights.

Passengers told that they heard several bangs shortly after takeoff. The captain announced that they were experiencing engine trouble due to a bird strike.

The Italian "Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo" (ANSV, National Agency for Flight Safety) reported late Jun 22nd, that the flight data recorder was analysed by the NTSB. The NTSB subsequently aborted the investigation reporting, that the engine has not been subject to failure, over-speed or over-temperature, so that no risk for flight safety existed.

source: avherald

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