Hundreds of passengers in several airports across the country bound for foreign trips faced woes as Air India cancelled its international flights after a section of pilots went on a flash strike since Monday. More than 150 pilots have not reported for duty since Monday, throwing the entire international flight schedule haywire. Outbound passengers in Delhi, Kerala, Mumbai and Amritsar are facing difficulties as their flights have been abruptly cancelled …

Forty four people were killed and eight injured after a Tu-134 passenger aircraft crash landed in Russia’s northern republic of Karelia, a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said Tuesday. The plane en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk crash landed on a highway one km away from the airport, where it was scheduled to land at 0.04 Moscow time Tuesday. The plane fell apart and burst into flames upon landing. “According to new information, …

National carrier Air India, reeling under a financial crisis with little funds for fleet expansion, will now get additional equity of Rs.1,200 crore ($250 million) from the government. The federal cabinet, in a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday, approved the funding for the turnaround plan of National Aviation Co of India – the entity that runs Air India. The proposal, based on inputs from the national carrier, …

At least 11 people, including eight crew members and three labourers, were killed when a Khartoum-bound Russian cargo plane crashed near the Dalmiya road in Karachi minutes after taking-off Sunday. “The plane took-off from Karachi terminal around 1.45 a.m. and crashed at an under-construction site of a naval complex in Gulistan-i-Jamal, just after two-three minutes,” Samaa TV reported. “The pilot had given last message to control tower that he …

There has been a 20 percent surge in air travel in India since the global economic downturn began in late 2008, Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya said Saturday. “The civil aviation industry which was impacted to a great extent by global meltdown in 2008-09 has seen a revival, a resurgence post that period, with the passenger traffic increasing by 20 per cent” Mallya said at a function organised here by the Aeronautical Society of India …

Rescue authorities removed the bodies of two pilots who were killed in an aircraft crash at Bownepally area here on Wednesday, even as efforts are on in full swing to clear the mangled remains of the aircraft that hit a three-storey building in the residential locality. Authorities said the aircraft 'Sagar Pawan,' belonging to the aerobatic team of the Navy, crashed into the building at about noon. The deceased have been identified as pilot Suresh …

Hyderabad: The pilot and co-pilot died and four persons were injured when a Navy plane crashed at an international aviation exhibition and hit a building in a residential area near Begumpet airport in Hyderabad. Officials tell CNN-IBN the aircraft belonged to the Indian Navy's aerobatic Sagar Pawan team and it crashed into a two-storied building while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre with three other aircraft. The aircraft, part of the Navy's …

Hyderabad: The pilot and co-pilot died and four persons were injured when a Navy plane crashed at an international aviation exhibition and hit a building in a residential area near Begumpet airport in Hyderabad. Officials tell CNN-IBN the aircraft belonged to the Indian Navy's aerobatic Sagar Pawan team and it crashed into a two-storied building while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre with three other aircraft. The aircraft, part of the Navy's …

London, January 6 (ANI): Pamela Anderson has confessed that her famous Baywatch swimwear still sends the temperatures soaring in the bedroom. The 42-year-old actress revealed she sometimes puts on the suit to impress her beaus. The American/Canadian star further said the costume still fits her like a dream even though she left the series 13 years ago. “I have one I put on every once in a while for my boyfriends, just for fun,” the Daily …

Shiney Ahuja and Esha Deol will be seen paired opposite each other for the first time in Kunal Shivdasani's film 'Hijack'. Kunal Shivdasani is famous in the ad film world. If reports doing the rounds about this film are to be believed then the story goes around a flight hijack and how the hero go to limits end to save his kin as well as the other passengers. The director is reported to have said that he is sure he has got together a winning team …