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New York Post
22-07-2025
- General
- New York Post
Moment seagull smashes into the cockpit of $85 million fighter jet at airshow
A photographer captured the jaw-dropping moment a seagull smashed through the windshield of an $85 million fighter jet at a Spanish airshow in a sky-high scare that wasn't even noticed by spectators below. A Eurofighter Typhoon was performing at the June 15 event when it collided with a gull as it zipped over spectators at the San Javier Air Base, in Murcia. Aviation photographer Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero snapped the four-shot sequence showing the moment the bird was hit and shattered the jet's canopy, leaving a hole in the pilot's windshield. 4 A Spanish photographer captured the moment a Eurofighter Typhoon collided with a seagull at the San Javier Air Show. Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero / SWNS 4 The impact shattered the pilots windshield, forcing the performance to end. Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero / SWNS After the collision, the jet quickly landed and ended its routine — leaving Salguero and the rest of the spectators none the wiser until they heard about the details after the show. 'They reported over the radio that it had hit a seagull and broken the cockpit. Just then, I looked at the photos I had and saw the whole sequence,' Salguero told SWNS. 'When I looked at the photos, I was amazed to see the front of the cockpit broken,' he added. It's not uncommon for bird collisions to result in the damage of million dollar planes or loss of life, with more than 270,000 reports of wildlife strikes to aircraft recorded between 2016 and 2021, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). 4 The photo captured the debris flying from the plane following the collision. Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero / SWNS 4 The pilot was not injured in the incident that left is cockpit exposed. Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero / SWNS Of the incidents reported, more than 8,000 resulted in damage to the aircraft, the agency said. The damage can be limited to a cracked windshield, but at its worst, bird strikes can have deadly results, such as last year's crash in South Korea when a Jeju Air plane went down after a bird collision, killing 179 people.
ILoveQatar.net
22-07-2025
- Business
- ILoveQatar.net
Qatar and Egypt launch second phase of air route shortening initiative
H.E. Regional Director of the Middle East Office at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Eng. Mohamed Abu Bakr Farea praised the Qatari initiative to shorten air routes in Egyptian airspace, the second phase of which was launched today. In remarks to Qatar News Agency (QNA), on the sidelines of a press conference held on 21 July 2025 at the end of coordination meetings between the civil aviation authorities of the State of Qatar and the Arab Republic of Egypt, Farea said that launching the second phase of the State of Qatar's initiative offers significant benefits to both countries as well as to countries in the region and companies operating in this field. He pointed out that this initiative will reduce emissions and lower costs, pointing to the need for the initiative to be expanded worldwide. It is noteworthy that the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) announced earlier Monday the launch of the second phase of the Qatari initiative to shorten air routes in Egyptian airspace, following the successful implementation of the first phase. The announcement was made during a joint press conference held Monday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, It was addressed by Mohamed bin Faleh Al-Hajri, In Charge of Managing QCAA, HE Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Dr. Sameh El-Hefny, and HE Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Egypt Tariq Ali Faraj Al-Ansari.
Qatar Tribune
21-07-2025
- Business
- Qatar Tribune
We value close cooperation between civil aviation sectors in Egypt and Qatar: Egyptian minister
QNA Cairo Civil Aviation Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt HE Dr Sameh El-Hefny has commended the joint cooperation between his country and the State of Qatar, and the great efforts made by both countries. This culminated in the announcement of the launch of a joint technical cooperation project between the two sides. The project aims to shorten air routes within Egyptian airspace, increase operational efficiency, save fuel consumption, and reduce carbon emissions. This is in line with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and in support of sustainable development goals and the common interests of both countries. The minister said, in statements to QNA, that the efforts made by the two countries reflect the close cooperation between the civil aviation sectors in both Egypt and Qatar. He said that this effort has resulted in airspace savings, and that the figures achieved not only reflect this financial savings, but also clearly demonstrate sustainability and reduced emissions, ensuring that Egyptian airspace is attractive in this regard. He stressed that the initiative announced Monday to launch the second phase of the Qatari initiative to shorten air routes in Egyptian airspace is a model to be emulated by all countries.
India Today
18-07-2025
- General
- India Today
Flight AI171 loss aches, yet data shows air travel the safest in India
A series of escalating disasters in Metropolis. One of them is a helicopter fallen from the sky and dangling barely from the top of a skyscraper, about to fall. Also dangling in the air is one of the passengers—Lois Lane. It's chaos on the ground. A tragedy is swoops the red-caped hero. He flies up and catches Lois midair. And then, with just one hand, he also grabs the wrecked helicopter and stops it from falling on the people on the ground. 'Statistically speaking, of course, it is still the safest way to travel,' he tells a shocked Lois and flies was the first Superman movie, in 1978. That line, statistically speaking, was true then. Almost five decades later, it still 12, 2025 turned out to be an unfortunate day to be airborne. Minutes after take-off from Ahmedabad, Air India Flight AI171—a formidable Boeing Dreamliner—went down; 260 lives lost and a lone surviving passenger. Images of the wreckage, grieving relatives and search-and-rescue work splashed across the globe. It was the type of tragedy that makes a country stop and mourn. But as the dust settles, a more sobering aspect remains true. Flying is safer than it has ever been in India. It is still statistically the safest way to travel in the country—better than by road or what hard data says. Take 2023, for instance. Not a single accident per million flight departures took place in Indian civil aviation. For a country as large and disordered, as packed with people, as India, this was no mean feat. And it's been validated was ranked 48th in a recent assessment by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which audits countries for aviation safety. The country was 102 in 2018. Yet, any step-up in the rankings is more than it's cracked up to be: India's Effective Implementation (EI) Score, essentially how well it enforces aviation safety standards, is 85.65 per cent. In key areas, it's better than of the United States and China. In the sub-category of airworthiness—perhaps the most important of the lot—India got 97.06 per of this is intended to say that air travel is free of risk. Few things in life are. But the chances of things fatally going wrong on a flight are minuscule, especially when compared with the for instance, the roads. Over 460,000 road accidents are reported in India every year. Nearly 170,000 people died in 2022-23—close to 470 a day. Most of those deaths never make news. They happen on highways, in cities and in distant corners of the country. They snuff out children, students, workers, the elderly, often families in travel has had its share of tragedies. In 2023-24, the railways reported 40 major accidents, which killed over 330 people and injured over 800. Indeed, that is a small number when compared with the millions of people who take a train every day. Nevertheless, they are fatalities. And buses? They kill more than 5,600 people on Indian roads each year. That's approximately 3-4 per cent of all road traffic while no one noticed, aviation did its boring thing—quietly carrying millions of people without a single commercial aviation accident in 2023. That's not luck. It is the product of something much more profound—long-term investment in safety, training and infrastructure. For half a decade now, India's aviation stakeholders—regulators, airlines, airport operators—have been ratcheting up the pressure, keeping vigilant, even if not particularly Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has overhauled pilot training, stepped up inspections and introduced a more assertive approach to surveillance. The numbers say it all. India achieved a 25 per cent drop in high-risk 'airprox' incidents (when planes come too close to each other in the air) in 2023, a 92 per cent drop in ground-proximity (potential collisions of aircraft with terrain or obstacles) alerts, and 23 per cent fewer poorly-stabilised landings. It's not perfect. But it's what makes the AI171 crash such a jolt. According to the initial cockpit voice recordings, the fuel-control switches for both engines were somehow shut off in flight, which caused the aircraft to lose all power. Investigators are still trying to work out what occurred—whether it was a freak mechanical failure, human error or a series of events that no one could foresee. What is clear is that the fatal crash was the first for a Boeing 787, which began flying in is also, crucially, a statistical outlier. But in the public imagination, little factoids like that can be obscured by the emotional crush of a disaster. Airplane crashes, as rare as they are, have a tendency to lodge in the mind in a way road accidents do not. Maybe it is the magnitude of the tragedy or the speed of it or even the thought of how helpless passengers are when a plane goes for all sorts of reasons, one plane crash seems to incite infinitely more public outrage than thousands of deaths each year from vehicles on the road. For the past 10 years, Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has been highlighting everywhere, even in Parliament, that road accidents take more lives than wars and terrorism. By now, the analogy barely fact, India accounts for almost 10 per cent of global road fatalities. Among the young—between the ages of 5 to 29—road accident injuries are the top cause of death, government data shows. And yet, hashtags and headlines and desperate calls for change are all too disconnect matters. When perception and reality don't remotely sync, policy follows the sound, not the demand. But if there's anything Indian aviation's safety record demonstrates, it is that the unglamorous work can pay the world is taking note. Now, several nations are looking to India's model of aviation safeguards—with its mix of state capacity, public-private partnerships and a convergence with global norms. India has adopted the ICAO's National Aviation Safety Plan template; it actively engages in worldwide safety discussions and seems to want to be up to speed with the current global conversations on air of this changes the terrible loss of Flight AI171. When people die, no amount of data can mean anything to their families and friends. But for the millions still flying every day—to work, to family, to opportunity, it may be worthwhile to know what bigger picture really still looks is why, late on July 17, the Indian government's Aircraft Accidents Investigation Bureau, uncharacteristically issued a statement criticising 'a section of the international media' and remarked: 'While the accident of this dimension has drawn public attention and shock, it needs to be appreciated that this is not the time to create public anxiety or angst towards safety of the Indian aviation industry, particularly on the basis of unfounded facts.'One terrible day does not define the skies. The real measure is how safely passengers travel on all the other days. On that count, India's skies are not just open. They are still among the safest in the to India Today Magazine- EndsMust Watch
Time of India
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Trump nominating former Delta pilot to international aviation post, ETInfra
Advt President Donald Trump is nominating former Delta Air Lines pilot Jeffrey Anderson to serve as US ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the White House said on Thursday, in a move opposed by a major airline pilots' nomination comes as some US senators push for the Trump administration to advocate at the Montreal-based UN civil aviation body for raising the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots from 65 to United States has not had a permanent ambassador at ICAO since July 2022, when C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed an Airbus A320 on New York's Hudson River in 2009, stepped Air Line Pilots Association, a union representing over 79,000 pilots at 42 US and Canadian airlines, criticised Trump's nomination of Anderson, calling him unqualified.'It appears that Mr. Anderson's only real qualification for the post is his support of a position — raising the mandatory pilot retirement age — that would leave the United States as an outlier in the global aviation space and create chaos on pilot labour, and international and domestic flight operations,' the union said in a year, Congress rejected a proposal to raise the mandatory airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65. International rules prevent airline pilots older than 65 from flying in most countries outside the White House defended Anderson's nomination in a statement, noting he was a decorated veteran naval aviator with decades of experience as a Delta pilot and a negotiator for ALPA 'who will deliver on President Trump's vision of aviation safety for the American people at ICAO.'ICAO plays a key role in global aviation safety. While it has no policing powers, ICAO uses consensus to set standards on everything from runways to seat belts. The agency was created after the United States invited more than 50 allies in 1944 to agree on a common air navigation 193-nation body will hold its triennial assembly from September 23 to October 3 this year.
