Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has placed an order for three A330-300s, growing its A330 Family fleet to a total of ten Airbus aircraft. The aircraft will be operated on long haul routes and can comfortably seat close to 300 passengers. Airbus aircraft share a unique cockpit and operational commonality, allowing airlines to use the same...

A Gojet Canadair CRJ-700 on behalf of Delta Airlines, flight G7-6256/DL-6256 from New York La Guardia,NY to Portland,ME (USA), was in the initial climb out of La Guardia’s runway 13 when the crew reported an engine fire indication prompting final approach to immediately pull two aircraft already cleared to join the localizer runway 04 off the approach to...

This is a quite long story for only a runway excursion, but worth to read it and provided on behalf of Aviation Herald. A Sudan Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration SU-BOZ performing flight SD-325 from Nairobi (Kenya) to Juba (Sudan) with 12 passengers and 12 crew, positioned for an approach and landing on Juba’s runway 31 in visibility of 10km,...

Many things are possible, but you hardly believe this Aviation Herald article. An Expressjet Embraer ERJ-145 on behalf of United, registration N19966 performing flight EV-3822/UA-3822 from Newark,NJ to Hartford,CT (USA), was on final approach to Hartford’s Bradley Airport’s runway 33 and was cleared to land on runway 33, no restrictions were...

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-400, flight MH-864 from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Medan (Indonesia), was destined for Medan’s Polonia Airport estimated to land at 15:20L (scheduled landing at 15:00L) but approached Kuala Namu International Airport’s runway. Just before touch down at approximately 15:30L the crew recognized the error, went around and...