Aviation

ATLANTA – Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes. The international airline’s Chief of Administration and Finance, Ejiroghene …

The Dubai-based airline Emirates on Wednesday disclosed a firm order for 30 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners in a deal worth 8.8 billion dollars.

A pilot was ejected from a Canadian Snowbird plane that later crashed at the Atlanta Air Show at the Motor Speedway Sunday afternoon. The pilot landed safely after ejecting from the CT-144 aircraft, which went down in a sparsely populated area. According to the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), the crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. The Atlanta Air Show issued …

The British tour operator Thomas Cook has collapsed, with 600,000 travelers scattered around the world. The company collapsed after last-minute negotiations aimed at saving the 178-year-old holiday firm failed.

An American Airlines mechanic based at Miami International Airport was arrested last week Thursday on a charge that he sabotaged the navigation equipment of a flight carrying 150 people, forcing it to be grounded just before takeoff, the authorities said.

A flight was delayed after a furious woman smashed a laptop over her boyfriend’s head for ‘looking at other women.’ Passengers filmed the violent lovers quarrel on a grounded American Airlines flight from Miami to Los Angeles on Sunday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that Israel’s fighter jets “can reach anywhere in the Middle East, including Iran,” in his latest comments directed at his country’s arch-foe.

A phone charger is believed to be the cause of a fire which forced a flight from New York to London to make an emergency landing in Boston on Thursday.

A BRAZILIAN Air Force officer has been arrested after using the President’s plane to smuggle 40kg of cocaine into Europe.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday said God’s mercy and the special prayer of protection that the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, prayed for him last Friday were responsible for his escape in the helicopter crash.