Jet engines are incredibly powerful, complex pieces of precision engineering, running at the finest of tolerances; bird strikes can push these tolerances to the limits. When a bird is ingested into an ...

This is the moment one of the engines of a Virgin Australia airplane with 73 people on board caught fire. Flames were spotted shortly after the Boeing 737-800 took off from Queenstown Airport on ...

Onlookers from around Queenstown have described the terrifying moment a plane carrying nearly 70 passengers caught fire shortly after takeoff. The Melbourne-bound Virgin Australia flight, a Boeing ...

The proposed three-times weekly service was set to return on 22 June but has now been suspended “indefinitely” due to low forecasted demand.