An RAF transport plane carrying personal protective equipment (PPE) from Turkey has finally arrived in the UK at RAF Brize Norton. The shipment had been due to arrive Sunday and was supposed to have been carrying 84 tonnes of vital PPE including 400,000 gowns. But it was this morning reported that the aircraft the shipment … Read more
An RAF transport plane flying in desperately needed PPE has finally left Turkey after it was previously meant to arrive on Sunday. Pictured on the tarmac at Istanbul airport early this morning, the RAF transport plane is being loaded up with vital equipment desperately needed by frontline healthcare workers in the UK. The Atlas A400, which the … Read more
Pictured for the first time empty and stuck on the tarmac in Istanbul airport, this is the RAF transport plane that remains grounded in Turkey while it waits to collect 84 tons of desperately-needed PPE supplies. The Atlas A400 remains unloaded, sources have told MailOnline, with the vital life-saving equipment nowhere to be seen at the … Read more
An RAF plane collecting crucial PPE for the coronavirus battle is still grounded in Turkey today amid furious warnings hospitals face running out. Ministers originally declared that the 84 tonnes of life-saving equipment would arrive on Sunday, but it failed to turn up. They then claimed it would arrive yesterday, but the first military flight … Read more
Extraordinary moment small plane makes an emergency landing on a packed Canadian highway A pilot managed to safely land on a busy road outside Quebec City, Canada The plane found a clear spot on Highway 40 and narrowly avoided moving cars Traffic came to a halt behind the plane as it crawled along the road … Read more
The first plane carrying 150 ‘critically important’ Romanian fruit and vegetable pickers landed at Stansted this afternoon. The young Romanians, a mix of men and women and all wearing face masks, filed out of the near empty airport in groups of five to comply with social distancing. They were then transported by buses to a … Read more
Charter plane full of Romanian fruit pickers will land at Stansted tomorrow to fill farm labourer vacancies – despite coronavirus causing surge in UK unemployment Boeing 737 charter plane is arriving tomorrow with about 180 Romanian workers It is believed that not enough British workers have applied for farming jobs The charter plane is the … Read more
The world’s largest cargo plane has flown from China to Poland as part of a 400-tonne medical supply run amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The Antonov An-225 Mriya landed at Tianjin Binhai International Airport in North China late on Sunday (12th April), picking up roughly 250 tonnes of critical medical supplies in what is to be … Read more
How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle blocked a request to name a new Australian firebombing air tanker after their son Archie NSW RFS launched 737 large air tanker called Marie Bashir unveiled last August Originally proposed to be called Archie in honour of firstborn of Prince Harry Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle ‘politely declined’ … Read more
The rapid spread of coronavirus has brought the world to an emergency stop. Airlines and airports are close to shutdown, travel plans are in disarray and many of us are out of pocket due to flights and holidays being cancelled or abandoned. With the Government now advising British nationals to avoid all non-essential journeys ‘for … Read more