Qantas flight forced to land: is turbulence dangerous?
On Oct. 7, an A330-330 "VH-QPA", flying from Singapore to Perth as Qantas 72 with 303 passengers and 10 crew members on board, made an emergency landing in Learmonth Western…
Largest ItAF F-16 formation for the GEA reunion
On Oct 4, the Gruppo Efficienza Aeromobili (GEA) of the 5° Stormo, at Cervia, celebrated its first Reunion. The "Primo Raduno GEA" was celebrated by a formation of 9 F-16s…
Flight checks at Pratica di Mare
On Sept. 30, Giovanni Maduli went to Pratica di Mare to spot some of the aircraft operating on the largest Italian airbase. He then sent me the following pictures. Interestingly…
An Alitalia B777 makes an emergency landing in Recife
On Sept. 25, an Alitalia B777-200 flying from Rome Fiumicino to Buenos Aires with 295 people on board, performed an emergency landing in Recife, Brasil, for an unspecified technical problem.…
Italian spare F-16s
In the article about the Italian F-16s published a few days ago (Italian F-16s in details), I mentioned that despite the Aeronautica Militare was expecting 4 F-16B to cannibalize for…
Istrana preserved F-104
On Sept. 8, Matteo Marianeschi visited Istrana where he discovered the following preserved F-104G. According to the information he got during the visit by a pilot, the aircraft had arrived…
