Boeing ready to assist probe into Malaysian airline crash

Boeing, the maker of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that crashed in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday said it was ready to assist authorities. "Boeing stands ready to provide whatever assistance is......

Was Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 hijacked?

Not ruling out the possibility of a hijack, Malaysia on Saturday said the movement of the missing flight MH370, with 239 people on board, was "consistent with deliberate action by someone on the......

Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine, 295 killed

All 298 people on board a Malaysia Airlines plane were killed on Thursday after the jet was shot down by "terrorists" over war-torn eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, nearly four months after......

India hunts for missing Malaysian plane near Port Blair

The search for the missing Malaysian airliner under India's ‘Operation Searchlight’ has been expended to the Bay of Bengal area 900km west of Port Blair by the navy, the defence......

Compulsory psychometric tests likely for pilots

In the wake of the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in India might make it mandatory for pilots to undergo psychometric......

Govt likely to fetch around Rs 15,000 crore from Air India sale

To attract bidders, the government had decided to hive of around Rs 35,000 crore of the company’s debt into a separate subsidiary, leaving around Rs 23,286 crore to be absorbed by the new......

SpiceJet's new owners plan to cut fleet, shrink network

The prospective owners of Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd plan to cut the airline's fleet, shrink its network and return to a "plain vanilla" business model to achieve profitability, two......

Direct to Oz still a Dreamliner apart

State-owned Air India has postponed deploying its new Dreamliner aircraft on the Delhi-Sydney-Melbourne route, one of the largest unserved ones, till the first quarter of 2013.The earlier plan was......