Aviation expert and former RAAF fighter pilot Captain Byron Bailey has revealed the UPS cargo plane that exploded in Louisville, Kentucky had reached the “graveyard zone” during its fatal take-off - and that the pilot would have been incapable of preventing the crash.

The tragic crash yesterday of UPS Airlines Flight 2976 has left nine people dead with at least another 11 seriously injured. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 lost its No. 1 engine (left side) during takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport and crashed just south of the airfield at 17:13 EST.

“Autonomous flight is no longer a distant dream — it’s a fast-approaching reality,” according to Boston Brand Research & Media. “With technology advancing rapidly, pilotless planes could one day become as commonplace as automated metros or self-parking cars.”

Watch as the Airbus A380 powers down the runway and lifts into the sky during twilight. This video captures the soft evening light reflecting off the aircraft’s wings and engines, showcasing the beauty and power of the world’s largest passenger jet.

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From worsening turbulence to reducing weight on flights, discover how climate change may impact your future travels Each day, more than 100,000 flights take off and land around the world. One of the most common ways of travelling from nation to nation,

Hydrogen technologies and a hybridised narrowbody engine are likely to be included in Clean Aviation's next call for proposals, due to be released in early 2026, although whether flight testing will be required remains up for debate.

Underlying the push for SAF is a flawed premise: that every sector of the economy must achieve net zero emissions individually. This approach falls prey to the same fallacy as believing a country must maintain balanced trade with every single trading partner – it forces balance within every subset rather than across the system as a whole.

London's latest visitor attraction, the Emirates Aviation Experience, was officially opened today by Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline, ahead of its public launch tomorrow. The Emirates Aviation Experience, which ...