Aviation

Two planes carrying 351 crash into each other while taxiing at Los Angeles Airport

Two planes carrying 351 passengers crashed into each other at Los Angeles Airport which left a large chunk of the aircraft on the ground.
It happened when a United Airlines flight – which had just landed from New Jersey at Gate 73 at Terminal 7 – came into contact with an Alaska Airlines jet, which was departing from Gate 66.
Passengers aboard said they felt a ‘huge jolt’ and then saw part of the plane had snapped off.
No one was injured in the incident which happened around 7.45pm last night.
Diana Westmyer, a passenger on board the United flight, said she felt a huge jolt before the pilot asked passengers over the intercom to remain in their seats with their seat belts on.
She told CBS: ‘And then they came back and said we can’t move yet because they’re connected. They said they wanted everyone to sit back down because they were either going to pull us away from the other plane or pull the other plane away from us.’

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She added how she could see a big piece of the plane on the ground which ‘had clearly broken off.’
Actor Peter Cambor tweeted: ‘So…the United plane I’m on was pulling into the gate at LAX and…another plane just RAN INTO US! Planes are stuck together.’
United Airlines said its plane had been ‘taxiing to the gate at a low speed’. The 169 passengers on board disembarked as normal as engineers inspected the aircraft.
In a statement Alaska Airlines reported its plane ‘was being pushed back from the gate about 7:45pm and its wing tip clipped another aircraft’.
The 182 passengers aboard the plane managed to continue their journey to Portland, Oregon, on a different aircraft around two hours later.
LAX Public Relations Director Nancy Castles said an investigation will determine the damage to the aircraft and who was at fault in the collision.

Report : daily mail

Aviation

No More Jet Airways. Supreme Court Says “No Choice”, Orders Liquidation

Jet Airways was once one of India’s leading airlines, known for its service and extensive network. Founded in 1993, it served millions of passengers, connecting cities across India and international destinations.

However, since grounding its flights in April 2019, Jet Airways has struggled to navigate financial turbulence, leading to years of efforts to revive the airline and return it to the skies.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered the liquidation of Jet Airways, citing “no choice” but to take this decisive step after the resolution plan failed to meet creditor obligations. The court invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142, which allows it to make orders for “complete justice” in any case, overriding previous tribunal rulings.

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The Jalan-Kalrock Consortium (JKC), which had won the bid to revive Jet, faced criticism for not fulfilling payment commitments to creditors, which included major banks like the State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank.

The Supreme Court’s ruling pointed to “peculiar and alarming” issues surrounding the resolution plan’s implementation, leading to its conclusion that liquidation was the only feasible outcome.

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Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, alongside Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, emphasized that while liquidation should be a last resort, it was necessary as the resolution plan was “no longer capable of implementation.”

In line with this decision, the court ordered that the ₹200 crore already infused by JKC be forfeited and directed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in Mumbai to appoint a liquidator to oversee the process.

JKC, a partnership between Murari Jalan, a UAE-based Indian entrepreneur, and Florian Fritsch, a Jet shareholder through Kalrock Capital Partners Limited, had taken ownership of Jet Airways two years after it was grounded. The consortium’s inability to fulfill its financial obligations has now led to this final verdict, marking the end of an era for Jet Airways in India.