On July 21, 2025, a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into Milestone School and College in Dhaka’s Diabari neighbourhood  killing 36 people, most of them children. The FT-7BGI aircraft, flown by Flight Lieutenant Md Towkir Islam, went down minutes after taking off from a nearby air base when the pilot lost control during a...

Indian airports recorded 1,782 bird strikes in 2025, a 39 percent jump over the 1,278 cases logged in 2024, according to figures the government shared with parliament, according to a report by FODNews. The scale of the problem stems from a familiar and largely unresolved cause: garbage dumps, meat shops, and open waste sites operating...

Pakistan sits on the Central Asian Flyway, the migratory corridor that funnels birds between Siberia and South Asia, and that geography collides directly with the country’s busiest runways. Between 2018 and 2022 alone, Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recorded 622 bird strike incidents nationwide, an average of well over one every three days, according to...

The UK’s former Central Science Laboratory estimated that worldwide, bird strikes cost airlines around $1.2 billion annually. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recorded 1,432 bird strikes across British aviation in 2022, and the agency has tracked a steady rise in reporting since mandatory disclosure began in January 2004. The deadliest confirmed case in recent...

Since 1946, Nepal has suffered 42 fatal plane crashes, with eight air disasters killing more than 100 people in the three years between 2022 and 2025 alone. Many of the planes in Nepal have fallen prey to bird strikes as well.  The European Union banned all 20 Nepali airlines from its airspace on December 5...

Nepal Airlines (RA) started as the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation on July 3, 1958, staffed by 97 employees. It began flying a single Douglas DC-3 Dakota aircraft. Seven more DC-3s were added to the fleet between 1959 and 1964, while China supplied a couple of AN-2 Fong Shee aircraft which did not enter scheduled service...

Nepal is home to 871 of the world’s roughly 10,000 bird species, and that extraordinary biodiversity collides with the nation’s demanding aviation environments. Between 1990 and 2023, Nepal lost at least 92 airplanes and helicopters and 817 people in civil aviation accidents attributable to causes including engine failure, weather constraints, and bird strikes, according to...

Qantas Airways (QF), whose name comes from the origins of its formation on 16 November 1920 as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services,  unveiled its Coral Reef livery on its Airbus A321XLR. Over the course of more than a century, the airline has refreshed its signature red-and-white identity just five times since the flying...

The most common question from aspiring pilots is whether pilot training is a degree course. The answer is no. Pilot training is a licence-based programme, not a university degree. It leads to FAA certificates, not academic qualifications. The FAA does not require a college degree for any pilot licence, from the Private Pilot Licence (PPL)...