On May 8th, 2024, drama unfolded at Istanbul Airport as a FedEx Boeing 767 cargo plane (flight FX6238) flying from Paris encountered a landing gear malfunction. The nose landing gear failed to deploy, forcing the pilots to attempt a complex emergency landing.

Airbus Defence and Space achieved a significant milestone with the successful flight-test campaign of the A400M Roll-on/Roll-off firefighting prototype kit.

Last month, a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 'Dreamliner' suddenly lost altitude shortly after takeoff, dropping below 1,000 feet while flying over the Persian Gulf.