Air India’s B787, VT-ANB, Went Down At Ahmedabad, 12 June 2025, 0809 UTC

Barely a month after the tragedy of the first major Boeing 787 accident, a preliminary report has surfaced that indicates that something may have been amiss in the cockpit and neither the airframe or maintenance procedures is currently suspected as the Probable Cause for the tragedy that took the lives of 241 people in the aircraft (with one improbable survivor) and another 19 souls on the ground. The aviation industry has been bombarded with countless instant experts on the internet... some of whom should have known better than to guess so early into the investigation phase, but we tend to doubt that the Prelim will shut many of them up... even when they've clearly been off the mark time and time again. 

Carrier’s A350 Fleet Next Up For Connectivity Upgrade

Qatar’s flag airline Qatar Airways announced it has completed Starlink installations across its fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft and confirmed it will commence on installing the connectivity solution in its Airbus A350 fleet next.

Tie-In with Cryptocurrency Payment System Trades Digi-Coins for Tickets

Soon, thanks to a preliminary deal between Emirates and Crypto.com, you’ll be able to book your first class ticket with FARTCOIN, a genuinely real digital currency with a $1.1-billion market cap. Since the deal will use existing crypto exchange infrastructure, it can be assumed that anything on the Crypto.com sytems will be accepted, however silly. The Gulf carrier will accept payments for Emirates tickets and offerings using Crypto.com’s payment trading service, opening up a whole wide world of real-life destinations to degenerate digi-gamblers.