Europe has introduced squawk code 7601 from May 2025 to signal radio failure with visual conditions, indicating diversion ...

Ukraine's air navigation service has become the first to introduce a new assignment system aimed at overcoming an increasing shortage of aircraft transponder squawk codes. The navigation service, ...

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Have you ever walked through an airport, seen the departures listings, and wondered how on earth air traffic controllers (ATCs) stay on top of everything? With 45,000 daily flights in the U.S. alone, ...

European airspace authorities have moved closer to resolving a shortage of secondary surveillance codes, after the approval of new Single European Sky rules on aircraft identification. From next year, ...

The squawk code was pressed for around three minutes. After the code was relayed, the Pilot In Command (PIC) informed the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) concerned that the code was pressed inadvertently ...

A British Airways holiday flight has made an emergency landing at Heathrow after an incident. The flight BA866 was on its way from London to Hungarian capital Budapest when it suddenly turned around.

British Airways flight BA198, en route from Mumbai to London, declared a general emergency and diverted to Doha's Hamad International Airport. The Airbus A350-1000 issued a 7700 squawk code, signaling ...