An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight from Los Angeles approaches for landing at Reagan National Airport shortly after an announcement was made by the FAA that the planes were being grounded by the United States in Washington, U.S. March 13, 2019. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters)





An aerial image of an Airbus A220 for QantasLink passing Uluru situated within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park on February 22, 2024 in Uluru, Australia. QantasLink today unveiled their new cabins inside the Airbus A220 aircraft during a flying visit to Uluṟu to formally acknowledge Pitjantjatjara artist Maringka Baker and the connection to Country and the livery of the new aircraft. The A220 can fly between any two points in Australia and to several offshore destinations creating new route options in the future. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images for Qantas)





A plane flies west over Berkshire, United Kingdom on May 22, 2023 beneath a new moon. (Photo by David Hartley/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A plane passes in front of the setting moon on January 21, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





An aircraft struggles against the crosswinds as it comes into land at Heathrow airport on February 18, 2022 in London, England. The Met Office has issued two rare, red weather warnings for the South and South West of England today as Storm Eunice makes landfall. Much of the rest of the UK is under amber and yellow warnings with winds up to 100 mph, rain and snow expected. This is the worst storm to hit the UK for three decades. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)





A DHL cargo plane is seen after emergency landing at the Juan Santa Maria international airport due to a mechanical problem, in Alajuela, Costa Rica, on April 7, 2022. The two crew members onboard the plane escaped unharmed. (Photo by Ezequiel Becerra/AFP Photo)





People watch an Air Canada plane take off at Trudeau Airport from Jacques de Lesseps Park in Montreal, Sunday, June 11, 2023. Signs warning people that the consumption of food is prohibited have been erected at the plane spotting park to deter the gathering of birds. (Photo by Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





A United aircraft rolls over the highway to its parking position after landing at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, February 15, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Pigeons sit on Soviet era MIG-19 military jet installed as a monument in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway region of Transnistria, a disputed territory unrecognized by the international community, in Moldova, Sunday, October 31, 2021. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Pictured is a TAP Air Portugal plane passing in front of the moon at 8.05pm on Friday evening April 8, 2022. Viewed from a balcony in the Chalk Farm area of London. With the sun setting, it lit up the Embraer E190LR plane, coupled with perfect timing to made a good shot. (Photo by @iuli_snaps/pictureexclusive.com)





The rowing team of Mossbourne school in east London have beaten private schools in recent competitions. They hold their early-morning training sessions in the water at Royal Docks next to London City airport on March 2022. (Photo by Richard Pohle/The Times)





Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are parked at Grant County International Airport October 23, 2019 in Moses Lake, Washington. Boeing reported that its profits were down by more than half in the latest quarter. The company has finished updates and testing on the 737 MAX and plans to have the planes flying by the end of the year. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)





This photograph taken on June 19, 2023 shows a demonstration of the Airbus A321 XLR as French President visits the International Paris Air Show at the Paris Le Bourget Airport. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)





Wingwalkers from the Aerosuperbatics team at the Eastbourne annual airshow on August 15, 2019. Thousands of visitors attend this popular air show on the UK South coast. Flying displays and ground based entertainments form this four day event. (Photo by Alan Fraser/Alamy Live News)





A Super Puma rescue helicopter refuels in the Rijpfjord north of Svalbard enroute to Russian scientific vessel Severny Polyus caught in the arctic ice some 440km south of the north pole on June 6, 2023. A Russian national onboard the ship was evacuated at the request of their Russian counterparts. The Norwegian authorities launched a Super Puma helicopter from Longyearbyen, the main town of Svalbard, 500 nautical miles (925 km) away, to evacuate the Russian, whose state of health has was deemed too critical to be treated on board ship. “It's at the extreme limit of what the helicopter can do” in terms of range, spokesman for the Norwegian Rescue Center in Bodo, Rune Danielsen, told AFP. (Photo by Sysselmesteren Svalbard/AFP Photo)