An air collision was avoided above Belgium on the night of 31 December to 1 January, between an Egyptian A300 cargo and an Air France A320 with passengers on board. The Directorate General of Belgian Air Transport (DGTA) confirmed the incident this weekend, after the Flemish newspaper VRT deredactie echoed it in its columns.…
An Associated Press analysis of bird-killing programs at the New York City area’s three major airports found that nearly 70,000 gulls, starling, geese and other birds have been slaughtered, mostly by shooting and trapping since the ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009. It is not clear whether those killings have made the skies…
8 years ago today, US Airways Flight 1549 (N106US) was a scheduled passenger flight from LaGuardia Airport, New York City to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Washington with a stopover at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, North Carolina. The Airbus A320-214 was carrying 150 passengers and 5 crew members. N106US, the accident aircraft involved taken on 26 December 2008. …
A Qantas plane flown from Toowoomba blew two tyres when it landed at Sydney Airport on Sunday evening Qantas flight QF2123 was operated by a Bombardier Dash 8 with registration VH-QOV when it blew two tyres upon landing runway 16L. The runway was closed down for over an hour as engineers cleared the runway of…
An airplane operated by Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, made an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul after a passenger assaulted an air hostess. The MEA jet was heading from Beirut to London when the man attacked the stewardess and started hitting her. A brawl erupted aboard the plane when another passenger…
