Passengers aboard a Haiti-bound Delta airline are stranded after the aircraft had to make an emergency landing. The Airbus A320 from the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, touched down at Florida’s Daytona Beach International Airport on Monday because the aircraft’s windshield and cone head were struck by hail. A cracked windshield as well as chipped…
An evacuation at a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Leesburg, Va. delayed hundreds of flights around the region Monday night, authorities said. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said there were ground stops at all three major airports in the region, meaning inbound flights didn’t take off from their origins for hours. Loudoun…
This morning, Qantas #QF1 from Dubai to London diverted to Larnaca due to medical emergency on board. The Airbus A380 (reg.VH-OQD) landed shorty after 07:00 UTC at Larnaca after a pregnant woman had complications. The medical condition of the passenger is still unknown.
An Air Canada plane touching down at San Francisco International Airport almost landed on a taxiway crowded with four other planes, now under federal investigation. On July, 7th, Air Canada flight #AC759 en route from Toronto was cleared to land just before midnight Friday at runway 28R, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. But the pilot…
A disruptive passenger tried to open emergency door of Air Asia Airbus A320 (reg. VT-ATF). At about 21:50 local time, a disruptive passenger traveling onboard Air Asia #I5546 from Delhi to Ranchi – Kolkata (seat no. 24A) tried to open the emergency door (R2) just before landing. He injured few other passengers and crew members when…
Sixteen people have been killed after a US military plane crashed in rural Mississippi. Emergency services were scouring a large field of debris on Monday night where the Marine Corps KC-130 refuelling tanker spiralled to the ground about 85 miles north of Jackson in Mississippi’s LeFlore County. Fred Randle, the county’s director of emergency management,…