An Air India plane with some 370 passengers on board from New Delhi to New York was supposed to land at JFK airport on September 11, but landed in Newark instead because of a series of technical failures, bad weather and low fuel. The captain in charge of the 15-hour flight could be heard fretting…
A plane of the national airline, Air Algérie, was forced to abort takeoff at Houari Boumediene airport in Algiers. Air Algerie Airbus A330-200 (reg. 7T-VJA) performing flight #AH4062 with 202 passengers on board to the Dubai. The plane was due to takeoff at around 22:00. During takeoff an engine failed, shortly before V1 speed. The pilot decided…
In a viral video circulating on social media back in May, a male passenger on a flight from Xi An to Yinchuan is shown getting up from one knee after successfully proposing to his girlfriend, who happens to be a stewardess on the flight. The teary-eyed lass then spoke through the inflight announcement system: “I…
Following an incident on board with a passenger, an Air Austral flight departing from Paris CDG airport and bound for Mayotte was canceled on Monday, 17 September. An Air Austral flight was canceled Monday night due to an incident on board with a passenger. Chartered by the company Hifly, the A330 was due to depart from…
A Russian military aircraft with 14 people on board has disappeared from radar after flying over Syria, Russia’s defence ministry says. “Connection has been lost with the crew of a Russian Il-20 plane over the Mediterranean Sea,” the ministry said. Contact was lost at about 23:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Monday, it added. UPDATE The…