A passenger’s mobile phone started smoking onboard a Qantas A380 today. QF94 was about 2 hours from landing in Melbourne when the incident occurred. Local media report that the incident almost caused the flight to divert to Sydney, but it continued to Melbourne after the crew consulted with the operations centre. The phone had became…
American Airlines flight #AA101 was en route from London Heathrow to New York when pilots received an engine fire indication. The Boeing 777-200 with 206 passengers and a crew of 13 on board was passing overhead Ireland when the crew opted to divert to Dublin Airport. The crew advised air traffic controllers that they needed to divert…
On September 24, AirBaltic Airbus A220-300 (YL-CSb) suffered birdstrike shortly before landing. Flight #BT432 from Vienna was on final approach when the collision occurred over the Gulf of Riga. The birdstrike damaged the nosecone and radome. After landing at the airport, the company decided to deploy an in-depth technical inspection of the airplane.
A US-Bangla aircraft, bound for Cox’s Bazar, has made an emergency landing at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong. The flight #BS141 took off from Hazrat Shahjahal International airport in Dhaka at 11:30am, had some technical problems, which led to the landing around 1pm on Wednesday, confirmed US-Bangla Airlines. An aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines flight…
There are many different forms of transport available to us. There are planes, of course, but there are also cars, lorries, trains, bicycles, buses, trams, and much more. Each of these modes of transport has its own place in the world, and each will be important to one group of people or another. Just what…
