ALERT Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight #WN1486 stabilizer damaged during takeoff
Southwest flight #WN1486 experienced birdstrike minutes after take-off from Pittsburgh-Intl Airport (KPIT). Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg. N8509U) from Pittsburgh to Ft. Myers was damaged on takeoff due to birdstrike with a goose to the…
Japan Airlines pilots failed alcohol tests 19 times since since August 2017 causing 12 flight delays
Japan Airlines pilots have failed breathalyzer alcohol tests on 19 occasions since August 2017, causing 12 domestic flight delays due to pilot switches, JAL officials have revealed to the Mainichi…
China Southern to leave SkyTeam alliance
Asia’s biggest carrier is abandoning the SkyTeam airline alliance. China Southern Airlines Co. will exit the partnership in 2019, nearly two years after selling a minority stake to American Airlines…
ALERT British Airways Boeing 777-200 flight #BA93 damaged at Toronto Pearson Airport
British Airways flight #BA93 suffered fuselage damage. According to Tom Podolec, the Boeing 777-200 (reg. G-YMMT) was struck by the gate on it's arrival in Toronto Pearson Airport. The aircraft is now parked…
Passengers stranded in Siberia for 3 days after Air France #AF116 diverted to Irkutsk and replacement Boeing 777-300 could not take off
Passengers of an Air France flight from Paris to Shanghai had to encounter the legendary Siberian cold when their plane made an emergency landing in Irkutsk on Sunday. Having spent the night in…
ALERT An Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300 has been hit by another plane on the ground at Los Angeles International Airport
The pBoeing 777-300 was parked on the gate and ready for boarding when its horizontal stabiliser was clipped by an aircraft from another airline. The plane’s scheduled flight NZ5 from…
ALERT Boy, 4, died on flight #WY672 despite emergency landing in Abu Dhabi
The body of a boy, 4, has been repatriated to India on an Etihad flight after he died on board a flight from Saudi Arabia. The flight had to make…
US pilots flying Boeing’s 737 MAX weren’t told about a change to an automatic system linked to the fatal crash of a Lion Air jet
Pilots flying Boeing’s 737 MAX for American Airlines and Southwest Airlines were not informed during training about a key change to an automatic system that’s been linked to the fatal crash…
BREAKING Serious incident at Shanghai PVG as Delta A350 was forced to abort takeoff at high speed after JAL B787 entered runway (video)
Delta pilots avoided what could otherwise have been a catastrophic incident when they aborted takeoff after spotting a Japan Airlines aircraft entering the runway at the Pudong International Airport in…
Drunk woman got aggressive at the crew during Air India flight #AI131 to London Heathrow (video)
A drunk woman allegedly got aggressive and started hurling abuses at the crew in a London-bound Air India flight. The passenger can be seen yelling at the seemingly calm crew…
Flybe to put itself for sale via the London Stock Exchange
Flybe will go on-sale following rising costs of fuel, increased competition, and the volatility in currencies sparked by the imminent BREXIT. A report by Sky News states that Europe’s largest…
