A plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin Airport on Thursday morning after it hit a rabbit during take-off. Firefighters raced to the scene after the Stobart Air flight to Leeds Bradford had to return to the tarmac in the early hours. A spokesperson for Stobart Air, who ran the flight for…
A US daredevil pilot has been killed during an attempted launch of a homemade rocket in the Californian desert. “Mad” Mike Hughes, 64, crash-landed his steam-powered rocket shortly after take-off near Barstow on Saturday. A video on social media shows a rocket being fired into the sky before plummeting to the ground nearby. Hughes was…
Israeli officials refused 130 South Korean passengers to disembark upon arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Korean Air flight KE957, operated by a Boeing 777-200, arrived in Tel Aviv at around 7.30 pm on Saturday evening after a near 12-hour flight from Seoul. But on arrival, the aircraft…
A convoy of five aircraft made up of two Boeing 747F and three Boeing 777F carrying approximately 300 tonnes of medical supplies free-of-charge to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Five Qatar Airways Cargo freighters departed to China today carrying approximately 300 tonnes of medical supplies donated by the airline to support Cornavirus relief efforts. The five…
A dramatic landing of a twin-engine jet with two people on board at Daytona Beach International Airport has been captured in chilling footage that shows the small plane skidding down the runway engulfed in flames. A fiery video of a Cessna Citation Mustang performing a landing without its gear in a tornado of sparks and…
A female passenger has died on board KLM #KL808 flight from Manila to Amsterdam. A female passenger started coughing after departure from Manila. Over Russia, she suddenly felt unwell and fell into her seat 1K. Another passenger noticed her difficulties and understood she was unresponsive. Flights attendants were immediately alerted and provided medical assistance…
Former Air France A380 F-HPJB is on it’s final flight to be scrapped. This aircraft was on lease to Air France from the Dr. Peters group and returned to the lessor after a full repainting. The A380 flew from Paris CDG to Dresden, Germany On January 2nd and is now on its way to Knock,…
During storm Dennis, the United Kingdom was buffeted by heavy rain and winds of up to 50mph, the second-weekend storm in a row. There was significant travel disruption and hundreds of flights had to be cancelled at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) so that aircraft could be given more time and space to land. Crosswind landings…
A GoAir Airbus A320neo rejected take-off at Ahmedabad Airport, India following an engine issue. The Airbus A320neo (reg. VT- WGY) rejected take off at Ahmedabad Airport due to right engine vibration and stall after a suspected bird ingestion. The aircraft was operating flight 802 to Bangalore. After being doused, the plane was taken to isolation…
Boeing has told employees that it discovered foreign-object debris in fuel tanks of “several” 737 Max planes the manufacturer has in storage, CNBC learned Tuesday. Foreign object debris “is absolutely unacceptable,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes executive Mark Jenks, a vice president and general manager of the 737 program and Renton production facility, according to the company’s…
An Air Canada plane bound for Toronto was forced to declare a mid-air emergency after one of its wheels fell off during take-off. Air Canada flight 715 from LaGuardia Airport landed safely after 4 p.m. in Toronto. A spokesperson for Air Canada said the Airbus A319 lost one of it’s six tires while departing…
