Emergency slide was accidentally deployed on Virgin Atlantic 747 at Manchester Airport. As Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 (G-VAST) was about to be catered for flight #VS75 to Orlando, an emergency slide was activated, possibly after the door wasn’t properly disarmed. The flight #VS75 finally departed to Orlando with a delay of more than 6 hours.
Thousands of passengers are facing cancellations and delays on Sunday after a systems failure affecting all terminals at London Heathrow airport. Departing passengers on social media reported “pandemonium” with information screens unavailable, while arriving travellers were stuck on planes or waiting in the terminal for baggage. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe. The failure…
A person and a jeep on the runway reportedly forced an Air India aircraft on taking off roll at Pune to do “early rotation”. This early rotation led he Airbus A321 to have a tail strike, with its undercarriage getting damaged, but the plane took off safely. The incident happened on Saturday morning when the…
Passengers were evacuated via emergency slides after landing at Dusseldorf Airport. Passengers of Pegasus flight #PC1003 from Istanbul were evacuated after the Boeing 737-800 landed at Dusseldorf. After the landing of the Boeing 737-800 (reg. TC-CPU registered), fire and smoke were noticed coming from the landing gear. As smoke was noticed by ATC controllers, emerging…
The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on Brussels in a nearly 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies. European planemaker Airbus (AIR.PA) said the U.S. move would hit U.S. airlines already facing a shortage of aircraft and complicate…
The A330-800 has received joint Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The aircraft’s certification flight-test campaign was successfully performed by aircraft MSN1888, which completed the programme in 370 flight test hours and 132 flights since its first flight in November 2018. The A330-800, part of a…
A woman who tried to open a passenger plane door mid-flight, prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled, has been jailed for two years. Chloe Haines, 26, from High Wycombe, scratched a crew member as she lunged at the door shouting “I’m going to kill you all,” the court heard. Two RAF fighter jets rushed…
The Turkish carrier AtlasGlobal filed for bankruptcy and halted all flight operations after two periods of flight suspensions in the last three months. The airline was facing financial difficulties since November 2019, when the airline had to stop its operations but resumed flights to Antalya, London, Baghdad, Tel-Aviv, Tehran and Amsterdam on December 2019. Atlasglobal…
Air Baltic A220-300 suffered an engine failure this morning over France on route from Riga to Malaga. Another A220 suffered an engine failure. Air Baltic #BT677 declared an emergency over France this morning after the left engine has shutdown. The aircraft (reg. YL-AAU) diverted to Bordeaux Airport 25 minutes later at 10.30 local time. The…
On Tuesday, Mr Johnson was making a statement on the government’s decision to proceed with the HS2 project when he was challenged about Heathrow. Munira Wilson, Liberal Democrat MP for the southwest London constituency of Twickenham, asked the PM if he would “prove his credential on climate change, make good on his promise of lying down in…
Shareholders’ meeting of Air Italy (Alisarda and Qatar Airways through AQA Holding spa) decided the “liquidazione in bonis” of the company. From 11 to 25 February 2020 inclusive, all Air Italy flights will be operated by other carriers at the times and on the days previously scheduled; all passengers who booked flights (outward or return)…
A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Bangkok QR830 made an emergency landing at Kolkata, India around 3 am on February 4, 2020. A pregnant passenger, identified as Phromkasikorn Wassana from Thailand, went into labour mid-flight. Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Bangkok #QR830 made an emergency landing at Kolkata Airport. The pilot of Qatar…