Drone activity is causing significant disruption at Frankfurt airport. Flight operations are suspended at Frankfurt Airport due to drone activity. All inbound flights are diverting to nearby airports. UPDATE Flight operations are resuming earlier than expected. UPDATE Eurocontrol says the airport will not be available until at least 14h00 local time.
Safety was “much reduced” when a passenger jet came too close to another plane near Stansted Airport, a report said. An Airbus A320 had to pull out of attempting to land as a smaller Saab 340 was preparing for take off on 12 February 2019, an Airprox Board report said. Air traffic controller actions did…
Lufthansa will cut the number of short- and medium-haul flights in response to the accelerated spread of the coronavirus. “Within the coming weeks, the number of short- and medium-haul flights will be reduced by up to 25%, depending on the further development of the spread of the coronavirus,” the airline said. The Lufthansa Group airlines,…
Easyjet has published an update to investors surrounding coronavirus and its impact on the business. The low-cost carrier said that it had seen “a significant softening of demand and load factors into and out of our Northern Italian bases”, as well “slower demand across our other European markets”. The airline said that as a result…
Two men were met by police when easyJet flight #U26980 touched down in Edinburgh Airport after travelling from Copenhagen, Denmark, yesterday afternoon Two men were arrested when an easyJet flight from Copenhagen to Edinburgh touched down today amid claims of a “violent confrontation”. Fellow travellers said areas of the cabin were ‘covered in blood’ and that cabin crew had…
A Bombardier DHC 8-300 was forced to make emergency landing in Lokichar, Turkana County after it developed mechanical problems. The plane with registration number 5Y-CGH was headed to Nairobi when the incident occurred at Kapese Airstrip on Friday morning. “At 9:54am, Fly540’s DASH8 300 had a suspected foreign object strike which led to an engine…
A Rossiya Boeing 777 to Bangkok just made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport supposedly due to a cracked windshield. A Boeing 777-300ER flight #SU6275 from Moscow SVO to Bangkok performed an emergency landing at Moscow VKO Airport due to a technical issue, a Russia airline representative said in a statement. A reserve airplane…
A Casa C-101 Aviojet belonging to the Spanish Air Force’s display team Patrulla Águila, has crashed into sea today near La Manga, in Murcia. The pilot, Commander Eduardo Fermín Garvalena, was killed in the accident. The Spanish Air Force released a statement saying that a C-101 jet of the Academia General del Aire, the academy…
A runway was closed after the nose gear of an A321 broke during landing at Istanbul Airport. The Turkish airlines A321 was performing flight #TK1598 from Frankfurt to Istanbul when the nose gear was broken during the landing. First reports state the aircraft (reg. TC-JSH) performed a hard landing. The runway 16R was closed and…
Heathrow Airport’s plans for a third runway face being blocked after a landmark Court of Appeal defeat over climate change. A group of councils in London affected by the expansion, environmental charities including Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and Plan B, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, brought legal action over the Government’s approval of the…
The final Airbus A380 convoy arrived to the Airbus A380 Final Assembly Line in the Jean-Luc Lagardere plant at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. Three huge sections of the aircraft are carried in three specially designed vessels, that carry six heavy components by sea, while the vertical tail fin flies from Hamburg to Toulouse. The wings were built…
A Quick Reaction Alert is currently in progress after a Russian TU-95 has been spotted west of Norway. The Royal Air Force scrambled at least a Voyager from Brize Norton and two Typhoon fighter jets from Lossiemouth. UPDATE North Russia fleet said twi Tu-142 flew over Norway sea. The RAF aircraft are flying to Shetland…