Right engine of Viva Aerobus aircraft to Los Angeles caught fire. An A320 was performing flight #VB518 from Guadalajara, Mexico to Los Angeles LAX. The right engine of the A320 (XA-VAJ) caught fire moments after taking off from Guadalajara, Mexico at about 22.00 local time. A loud band was heard in several neighborhoods in the…
An Alaska Airlines returned to Seattle-Tacoma Airport shortly after takeoff. An Alaska Airlines flight headed for San Diego returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (KSEA) shortly after takeoff because of an “unusual vibration” coming from the left side of the plane. The cowling of its left engine #1 came loose and ripped off during takeoff. A…
British Airways will cut roughly 10,000 short-haul flights to and from Heathrow Airport between late October and March. The move is aimed at minimising disruption over the winter and some long-haul flights will also be affected, the airline said. BA said it will also cut a dozen round-trips per day – totalling 629 flights –…
Dozens of easyJet flights have been cancelled at Gatwick Airport due to “late notice” staff sickness. Around 26 flights in and out of Gatwick have been cancelled this morning at short notice due staff sickness in air traffic control. Gatwick Airport has apologised to passengers affected. The airline said those affected by the cancellations would…
An airport employee was killed at Russian Airport. On 19 August 2022, a ground airport employee was killed when inadvertently walking into the running propeller of an aircraft. The man walked under an UTair Antonov An-24 until his head touched the running propeller. Video (graphic): The accident took place at Khanty-Mansiysk Airport, Russia.
A LOT Polish Airlines aircraft suffered a cracked window on descent to New York. A LOT Boeing 787 Dreamliner was performing flight #L26 from Varsaw to New York. While descending for landing in New York JFK Airport, a window on the left hand side has cracked. Passengers have been removed from the row seat. The…
Passengers on an overnight flight from Los Angeles to Auckland were shaken up when they awoke to oxygen masks dropping from the cabin ceiling. Flight NZ 5 departed LAX on August 17 and arrived at AKL August 19, 2022 (international date line crossing loses one day en route) Lights flashed on, masks dropped above passengers’…
A 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada was arrested at Warsaw airport on suspicion of illegal possession of heroin worth over $515,000, officials in Poland said Friday. Customs officers at Frederic Chopin airport decided to check the woman’s luggage Sunday as she was transiting after becoming suspicious of her itinerary and uneasy behavior.…
Russian jets suspected of violating Finnish airspace, defence ministry says. Two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets are suspected of violating Finnish airspace on Thursday morning near the coastal city of Porvoo on the Gulf of Finland, the Finnish defence ministry said. The suspected violation happened at 0640 GMT and the jets were westbound, communications chief Kristian…
Both pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines feel alseep in flight and were woke up by the autopilot disconnecting. According to The Aviation Herald, the pilots of Ethiopian Airlines flight #ET343 from Khartoum to Addis Ababa fell alseep in flight. On August 15,2022, the Boeing Boeing 737-800 (reg ET-AOB) was at 37,000 ft at FL370 when…
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 19, to announce regions near the lunar South Pole the agency has identified as potential areas for astronauts to land as part of the Artemis III mission, targeted for 2025. This will be the first time astronauts will set foot on the Moon…
NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half-century…