A Flair Airlines plane has run off the runway in Kitchener-Waterloo, south-west of Toronto, Friday morning. The plane, which originated in Vancouver, “exited the runway” at the end of its landing at around 6:30 a.m. The Flair Airlines aircraft was operating flight #FLE501 from Vancouver. It ran off runway 26 during landing at Kitchener-Waterloo Airport…
Berlin Brandenburg Airport closed its runways due to unauthorized access of several people, while a climate group said its activists glued themselves to the tarmac. Climate protesters of the “last generation” entered Berlin airfield without authorization on Thursday and air traffic had to be suspended in the meantime. This was announced by a spokesman for…
Singapore Airlines A380 flight #SQ317 from London Heathrow to Singapore has declared an emergency. A Singapore Airlines A380 has declared an emergency after taking off from London Heathrow Airport earlier. While flying over Belguim to Singapore, pilots informed ATC about a technical emergency. The flight #SQ317 was rerouted to Germany. Due to a cabin pressurisation…
Security staff at a United States airport got a big surprise when they spotted a cat inside a traveller’s bag. TSA at New York Airport noticed ginger fur sticking out of a suitcase when an x-ray confirmed their suspicions: there was a cat in the bag. The traveller said that the cat belonged to someone…
An Envoy Air flight returned to Chicago shortly after takeoff on Saturday night after a pilot was incapacitated and later died, the carrier said Tuesday. Envoy Air Flight 3556, an Embraer E175, flying for parent company American Airlines’ American Eagle returned to Chicago O’Hare International Airport at 7:57 p.m. local time, 37 minutes after departing…
The chief executive of Virgin Atlantic has launched a stinging attack on the passenger charges at its main airport, London Heathrow, and said he no longer supports a third runway there. Speaking at the Airlines 2022 event in London, Shai Weiss said: “Late last year, already the most expensive airport in the world asked the…
Virgin Atlantic decided to do away with its gender-neutral uniform policy on Qatar-bound flights. Virgin Atlantic said, “the crew working on the flight from Birmingham Airport to the World Cup on Tuesday were required to wear uniforms based on their gender due to a risk-assessment by the carrier.” For flights bound elsewhere, the lax uniform…
Gulf Air on Tuesday announced that its flight GF19 from Bahrain to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to Erbil, Iraq as a crew member suffered a heart attack. Gulf Air said that flight GF19 from Bahrain to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was on November 22 diverted to Erbil after a…
An American Airlines aircraft was damaged after it flew into a flock of geese while on approach to Kansas City international Airport. An American Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg. N846NN) was damaged after it flew into a flock of geese while on approach to Kansas City international Airport. The American Airlines aircraft was on approach to…
A passenger jet carrying Polish football national team was escorted by a pair of F-16 fighter jets. ‘We were escorted to the southern border of Poland by F16 planes!’ the Twitter account for the national team posted yesterday. Thank you and greetings to the pilots!’ The fighter jets were seen flying almost wing-to-wing along-side the…
An Airbus A320neo has crashed on take-off from Peru’s Jorge Chavez Airport. Footage to shows a vehicle entering the active runway 16, as the aircraft was on take-off roll. UPDATE The LATAM Airbus A320neo has been towed from the runway at Lima Airport with right wing supported by a truck. UPDATE Two firefighters have been…
Nasa has confirmed the recovery of debris from the Challenger spaceship that exploded less than two minutes after its launch and killed all seven members onboard in 1986. In Thursday’s announcement, the space agency said the “artifact” was discovered by a film crew that was in search of aircraft from the second world war off…