BREAKING Children treated for minor injuries after Delta #DL89 dumped fuel over school playground while returning to LAX for emergency landing

  Delta Flight #DL89 to Shanghai reported an engine failure (compressor stall) on departure from Los Angeles LAX. UPDATE FAA says a review of ATC communications show the pilots of Delta flight 89 did not tell controllers they were going to dump fuel. Audio shows pilot says: “We’ll turn back into LA.” ATC: “Ok so…

INCIDENT Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-700 impacted a massive grasshoppers swarm on approach to Dire Dawa Airport

On January 9, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B737-700 impacted a massive grasshoppers swarm, (a species of grasshopper that moves in groups of millions of individuals). The aircraft (reg. ET-ALN) was operating flight #ET363 flight between the City of Djibouti and Dire Dawa. At first, the aircraft hit few grasshoppers and the crew decided to continue…

Crashed Ukrainian Boeing 737’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to be sent to France

  The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR)  of the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800, which crashed on the outskirt of Tehran on Wednesday, will be downloaded in France, head of the accident investigation board of Civil Aviation Organization of Iran announced on Saturday. Hassan Rezaeifar said although Iran made use of all its facilities to…

Iran invites Ukraine, U.S. (Boeing) and France to participate in the investigation into the crash of Ukrainian flight #PS752 near Teheran

Iranian government expressed condolences to the bereaved families over the Ukrainian plane crash and issued a statement in this respect, government spokesman Ali Rabiei said. The statement reads that a committee in charge of investigating the incident has been formed on the basis of regulations of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which will examine the…