TUI flight from Agadir to London Gatwick is declaring and emergency. The flight #BY357 departed Agadir in Morocco at 15:00 WEST. The Boeing 737-800 was flying 2 hours into the flight when the crew declared an emergency. Pilots squawked 7700 (general emergency) after flying North of Spain at 22,000 ft UPDATE 16:05 GMT The aircraft…
Police say they believe a pilot and a TV camera operator whose aircraft crashed into the water off Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula were both killed. A Viper #S211 Marchetti Jet crashes into Port Phillip Bay after midair collision with another S-211 near Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Pilot Stephen Gale and his passenger, James Rose, were on board…
Flight #U28109 from London Gatwick to Alicante is declaring an emergency. easyJet flight #U28109 to Alicante departed at 11:25 GMT from London Gatwick. The airbus A319 (reg. G-EZGN) declared an emergency over South of France. The crew squawked 7700 (general emergency) after 1 hour of flight. UPDATE 12:25 GMT The flight is diverting to Toulouse.…
A Boeing 737 and an Airbus A321 lost security separation distance at Stuttgart Airport, Germany. On October 23rd, 2023, a Sun Express flight from Antalya was attempting to land on runway 07 at Stuttgart Airport while a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul was cleared for take off. The Sun Express Boeing 737-800 (reg. TC-SOR) performed…
Berlin Airport is being evacuated this morning of November 20th, 2023. The airport is evacuated and police are now managing the scene. Passengers are being evacuated outside the terminal due to a fire alarm. UPDATE 10:15 CET Flight operations could face delays at BER Airport. UPDATE 10:20 CET Landings are takeoffs are currently not being…
Flight operations were suspended at Bir Tikendrajit International Airport (IMF) in Imphal after unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle were detected in the airspace. The Unidentified Flying Object was sighted over the Imphal airport around 2:30 pm yesterday after which a few commercial flights were affected. The Indian Air Force (IAF), soon after receiving information about the…
A Vueling flight from France to Egypt made an emergency landing in Italy. Flight VL8522 from Paris to Cairo was rerouted to Rome on November 7th, 2023. The cabin crew had concerns about the behavior of a 29-year-old Egyptian passenger. According to Italian customs officials, the man was feeling ill and asked for medication. “He…
The Met, along with Heathrow Airport and Royal Air Force personnel took part in a planned resilience training exercise overnight on 17 November, testing a multi-agency response to an aircraft hijack scenario. As part of Exercise Night Star, RAF fighter jets were scrambled from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire to escort a passenger aircraft to Heathrow. The…
Pilots of flight to to San Jose Do Rio Preto mistakenly approached another airport. During flight #LA4640 from Sao Paulo to San Jose Do Rio Preto, Brazil, the pilots mistakenly approached Catanduva Airport (SBCD), Brazil. The Airbus A320 (reg. PR-MHM) approached runway 24 at Catanduva Airport until Sao Jose ATC alerted the crew that they…
Russia’s planes were reportedly flying close to NATO airspace. The Royal Norwegian Air Force scrambled F-35 fighter jets from Evenes, Norway on Nov. 16 in response to Russian aircraft, NATO Air Command reported on Nov. 17. The aircraft were identified as two Tu-160 bombers, two MiG-31 jets, and two Il-78 tankers. The Russian aircraft returned…
SpaceX cleared for second Starship and Super Heavy launch test. The second test flight for SpaceX’s Starship rocket has now been given the all clear by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA said in a statement that it “has given license authorization for the second launch of the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy vehicle.” The…
A British Airways flight was forced to return to London due to a cracked windscreen. Flight #BA157 from London Heathrow departed on November 15th, 2023 from Heathrow at 22:35 GMT to Kuwait City. But 1 hour into the flight, when the Boeing 787-9 was flying over Germany, pilots noticed something wrong with a windscreen according…