On Friday, December 27th, an Air Canada Boeing 777-300 (C-FIUL) being towed clipped the tail of a parked Air Canada Airbus A321 (C-GJWO) in Toronto. Both aircraft were unoccupied during the incident. Info: Tom Podolec Video: Aviões e Músicas
Germany’s Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center says only 293 people have died this year in air accidents. The crash of a Boeing 737MAX jet in Ethiopia in March was responsible for half of all aviation fatalities. The number of people killed in air crashes in 2019 nearly halved over the previous year, Germany’s Jet…
A Swift Air Boeing 737-400 that had reported having engine trouble made a safe emergency landing at Mineta San Jose International Airport Sunday evening, an airport spokesman said. The Swift Air Boeing 737-400 (reg. N803TJ) operated by iAero – formerly known as Swift Air – notified San Jose airport officials of a problem with one…
AirAsia flight #AK9327 returned to land back at Langkawi, Malaysia. An evacuation was carried out on the apron. An AirAsia flight #AK9327 had to turn around and land shortly after leaving Langkawi International Airport (LTAL) when it encountered technical problems. However, 151 passengers and five crew members were safe and no casualties were reported. The…
A tug caught fire whilst pushing back a Boeing 777 of Air France at Pais CDG, France. The fire of a tug that moved an Air France Boeing on Saturday December 28, 2019 morning triggered an operation by the emergency services. The incident occurred in the cargo area of the airport, with no passenger on…
On 28 December 2019 this Cessna 560XLS Citation Excel with 9 people on board made an emergency landing in a cornfield due to a probable engine failure (or two), 6 km from Otamendi in Argentina. The aircraft had departed from Buenos Aires at 07:25 hours local time and was en route to Mar del Plata.…
The FAA decided it will inspect and certify al Boeing’s MAX planes coming out of storage before they are delivered, a task previously delegated to Boeing. Following that, Boeing will face the complex task of retrofitting roughly 400 aircraft it has produced since the 737 MAX was grounded in March in the wake of two…
Scott Burns, 27, of Queen Street in Morley, Leeds, was jailed for 10 months for his actions, which cost the company £165,000. The attack shut down Jet2’s computer network for 12 hours in January 2018. Burns wanted revenge for the firm’s treatment of him following an incident at a 2017 “Benidorm roadshow”, Leeds Crown Court…
At least five people were killed when a twin-engine plane with six people on board crashed in Louisiana on Saturday morning. Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit confirmed four passengers and the pilot were killed in the crash, while one passenger survived and was taken to the hospital in unknown condition. A second person not affiliated…
A Wake County woman had the surprise of a lifetime when her boyfriend popped the question mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean on an American Airlines flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to London on Christmas Eve. Cassidy Lammers thought she was joining boyfriend Mike Leach on a trip to visit his family in England for…
AirAsia flight #AK130 was forced to make an emergency landing in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday after a passenger’s external battery exploded on board, leaving one victim severly burned. Flight #AK130 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Hong Kong on Wednesday afternoon when a portable power bank being used by a…
A medical emergency resulted in a young girl being declared dead when her flight landed at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday night, authorities said. Delta Flight #2423 on its way to Seattle returned to LAX due to a passenger medical issue on board, according to FAA spokesman Ian Gregor. The passenger was a 10-year-old girl…