London-Gatwick Airport is set to lose around 600,000 passengers following the demise of Thomas Cook Airlines. In the final week of September, following the collapse, 50,000 passengers at Gatwick Airport alone were stripped off their flights, representing around 254 commercial operations. It is understood that easyJet and Jet2 have snapped up over 65% of the…
Hong Kong Airlines, controlled by cash-strapped Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, must shore up its financial position by Dec 7 or risk the suspension or loss of its licence, the Hong Kong government said on Monday (Dec 2). Hong Kong’s Transport and Housing Board (THB) said it met with the city’s second-largest airline on Nov 27…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an evacuation slide fell off a plane and landed in a Milton backyard on Sunday. The pilot of Delta Air Lines Flight 405 from Paris, France, reported a loud noise as the plane approached Boston Logan International Airport around noon, according to the FAA. Workers discovered that the…
All passengers were evacuated onto the taxiway as operations were suspended for 15 minutes while this incident was ongoing. Operating flight LO641 to Bucharest, Romania for LOT, ES-ACD was taxying towards Runway 29 for departure when smoke filled the cabin and an evacuation was ordered. Multiple inbound aircraft were forced to hold until operations were…
People tweeted that a loud “explosion” had woken them up at around 04:20 GMT – with houses shaking and reports of police sirens straight after. It is believed that loud noise was two RAF Typhoons launched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to an unresponsive aircraft. It was reported by people across north London, Hertfordshire…
An erupting volcano in Mexico forced KLM #KL685 with horses on board to return to Amsterdam after an 11-hour flight. Flight #KL685 took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and made it all the way to eastern Canada when the crew realized that a volcanic eruption in Mexico meant that the flight wouldn’t be able to…
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it notified Boeing that the agency will be the only issuer of airworthiness certificates for all new 737 MAX planes. In a letter sent to Boeing on Tuesday, the FAA said it “has determined that the public interest and safety in air commerce require that the FAA retain…
The fuselage of Boeing 777X aircraft was split by a high-pressure rupture just as it approached its target stress level during a test in early September. The Seattle Times said photos it had obtained of the test on the 777X showed that the extent of the damage was greater than previously disclosed. During the final…
A Turkish Airlines clipped an Ethiopian Airlines plane at Kinshasa Airport. The wing of a Turkish Airlines A330-200F (reg. TC-JOV) clipped horizontal stabilizer of an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350-900 (reg. ET-AWO). The incident took place on the taxiway of Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, DR Congo.
An Air Canada Boeing 787 plane that was flying across the Atlantic from London Heathrow to Toronto instead landed in Dublin after a crack in its windshield was noticed mid-flight. Air Canada confirmed that flight 857 was diverted to Dublin “due to a cracked Captain’s side window” while there were 254 passengers on board. The…
A piece of an Airbus plane has fallen in flight. The piece was was found in a garden of a man in the town of Daux, 10 km from Toulouse, we learned Tuesday. An Airbus spokesman confirmed to AFP that the piece was “a piece of an Airbus plane”. “An investigation is in progress,” he…
A Boeing 737 with 88 people on board suffered a serious landing gear malfunction when touching down in Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday, causing it to list to one side, with one engine scraping the ground. The landing gear on the right side of the Venezuelan Avior Airlines plane collapsed, causing the aircraft to tilt dramatically…