A private Antonov An-2 has crashed into trees immediately after takeoff from a grass strip at Vårgårda, Sweden. The aircraft (reg. SE-KCE), built in 1981 has crashed into trees immediately after getting airborne. The pilot and 4 passengers survived with only minor injuries. The pilot Kjell Brattfors said that he has flew this type of…
An Air Canada aircraft escaped a large scale fire after a ground vehicles caught fire. Montreal firefighters were called to the grounds of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport Sunday afternoon after a fire erupted on the tarmac. The Boeing 777-300 was at the gate at Montreal-pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) on Sunday Afternoon. The…
Footage filmed on a Ryanair plane from Malta to London Stansted shows two passengers fighting while others try to separate them. This is the chaotic moment a fight broke out on a Ryanair flight during an alleged row over seats on the plane. A passenger who was on the flight from Malta to London Stansted…
US President is landing at London Stansted, all inbound flights are on hold due to security reasons. US President Joe Biden departed on Sunday on a three-nation trip that will be dominated by a NATO summit in Lithuania aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine in its fight against Russia while not yet accepting Kyiv as…
The door of an American Airlines aircraft ripped off after an air bridge collapsed at Dublin Airport. The American Airlines flight #AA723 was about to depart to Philadelphia. The seven-year-old aircraft (reg. N812AA) arrived in Dublin on flight #AA208 from Chicago at 11:30 am on Sunday. The Boeing 787-8 was due to depart about 2…
Two FlySafair Boeing 737 did a fly past at Loftus Versfeld in South Africa. On the 8th of July low-cost airline FlySafair performed a fly past over Loftus Versfeld Stadium with two Boeing 737 in support of the Springboks before Rugby Championship campaign at the opening match against Australia. “Our dedicated flyover team at FlySafair has been planning…
A Jet 2 flight form Manchester suffered an engine problem on take off. The aircraft was performing flight #LS1745 from Manchester to Palma de Mallorca. The Boeing 757 lined up on runway 23R but a loud bang was heard when full thrust was set. Pilots immediately aborted takeoff and went to the taxiway then the…
Norse Atlantic Airways flight to Los Angeles returned to London. The Boeing 787-9 (reg. G-CKOF) took off from London Gatwick at 13:17 BST to North. The aircraft climbed to 26,000 ft and entered a first holding pattern North of Cambridge before returning. Pilots descended to 7,000 ft off the UK East coast probably to dump…
Alaska Airlines Flight from Atlanta to Seattle diverted to Spokane International Airport on July 5, 2023, following a bomb threat. The flight #AS334 made an unscheduled landing in Spokane, Washington state after a man handed a flight attendant a note claiming he possessed “several pounds of homemade explosives” in the carry-on luggage and had a…
Final Ariane 5 rocket launched pair of satellites from French Guiana. Ariane 5 successfully lifted off at 6:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, delivering its payloads to space. The mission lasted for 33 minutes, ending a spectacular 27-year run for the European rocket. After nearly three decades of delivering precious payloads to space—including the Webb Telescope—the…
Two late passengers jumped from air bridge at Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul. The AnadoluJet A321neo was already making the pushback to Tel Aviv when two people arrived late. The aircraft (reg. TC-LTU) was operating flight TK7708 from Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul. The two people jumped from the air bridge hoping to board the…
Wind speed reaching 146 km/h caused the temporary closure of Amsterdam Schiphol Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at Schiphol airport after the Netherlands’ strongest summer storm on record slammed into the Dutch coast. The high winds, heavy rain and poor visibility led to the cancellation of about 400 flights at Schiphol airport, one of…