An Iberia Airways flight en route to Madrid made an emergency landing overnight at Logan Airport after suffering an engine-related issue mid-flight. The plane landed without incident and there were no injuries, according to an Iberia spokeswoman. The flight, which had 265 passengers, originated Tuesday around 9:15 p.m. at New York’s John F. Kennedy International…
Ryanair is cancelling dozens of flights after pilots and flight attendants in Germany started a one-day strike over pay and conditions, union officials said. The Cockpit union said the 24-hour strike began at 3am Wednesday and would affect all the airline’s bases in Germany, including Frankfurt and Berlin. The union, representing pilots, is being joined…
EgyptAir Boeing 737-800 suffered multiple tire blow-outs on landing runway 30 at Belgrade Airport. The aircraft (reg. SU-GCO) was operating flight #MS3100 from Cairo. The aircraft was unable to leave the runway resulting in the temp. closure of the airport.
Ryanair warned Tuesday that it may slash jobs and close some bases in Germany if it is hit with more strikes, a day before a planned work stoppage for better pay and conditions. “These threatened strikes can only damage Ryanair’s business in Germany, and if they continue, will lead to base cuts and job cuts…
A white car is seen careening across the dirt and onto the runway before the fugitive throws himself from the vehicle and starts running. UPDATE Lyon Airport, France reopened at 15:30 local time. During closure, flights diverted to to Marseille and Geneva. The individual was driving a white car on the Highway A43 towards the…
Two US F-15 jets on September 8 carried out strikes using banned phosphorus bombs in Deir ez-Zor province, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement. “In Deir ez-Zor province on September 8, 2018, two F-15 aircraft of the US Air Force carried out strikes on the settlement of Hadjin with the use…
File picture A British man has died on a flight to Ibiza after ‘needing medical attention’ in mid-air. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. G-DRTD) from Manchester declared an emergency diverted to Toulouse on Saturday evening at 17:20 UTC. Jet2 said it was forced to make the emergency landing in Toulouse and the passenger was taken to hospital by…
An airbridge has hit one of the HiFly A380 engine on Friday 7 September at Paris Charles de Gaules Airport resulting in the cancellation of Air Austral flight #UU978 from Paris to La Reunion island. Passengers were automatically re-booked on Air Austral flights on Saturday, 8 September. HiFly A380 is currently under maintenance, then Air…
A Ryanair plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Thursday at Porto Santo Airport in Madeira after a couple had a mid-flight fight. The flight #FR3152 from East Midlands, UK to Tenerife in the Canaries was forced to make a detour after two British passengers engaged in a discussion, which turned physical. Authorities…
Air India flight #AI263 from Thiruvananthapuram to Male landed on a non-operational runway. The Airbus A320neo (reg. VT-EXL) on a runway still under construction. However, the construction of this new runway began in March 2018 and was almost complete. The 3,400-meter-long, 60-meter-wide runway will open the airport to the Airbus A380.
Two US F-22 fighter jets escorted Tu-95MC Russian strategic bombers over the Arctic Ocean, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Friday. The interception took place south of the Aleutian Islands, a chain of volcanic territories belonging to both the United States and Russia. At no time did the Russian…
