Schiphol maintains maximum number of passengers. In the coming months, Schiphol will maintain the maximum number of travelers that can depart from the airport. Airlines need a longer-term planning. The airport expects to do this until the end of March. “Maintaining a maximum number of travelers is necessary, says the Hanne Buis, COO at Royal…
An easyJet plane was forced to make an emergency landing after its wing was suddenly struck by lightning. The aircraft took off from Milan when it was hit by the lightning while flying over Italy. The plane diverted to Bari instead of Naples on Sunday (September 25). An image showed the extent of the damage,…
Keflavik airport received a message about a bomb threat. Just before midnight a cargo airplaine landed in Keflavík Airport after a threat about a bomb being on board the airplane was received. This was confirmed by the Chief of Police in Reykjanes peninsula, Úlfar Lúðvíksson, to mbl.is Because of the threat all air traffic to…
Emergency services are at Heathrow Airport after two commercial passenger planes “scrapped into each other”. The incident took place at some point around 8pm tonight (September 28). A Korean Air Boeing 777-300 was taxiing to runway 27R when it clipped another aicraft. The plane (reg. HL7782) was performing flight #KE908 to Seoul. It clipped an…
More than 5,000 completely empty passenger flights have flown to or from UK airports since 2019, the Guardian can reveal. A further 35,000 commercial flights have operated almost empty since 2019, with fewer than 10% of seats filled, according to analysis of data from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This makes a total of about…
A Singapore Airlines flight to San Francisco was escorted by fighter jets after a passenger allegedly claimed there was a bomb in his carry-on bag and assaulted the crew. A 37-year old man was arrested on Wednesday morning (28 September) after making a bomb threat on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from San Francisco.…
Stunning pictures of the Space X’s launch have been taken from a C-17 cockpit over the Atlantic. SpaceX’s launch of 52 more Starlink satellites was visible all along the East Coast of the United States, generating footage of Saturday’s sunset launch. The crew of an US Air Force C-17 was able to take pictures of…
A Copa Airlines Boeing B737-800 has run off the runway on landing at Tocumen Airport, Panama. The Copa Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg. HP-1539) performed flight #CM135 from Mexico City on Sunday, 25 September. The plane skidded off the runway while landing at Tocumen International Airport on evening. The airport was closed and flight operations were…
A British Airways flight to Rhodes made an emergency diversion after its windshield shattered mid-flight, according to a passenger. Caroline Edmunds tweeted that she was on BA624 from London to Rhodes, Greece, on Saturday afternoon when it was forced to land in Athens after the windscreen “broke”. Edmunds, who posted a picture of the Airbus’s…
A U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in about four years, set to join other military vessels in a show of force intended to send a message to North Korea. USS Ronald Reagan and ships from its accompanying strike group docked at a naval base in the southern…
Plumes of black smoke seen near Orly airport in Paris, France. The fire is at a marketplace in Paris close to the airport. Despite smoke, the flights operations are currently not affected.
Two pilots died in a collision between two planes on Saturday evening on the outskirts of Gera, Germany. According to a spokesman for the fire brigade, the casualties are two aerobatic pilots who collided in the air with their planes near the Leumnitz airfield. The planes crashed after the collision over an open area, the…