A ground worker involuntary activated the inflatable R1 emergency slide of Aeromexico Boeing 787-9 prior flight #AM10 from Mexico City to Santiago.
A majority stake in Gatwick Airport is to be sold to French operator Vinci Airports for £2.9bn. Vinci Airports, part of infrastructure group Vinci, will buy 50.01% of the UK’s second-busiest airport. The other 49.99% will be managed by current owners Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). It follows Vinci’s takeover of Airports Worldwide’s portfolio earlier this…
The two manipulating dummy weapons (Airsoft), created panic Wednesday morning in an airport terminal Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. Around 8:30, “a passenger gave the alert after seeing two adults who did not speak French have weapons”. Passengers were evacuated from Terminal 2 where a security perimeter was put in place. The Border Police (PAF) intervened…
Sussex Police Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Tingley has told officers recovered a “damaged drone” close to Gatwick Airport on Saturday. The drone is being forensically examined.
The couple arrested in connection with the drone attack at Gatwick airport have been released without charge. Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were detained on Friday night on suspicion of flying a drone above Britain’s second busiest airport. The couple were held for questioning for almost 36 hours, but sources told…
Germany’s airports are on alert after four suspected terrorists were spotted staking out Stuttgart airport, reports say. Police are said to be hunting for a son and father from North Rhine-Westphalia and two others seen taking photos of the airport’s terminal and grounds. Details of the suspects were passed to German police by Morocco’s secret…
London Gatwick is facing major disruption as arrivals and departures have been stopped Wednesday night due to drones flying over the airfield. Police said they believed the actions were deliberate. More than 20 units and a helicopter are searching for the drone operators. The airport expected to handle around 115,000 passengers, on Thursday. Gatwick’s Chief Operating…
LATAM flight #LA8084 to London Heathrow made an overweight emergency landing on runway 16 at Belo Horizonte (SBBS), Brazil. The crew reported electrical problems and deployed the RAT of the Boeing 777-300 (reg. PT-MUG). The 12 tires of the main landing gear deflated. 339 passengers on board. No injuries reported.
Ethiopian Airlines flight #ET715 was moving on the de-icing pad at Oslo-Gardermoen Airport when it hit a lamppost. The Boeing 787-9 (reg. ET-AUP) was taxiing for departure to Addis Abeba via Stockholm. The right wing was damaged, forcing the aircraft to be grounded for repairs.
The United Kingdom’s flag carrier, British Airways, will resume direct flights to Pakistan in June, a decade after suspending services to the South Asian nation over security concerns, the airline has announced. The service will resume with three flights each week between the two countries’ capitals, London and Islamabad, British Airways head of sales for…
An experimental plane crashed on the runway at Willow Run Airport. The plane is registered to a man who runs Detroit Flying Cars. A spokesperson said that the owner of an experimental aircraft was conducting a test run at Willow Run about 1:15 p.m. During the test, the aircraft unexpectedly went airborne and then crashed.…
Extreme rainfall caused flooding in various districts of Istanbul. Workers at the New Istanbul Airport were evacuated due to rainfall. The construction site has been flooded. It was seen that the vehicles in the car park located just below the site were flooded.