Today is the last Day of Air Berlin. Last flights to land will be (local time): #AB6048 MUC-DUS STA 20:40 #AB8719 FCO-DUS STA 22:45 #AB8749 LIN-DUS STA 22:45 #AB6210 MUC-TXL STA 22:45 Dusseldorf Airport will send out the Fire Department to welcome the the last flight from Rome with a water salute. Visitors Terrace will…
Delta flight #DL70 from Atlanta to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing in Goose Bay late Thursday after suffering what the airline termed an “engine performance issue.” Delta Flight 70 took off at 3:31 p.m. and was expected to make a landing in Amsterdam just before 6 a.m. on Friday. Instead, the flight…
According to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Northern Norway (JRCC), the helicopter was on its way from Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining settlement on the archipelago, to Barentsburg when it fell into the sea. The site of accident is located 2-3 km off the coast of Barentsburg, the JRCC informs in a tweet. There were eight…
A drunk British woman who was restrained as her violent outburst on a flight to Mexico forced the plane to divert to Canada has been jailed for 20 days. The passenger faced charges of ‘disturbing the peace, mischief, and jeopardising the safety of an aircraft’, following the incident on Sunday. The plane made an emergency…
On Wednesday night, SAS flight #SK4236 from Stockholm Arlanda skidded on runway after landing at to Turku, Finland. According to reports, the Bombardier CRJ-900LR (reg. EI-FPD) spun 180 degress on runway after landing at 17:25 UTC during heavy snow. Passengers explained the plane did a hard landing and bounced several times until it reached the end of…
A man was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Miami International Airport, airport officials announced on Twitter. A spokesman said the man was making threatening remarks about the airport at the Concourse D check-in area. Local news reporter was inside Concourse D at about 12:30 p.m., when he said at least six Miami-Dade police officers held the suspect down as…
A flight attendant accidentally fell off from a cabin door and hit on the tarmac on Monday at an airport in southern China. The crew member from China Eastern Airlines allegedly suffered scratches and bone fractures after plunging from 2.7 metres high. China Eastern Airlines flight #MU5762 was delayed for two hours, arriving at the Kunming…
Karon Grieve was hoping Jet2 flight to Crete to be fairly quiet this last Sunday as it’s the tail-end of the season and she imagined that not many people were headed to the Greek island… and she was right! “I asked the girl at check-in how many were going to be flying and she said I should…
New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all U.S.-bound flights. The new measures, which could include short security interviews with passengers at check-in or at the gate, would be in place by Thursday. . They will affect 325,000 airline passengers on about 2,000 commercial flights arriving daily in the United…
According to The Mercury News Air Canada Flight #AC781, an Airbus A320 (reg. C-GPWG) from Montreal, was preparing to land at SFO on Runway 28-Right on Sunday Oct. 22 after a six-hour flight when the crew acknowledged the tower’s clearance to land. But an air traffic controller repeated six straight times for the Air Canada…
President Trump signed an executive order Friday allowing the Air Force to recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to active duty to address a shortage in combat fliers, the White House and Pentagon announced. By law, only 25 retired officers can be brought back to serve in any one branch. Trump’s order removes those…
Birmingham police and fire authorities are responding to reports of smoke on a plane at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. An American Eagle Bombardier CRJ-900 from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport to Dallas had to turn around due to smoke in cabin. Passengers have been evacuated on the tarmac.