Up to 40 passengers have been forced off a Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth over concerns the plane was too heavy to fly. Passengers aboard the Boeing 737-800 flight due to arrive in Perth at 7.40pm told Radio 6PR yesterday they were asked to disembark the plane prior to take off, WA Today reports. A…
Two B-1B and a B-52 were intercepted over the Baltic Sea on June 9. A Russian Su-27 Flanker approached to around 100ft of the B-1B, which is temporarily deployed to RAF Fairford during during Baltic exercise. The USAF is supporting the exercise with around 600 airmen and eight Air Forces Global Strike Command bombers deployed to Fairford. The…
A Spitfire crashed on takeoff during airshow at aerodrome of Trois-frontières, Longuyon-Vilette few meters from the public. The propeller has hit the ground during takeoff, then the WWII plane moved upside down and stopped on its back. Propeller splints spread among the crowd and obviously at least one young woman has been injured. The firemen quickly arrived…
JustPlanes spent a week filming Sydney Airport and captured a lot of Qantas Boeing 747 movements. For the full 4hr film visit http://www.justplanes.com/sydney.html
China Eastern flight #MU736 to Shanghai returned to Sydney today after engine suffered serious damage. The Airbus A330-200 (reg. B-6099) was climbing to 5,000ft at 10:30 UTC when the engine #1 suffered cowling damage. The failure was not inclusive and the debris badly damaged the engine cowling. The Airbus A330-200 (reg. B-6099) landed safely at Sydney…
A private plane with Jennifer Lawrence on board was forced to make an emergency landing due to engine failure, E! News can confirm. During the flight, which was coming from Louisville, Kentucky, one of the engines failed at 31,000 feet. The pilots made an emergency landing, however, while in the middle of the unscheduled landing,…
Russian military aircraft took to the skies, performing air stunts and demonstrating maneuvering skills in a massive display, as the Russian ‘Berkuts’ helicopter aerobatic team celebrated its 25th anniversary. The Saturday aviation show in the Tver Region featured performances by other aerobatic teams, including the Russian Knights and the Swifts (Strizhi). The public got to…
54 knot/62 mph gusts made for some ‘exciting’ final approaches to land on 23 February 2017. This video – the third in the Doris series – shows four such struggles to negotiate the turbulence around the hills and buildings near the runway at BHX. The first two videos are: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d2w444j4jE – 8 go-arounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OmwRMj9eHQ –…
Easyjet flight #U23246 from Ljubljana to London Stansted had to land on the early Saturday evening at the Cologne-Bonn airport, because of a bomb threat A passenger heard the word “bomb” inside the cabin. The three men were arrested and being interrogated at police headquarters early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the state police…
At least one person was injured after high winds forced hot-air balloons to collide in Chatsworth, Illinois. A bystander took a cellphone video of the dramatic incident on Thursday night at a Sesquicentennial Heritage Days event in the town, located some 90 miles southwest of Chicago. The footage shows several hot-air balloons on the ground…
140 passengers of Thomas Cook were stranded in Tenerife after their plane was damaged upon departure by the truck which had to push back the aircraft for taxi. Nobody was injured, but the front wheels of the aircraft have been damaged. The incident will delay the flight until tomorrow, which is 36 hours later than planned.…
JustPlanes filmed 11 Cockpit Films with AIR CANADA including this Embraer series with flights from Toronto to the USA (Denver, New York and Washington). For more on this program go to http://www.worldairroutes.com/AirCanada175.html