Flight operations are halted at London Stansted due to a bomb threat. An A319 has been moved to stand for security checks. Arrivals not available from 1820 Local time due to security incident. An easyJet flight U27920 to Amsterdam has been taken to a remote area. The aircraft is an A319 (reg. OE-LKX). Essex police…
A United Airlines flight from Newark burst two tyres on landing at the Fort Myers Airport’s single runway (06/24), causing all operations, departures and arrivals to be halted. Thousands of passengers were stranded in the terminal all day, and many presumably missed connections. Other passengers enroute to Fort Myers found themselves in Miami or Fort…
Bergen Airport in Norway suspended flight operations for two and a half hours after locals noticed a drone in the area. The airport is the second largest in Norway, in a year it serves more than 6 million passengers. In addition, it is located near the main Norwegian naval base in Hoonsvern, one of the…
NORAD scrambled two F-16 figher jets to intercept Russian Tu-95 bombers. Russian Tu-95 bombers capable of being equipped with nuclear weapons were intercepted on October 18th (local time) after “entering and operating within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone”, according to a statement by the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). The statement by NORAD…
Russia has begun to remove MiG-29 multi-role fighter jets from storage at air bases. Fighters were transported from airbases to Millerovo and Kursk. Russia has begun to remove MiG-29 multi-role fighter jets from storage at air bases. This was reported by analysts from MilitaryAviationInUa based on fresh satellite images. Satellite images released on October 15…
At least one person died in a plane crash in Yeysk, three more, including a child, were hospitalized in serious condition. Russian media is reporting that the engines of the Su-34 caught fire after takeoff. Some are speculating that bird strikes caused the fire. Russia’s MoD: A Su-34 aircraft crashed in Yeysk while climbing to…
An American Airlines passenger is asking the company for “reparations” after tweeting that she was “wedged” between two “obese people” on a three-hour flight. Sydney Watson, who describes herself as an Australian/American political commentator, posted to Twitter on Monday stating that she was “literally – WEDGED between two OBESE people on my flight.” “This is…
Norwegian police arrested a Russian man after he was caught flying a drone above an airport in northern Norway, the police said Saturday, the second such incident in the past week. The 51-year-old man was arrested Friday morning after he was found to have flown a drone at the Tromso Airport, police said. They seized…
A 23 year-old flight instructor has been killed in a small plane crash. Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman was just 23 when a student pilot she was teaching pulled the plane too steeply at an angle and stalled the engine, causing the aircraft to fall from a height of about 100 feet on Thursday (October 6).…
Plane crash images have been sent to passengers’s cell phones. A flight from Bodrum to İstanbul was delayed after several passengers reported receiving images of plane crashes on their cell phones. The pictures are believed to have been distributed using Apple AirDrop. All passengers were disembarked so that searches of the aircraft and luggage could…
South Korea says North Korea has flown warplanes near the rivals’ border, prompting South Korea to scramble fighter jets. UPDATE South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the North Korean planes flew as close as 12 kilometers…
The wreckage of a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter aircraft (in a Falcon-style paint scheme) has crashed in Vinnytsia Oblast yesterday. On October 12, Ukrainian Airforce lost one MiG-29 fighter jet in Vinnytsia Oblast. The jet was scrambled to intercept Russian Shahed-136 drones. According to some sources, the jet flew into the remains of a destroyed drone…