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…
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an urgent return to Miami International Airport on Wednesday night after a passenger’s carry-on bag caused a worrying chemical odor. Just before 9 p.m. local time, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units were dispatched to the airport after an “issue” onboard the aircraft traveling to Barbados. The flight “returned…
A SpiceJet aeroplane had to make an emergency landing at Hyderabad airport due to smoke inside its cabin and cockpit late Wednesday night. while the plane flying from Goa to Hyderabad was midair, the cabin was filled with smoke causing discomfort to the passengers for breathing. The smoke also spread to the cockpit. After the…
The British Airways Boeing 777 plane from New York had an issue with a tyre. Gatwick Airport’s main runway was temporarily closed this morning (October 13) after an incoming British Airways flight from New York experienced a “burst tyre”. The incident meant that the runway was closed at 7.42am this morning while the issue was…
A jet2 flight from Dalaman to Manchester diverted to London Stansted due to a bomb threat. Jet2 flight #LS922 departed from Dalaman in Turkey to Manchester. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE The aircraft is taxiing to the terminal, end of incident. UPDATE Dozens of emergency vehicles are waiting at Stansted Airport. UPDATE First…
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.…
A wheel from main landing gear of a a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter fell on takeoff from Taranto-Grottaglie Airport. The Boeing 747-400BLCF “Dreamlifter” (reg. N718BA) experienced an incident whne it took off from Taranto-Grottaglie Airport, in Italy. A wheel from main landing gear fell during the initial climb-out on runway 35. Flight #5Y4231 was carrying equipements…
All US-bound airline passengers who have been in Uganda in the 21 days before their arrival will be routed to one of five US airports for enhanced Ebola screening, the US Embassy in Uganda said Thursday. Starting at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday, passengers will be routed to New York’s JFK airport; Liberty International Airport in…
More than a dozen US airport websites appeared inaccessible on Monday morning, with Russian-speaking hackers claiming responsibility. Russian-speaking hackers claim to have taken down informational websites for some of America’s busiest airports. New York LaGuardia is affected as well as Atlanta, Chicago ORD, Los Angeles LAX and more. Atlanta Airport was forced to switch to…
The past few hours have seen wave after wave of explosions. The explosions in Kyiv are much were close to the centre. Not distant thumps from the suburbs. Missiles didn’t strike just here in Kyiv, but all across this vast country, from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east and Odesa in the…