Qantas flight QF1 was 10 hours into its flight on the leg from Singapore to London when an alarm went off in the cockpit indicating a fire in the cargo hold. The flight did a 180 degree turn near Tbilisi, squawked 7700 and landed safely at Heydar Aliyev Airport in Baku, where it was met…
The body of an African man has been found in undercarriage of a plane. The TUI flight #TOM225 had travelled from The Gambia’s capital Banjul to London Gatwick Airport. Sussex Police said the discovery was made at the airport at about 04:00 GMT on 7 December. A Gatwick Airport spokesperson said: “This is terribly sad…
On 20th December, an United Airlines Boeing 767 experienced a series of compressor stalls on engine number 2 while departing Hong Kong. The Boeing 767-300 with registration N648UA was departing Hong Kong as flight UA2831 bound for Guam on a cargo mission. However, it was forced to return to Hong Kong after it encountered engine…
The emergency slide of upper desk of an Emirate A380 was accidentally deployed at Manchester Airport. This morning, the emergency slide of an Emirates Airbus A380 was accidentally deployed shortly after the flight #EK21 arrived at Manchester Airport. According to reports, the mistake has been made by an air steward. The return flight #EK22 has…
Eleven people were seriously injured when a flight to Hawaii was rocked by severe turbulence about 30 minutes outside Honolulu. Twenty people who were on a Hawaiian Airlines flight near Honolulu suffered significant injuries when the jetliner bucked violently in a patch of turbulent air Sunday, officials said. Flight 35 from Phoenix, an Airbus A330,…
A British Airways plane from London has lost a metal looking plate on take off. During live stream from SDTV, something fell off an aircraft. UPDATE British Airways wrote AIRLIVE it was a piece of speed tape, which had been used for routine maintenance on the aircraft. The flight #BA2632 took off from London Gatwick…
A Boeing 747 to China is dumping fuel prior an emergency landing. A Boeing 747-400F to Hangzhou, China is dumping fuel due to an engine issue after take off. UPDATE 11.22UTC The Boeing 747-400F has landed in Frankfurt. UPDATE 10.53UTC The Boeing 747-400F is now at 10,000 ft and heading to Frankfurt. UPDATE 10.45UTC The…
Freezing weather conditions are causing some delays and cancellations today. Snow is disrupting travel at Gatwick airport as up to 10cm is forecast to hit London and the South East tonight. UPDATE 2131UTC Broken clouds at a height of 100 ft at London Stansted. UPDATE 2125UTC London Stansted Airport is now closed. UPDATE Runway was reopened at…
At Munich Airport, climate activists of the so-called “last generation” glued themselves onto the tarmac to protest against climate change. Climate activists from the group “Last Generation” stuck themselves on a runway at Munich Airport. One of the two runways had to be temporarily closed. Several activists from the “Last Generation” protest movement stuck themselves…
Twenty-seven passengers fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport this morning after a woman pretended she was in labour so plane would make emergency landing. The drama occurred this morning after the A321 landed at 4.30am. As flight attendants helped the woman. who claimed her waters had broken, disembark, a group of 28 migrants…
Fighter jets were scrambled in response to Copenhagen Airport bomb threat. Denmark’s military scrambled two fighter aircraft on Monday after Copenhagen Airport received a bomb threat. The military sent two F-16s into the air in connection with a threat to a LOT aircraft that was approaching Copenhagen Airport. The two F-16s remained at Copenhagen Airport…
A Cape Town to Munich flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday after one of engines reportedly stalled mid-air. A Lufthansa flight LH-575, an Airbus A350-900 with registration D-AIXE travelling from CapeTown, South Africa issued a mayday call after one of the aircraft’s left engine failed. The aircraft was carrying 286 passengers…