Strange way to celebrate the new year! Two Middle East Airlines planes were hit by stray bullets yesterday evening, Saturday, at midnight at Beirut International Airport. Bullets were fired during the New Year’s celebrations. According to the information, the two Airbus 321neo aircraft (reg. T7-ME9 and T7-ME2) were towed to the hangar for repair, after…
A worker was killed in an ‘industrial’ accident on New Year’s Eve at Montgomery Regional Airport. Officials said the incident involved an American Airlines/Piedmont Airlines ground crew employee. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the incident happened “where American Airlines Flight 3408, an Embraer E175, was parked.” The flight was scheduled to depart Montgomery for…
A pilot and two passengers were rescued after making an emergency landing in the snowy mountains of the Dolomites, Italy. Silvia De Bon, 22, was on a short flight with her brother and his girlfriend on Thursday (29 December) when the aircraft’s engine stalled. None of the three people on board sustained any serious injuries…
A United flight from Los Angeles to Sydney was forced to divert due to a technical issue. The Boeing 787-9 (reg. N38955) departed at 23.24 local time from Los Angeles (LAX) airport for a 15-hour flight. But in the middle of the flight, the crew reported an issue with the right engine. UPDATE Rescue flight…
Passengers were evacuated emergency slides and sent back to the airport after a passenger’s power bank exploded. The pilots of the aircraft were forced to stop the takeoff and evacuate passengers using emergency slides. The incident occurred on flight Moscow-Kaliningrad flight. The pilots of plane were preparing to take off, but at that moment a…
A British Airways flight has been forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport after passengers reported a ‘strange smell’ on the flight. The plane was headed for Nice when it had to make an emergency landing shortly after take off. Flight BA348 landed at Heathrow after the 7700 squawk code was initiated by…
Two flight attendants were treated on-site for smoke inhalation, and passengers were rebooked onto other flights. Two flight attendants were treated for smoke inhalation after a Lufthansa plane made an emergency landing in Chicago on Monday night following a “small fire” from a passenger’s overheated laptop. Pilots made the precautionary decision to land the plane…
An airplane carrying 50 passengers slid off the runway at the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport last night after encountering icy conditions. The Rock Springs Police Department reports that around 9:40 p.m. officers responded to the airport to assist in the slid off. Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport Director Devon Brubaker said there appears to be no…
A fire on board a JetBlue Airways plane forced more than 160 passengers to evacuate using emergency slides at New York JFK Airport on Saturday. Emergency responders swarmed and evacuated a JetBlue flight at JFK International Airport due to a smoking laptop, according to officials. “On Saturday, JetBlue flight 662 with service from Bridgetown, Barbados…
A VoePass ATR-72 collided with a large predator bird on landing at Sao Paulo-Congonhas, resulting in damage to the radome. The ATR-72 with registration PP-PTN was involved in the incident and as seen in footage shared on the internet, the bird that hit the plane remained in the radome part. Following the incident, It was…
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…