Terminal 1 at St. Louis Lambert International (STL) re-opened at 9:30 a.m. Sunday after an evacuation caused by a roof fire. The fire was isolated on the western end of the roof in Terminal 1. The evacuation lasted more than two hours. More than 130 firefighters responded to the incident from the St. Louis City…
Delta aircraft skidded off the taxiway after landing runway 09 at Cincinnati Airport. Boeing 737-900 (reg. N871DN) slid off pavement Sunday morning on flight #DL1708 from Las Vegas. All passengers were off the plane and brought back to the terminal by about 7:15 a.m.
Five American Airlines crew members were hospitalized after becoming overcome with fumes on a plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Thursday, officials said. Shortly before landing, crew members complained of an odour on board a spokeswoman said. The Airbus 320 with 137 passengers and a crew of five, landed safely and taxied to the gate.…
Cathay Pacific flight #CX198 from Auckland to Hong Kong safely returned to Auckland after the radome was hit by birds impact during climb-out. The Boeing 777-300 (reg. B-KQR) nose was stoved in on impact with what was reported as “multiple birds”. Pilots decided to dump fuel before returning to Auckland the spokeswoman said.
Drone sightings have been reported at Heathrow Airport, with departiures suspended until further notice as an investigation is underway. At approx 17:05hrs today, police received reports of a sighting of a drone in the vicinity of Heathrow airport. Flights from the west London airport resumed about an hour after police said a drone had been…
Indonesia will launch a renewed search effort as early as Tuesday to find the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, the head of its accident investigation agency said. “If the weather is good, the ship will start to depart today,” National Transporation Safety Commission (KNKT)…
SpiceJet’s flight #SG32 from Hong Kong to Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing in Varanasi. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 (reg. VT-MAX) suffered a mid-air engine problem on Sunday, forcing the aircraft to make emergency landing. The pilots noticed low fuel supply in no. 1 engine, official said. A senior official of the Director General of…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK442 to Istanbul left termac at Lviv Airport, Ukraine. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. TC-JVI) skidded off the left side of the runway while taxiing at Lviv, Ukraine at 08.30 UTC. “None of the 59 passengers and 6 crew members on board the aircraft were injured as a result of the incident,” the airport said,…
An Aeromexico flight from Mexico City (MEX)suffered a maingear mishap on landing runway 28 at Guadalajara, Mexico (GDL). Flight AM120 was operated by a three-year-old Boeing 737-800 (reg. as XA-AMV). Upon slowing down after touch down in Guadalajara, there were reports of smoke and flames on both of main landing gears. Once the plane came…
Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, but Indonesian investigators said they plan to launch their own probe as soon as possible. The crash, the world’s first of a Boeing 737 MAX jet and the deadliest…
Ethiopian Airlines #ET338 from Addis Ababa skidded off the runway at Entebbe International Airport. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. ET-ATV) skidded off the runway by a few meters after landing on runway 17 at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda. Passengers and crew were safely deplaned and were taken to the terminal and cleared normally through the regular clearance process. There…
A jetway partially collapsed Saturday evening at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. At least 6 people were taken to hospitals with injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening, according to a tweet from the BWI Airport. The jet bridge collapse, caused by a partial equipment failure, is under investigation. The plane has been moved from the…