Heathrow Airport in London was shut down after runway light failures. London Heathrow runways were closed due to ground lighting control fault, no selectable taxiway routes were available. Guard bars for both runway 09R/27L and 09L/27R were also unavailable. Passengers at several locations including New York, New Orleans, Miami and Boston told that their planes…
Flight BA269 made a U-turn off the West coast of Scotland due to a technical issue. The Airbus A380 (reg. G-XLEE) departed from London at 16.00 and was supposed to have arrived around ten hours later in Los Angeles. The crew declared an emergency due to a technical issue and returned to London Heathrow Airport almost…
Armed police are responding after Heathrow Airport in London’s Terminal 4 was put on lockdown after a suspicious package was detected. Police officers have set up a cordon and Terminal 4 has been evacuated. UPDATE The suspected package that caused an alert at Terminal 4 at Heathrow has been cleared.
An Iraqi Airways aircraft suffered bird strikes on departure from Erbil. A Boeing 737-800 (reg. YI-ASG) flew through a flock of birds less than one minute after takoff from Erbil runway 18. The right engine (CFM56) ingested several birds forcing the crew to return to Erbil. The flight #IA916 was delayed.
Air France flight #AF258 from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City made a U-turn over Belarus. Air France flight #AF258 from Paris CDG to Ho Chi Minh City was 2 hours into flight, over Belarus when Russia didn’t give clearance for entry into Russian airspace. The Boeing 777-300ER circled Belarus for over 30 minutes at…
A baggage handler got a free trip to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after he accidentally fell asleep in the forward cargo hold of American Airlines flight . The unidentified handler, who was working for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of the American Airlines Group, was helping out with the Chicago-bound flight at Kansas City International Airport…
LATAM flight to Santiago diverted to Buenos Aires after suffering windshield was damanged by hail. On October 31, LATAM flight #JJ8050 from Sao Paulo to Santiago encountered bad weather during flight at 32,000 feet. Turbulence and hail caused damages to windshield and nos econe of the Airbus A320 (reg. PR-MHP). The crew decided to divert…
Indonesian navy divers on Thursday recovered the flight recorder of the 2-month-old Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff earlier this week, killing all 189 passengers and crew members on board. Two navy divers found the flight recorder at the bottom of the Java Sea and swam it to a ship…
Two Ryanair planes were at risk of colliding during their respective flights close to Pamplona, northern Spain earlier this month. That’s the conclusion of a preliminary report from the Spanish Civil Aviation Accidents and Incidents Investigation Commission. According to the document, this “serious” incident took place on October 2, when a Boeing 737-800 plane traveling…
The Leicester City owner’s helicopter has crashed in a car park outside the club’s ground shortly after taking off after a match. UPDATE Leicester City FC confirms Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people died during helicopter crash on Saturday evening. It has been reported that Leicester City owner Srivaddhanaprabha was on board the vehicle, although it is…
A Boeing’s new 737 MAX 8 model operated by the low-cost Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed while on a domestic flight from Jakarta. The plane requested an emergency landing almost immediately after it took off, Sindu Rahayu of the Air Transportation Directorate General said at a press conference. He added that the authorities lost contact…
On Saturday 27th October, Hong Kong Cargo aircraft deviated from its taxi line at Istanbul Ataturk Airport. The Airbus A330-200F stopped taxiing right before a potential collision of the wing with the tail of a Turkish Airlines aircraft.