A LATAM Airbus A32O suffered an incident on the afternoon of 28 September at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo. The aircraft was being towed from the hangar to the ramp when there was a problem in the trailer fork, setting the aircraft loose. The aircraft rolled into a tree, causing damage to the stabilizer and…
The Dassault Falcon 50, which was carrying four people, crashed into boundary fencing at Greenville Downtown Airport at around 1.40pm local time (5.40pm BST). The aircraft came to a stop after crashing into the fencing, but broke into two. The Greenville Police Department reported four people were on board the aeroplane: three men and one…
A Papua New Guinean plane has sunk in a lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia. UPDATE Air Niugini has confirmed that divers found the body of the missing passenger in the Boeing 737-800 which crashed at Chuuk last Friday. UPDATE According to first reports, the Boeing 737-800 was too low and landed in the lagoon before the…
@nbcbayarea @volaris Fuel gushing from an airbus due to a ‘short circuit’ finally evacuated from plane, currently being cleaned up. We were told half a tank leaked out…! #sfo #volaris #eeek pic.twitter.com/4kSHtTmaB4 — Candy Avila-Baca (@CandyAB) September 25, 2018 A Volaris flight scheduled to depart from San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday was canceled after…
Volaris flight #Y4423 from Guadalajara to Tijuana, México experienced severe turbulence. The airline reported that 11 passengers or crew members were injured during turbulence. The Airbus A320 (reg. XA-VOW) landed safely at Tijuana, México. The mayor of Tijuana, Juan Manuel Gastelúm, reported that two passengers had to be transferred to a hospital because they suffered…
A passenger has been pinned to the ground by police at Dublin Airport after running out of the terminal towards a plane and shouting at the pilot to wait. Moments earlier the man was inside banging on the window of the terminal and asking ground crew to hold the plane. He made it to the…
American Airlines flight #AA101 was en route from London Heathrow to New York when pilots received an engine fire indication. The Boeing 777-200 with 206 passengers and a crew of 13 on board was passing overhead Ireland when the crew opted to divert to Dublin Airport. The crew advised air traffic controllers that they needed to divert…
On September 24, AirBaltic Airbus A220-300 (YL-CSb) suffered birdstrike shortly before landing. Flight #BT432 from Vienna was on final approach when the collision occurred over the Gulf of Riga. The birdstrike damaged the nosecone and radome. After landing at the airport, the company decided to deploy an in-depth technical inspection of the airplane.
A US-Bangla aircraft, bound for Cox’s Bazar, has made an emergency landing at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong. The flight #BS141 took off from Hazrat Shahjahal International airport in Dhaka at 11:30am, had some technical problems, which led to the landing around 1pm on Wednesday, confirmed US-Bangla Airlines. An aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines flight…
Pisa airport in Italy has halted all arrivals and departures due to a huge blaze in a neighbouring forest. Air traffic is reportedly set to remain blocked for three hours as firefighters scramble to stop the fire. Dozens of flights are now being delayed or cancelled. The raging fire broke out on Monte Serra last…
A flight from London to the US was forced to return to Heathrow after a ‘drunk’ woman allegedly assaulted someone onboard. The incident disrupted the travel of hundreds of passengers who were headed to Washington DC, as the flight was cancelled upon its return to the UK. A passenger who claimed to be sat in…
A planned flight from Newark Liberty International Airport to Paris on Monday evening blew multiple tires in an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after the plane experienced hydraulic failure, officials said. Delta Airlines flight #DL20 made a hard landing at JFK, the Port Authority Police union said on Twitter.…