Turkish Airlines #TK2108 to Ankara sustained damage while taxiing at Istanbul Intl Airport. The Boeing 777-300 (reg. TC-LJE) has sustained damage to its right-hand wing after hitting a lighting pole. The incident occurred at 08.05 after the plane began to push back from the G2 bridge. The 274 passengers had to board another aircraft (reg.…
An Oman Air Boeing 737 has been damaged during hail storm at Muscat international Airport. A Boeing 737MAX has been blown away during violent storm on Sunday at Muscat international Airport. https://youtu.be/7dK1oOAiUho A Boeing 737-800 (reg. A4O-BW) suffered damage to its left wing.
NewGen Airways flight #E3865 to Wuxi returned to land at Bangkok DMK Airport, Thailand. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. HS-NGE) returned to Bangkok after smoke filled the cabin shortly after departure.
The FBI and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a reported security concern. Officials have confirmed the investigation involved Jet Blue flight #B6218 departing from Charlotte, North Carolina, heading to New York on Sunday morning. JetBlue statement “JetBlue Flight 218, scheduled to depart from Charlotte to New York this morning,…
Two Smartwing Boeing 737-800 collided during taxi for departure at Prague today. The aircraft (reg. OK-TVW & N277EA) clipped each other at around 12:30 local time. They were towed later back to the gates.
A German airport worker accidentally crashed a van into Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane, forcing her to delay her return to Berlin. The woman was driving at Dortmund Airport when she stopped to take a picture of Ms Merkel’s aircraft. But she had not put the handbrake on and the van rolled into the aircraft’s fuselage,…
A Delta flight, going from Raleigh to New York, was forced to make an emergency landing after a woman tried to open the plane’s door. “5935, like to declare an emergency, forward entry door’s open. We’ll need crash, fire, rescue,” the pilot said over dispatch. Passengers said the woman was in hysterics and was…
Five people are dead and one person is unaccounted for after two floatplanes carrying passengers from a cruise excursion collided mid-air in Alaska. The two planes carried 14 passengers from the Royal Princess who were on a seven-day roundtrip cruise out of Vancouver, according to a statement Monday from Princess Cruises. The planes collided mid-air…
Passengers on a recent Ryanair flight had a scary time when a man allegedly tried to open a plane door midflight and threatened to “kill every one of you.” The disruption happened May 4 on a flight from Manchester, England, to Gran Canaria, Spain. According to passengers, the man started throwing things and yelling…
The Myanmar National Airlines plane skidded down the runway at Mandalay airport before grinding to a stop. The pilot of the Embraer 190 was praised for the landing, in which none of the 89 passengers was hurt. Captain Myat Moe Aung circled the airport twice to allow air traffic controllers to determine if the landing…
A jetliner flown by a subsidiary of Air France that made an emergency landing in Iran stayed on the ground for several hours Wednesday before flying to Dubai. The Airbus A340 flown by the low-cost carrier Joon was heading from Paris to Mumbai when it landed in the central Iran city of Isfahan. Joon said…
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dash-8 Q400 (reg. S2-AGQ) has crash-landed during landing of flight #BG060. The aircraft arrears to have skidded off left of the runway. All passengers have been reported as safe, with 15 injured people. The aircraft fuselage broke in three and the undercarriage collapsed. Biman’s Flight #BG060 took off from Hazrat Shahjalal…