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…
The remains of a Bombardier Challenger 600 have been found after it disappeared en route from the U.S. city of Las Vegas to Monterrey in northern Mexico, an official of Mexican state of Coahuila said on Monday. The crash happened in Coahuila, north Mexico, after the plane lost contact with the control tower of Aeropuerto…
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed in fire at at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Flight #SU1492 to Murmansk declared a radio failure shortly after departure from Moscow and then a general emergency. Please reload for updates… UPDATE 7 Wreckage of Aeroflot Superjet 100 has been removed today at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. UPDATE 6 According to Russian media…
Nordwind Airlines aircraft has been damaged by a truck at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport. The Airbus A321 (reg. VQ-BOD) has been damaged when a truck slammed into the fuselage at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport. Reports say the driver fell alseep.
A military charter flight from Guantanamo Bay carrying 142 people overshot a runway Friday night, at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station, and ended up in the water. Miami Air #LL293 arriving at NAS Jacksonville from NAS Guantanamo Bay went off the end of the runway into the river on landing at about 9:40 p.m. local…
A Ryanair and a Jet2 aircraft have been involved in a minor collision at East Midlands Airport this morning. The two aircraft clipped each other in fog this morning at about 07:50 BST. One of the aircraft was a stationary plane. A spokesman for the airport said it involved Ryanair and Jet2 planes but there…
Saturday, April 14, a stowaway survived hidden inside the landing gear of the plane from Guadeloupe to Guyana. The circumstances are still not clear but a man was able to reach an Air France aircraft at Pointe à Pitre International Airport. The stowaway entered the landing gear compartment before the aircraft took off to Félix…
A Boeing 737-800 operated by El Al was forced to make an emergency landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport Monday morning, after the plane suffered a mechanical failure. The plane, which had been carrying 138 people, most of them teens on a youth trip to Poland ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, was en route…