The wreckage of the missing Cessna Caravan aircraft was spotted Thursday morning in the Aberdares forest, Nyandarua County, Transport Principal Secretary Paul Maringa has confirmed. The Fly-SAX Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (reg. 5Y-CAC) went missing on Tuesday after leaving Kitale at around 4pm and lost contact with the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) control tower…
A flight that was headed to Phoenix from San Antonio diverted to El Paso after the plane was so damaged due to a hail storm. American Airlines flight #AA1897 took off from San Antonio at 00:02 UTC and entered in the middle of a hail storm. The pilots declared an emergency one hour later and landed…
An American Airlines Boeing 737-8MAX to Miami, Florida returned to Trinidad after one of the pilots allegedly heard screams coming from the aircraft’s cargo hold. About 30 mins after flight #AA2282 departed Piarco International Airport, pilots contacted ATC to alert someone being potentially stuck in their cargo hold. The Boeing 738 MAX 8 returned to…
A smoking passenger forced a Southwest Airlines flight to make an emergency landing at San Jose International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, the airline said. Flight 1250 departed San Francisco International Airport and was headed to Los Angeles International Airport when the pilot reported a “mechanical difficulty,” said San Jose International Airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes. The…
The Transavia flight from Gran Canaria to Amsterdam diverted to Faro after crew tried to quarantine the man in a toilet. The Transavia flight #HV5666 to Amsterdam was forced to divert when travellers became distressed by the stench of a man who “smelt like he hadn’t washed in weeks”. The man smelt so bad other…
An Atlanta-bound Delta flight had to be diverted to Tulsa, Oklahoma, after a disturbance midflight. The flight crew reported a disturbance with a passenger and requested law enforcement help. Flight #DL1156 was flying from Portland to Atlanta. The Boeing 737-900 landed around 11:30 a.m. in Tulsa with 172 passengers and six crew members on board.…
Yakutia Airlines Antonov An-24 experienced three out of four maingear tires burst on landing. The flight #R3438 from Lensk landed at at Yakutsk with 28 passengers and 4 crew.
An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window. The Beijing Capital Airlines flight #JD421 bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard returned to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news…
A British traveller has died after falling from a plane door onto the tarmac of a Turkish airport. Staff at Dalaman Airport, in southwest Turkey, were trying to remove the 30-year-old from the flight when he fell from an exit. The 30-year-old man fell on the tarmac and was knocked unconscious. An ambulance took him…
Part of Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 was evacuated after a crack formed in the floor of a temporary gate lounge, sparking confusion for passengers. Travellers reported loud noises as the crack suddenly formed, with one saying it sounded like the floor was “collapsing” and another describing “mad panic”. One photo posted online showed a crack…
Panicked passengers of a Lion Air flight were evacuated after a new bomb hoax in Indonesia. This is the 9th bomb hoax on airplanes in Indonesia in May 2018.
A security camera captured the moment before ground impact of the Global Air Damojh B737-200 (XA-UHZ) operating as Cubana flight #CU972 on May 18, 2018. The aircraft plummeting out of control before it crashed near Havana Airport leaving 111 dead. All updates: https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-plane-has-crashed-after-take-off-from-jose-marti-international-airport-cuba/