Indonesia will launch a renewed search effort as early as Tuesday to find the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, the head of its accident investigation agency said. “If the weather is good, the ship will start to depart today,” National Transporation Safety Commission (KNKT)…
SpiceJet’s flight #SG32 from Hong Kong to Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing in Varanasi. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 (reg. VT-MAX) suffered a mid-air engine problem on Sunday, forcing the aircraft to make emergency landing. The pilots noticed low fuel supply in no. 1 engine, official said. A senior official of the Director General of…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK442 to Istanbul left termac at Lviv Airport, Ukraine. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. TC-JVI) skidded off the left side of the runway while taxiing at Lviv, Ukraine at 08.30 UTC. “None of the 59 passengers and 6 crew members on board the aircraft were injured as a result of the incident,” the airport said,…
An Aeromexico flight from Mexico City (MEX)suffered a maingear mishap on landing runway 28 at Guadalajara, Mexico (GDL). Flight AM120 was operated by a three-year-old Boeing 737-800 (reg. as XA-AMV). Upon slowing down after touch down in Guadalajara, there were reports of smoke and flames on both of main landing gears. Once the plane came…
Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, but Indonesian investigators said they plan to launch their own probe as soon as possible. The crash, the world’s first of a Boeing 737 MAX jet and the deadliest…
Ethiopian Airlines #ET338 from Addis Ababa skidded off the runway at Entebbe International Airport. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. ET-ATV) skidded off the runway by a few meters after landing on runway 17 at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda. Passengers and crew were safely deplaned and were taken to the terminal and cleared normally through the regular clearance process. There…
A jetway partially collapsed Saturday evening at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. At least 6 people were taken to hospitals with injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening, according to a tweet from the BWI Airport. The jet bridge collapse, caused by a partial equipment failure, is under investigation. The plane has been moved from the…
A vehicle is on fire at the Atlanta airport North terminal. Fire trucks just arrived on site. No injuries reported.
An unknown person has broken through a gate at Hannover Airport at about 15:40 local time, causing a lockdown. According to the local police, the perpetrator rushed through the gates in a car and then drove to the tarmac. The Hannover police reported that they managed to stop the car and apprehended the perpetrator who…
A 32 year old man has been arrested at London Luton Airport on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. He was picked up after his flight landed at the airport last night by Metropolitan Police counter-terror officers. It’s understood the case is related to Syria and not to any offences at the airport. He’s been…
A ground worker involuntary activated the inflatable R1 emergency slide of Aeromexico Boeing 787-9 prior flight #AM10 from Mexico City to Santiago.
The two manipulating dummy weapons (Airsoft), created panic Wednesday morning in an airport terminal Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. Around 8:30, “a passenger gave the alert after seeing two adults who did not speak French have weapons”. Passengers were evacuated from Terminal 2 where a security perimeter was put in place. The Border Police (PAF) intervened…