The Met Police Counter Terrorism Command has launched an investigation after three suspicious packages were received at buildings in London today, Tuesday, 5 March. The packages – all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags – have been assessed by specialist officers to be small improvised explosive devices. These devices, at this early stage…
An Air China flight carrying 188 passengers from Beijing to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Siberia on Tuesday morning. All passengers and crew of CA983 were evacuated safely by inflatable slides at Anadyr airport which serves Russia’s easternmost town in the subarctic district of Chukotka. Left hand slides turned out to be unusable…
Passengers were forced to wear oxygen masks as a flight from Adelaide to Canberra was diverted to Melbourne on Tuesday morning following a mid-air incident. The QF706 flight, which departed Adelaide just after 6.10am, was given a priority landing at Melbourne Airport. A loud bang was heard from the back of the Qantas aircraft before…
United Express #UA4933 from Newark to Presque Isle skidded off runway on landing (2nd attempt) at 16.30 UTC. Nosegear of the ERJ-145 broken off and embedded in the engine. At least 4 people received minor injuries. According to Public Information Officer Kim Smith, United Airlines flight 4933 landed on the runway and then slid off…
Flights at Stansted Airport have been grounded due to an incident on the runway. Passengers have described seeing emergency services after a “loud bang” was reportedly heard on a flight heading to Vienna. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 6 London Stansted Airport is now open – operations are resuming – flight…
From 23.00 to 06.00, no planes can land or take off on Belgian territory. Skeyes said there are not sufficient personnel because a number of air traffic controllers have reported sick. However five Brussels Airlines flights will operate. Flights from Africa are delayed to land after 6.00 in Belgium. Around 10 to 15 cargo flights…
A Seattle-bound Alaska Airlines flight from Chicago was diverted to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday night after a strange odor was detected and a dozen people on board reported breathing issues, officials said. The source of the odor on the Boeing 737-900, which had 144 on board, has not been determined. Four crew members…
Searchers recovered human remains from the scene of the Atlas Air flight 3591 crash. However flight-data recorders still had not been found three days after the Boeing 767-300 dived steeply into a marsh in Trinity Bay, Texas. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is leading the crash investigation
Flybe flight #BE4321 from Exeter to Alicante was preparing for take-off on the runway at around 8am when the pilot detected a problem and the cabin began to fill with smoke. More than 100 passengers were evacuated from a Flybe flight at Exeter Airport today after the engine made a loud banging noise and the…
Debris looks to consist mostly of small pieces of the Boeing 767-300ER Freighter, though some larger pieces, including sections of the aircraft’s fuselage, are visible in the video.
“The aircraft is in the video at a steep descent” NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt said during a press conference on 24 February. “I saw no evidence of the aircraft trying to turn or pull up at the last moments.” The security video was taken from a county jail at a distance of slightly more than…
The plane that crashed in the Channel carrying the Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala fell thousands of feet in the space of 20 seconds after making a 180-degree turn, minutes after the pilot requested a descent, air accident investigators have found. The wreckage of the Piper Malibu light aircraft was found on the seabed 30 metres from where final…