A Lion Air plane skidded off a runway outside a city on the Indonesian island of Borneo on Saturday during heavy rain. The aircraft was operating a Jakarta-Pontianak service, with 182 passengers and seven crew members onboard, Lion Air spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said in a statement. The Boeing 737-800NG plane skidded off the runway…
Jennifer Aniston’s private jet had to make an emergency landing at Ontario International Airport on Friday due to failure with its landing gear, according to TMZ. Courteney Cox was also aboard the aircraft, according to the publication. The aircraft, with tail number N729TY, took off from Los Angeles International Airport at 11:05 a.m. and was…
A Cathay Pacific aircraft was stuck in tarmac at Tel Aviv Airport. The plane had to operate flight #CX676 from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion to Hong Kong. The Airbus A350-900 (reg. B-LRX) is stuck in the tarmac on taxiway after the left main gear broke the asphalt during push back. Passengers have been disembarked and the flight…
ElAl’s plane that was supposed to carry Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanjahu back to Tel Aviv was damaged at Warsaw Chopin Airport The Boeing 777-200 (reg. 4X-ECC) was damaged when the tug slammed against the nose gear when apparently the towbar snapped. There were no reports of injuries. The Prime Minister extended the stay till…
A Delta flight from Orange County, Calif., to Seattle made an emergency landing in Reno on Wednesday afternoon after experiencing severe turbulence. Five people on board were reportedly injured during the flight. Two passengers and one flight attendant were taken to the hospital for evaluation, according to the spokesperson A woman was seen on cellphone…
Air Mauritus A350 was damaged this morning at Paris CDG airport. The winglet of the Airbus A350 (reg. 3B-NBP) clipped the horizontal stabilizer of an Air France Boeing 777-300. The incident happened after flight MK#34 landed at Paris CDG this morning. Investigation is in progress. Weather was very foggy. Flight #MK45 to Port Louis is cancelled…
A KLM Boeing 747-400 clipped its winglet to the horizontal stabilizer of a KLM Dreamliner. During taxi, the KLM Boeing 747-400 performing flight #KL601 to Los Angeles came in contact with KLM Dreamliner performing flight #KL623 to Atlanta. The winglet of the Boeing 747-400 (reg. PH-BFV) clipped the horizontal stabilizer of the Dreamliner (reg. PH-BHA). Flight #KL623…
A group of passengers plummeted from an air stairs when it collapsed as they boarded a flight from Siberia to Moscow. At least five passengers were injured from the fall, three of whom were hospitalized in the city of Barnaul 1,700 kilometers east of Moscow, the republic of Altai’s transport administration said. Meanwhile, the West…
Visitors to the French ski resort of Courchevel witnessed an unlucky pilot fail to stop his plane in time during a landing and then crash into a pile of snow. The footage shows a small Piper PA-46 (reg.F-GUYZ) rolling away from the off-strip and ploughing into the pile of snow nearby. The plane had five…
A business Jet missed the runway at the Richmond Airport Monday morning. No injuries have been reported after a twin-engine jet landing at Richmond Municipal Airport slid on a snowy runway through an airport field. Police say there were three people on the plane at the time of the accident. Pictures from the scene show the Beeach…
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Saturday the suspension of a search for a missing co-pilot of a small cargo plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Florida. The other pilot, 28-year-old Rolland Silva, was rescued by the Coast Guard on Friday afternoon, about 13 miles east of Bay Harbor Island.…
Two Kenya Airways planes (reg. 5Y-KYR & 5Y-FFF) collided and severely damaged each other just in front of the airline’s hangar at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The two planes were up for what is called C4 Check which is a major maintenance of the engine after a period of time. After the maintenance, the…