Delta pilots avoided what could otherwise have been a catastrophic incident when they aborted takeoff after spotting a Japan Airlines aircraft entering the runway at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. Delta flight #DL582, an Airbus 350, scheduled to fly from Shanghai to Detroit, was forced to abort takeoff around noon due to Japan Airlines…
New footage from Portugal Air Force shows Air Astana flight emergency landing at Beja air base. On Sunday,Air Astana #KC1388 declared an emergency general emergency after reporting flight control problems to Air Traffic Control. According to ATC, during the first 30 minutes of the pilots attempted to reach the sea for a ditching. At 15.26 UTC…
An Air Astana #KC1388 plane with six crew on board declared an emergency over Portugal on Sunday after experiencing serious flight control problems. The Embraer 190 (reg. P4-KCJ) was in Portugal for maintenance work (a C-check) and took off around 14.30 UTC from an airfield at Alverca, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) northwest of the…
Fly Jamaica flight #OJ256 from Georgetown to Toronto returned to Georgetown due to technical difficulties. The aircraft overran the end of the runway and crossed through the airport perimeter fence after landing. Six persons were injured and rushed to Diamond Regional Hospital. “They are all stable and are being looked at,” Minister of Public Infrastructure,…
Lion Air Boeing 737-900ERs clipped a light pole at Bengkulu Fatmawati Soekarno Airport. The pilots of flight #JT633 from Bengkulu (BKS) to Jakarta (CGK) were taxiing to the runway, but encountered difficulty while making their way through the VIP area. They veered left to avoid a parked Batik Air aircraft, but clipped a light pole…
Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has been activated in response to an aircraft that went off the end of runway 14 in the morning. UPDATE 2 Halifax Stanfield International Airport now says there were only 4 people on board the SkyLease cargo aircraft involved in this morning’s incident, not 5 as previously reported by authorities. They were…
Heathrow Airport in London was shut down after runway light failures. London Heathrow runways were closed due to ground lighting control fault, no selectable taxiway routes were available. Guard bars for both runway 09R/27L and 09L/27R were also unavailable. Passengers at several locations including New York, New Orleans, Miami and Boston told that their planes…
Flight BA269 made a U-turn off the West coast of Scotland due to a technical issue. The Airbus A380 (reg. G-XLEE) departed from London at 16.00 and was supposed to have arrived around ten hours later in Los Angeles. The crew declared an emergency due to a technical issue and returned to London Heathrow Airport almost…
Armed police are responding after Heathrow Airport in London’s Terminal 4 was put on lockdown after a suspicious package was detected. Police officers have set up a cordon and Terminal 4 has been evacuated. UPDATE The suspected package that caused an alert at Terminal 4 at Heathrow has been cleared.
An Iraqi Airways aircraft suffered bird strikes on departure from Erbil. A Boeing 737-800 (reg. YI-ASG) flew through a flock of birds less than one minute after takoff from Erbil runway 18. The right engine (CFM56) ingested several birds forcing the crew to return to Erbil. The flight #IA916 was delayed.
Air France flight #AF258 from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City made a U-turn over Belarus. Air France flight #AF258 from Paris CDG to Ho Chi Minh City was 2 hours into flight, over Belarus when Russia didn’t give clearance for entry into Russian airspace. The Boeing 777-300ER circled Belarus for over 30 minutes at…
A baggage handler got a free trip to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after he accidentally fell asleep in the forward cargo hold of American Airlines flight . The unidentified handler, who was working for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of the American Airlines Group, was helping out with the Chicago-bound flight at Kansas City International Airport…