A SUV collided with a jetBlue aircraft on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport. A jetBlue A320 made contact with a car at at LaGuardia Airport today. The reasons are still unknown but the jetBlue A320 was performing flight #B62339 from New York LaGuardia to Jacksonville Airport. Ground operations were stopped for a while. The Airbus…
A Singapore Airlines flight from Paris to Singapore was diverted to Azerbaijan on Friday morning after it developed technical problems. In response to queries from The Straits Times about flight SQ333, an SIA spokesman said the aircraft was diverted due to a technical issue and landed uneventfully at Baku airport at around 6.35am (Azerbaijan local…
A couple were shocked to see that a part from an aircraft engine fell on their house in Liege, Belgium. A Boeing 747-400 which was climbing from Liege Airport when part of the engine fell off and caused damage to the roof of a house. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-400F cargo (reg. TF-AMC)…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after two planes had a close call over one of the busiest airports in the country. The agency said a Cessna 172 and a Delta Air Lines flight passed “in close proximity” to one another after departing the Orlando International Airport on August 17. Preliminary information from the FAA…
A Boeing 787 divrted to Hawaii due to a passenger suffered peanut allergy. The flight #UA1 from San Francisco to Singapore was forvced to divert to Honolulu. The Boeing 787-9 (reg. N29968) was 5 hours into flight when a passenger suffered peanut allergy. The aircraft landed 8 hours after takeoff in Honolulu. An allergic…
Air traffic control has lost contact with a private Jet. The Cessna 551 Citation II (reg. OE-FGR) seems to have crashed crash outside between Gotland (island in Sweden’s Baltic Sea) and Latvia. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE Body parts found in Baltic Sea Latvian officials say. UPDATE Latvian Navy has found wreckage in…
A TAP plane collided with a motorcycle during landing at the Guinea-Conakry airport, causing the death of the vehicle’s driver. In a statement released this morning, TAP states that “flight TP1492 had an accident on landing at Guinea-Conakry airport, when a motorcycle tried to cross the runway at that moment, and the occupant of the…
Police have evacuated several stores in Tupelo, Mississippi, after a pilot threatened to crash their aircraft into a Walmart. The pilot of the aircraft is understood to have taken the plane from Tupelo Airport at around 5am, and has been flying over the small town in circles for over an hour. Please reload the page…
On 30th August, a Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 was forced to return to Istanbul following a tail strike on departure. The Airbus A330-300, with registration TC-JOG, was operating flight TK726 from Istanbul Airport, Turkey to Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. However, it returned back to Istanbul after around one hour into the flight. A post-flight…
On 26th August, a United Airlines Boeing 767 reached Dublin with an underneath panel detached in flight. The Boeing 767-400, with registration N76064, was operating flight UA-23 from Newark to Dublin. As reported by the Aviation Herald, the pilots heard a loud bang at 16,000 feet during the climb out of Newark. However, the pilots…
On 25th August, a Jet2.com flight from Manchester to Rhodes was forced to divert to Munich over an unruly passenger. The Boeing 757, with registration G-LSAI was operating flight LS819 from Manchester to Rhodes. However, one of the woman passengers reportedly irate after her request for free champagne was refused. She then went on to…
Lufthansa Flight LH403 departed Newark, New Jersey, bound for Frankfurt, Germany, when a technical problem forced the plane to divert to Logan Airport Monday night, stranding travelers in Boston. Lufthansa Flight No. 403 took off from Newark, New Jersey, and was on its way to Frankfurt when a “technical irregularity” caused some smoke in the…