A Boeing 777-200ER made an emergency landing at Newark after sparks were observed on departure. The aircraft performing flight #UA149 from Newark to Sao Paulo was seen with sparks coming from the landing gear compartiment on takeoff from runway 22L. The Boeing 777-200ER (reg. N787UA) climbed to 24,000ft over the sea and started to dump…
Flights abroad sell out following Putin’s partial mobilization. According to journalist Amir Tsarfati, Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense. UPDATE The head of Russia’s tourism agency said no restrictions have been imposed on travelling…
Only 9 days after a first incident, an Air France aircraft almost landed at French Naval airbase instead of Brest Airport. Few days after a Volotea aircraft began approach to naval airbase in Brittany, an Air France A319 did about the same. On September 19th, an Air France Airbus A321 (reg. F-GMZA) was operating domestic…
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…