A firework balloon has crashed on the fuselage of an Azul Brazilian Airlines A320 aircraft. The plane was parked at Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 14 May. Firework balloons are released during the June Festivals (Festas Juninas) in some regions of Brazil. No damages were reported, but firemen had to manage the…
The incident took place at Luxembourg Airport during the landing of a Cargolux plane. On Sunday evening, a Boeing 747-400 cargo lost part of it’s main landing gear. UPDATE Flights to Luxembourg airport reopened at 01.00 am. UPDATE Flights to Luxembourg are diverting to Frankfurt. UPDATE Cleaning is still taking place. UPDATE The 747 has…
According to sources, a Sky Cafe Truck collides with a Delta Air Lines (DL) aircraft in the United States at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). The rear of the Sky Cafe Truck caused damage to the wingtips of the Delta Air Lines aircraft. The truck is owned by a catering service provider that operates across…
An Oman Air flight heading to Bangladesh made a medical emergency landing in Pakistan on Monday. The emergency landing was made after a passenger’s health deteriorated, however, the passenger had breathed his last which was confirmed by the doctors at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. The flight WY311 was headed to Chittagong from Muscat…
Israel’s main airport stopped all flights arriving or departing on Wednesday after a rocket barrage by militants in the Gaza Strip. Tel Aviv airport, which was shut briefly on Wednesday, rerouted several flights after rockets were fired into Central Israel. Rocket sirens were heard across the and citizens living near Gaza were evacuated as over…
A plane with passengers overran one of the runways at Salvador International Airport. The incident happened on a flight #AD4372 that departed from Viracopos Airport, in Campinas, bound for the capital of Bahia. The Azul Embraer E-195-E2 (reg. PS-AED) overran the end of runway 17 on landing, ending on soft ground. The plane arrived at…
Flight #LS190 is declaring an emergency and diverting. Jet2 flight LS190 from Palma de Mallocra to Glasgow is declaring an emergency. The aircraft (reg. G-JZHT) was 2h30 into flight when it declared the emergency, only 40 minutes from his destination. The Boeing 737-800 is descending to Manchester. You can watch The flight #LS190 was forced…
KLM flight to Sao Paulo is declaring an emergency. KLM flight #KL791 from Amsterdam to Sao Paulo is declaring an emergency. The Boeing 777-300ER is performing a U-turn over Wales. The aircraft (reg. PH-BVR) is descending to 17,000 ft and returning to Amsterdam. UPDATE #KL791 is returning to Amsterdam with one engine shut down. UPDATE…
Panic at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Sunday when a tyre of a Max Air aircraft burst into flames. A Max Air Boeing 737-400 (reg. 5N-MBD) suffered multiple maingear tirebursts on landing at Abuja Airport, Nigeria. All of the 144 pax + 6 crew on a flight from Yola deplaned safely…
A woman on an Air India plane was bitten by a scorpion while on a flight from the city of Nagpur to Mumbai, the airline confirmed Saturday. The flight occurred April 23, the airline said in the statement issued to the Press Trust of India, calling it an “extremely rare and unfortunate incident.” The airline…
American Airlines plane engine catches fire, makes emergency landing in Ohio after bird strike. An American Airlines flight headed to Phoenix on Sunday morning was rerouted back to its departure airport in Columbus, Ohio, for an emergency landing after a bird strike reportedly caused the plane’s engine to catch fire, officials said. No one was…
A GOL Boeing 737 was forced to reject the take-off while it was accelerating for take-off at Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport. The Boeing 737-800 with registration PR-GXH was scheduled to depart as flight G32040 from Rio de Janeiro to Porto Alegre. However, in the early stages of the take-off run on runway 20L, the…