A plane of the national airline, Air Algérie, was forced to abort takeoff at Houari Boumediene airport in Algiers. Air Algerie Airbus A330-200 (reg. 7T-VJA) performing flight #AH4062 with 202 passengers on board to the Dubai. The plane was due to takeoff at around 22:00. During takeoff an engine failed, shortly before V1 speed. The pilot decided…
Following an incident on board with a passenger, an Air Austral flight departing from Paris CDG airport and bound for Mayotte was canceled on Monday, 17 September. An Air Austral flight was canceled Monday night due to an incident on board with a passenger. Chartered by the company Hifly, the A330 was due to depart from…
Runway is closed until further notice at East Midlands Airport. UPDATE East Midlands Airport now reopened. UPDATE The aircraft is now off runway, inspection in progress. UPDATE All pax now offloaded from FR9387 BNC-EMA and nosewheel tyres being changed in situ on runway before a/c will be moved to stand for luggage offload & inspection. The…
Alitalia #AZ621 Boeing 777-200ER from #LAX (Los Angeles) to FCO (Rome) dumped fuel and made an unscheduled stop in Salt Lake City International Airport due to reports of unruly passenger. Thanks to SLCScanner (https://twitter.com/SLCScanner)
Malaysia Airlines #MH1 returned to Heathrow due to landing gear door issue. To reduce weight, the Airbus A350 had to dump fuel over the channel at 10,000ft.
All early flights to Nnamdi Aziiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, have been cancelled over overshooting of the runway by a chartered aircraft. A Gulfstream aircraft belonging to Skybird Airline with the registration number 5N-BOD overshot the runway on Wednesday night, thereby leading to the closure of the runway by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria…
British Airways flight #BA103 from London Heathrow to Calgary diverted to to Iqaluit after reporting fumes in the flight deck. The pilots used oxygen masks and witnesses claimed the fumes filling the cockpit smelt of “electrical burning”. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (reg. G-ZBKA) set off from London Heathrow at 6.30pm on Wednesday and was due to land…
An Iberia Airways flight en route to Madrid made an emergency landing overnight at Logan Airport after suffering an engine-related issue mid-flight. The plane landed without incident and there were no injuries, according to an Iberia spokeswoman. The flight, which had 265 passengers, originated Tuesday around 9:15 p.m. at New York’s John F. Kennedy International…
EgyptAir Boeing 737-800 suffered multiple tire blow-outs on landing runway 30 at Belgrade Airport. The aircraft (reg. SU-GCO) was operating flight #MS3100 from Cairo. The aircraft was unable to leave the runway resulting in the temp. closure of the airport.
A white car is seen careening across the dirt and onto the runway before the fugitive throws himself from the vehicle and starts running. UPDATE Lyon Airport, France reopened at 15:30 local time. During closure, flights diverted to to Marseille and Geneva. The individual was driving a white car on the Highway A43 towards the…
File picture A British man has died on a flight to Ibiza after ‘needing medical attention’ in mid-air. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. G-DRTD) from Manchester declared an emergency diverted to Toulouse on Saturday evening at 17:20 UTC. Jet2 said it was forced to make the emergency landing in Toulouse and the passenger was taken to hospital by…
An airbridge has hit one of the HiFly A380 engine on Friday 7 September at Paris Charles de Gaules Airport resulting in the cancellation of Air Austral flight #UU978 from Paris to La Reunion island. Passengers were automatically re-booked on Air Austral flights on Saturday, 8 September. HiFly A380 is currently under maintenance, then Air…