INCIDENT Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340-300 was damaged by the boom of fire engine during water salute in honor of a pilot retirement

Aerolineas Argentinas plane received winglet damage when it struck the boom of a water spraying fire engine. The water salute of the Airbus A340-300 (reg. LV-FPU) was in honor of a pilot retirement. The aircraft was it taxiing after landing at Buenos Aires-Ezeiza Intl AP (SAEZ), Argentina on flight on flight #AR1133 from Madrid.

INCIDENT Southwest Boeing 737-800 clipped wing of WOW Air Airbus A321neo at Saint Louis-Lambert International Airport

A Southwest flight from Kansas City clipped the wing of another flight after landing Thursday afternoon in St. Louis. The Southwest flight #WN2095from Kansas City was coming into the terminal when it clipped the winglet of a WOW air Airbus A321neo. The WOW Air flight #WW168 that was preparing for departure to Reykjavik-Keflavik Airport. No one…

Passengers stranded in Siberia for 3 days after Air France #AF116 diverted to Irkutsk and replacement Boeing 777-300 could not take off

Passengers of an Air France flight from Paris to Shanghai had to encounter the legendary Siberian cold when their plane made an emergency landing in Irkutsk on Sunday. Having spent the night in Irkutsk, the stranded passengers were expecting to complete their journey the next day when a replacement plane arrived. But the second Boeing 777-300 could not…

ALERT An Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300 has been hit by another plane on the ground at Los Angeles International Airport

The pBoeing 777-300 was parked on the gate and ready for boarding when its horizontal stabiliser was clipped by an aircraft from another airline. The plane’s scheduled flight NZ5 from Los Angeles to Auckland this evening (12 November local time) had to be cancelled. Engineers were travelling to Los Angeles and a replacement part had…