Leeds Bradford Airport (UK) was evacuated due to a fire alarm. Firefighters were on the scene. Leeds & Bradford Airport evacuated due to fire alarm just now. Impressively quick response by staff coordinating. Fire brigade on scene. pic.twitter.com/bFJ5BRCNoT — Cllr Ryan Stephenson (@Stephenson_Ryan) December 15, 2017 A spokesman for the airport said the evacuation was…
Ontario Provincial Police say there are multiple fatalities after a helicopter crash today north of Kingston, Ontario. None of the four Hydro One employees on board the Aerospatiale AS350-B2 chopper survived the crash, which happened shortly before noon, police said. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over a snow-covered field outside Tweed, north of Kingston.…
A West Wind Aviation ATR-42 has crashed near Fond-du-Lac Airport, Canada, late Wednesday night. The turbo prop aircraft took off from the airport at around 6:15pm local time, headed to Stony Rapids. There were 22 passengers and three crew members (two pilots and one flight attendant) on board, many of them suffered injuries, some serious,…
A passenger on board Condor Boeing 757-300 preparing to take off from Frankfurt filmed the moment a bird flew into the aircraft’s engine #2. The plane returned to Frankfurt and passengers were booked on a new aircraft.
After suffering a 12 hour delay in Montreal, British Airways flight 94 was ready to go back home when Montreal Tower noticed a lot of smoke coming from its number 2 engine/main landing gear causing the emergency vehicles to come out to inspect the area. As well as causing the aircraft to shut both engines…
China Southern Airlines Airbus flight #CZ3104 from Beijing to Guangzhou was stuck on runway 36R at Beijing Airport following an aborted take off. The Airbus A380 (reg. B6137) ran to the side of the runway but come to a stop over runway limits. According to reports, co-pilot unbalanced the thrust by accident when speeding up at…
A Qatar Airways Airbus A321 (reg. A7-AIB) parked at a remote stand in Hamad International Airport (HIA) caught fire while under maintenance this morning, a statement from the airline said. The fire inside the cabin was extinguished immediately and no injuries were reported. According to JADEC, the fire is understood to have originated in IFE/Satcom antenna…
On December, 8th British Airways flight #BA288 from Phoenix to London Heathrow suffered engine #3malfunction on takeoff runway 08. The crew and climbed to 10,000ft to enter holding pattern to dump fuel for a safe return runway 08. Dumping fuel is a standard procedure that occurs when planes need to make an emergency landing because it…
A plane at San Jose International Airport on Wednesday was evacuated due to an apparent security incident, according to an airport spokesperson. The spokesperson said there was an apparent WiFi message indicating that there was some sort of bomb threat declared, but no credible threat was found. After being escorted off the plane, passengers were…
An Air Baltic plane arriving from Riga, Latvia has skidded off a runway at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport. The incident has resulted in the runway being closed. The Boeing-737, with 52 passengers on board, landed at Sheremetyevo Airport this afternoon, Interfax reports, citing a source in the airport’s emergency services. However, the plane missed a…
Engine issues have forced an Air New Zealand flight to Japan to return to Auckland International Airport on Tuesday morning. An Air NZ spokeswoman said the pilot elected to shut down one of the plane’s engines as a precaution during flight #NZ99 to Narita, Tokyo. “The aircraft carrying 268 passengers and 14 crew landed shortly…
