Capital Airlines Airbus A320 (reg. B-6858) operating flight #JD5716 received minor damage in a ground collision with a China Eastern A320 at Nanjing Airport when taxiing to its parking stand after landing.
A plume of smoke rises from flames after an Utair Boeing 737-800 passenger plane operating as flight UT579 made a rough landing and caught fire inSochi. At least 18 people were injured as a plane skidded off the runway and caught fire during landing in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi early on Saturday,…
Operations were halted between 6:30 and 7:00 (local time) at London Gatwick. Air traffic was halted after a pilot reported a debris on runway following an emergency landing of a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A332 (reg. G-VWND). Airport services launched a runway inspection. UPDATE 09:25 LT Flight delays expected until early afternoon. UPDATE 07:07 LT The runway was closed…
Passengers and crew on a United Airlines flight were bused to a concourse at Denver International Airport because of two blown tires. Airport spokeswoman Emily Williams says Flight 448 from Boston landed safely before the problem was discovered Monday evening. United released a statement saying the tires on the Boeing 737 flattened after landing, and…
The left wheel of a Dassault Falcon 2000EX left de pavement during taxi making the left wing to touch the ground. The incident happened at approx 18:00 UTC after a demonstration flight at San Fernando Airport, Argentina. The registration of the Dassault Falcon 2000EX is N327LX.
Capital Airlines flight #JD5759 from Beijing to Macao was damaged in a hard landing attempt during windshear at Macao Airport. Parts of the nose gear broke away and hit the left engine during the landing attempt. The Airbus A320 (reg. B-6952) diverted to Shenzhen where it landed safely. One of the airport’s two runways was…
A Jet2 flight had to make a ‘full speed’ emergency landing at Manchester Airport due to broken wing flaps. The passenger jet flight #LS444 from Heraklion on the Greek island of Crete, packed with families returning from summer holidays, was supposed to be landing at Leeds/Bradford airport. But after a delayed take off, the flight…
Approximately 100 passengers arriving at Václav Havel Airport Prague on Sunday morning were evacuated from the plane by slides due to a suspected fire. No one was injured, airport spokesperson Marika Janoušková said. The Boeing 737-400 (reg. LY-PGC) operated by GetJet took off from Monastir. Tunisia is a popular foreign destination among Czech tourists. The incoming…
Impressive windshear during landing attempt followed by a go-around of an All Nippon Airways Dreamliner in Japan, possibly during Typhoon Cimaron.
On the night of Friday to Saturday, former professional boxer Tarik Sahibeddine restrained a passenger who claimed to want to hijack a Lufthansa flight Munich-Paris CDG. The former champion of France first tried to reason the passenger who insulted the chief of cabin and wanted to enter the cockpit. “He told me that he wanted…
A boy has been injured after he was blasted almost 10 metres through the air by the engine of a passenger jet at an airport in Greece. The British boy, 12, was standing next to a fence at Skiathos Airport, where crowds often gather to watch planes take off and land. But as the TUI…
