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…
A fuel tank collided with one of its Boeing 737 planes on the ground at O’Hare Airport Tuesday, according to United Airlines. The airline says the plane was empty after arriving from Saint Louis. No one on the ground was injured.
Red Wings Tupolev Tu-204 experienced a failure of the left engine very soon after take-off from Ufa Intl Airport to Sochi. A plane, owned by Russia’s Red Wings air carrier, had to perform an emergency landing in the airport of Russia’s Volga area city of Ufa after one of its engines caught fire, an airport…
UPDATE Gulfstream IV with rapper Post Malone on board lands safely at Stewart International airport after circling for 3 hours to burn fuel to make an emergency landing. A London-bound plane that left Teterboro Airport this morning with two blown tires is being diverted to New York Stewart International Airport in Orange County. The aircraft…
The screens which display live departure and arrivals information for passengers’ flights have gone blank this morning leaving hundreds of passengers in the dark. London Gatwick airport has been forced to draft in whiteboards which staff are having to relentlessly update with the latest information. The airport posted a statement on Twitter, saying: “Due to…
LC Perú Bombardier DHC 8-Q400 (reg. N404AV) landed at Lima-J Chávez Intl Airport with nose gear retracte. Flight #W41323 was on approach to Ayacucho when the pilots received indication of a stuck nose gear and returned to Lima. All 59 passengers and 5 crew members are safe.
A German Condor jet made an emergency landing at Chania airport on the Greek island of Crete after a bomb threat on board. A German passenger jet was forced to land in Greece on Thursday after reporting a bomb threat. The pilot contacted the control tower at Chania airport after receiving information that suggested there…