Two RAF Typhoons from Coningsby have escorted a Ryanair passenger jet into Stansted airport as Quick Reaction Alert. The aircraft was a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (reg. EI-FZH) flight #FR2145 from Kaunas to London Luton. UPDATE 09:03 UTC Security threat confirmed as hoax. UPDATE 09:01 UTC Sniffer dogs going round the luggage. UPDATE 08:52 UTC Passengers escorted to buses…
American Airlines flight #AA62 to Paris was forced to divert to Shannon this morning. The Boeing 777-200 (reg. N790AN) had to divert due to cargo hold fire indication. The fire vehicles were scrambled to meet the aircraft right after landing. Passengers has been disembarked on the tarmac.
Delta flight #DL964 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Detroit was carrying 154 people when the Airbus A320 suffered engine failure. “There was a crackling noise a couple of times, in the middle of the flight ,” a passenger in row 16, who did not want to be identified, told WWJ-TV. The flight was…
An Antonov An-148 was forced to turn around to Talakan regional airport (Russia) after right engine caught fire moments after take-off . The flight #IK9788 of the Russian regional airline Angara Airlines from Talakan Regional Airport to Irkutsk International Airport (Russia) had taken off around noon (local time) when after a few minutes, the passengers could…
UPDATE 10:47 UTC 50 dead & 200 injured in shooting near Las Vegas Airport police say. UPDATE 09:00 UTC The shooter fired from 32nd floor near Las Vegas Airport, 20+ dead, 100+ injured. UPDATE 07:47 UTC Limited flight activity has resumed at Las Vegas airport. Las Vegas McCarran Airport was temporally shut down due to active shooter nearby. Approx…
Air France A380 (reg. F-HPJE) flight #AF66 from Paris CDG to Los Angeles LAX diverted to Goose Bay. UPDATE 2223 UTC Air France is sending a Boeing 777-300 and a B737 to get the 497 passengers of Flight #AF066 to their destination. The two flights are scheduled to leave Goose Bay at 04:15 (LT). UPDATE 2124 UTC Someone onboard…
German authorities say an Airbus A320 (reg. D-ABHO) with 88 people on board overshot the end of the runway at Sylt, but nobody was injured in the incident. The regional emergency response center says the Air Berlin plane from Duesseldorf came to a halt Saturday on the grass about 50 meters (yards) beyond the end of the runway.…
An Etihad Airways captain died after becoming “incapacitated” during a flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Kuwait. “Etihad Airways is saddened to report the death of one of its pilots onboard flight EY 927, a freighter service from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam,” the airline said in a statement.…
Smoke filled the cabin of an Allegiant Air jet after it landed at a California airport on Monday, forcing coughing passengers to cover their faces with shirts and firefighters to board the plane, authorities said. None of the 150 passengers or six crew members was injured when the plane from Las Vegas landed at Fresno…
Firefighters and the ambulance service were called to the airport just after 6.30am this morning after the tow bar became embedded into the aircraft’s landing gear. The incident took place during push back. The incident has caused minor delays to several flights. A Manchester Airport spokesman said: “We can confirm that an aircraft has come…
A Badr Airlines aircraft suffered a bird strike yesterday near Khartoum in Sudan yesterday. The short flight #J4341 took off from Ad Damazeen to khartoum international airport. The radome of the Boeing 737 was severely damaged during the incident. The crew managed to fly the plane safely to its destination.
A 4.3-kilogram part that dropped from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines passenger airplane hit a moving car in Osaka on Saturday, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry’s West Japan Civil Aviation Bureau said Sunday. The part struck the roof of the vehicle, but neither of its two occupants — the 51-year-old driver and the…