Today at 14:53 LT, a Vietnam Airlines A321 from Ho Chi Minh City landed on wrong runway at Nha Trang Cam Ranh International Airport. A total of 203 passengers were on board with 7 crew members including the US citizen captain, working for Vietnam Airlines since January 2018. At the time of landing, the weather…
An Alaska Airlines flight safely touched down at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Friday night after reports of engine trouble. An Alaska Airlines spokesperson says 157 people were on board flight #AS145 when an oil filter bypass light came on in the cockpit. Pilots reportedly throttled down one engine and declared an emergency as…
The Boeing 787 was travelling from Amritsar and Delhi last Thursday when it experienced more than 10 minutes of turbulence. The inside panel of the window fell off, but the outside panel remained intact — which meant there was no depressurisation of air, and no risk of anything or anyone being sucked out through the…
A U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement jet carrying 101 people was forced to make an emergency landing at Alexandria International Airport Friday afternoon. According to England Airpark Executive Director Jon Grafton, the crew of the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 operated by World Atlantic in support of ICE called in an emergency approach around 2:45 p.m. Grafton…
Malindo Air flight from Kathmandu to Kuala Lumpur suffered a runway excursion after an aborted takeoff. The Boeing 737-900 (reg. 9M-LNJ) was cleared for takeoff from runway 20 and aborted takeoff at around 22:00 hours local time. The flight #OD181 failed to stop on the remaining runway and overran. The passengers were evacuated via the…
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it would order inspection of some 220 jet engines after investigators said a broken fan blade touched off an engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines flight, shattering a window and killing a passenger. The order, called an air-worthiness directive, would require an ultrasonic inspection within the next…
A light aircraft has crashed in Northern Ireland, reportedly killing two people. Emergency services are at the scene of the crashed plane, which is on fire, near Belfast International Airport. A Northern Ireland Ambulance Service spokeswoman confirmed that the emergency services had been alerted to a plane crash just after midday at close to the…
Delta Air Lines flight returned to land at Atlanta-Hartsfield following a problem on right engine right after departure. After landing on runway 27R fire service foamed the smoking engine. All 288 on flight #DL30 to London unhurt. Delta flight 30 from Atlanta to London declared an emergency shortly after takeoff. The AirbusA330-300 (reg. N822NW) took…
The NTSB released photos of a piece of the engine cowling from Southwest Air flight #WN1380 engine. Thanks to the general public, these and other parts have been found. Passengers reported that they heard a loud bang on the left side of the aircraft, while climbing out of LGA and discovered that the left-hand engine…
Lead NTSB investigator Bill English receiveed Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder from Southwest Airlines flight #WN1380. The ‘black box’ will be send to NTSB headquarters in Washington, DC for data download.
A Southwest Boeing 737-700 operating a flight from LaGuardia to Dallas has suffered an uncontained engine failure while climbing out of New York. The plane diverted to Philadelphia with serious damage to the left engine. Passengers reported that they heard a loud bang on the left side of the aircraft, while climbing out of LGA…