A Thomas Cook Boeing 757 full of holidaymakers has landed safely from Gatwick after the crew declared an emergency. Thomas Cook flight from Gatwick to Lanzarote with 284 people on board reported an indication of engine failure.
A Russian guitarist, whose overpowering body odor required a plane to make an emergency landing, died on Monday. Andrey Suchilin was removed from Transavia flight going from Spain to the Netherlands on May 29 after pilots made the decision to make an emergency landing in Portugal following passenger complaints. The smell was so bad passengers…
A small chartered plane has crashed in Mumbai, reports coming in from the metropolis say. A chartered plane crashed in Mumbai on Thursday afternoon, with reports saying at least five people are feared dead in the incident. The plane crashed in an open area in the thickly populated suburb of Ghatkopar in north-east Mumbai. UPDATE…
A passenger died on a flight from Houston to Boston overnight. United Flight #UA1888 left Bush Intercontinental Airport Tuesday night heading for Logan Airport, but about two hours into the flight – just before midnight – it was diverted to Washington-Dulles because there was a medical emergency on board. When the Boeing 737 landed, medics…
Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter (reg. 9N-AEV) was filmed from a nearby hill when it bounced and skidded off runway on landing at Jumla, Nepal.
Police said a man scaled the fence surrounding Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Tuesday afternoon before running across taxiways and runways, eventually sitting beside a plane waiting for takeoff. The incident happened around 4:30 p.m. Atlanta police said Jhryin Jones, 19, ran was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing, public indecency, and obstruction of law enforcement…
Inbound traffic halted at Geneva Airport after light aircraft is blocking the runway due to failure of nose wheel on landing. Several flights are holding or diverting to Lyon. UPDATE 09:30 UTC Full operations are resuming at Geneva Airport.
Citing airport officials, News18 reported that the 63-year-old pilot, Captain Silvio Diaz Acosta complained of acute chest pain to his co-pilot when he was about to land his flight from Imphal to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. The pilot also began sweating profusely. In spite of having painng in his chest, he landed the…
JetBlue Airways said late Tuesday that one of its flights originating from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport experienced a radio issue impacting the crew’s ability to communicate. A JetBlue pilot accidentally reported that his plane was being hijacked at JFK, triggering a massive response of cops and firefighters who surrounded the craft on…
A Korean Air plane was damaged by an Asiana aircraft on Tuesday morning at Seoul-Gimpo Airport (GMP). The tail Korean Air Boeing 777-200ER (reg. HL7764) was damaged by the right winglet of an Asiana Airbus A330-300 (reg. HL8286) at Seoul-Gimpo Airport (GMP). An official explained to YTN: “The Korean Airline aircraft was waiting to taxi before to…
An Ellinair aircraft on Wednesday slid off the runway at the Heraklio Airport on the island of Crete. Ellinair Airbus A320 (ER-32002) ran off tarmac when about to taxi to the departure runway at Heraklion-Intl Airport(HER, LGIR), Greece. There were no injuries. Flight #EL700 to Moscow was cancelled. “During the launch process of flight ELB 700 from Heraklion to Sheremetyevo in Moscow,…
Engine fire were reported on a Transavia plane which just landed from Ibiza. Fire services rushed to the Boeing 737 and passengers had to be evacuated. All flights were holding. Operations are now resuming.