Passengers were told by crew members there was a hole on the runway. The airport said its runway was closed between 17:30 and 18:10 BST on Sunday. A total of 11 incoming flights were diverted to other hubs including Luton and East Midlands. The runway has since reopened and “flight operations are back to normal”,…
A Cessna 402 traveling from Maine to Boston had to make an emergency landing because one of its cabin doors opened in midflight. The Portland Press Herald reported nine passengers and the pilot were on a Cape Air flight traveling from Rockland on Wednesday when the top section of the boarding door opened. Cape Air spokeswoman Michelle…
An Ethiopian airline plane hit the parked Air India plane at 2.25am on Wednesday. The Ethiopian Airlines plane was parked at bay No. 87 and was being pushed back by tractor when the incident took place. Luckily engine of both the aircraft were closed which minimised the damage. The Air India flight was parked at…
Passengers from Delta Airlines were removed from a plane after a blown tire at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Officials confirmed the plane for Delta flight 5508 blew the tire on the runway Wednesday. The flight was headed to Tulsa. Passengers were transported by bus back to the terminal. Delta released a statement : “ExpressJet…
The United Arab Emirates said Sunday the crash of Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300 plane a year ago was not due to mechanical failure, local daily Gulf News reported. The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority said Sunday that “there were no aircraft systems or engine abnormalities up to the time of the accident,”…
No one was injured when two airplanes clipped wings at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Saturday nighty. Air Canada Flight #AC1713 made contact with a LOT Polish Airlines plane, #LOT46, at the gate of Terminal 1 at about 10:18 p.m. The inbound Air Canada Rouge plane, a Boeing 767-300, had arrived from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and…
Air Canada Airbus A320 flight #AC614 bound for Halifax declared an emergency due to flaps issue and returned to Toronto Pearson for a safe landing. Video by Syed Shamail Haider Shah.
(C) PlaneMadNews At least ten people have been hospitalized after an American Airlines flight from Athens, Greece experienced extreme turbulence prior to landing in Philadelphia. American Airlines Airbus A330 (reg. N276AY) flight #AA759 landed safety at 3:10 p.m. at Philadelphia International Airport. There were a total of 299 people onboard the flight – 287 passengers…
A pilot fell suffered a hart attack during a flight and had to be taken away on a stretcher after his plane was forced to make an emergency landing. The FlyBe flight touched down at Manchester Airport this afternoon mid-way through the journey from Inverness to Jersey. The first officer, who was second in command of the…
Newly released video of a jetliner that caught fire at O’Hare International Airport last fall shows flames shooting from the right engine and engulfing the entire side of the plane as it rolls down the runway. The pilot of American Airlines Flight 383 aborted the takeoff, and the 161 passengers and nine crew members were evacuated. No one…
The images are impressive. A rescue helicopter, trying to help a climber, crashed on the side of a mountain, the Grossglockner, in Austria. The aircraft swirled on itself, before crashing on a steep rock face at more than 3,000 meters above sea level on Tuesday evening. Fortunately, the crew came out safe and sound, with only slight…
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has issued Air Transat a please explain after 2 of it’s European flights to Montreal spent hours on the tarmac with passengers onboard on July 31. The flights were 2 of approximately 20 that were diverted to Ottaw a during a chain of storms affecting Montreal. Flight TS507 from Rome…