A helicopter carrying six people crashed in New York City’s East River yesterday, killing all passengers, while the pilot escaped. Two of the five passengers died at the scene and three were taken to two area hospitals where they later died, a spokesman for the New York City Police spokesman confirmed. The pilot freed himself…
A Turkish private jet with 11 people on board has crashed in Iran on Sunday. It was reportedly flying from Sharjah, UAE to Istanbul, when it crashed into Mount Helen in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, southwest Iran, at 18:45 local time. A lower flying altitude was requested by the pilots, shortly before the airplane crashed,…
Unauthorized pro-Kurdish protest escalates at Düsseldorf Airport. Pro Kurdish protesters started an unannounced demonstration against the Turkish government at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS) on Sunday noon. The demonstration was against Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria. Violence broke out when Turkish counter-protesters joined. A video of the escalation was posted on Twitter: Germany’s police forces used…
Problems at Sydney Airport has caused hundreds of passengers to be delayed, with the airport asking for people to avoid terminals 1 & 2. There are reports that a technical issue is affecting people near the security and check-in areas. Sydney Airport said it was “experiencing technical issues at T1 and T2 causing interruptions to…
A passenger jet was forced to carry out an emergency landing after one of its engines exploded just half an hour after takeoff. The Tez Jet airline British Aerospace RJ-85 returned to Manas International Airport in the capital of the ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan after the alarming incident. In footage, part of the broken engine…
Part of a roof at Nanchang Changbei International Airport in China collapsed on Sunday (Mar 4) amid strong winds and a torrential downpour, local media reports said. No one was injured in the incident, which took place at the entrance of the airport’s Terminal 2 arrival hall at around 3.30pm, according to the China News Service…
A senior Iranian official announced on Monday that the country will likely transfer the black box of the crashed Aseman airline ATR-72 plane to France for further investigation. “The black box of the ATR plane was found and is under preliminary studies by experts,” Managing-Director of Atiyeh Saba holding company Vali Azarnoush, whose firm is…
A passenger has tried to enter the cockpit of an EgyptAir plane, which was en route from Oman to Cairo. According to the news portal “Yoom7”, an attempt to break into the cabin occurred on the 26th minute of the flight. One of the passengers attacked the flight attendants and tried to break into the…
Iranian officials announced on Saturday that the flight recorder, also known as the black box from Tehran-Yasuj passenger plane, which crashed on Feb. 18, was found by the searchers. Fourteen days after Tehran-Yasuj flight crashed in the mountains within 14 miles of destination landing port, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, known as…
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) today released a report into a FOD incident that resulted in a Jetstar A320 returning to Auckland after taking off with a clipboard placed inside the right engine cowling. The A320, registration VH-VGY was operating an Auckland-Sydney flight 27 October 2017. The clipboard was placed inside the engine by…
A Skyjet BAe 146-200 carrying 73 passengers overshot the runway at the Sayak Airport in Del Carmen town, Siargao Island Tuesday morning. Gilbert Ortojan, manager of Skyjet Airlines-Siargao, said the cause of the incident is still under investigation but noted that there was a birdstrike.
