A British Airways aircraft on a scheduled flight from London to Chennai on July 22/23 suffered a lightning strike which led to the plane being grounded at Chennai airport. The incident is said to be the first of its kind at Chennai airport in recent times. Flight BA35, operated with one of the airline’s Boeing…
The aircraft incident occurred at Kualanamu Airport, Medan. The incident involved Lion Air and Wings Air planes. The event that occurred on Thursday when Lion Air Boeing 737-900 was in the process of landing with 144 passengers on board and Wings Air ATR-72 in take off process with 66 passengers on board.
Newly released photos show just how close an Air Canada jet came to crashing into other planes as it tried to land in San Francisco last month. As the Air Canada jet streaked toward a taxiway at San Francisco International Airport, it was as low as 59 feet above ground — that’s barely taller than…
A commercial passenger jet flew past the site where North Korea’s recent missile test crashed into the Sea of Japan less than 10 minutes later, according to ABC News. Air France Flight 293 was traveling from Tokyo to Paris with 323 people on board as the North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile was in the air…
A passenger died when she suffered a fit moments after landing at Manchester Airport. The 39-year-old woman collapsed in the arrivals hall at Terminal 3 on Saturday night. Paramedics were called and administered CPR. Despite the medical attention the woman died at the scene, a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said. The woman and her…
An Antonov An-74 freight plane of Ukraine’s CAVOK Air airline has crashed in Sao Tome and Principe Island in Central Africa, and the plane crew was injured, Deputy Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lavreniuk has said. “An hour ago An-74 freight plane of Ukraine’s CAVOK Air airline crashed while taking off from Sao Tome Island.…
A Jet2 aircraft has made a second emergency landing in as many weeks after an apparent recurrence of a technical problem. A flight from Ibiza to Leeds was diverted to Barcelona on 16 July. On Friday, the same plane was diverted to Frankfurt after a similar incident, Jet2 confirmed. It said passenger safety had not…
A Boeing 767 of DHL suffered tailstrike on landing yesterday at Lahore Airport.
An Atlasjet flight from Istanbul to North Cyprus was damaged by hail and had to return. The Airbus A320 departed from Istanbul Ataturk Airport when it reached 5,000 feet and was damaged by hail storm. The windshield cracked and the radom was damaged. The plane returned to Istanbul Atatürk Airport with 121 passengers on board. The footage of…
An unruly passenger on United flight 898 from Houston to New Orleans forced pilots to make an emergency landing. Just 25 minutes into the flight, passengers say a woman seated in the back row started yelling and hitting the wall of the plane. “I hear a woman screaming in the back of the plane, you…
Air India has grounded two pilots who forgot to retract aircraft landing gear after take off and then flew all the way from Kolkata to Nagpur with the wheels out. While the flight’s destination was Mumbai, flying with the wheels out meant flying low and more fuel burn due to which the plane had to land…
Lufthansa flight #LH543 from Bogota to Frankfurt had to land at Manchester Airport after a woman gave birth on board. The Airbus A340 (reg. D-AIFC) landed at 13:15 local time and is scheduled to refuel and take off in about one hour to Frankfurt.