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…
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…