British Airways 225, Boeing 787-8 (reg. G-ZBJB) returned to London Heathrow with a windscreen crack. It flew west of Luton, while jettisoned fuel over Bedfordshire. The aircraft returned safely with no further instances. We will continue to update as we find more information.
Delta Air Lines flight #DL2164 to San Antonio was evacuated due to smoke in the cabin on Sunday night. Delta says the crew on board #DL2164 noticed smoke in the rear of the cabin before takeoff from New York JFK Airport. Everyone safely left the aircraft, passengers were taken to San Antonio on a replacement…
A Virgin Atlantic flight to JFK suffered oil leak. The Airways Airbus A340-600 (Reg. G-VWEB) flight #VS3 from London Heathrow to JFK declared a PAN at 11:40 am local time due to engine #1 oil leak. The aircraft safely landed on runway 22L.
A Pegasus Boeing 737-800 on flight #PC8622 overran the runway during landing at Trabzon Airport in Turkey. After overrunning runway 11 at the airport, the Boeing 737 slid downhill towards the Black Sea with 168 passengers and crew on board. The Crew was able to safely evacuate the Boeing 737. Trabzon Governor Yucel Yavuz said that…
A part fell from an airliner taking off from John Wayne Airport and landed on a moving vehicle near Los Angeles John Wayne Airport. No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred Dec. 29. The motorist, who has not been identified, was driving on Park Avenue near Diamond Avenue on Balboa Island at about…
It looks a disaster was barely averted on Thursday when the Air Traffic Control at the Mangalore International Airport spotted a vacant tractor parked on the runway just as a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight was about to takeoff. According to news agency ANI, the tractor – used for cutting grass beside the runway – was…
A panel the size of a laptop computer fell off one of the Japanese prime minister’s jumbo jets, the defense force said on Friday. Officials noticed the panel was missing from the Boeing 747, one of two jetliners used by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for foreign trips, after it flew from Tokyo to its base…
An UPS Airlines MD-11 (reg. N271UP) from Seoul skidded off end of runway 23R after landing Almaty Airport, Kazakhstan at 16:40 local time. For a reason still unknown, instead of following green lights and the “follow me”, the aircraft didn’t turn right but continued to move 20 meters into snow and red lights at the…
Air India flight was forced to return to Indira Gandhi International airport here shortly after take-off due to a crack in the windshield of the Boeing 787 aircraft, an official said. Delhi-Kolkata #AI20 took off from Delhi at 2.25 pm but returned to the airport due to a crack in its windshield, said an Air…
FAA investigators launched an investigation after an Aeromexico aircraft was ordered to abort a landing when it lined up on the wrong runway which was occupied by another commercial jet. Aeromexico flight #AM668 from Mexico City Tuesday 09 January 2018 at around 19:45 UTC, was cleared to land on Runway 28R, and correctly read back…
Warsaw Airport is closed after a LOT Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 on flight #LO3924 landed without front landing gear. The aircraft with registration SP-EQG was flying from Krakow to the Polish capital, the pilots reported landing gear issues via ATC. No injuries were reported, the flight was evacuated immediately after landing on runway 11 at…
A man got on board an Onur Air flight without a ticket at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on Monday. The 28 year old first tried to get on a Turkish Airlines flight without a valid ticket, he managed to get through security checks without required travel documents but got detained by airport police during the boarding…