China Eastern flight #MU736 to Shanghai returned to Sydney today after engine suffered serious damage. The Airbus A330-200 (reg. B-6099) was climbing to 5,000ft at 10:30 UTC when the engine #1 suffered cowling damage. The failure was not inclusive and the debris badly damaged the engine cowling. The Airbus A330-200 (reg. B-6099) landed safely at Sydney…
A private plane with Jennifer Lawrence on board was forced to make an emergency landing due to engine failure, E! News can confirm. During the flight, which was coming from Louisville, Kentucky, one of the engines failed at 31,000 feet. The pilots made an emergency landing, however, while in the middle of the unscheduled landing,…
Easyjet flight #U23246 from Ljubljana to London Stansted had to land on the early Saturday evening at the Cologne-Bonn airport, because of a bomb threat A passenger heard the word “bomb” inside the cabin. The three men were arrested and being interrogated at police headquarters early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the state police…
At least one person was injured after high winds forced hot-air balloons to collide in Chatsworth, Illinois. A bystander took a cellphone video of the dramatic incident on Thursday night at a Sesquicentennial Heritage Days event in the town, located some 90 miles southwest of Chicago. The footage shows several hot-air balloons on the ground…
140 passengers of Thomas Cook were stranded in Tenerife after their plane was damaged upon departure by the truck which had to push back the aircraft for taxi. Nobody was injured, but the front wheels of the aircraft have been damaged. The incident will delay the flight until tomorrow, which is 36 hours later than planned.…
Passengers are waiting on the parking after having been asked to leave the terminal. Passengers are reporting armed police at the scene, and say the incident has been sparked after an unattended bag was discovered in the Duty Free area. UPDATE 1754 UTC People are being allowed back into terminal 2 of Manchester airport. Police say they were called…
An Air Canada jet made an emergency landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Thursday morning after the pilots reported smoke in the cabin, according to Port of Seattle spokesman Brian DeRoy. The Bombardier Dash 8 was en-route to Seattle from Calgary when the pilots notified the airport that it would be making an emergency landing. Port…
Air India flight from Delhi to Jammu on Friday afternoon could not stop in time on the runway and went into the grass at the end of the runway in Jammu. According to sources, flight #AI821 had 134 passengers on board when the 23-year-old old Airbus A320 (VT-ESL) touched down in Jammu. “The preliminary information is that pilots…
Thomson flight #BY147 from Orlando declared an emergency few minutes before arriving at Manchester. Dreamliner (reg. G-TUIA) landed at 06:12 at Manchester Airport and was met by emergency services. Watch Manchester approach live on cam.airlive.net
A Myanmar military plane is missing. According to Army chief and airport, 116 people were on board. Please, reload the page for updates… UPDATE Thursday 0430 UTC Myanmar Chief of Defense reports bodies and debris have been found in the sea off Myanmar near where the Y-8 plane went missing. The bodies were of a man, a…
A North Korean Air Koryo Tupolev Tu204 was forced to make an emergency landing in Pyongyang in May after a flap on the plane’s wing fell off mid-air, multiple sources confirmed to NK News on Tuesday. The incident, which took place on Thursday May 25 onboard a flight from Pyongyang to Beijing, happened after the aircraft crossed into Chinese…
Passengers aboard flight #VA1174 were evacuated from the turboprop as soon as it stopped on the tarmac at Albury Airport about 9.30am on Tuesday. NSW Police say emergency services were called after a note written on a sick bag was discovered in the plane’s toilet by another passenger as it approached Albury. A 30-year-old…