Terminal 4 of John F. Kennedy Airport has been evacuated Sunday due to a massive water break during an already chaotic scene as many passengers remained stranded from canceled or delayed flights from Thursday’s “bomb cyclone” snowstorm. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 23:47 UTC International arrivals has reopened and is resuming operations. UPDATE 21:15…
Two passenger jets collided at JFK Airport early Saturday, officials said. The right wing of a China Southern Boeing 777 hit the tail of a Kuwait Boeing 777, damaging both aircrafts, the Port Authority said. No one was injured and all the passengers got off safely, according to the Port Authority, which manages all three…
A plane that had just landed in Toronto was evacuated after it was struck by an empty aircraft pushing back from a gate, the airline said. WestJet airlines said its Boeing 737-800 carrying 168 passengers and six crew was waiting for a gate when it was hit by a Sunwing plane. Video showed the Sunwing…
The captain of a Gulfstream G150 died in Turma at Kittilä airport on Thursday afternoon. The accident happened at about 16:00 LT according to the police. The captain of the Gulfstream G150 (OE-GKA) registered in Austria, was outside the aircraft when the airplane’s door hit him. The plane was preparing to taxi. The pilot, a German…
Delta flight 284 took off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday, but was turned around after pilots heard a mysterious noise coming from the plane. The plane, which was flying over North Carolina at the time of the diversion, landed back in Atlanta just before 9:30 p.m. And again, landed…
Jet Airways has grounded two of its senior pilots following a mid-air fight on a London-Mumbai flight on January 1, in which the male commander allegedly slapped his female co-pilot. The incident took place this Monday, when the aircraft was over the Iran-Pakistan airspace, and was 2.45 hours away from its destination, an airline source…
Bored by the delay, a passenger of Ryanair flight opened the emergency exit to leave the aircraft. The Ryanair flight #FR8164 was initially delayed one hour at London Stansted and 30 minutes further at Malaga with passagers on board without any explanation from the crew. A passenger decided to open the overwing emergency exit to…
Two cabin crew and one passenger were injured during Batik Air #ID6575 from Surabaya to Jakarta. The Boeing 737-900 (reg PK-LBJ) departed Surabaya at 06:45 UTC and landed one hour later at Jakarta.
A SilkAir passenger Boeing 737-800 (reg. 9V-SGG) was struck by a service truck at low speed at Medan Kualanamu International Airport in Indonesia while it was parked there. No passengers were injured during the incident involving flight #MI233, which was supposed to leave Medan, Indonesia, at around 9am Singapore time on Saturday (Dec 23) when…
Virgin flight #VA1507 from Melbourne is said to have hit the runway too hard at the Sunshine Coast airport on Tuesday december 26. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. VH-VUX) diverted to Brisbane where an inspection on the aircraft took place, Sunshine Coast Daily reported. The magnitude of the impact was so severe a handful of passengers…
Aer Lingus flight #EI145 diverted to Shannon after fire indication on engine #2. The Aer Lingus Airbus A330-200 departed runway 28 from Dublin and reported a fire indication. The crew decided to shut down the engine #2. The plane took off at 15:41 UTC and headed to Shannon before holding during 15 mins to burn…
