Several flights made “precautionary” emergency landings after “strange smells” were detected in their cockpits. Ophelia developed over the eastern tropical Atlantic and moved north. As a result dust from the Sahara and smoke from wildfires occurring over northern Iberia has been brought northwards to the atmosphere at our latitudes. These emergency landings may be linked to…
Melbourne-bound flight #QF467 was on push back from its gate about 7.30pm yesterday when it collided at low speed with the catering truck, Qantas has confirmed. The Qantas Boeing 737’s right-wing eceived minor damage. No injuries were reported among plane passengers or truck driver. Passengers were transferred to the next available flights, and Qantas engineers…
Maylaysian Airline Airbus A380 (reg. 9M-MNB) suffered an incident earlier this morning. After landing, one of the nose gear was missing and the remaining wheel was twisted. It’s still unclear if the incident happened during the landing or if the A380 lost the wheel during approach. The flight #MH3 from London Heathrow landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport landed…
Something happening .@DublinAirport .@flybe pic.twitter.com/43fAzIzixs — Jimmy Norman (@JimmyNorman) October 16, 2017 Flybe flight #BE4521 was followed by emergency vehicles after landing at Dublin Airport. The Embrer 195 from Cardiff reported fumes in the cabin. The aircraft (reg. G-FBEM) safely landed and passengers disembarked on stand.
An Indonesia AirAsia flight travelling from Perth to Denpasar with 151 passengers on board was turned back on Sunday morning after a mid-air emergency. Flight #QZ535 was 25 minutes out of Perth when an indicator alerted the pilot to a loss of cabin pressure. The plane had to drop from 32,000 feet to 10,000 feet…
A doctor who was on an El Al flight to Belgium performed a successful CPR on a passenger who had a heart attack. A 88-year-old womansuffered a heart attack and lost consciousness during El Al flight #LY333 to Brussels. A doctor performed a CPR while the plane returned to Ben Gurion Airport. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. 4X-EKP)…
On October 12, 2017, a Skyjet flight was struck by a drone while inbound to Jean Lesage International Airport in Québec City. This is the first time a drone has hit a commercial aircraft in Canada. The Beechcraft A100 King Air only sustained minor damage and was able to land safely. Transport Canada is monitoring…
Etihad flight 450 from Abu Dhabi to Sydney was forced to divert to Adelaide early Saturday morning. The diversion was due to a warning light coming on in the cockpit. The B777 landed at Adelaide around 4.50am local time. Adelaide Airport has a curfew between 11pm and 6am, excluding emergencies. Passengers were deplaned on the…
A plane crashed Saturday morning at sea shortly after taking off from Abidjanelix Houphout Boigny airport around 0900 UTC. UPDATE 4 have died and 4 survived the crash. First reports say it’s an Antonov An-26 (reg.ER-AVB) from the cargo charter company Valan Air carrying equipments for the French Army. The crash could have occurred during a storm…
Cebu Pacific Air Airbus A320 (reg. RP-3237) skidded off rain-slickened runway on landing. Operations at Iloilo International Airport in Philippines are closed during Saturday. Passengers were evacuated by emergency slides. In a notice to airmen (NOTAM) early Saturday, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said that the airport was closed after the plane’s nose gear landed…
A Munich-bound flight from Dubai had to make an emergency landing after a child passenger onboard died, according to local press reports. Emirates Airline said Wednesday its Airbus A380 flight en route from Dubai to Munich was diverted 45 minutes after take-off to Kuwait after a seven-year old passenger girl passed away during the flight,…
Two Royal Air Force fighter jets were scrambled this afternoon to intercept an aircraft with loss of communication as part of QRA exercice. The two Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Coningsby airbase to intercept a French aircraft over the Channel. UPDATE The Ministry of Defence has since confirmed the jets were dispatched as part of an exercise…