An American Airlines flight from Reagan National hit a flock of birds during takeoff Wednesday evening. Flight #AA4411 was headed to Fort Myers, Fla., but diverted to Dulles International to make an emergency landing. The plane touched down safely after sustaining the bird strike. There were 56 passengers on board. No one was hurt. American…
On March 11, flight #AF423 departing from Bogota to Paris almost missed its takeoff from Bogota with 275 passengers and crew on board. For a reason still unknown, the Airbus A340-300 took the entire length of the runway, before taking off in extremis at the end of the asphalt runway at only 1.5 meters height. Bogota-El Dorado…
On April 23, American Airlines flight 1871 from Las Vegas to Charlotte had overheat temp warnings on their right hand engine so they had to shut the engine down and declare an emergency. The flight landed 25 minutes after departure. Aircraft registration: N180US
United Flight #UA1516 to Houston, Texas, from Liberia, Costa Rica made an emergency landing after one of its engines overheated. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. N16234) planned to take off at 1225 LT had to burn fuel for about one hour over gulf of Mexico before returning to Liberia. Liberia Airport stopped traffic for a while to allow United Airlines…
Hi-Fly Airbus A340 (reg. CS-TQZ) suffered a taxiway excursion at Istanbul Ataturk Airport today. There were no passengers on board the Airbus 340 which landed from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft is belonging to a Portuguese airline. The plane landed at Ataturk Airport for maintenance and then headed to the hangar when…
On April 6, a federal air marshal left her loaded service weapon in the aircraft’s bathroom of Delta flight #DL221 from Manchester to New York JFK. A passenger found the weapon and returned it to a member of the flight crew, who returned it to the air marshal. The Air marshal didn’t report the incident…
JAI234 AMS-YYZ returned to Amsterdam after pressurization problems following a tailstrike on departure of runway 18C. The Boeing 777-300ER dumped fuel before landing and was parked on a remote stand. No damage visible from the outside.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating after a runway incursion at Toronto Pearson International Airport today. Safety board spokesperson Chris Krepski told they have sent a team of investigators to the airport to follow up on an incident that happened at the intersection of a taxiway and runway around 11 a.m. today. United flight…
Passengers on a flight from Aero Contractor, from Port Harcourt to Lagos in Nigeria on Tuesday, reported panic on the aircraft when the cabin was invaded by smoke. According to the passenger, 20 minutes after the take-off, smoke appeared onboard and for 35 minutes passengers were praying, screaming and panicking. The passenger also reported that the…
Flight #9W2882 with 60 passengers and 5 crew members on board had a nose wheel malfunction today when it landed at the IGI Airport in Delhi. A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight with 60 passengers and 5 crew members on board had a nose wheel malfunction today when it landed at the IGI Airport in Delhi.…
A Thomson flight to Bristol was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot’s windscreen cracked at 30,000ft. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. G-OOBB) from Gran Canaria was forced to divert to Porto, Portugal after the damage meant the pilots had to drop from 30,000ft to 10,000ft last night. “The cockpit windscreen was cracked so had to…
All 12 people on board a police helicopter that crashed in Turkey have died. It disappeared ten minutes after taking off from a town in the east of the country. Seven police officers, a judge, a soldier and three crew members were on board. The interior minister says the accident was caused by bad weather…