A Jordanian Royal Airways flight from Amman to Sulaimaniye skidded off runway. The Embraer E-175 with 30 passengers on board landed safely at Sulaimaniyah International Airport in Iraq. For an unexplained reason, the plane skidded off runway into the grass for few meters before to stop. The pilot was was injured and and taken to the hospital.…
A section of the M1 had to be closed on Saturday after there was an ‘aircraft emergency’ on a flight from Gran Canaria. The motorway was closed in both directions near East Midlands Airport to allow a “clear flight path” for the Boeing 737 reg. G-JZHF on March 4. The pilot of the holiday with…
A Nagano prefectural rescue helicopter named Alps crashed on a training flight on March 5, killing all nine people aboard. The prefectural police, Self-Defense Forces, Fire and Disaster Management Agency and other entities resumed the rescue operation in the early morning on March 6.
Left engine of Vueling A320 was hit by tow truck at Amsterdam Airport. Vueling Airbus A320 (reg. EC-KDX) flight #VY6290 from Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport suffered an incident after landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. After landing, the truck of Aviapartner company had to move the Airbus to a remote parking. The tow truck violently hit the left…
An easyJet A320 (reg. G-EZTV) was damaged Friday night in a ramp incident. Flight #U21985 from Manchester to Copenhagen was leaving the gate at terminal 1 when the aircraft have been hit by a tow truck. A spare aircraft arrived from Liverpool later during the night to operate the flight. Watch Manchester live approach on http://cam.airlive.net
During the evening, a Thai Airways Boeing 777 (reg.HS-TJU) was evacuated at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Stockholm because of a bomb threat. UPDATE Friday 0818 UTC Police is still investigating the plane. The Boeing 77-200ER is still parked at a remote area. According to the newspaper Expressen, the entire terminal 5 at Arlanda have been evacuated because of…
A British Airways flight from Heathrow to San Francisco has been delayed after a mouse was spotted on the plane. Passengers on board the Boeing 777-200ER were strapped in and waiting to takeoff when the cancellation was announced. by the crew: “a rather unusual occurrence has occurred”. All passengers had to disembark. An another plane had been…
Flybe Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 (reg.G-ECOA) faced problems with its front wheels as it travelled from Birmingham to Edinburgh at around 7pm on Tuesday. The airline said emergency services rushed to Edinburgh Airport as a precautionary measure to meet flight BE851. A spokeswoman said: “Flybe can confirm that the above flight landed without incident at…
Just days before the third anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australia’s former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search for the missing plane should continue at a location further south of where investigators believe the plane went down. The multimillion-dollar search for the Boeing 777-200 was suspended in January after no…
A Boeing 737 diverted to Denver on Monday evening after encountering severe turbulence. American Airlines Flight #AA1296 from San Diego to Chicago ORD landed at Denver International Airport at 0130 UTC. There were 148 passengers and six crew members on board which landed without incident. Medical services greeted the plane and five passengers asked for medical…
Yesterday, Turkmenistan Airlines flight #T5429 (Boeing-757 reg. EZ-A011) en route from Ashgabat (Capital of Turkmenistan) to Birmingham made an emergency landing in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd over the death of a passenger. “The decision to make an emergency landing was taken by the pilot when the passenger was still alive but when the plane landed in Volgograd…
