Several British Airways cabin crew members were seriously injured during severe turbulence on flight from Singapore to London. The crew, on board the BA12 flight from Singapore to Heathrow, London, were hurt after the plane was struck by ‘severe’ and ‘sustained’ turbulence over the Bay of Bengal. The Boeing 777-300ER was flying over the Bay…
A passenger died on LOT Polish flight despite the emergency landing. A passenger on a LOT Polish Airlines plane from the Greek island of Rhodes to Katowice, southern Poland, died during the flight on Friday, causing the airliner to make an emergency landing in Bucharest, Romania, a LOT spokesperson said on Friday. The spokesperson said…
The FAA says United Airlines Flight 369 was taxiing when its left wingtip clipped the tail of Delta Air Lines Flight 1657. The United Boeing 737 MAX 9 (reg. N37545) performing flight #UA369 bumped into a stationary Delta A321 which performed flight #DL1657 at Boston-Logan Airport. The left wingtip of the 737 hit the tail…
Virgin Atlantic flight #VS21 from London to Washington is declaring an emergency. Virgin Atlantic #VS21 has declared an emergency and is returning to London Heathrow. The Airbus A330-300 (reg. G-VKSS) turned around over Ireland before crossing Atlantic. The crew decided to declare an emergency due to an engine issue about one hour into the flight.…
Today, another IndiGo A321neo suffered a tail strike. The aircraft (reg. VT-IMW) was performing flight #6E6595 from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad when the 7 month-old A321neo experienced a tail strike. Only 4 days ago, another A321neo (reg. VT-IMG) suffered the same incident. The plane is still grounded at Delhi for repairs. On April 2023, it was…
Southwest flight #WN329 has been given priority to land at new York Laguardia Airport. The incident occurred on Friday May, 20th. On approach to LaGuardia Airport, a 3 years old boy started having a seizure. People on board rushed to provide first aid. The flight was given priority to direct approach to runway 22 in…
Delta flight bound for LAX from JFK makes emergency landing moments before plane’s slide deploys, injuring crew member. A Delta flight from JFK to Los Angeles on Saturday made an unscheduled landing in Utah due to technical difficulties — only to have an air slide accidentally deploy inside the plane once it was on the…
An 11-year-old child died after losing consciousness on board a Turkish Airlines flight en route to New York from Istanbul. The crew decided to divert to Budapest where the Airbus A330 landed after 2 hours after takeoff. The medical services were unable to resuscitate the child after the plane made an emergency landing in Budapest,…
On June 08, a ground incident occurred at Santo Domingo Las Americas Airport (MDSD) in the Dominican Republic involving a Boeing 737-291 aircraft with registration YV3471, operated by Venezolana de Aviación. The aircraft sustained damage to its engine, resulting in the cancellation of the flight. Preliminary visual evidence indicates that the aircraft may have inadvertently…
Japan’s transport ministry says two passenger jets appear to have collided near a taxiway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Saturday. Winglet of the wing of the Thai Airways plane looks to be broken and what appears to be fragments can be seen near the runway. Thai Airways Airbus A330-300 (reg. HS-TEO) and Eva Air Airbus…
Two runways at Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport were closed for fifteen minutes. A woman is charged after police say she breached a security fence around Bush Airport and made it onto a runway Tuesday night. Airport officials said 22-year-old Ivori H. Howard was spotted at about 8:30 p.m. near runway 15L – causing it…
Smoke from wildfires in Canada delayed flights at New York-area airports on Wednesday as haze blanketed the region and cut visibility. The Federal Aviation Administration “slowed traffic to and from the New York City area airports due to reduced visibility from wildfire smoke,” it said in a statement. The agency earlier halted flights bound for…