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…
An Air India plane traveling from Delhi to San Francisco made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia. Crew of Air India flight #AI173 from Delhi to San Francisco decided to make an unplanned landing at the Magadan airfield due to a technical problem. The Boeing 777-200 (reg. VT-ALH) suffered engine problems. Technicians from Rossiya Airlines…
Jet2 flight from Newcastle to Tenerife is declaring an emergency. Jet2 flight #LS517 from Newcastle to Tenerife is declaring an emergency and diverting. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. G-JZBK) took off from Newcastle, UK at 15:40 local time. The crew declared an emergency off North Spain coast. The aircraft is diverting to Porto, Portugal. UPDATE LS517…
Two airliners aborted landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet taxiing across runways on which the other planes had been cleared to land. United Airlines and Alaska Airlines aircraft were forced to abort landing attempts at San Francisco International Airport due to a Southwest Boeing 737 crossing…
Two Danish F16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Norwegian plane bound for Oslo Airport. On Thursday evening, the Defense Command for Northern Jutland announced that two Danish F-16 fighter jets broke the sound barrier. Two fighter jets from the Danish QRA in Skrydstrup took the sky when the airport authorities had reason to believe…
Air France flight #AF291 to Paris CDG declared an emergency and returned to Osaka, Japan. The flight #AF291 operated by an Airbus A350-900 took off from Kansai Airport, Japan 30 minutes late at 11:00JST. About 30 minutes into the flight, cruising at 35,000ft pilots declared an emergency following a technical issue. The Airbus A350-900 (reg.…
The flight KLM #KL876 from Bangkok is declaring an emergency. The flight took off from Bangkok at 12:00 ICT to Amsterdam. The crew declared an emergency over Iran. It was scheduled to land at 19:10 in Amsterdam. The 17 years old Boeing 777-200ER turned south to divert to Dubai where it landed on runway 30L.…