Air France A380 (reg. F-HPJE) flight #AF66 from Paris CDG to Los Angeles LAX diverted to Goose Bay. UPDATE 2223 UTC Air France is sending a Boeing 777-300 and a B737 to get the 497 passengers of Flight #AF066 to their destination. The two flights are scheduled to leave Goose Bay at 04:15 (LT). UPDATE 2124 UTC Someone onboard…
German authorities say an Airbus A320 (reg. D-ABHO) with 88 people on board overshot the end of the runway at Sylt, but nobody was injured in the incident. The regional emergency response center says the Air Berlin plane from Duesseldorf came to a halt Saturday on the grass about 50 meters (yards) beyond the end of the runway.…
An Etihad Airways captain died after becoming “incapacitated” during a flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Kuwait. “Etihad Airways is saddened to report the death of one of its pilots onboard flight EY 927, a freighter service from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam,” the airline said in a statement.…
Smoke filled the cabin of an Allegiant Air jet after it landed at a California airport on Monday, forcing coughing passengers to cover their faces with shirts and firefighters to board the plane, authorities said. None of the 150 passengers or six crew members was injured when the plane from Las Vegas landed at Fresno…
Firefighters and the ambulance service were called to the airport just after 6.30am this morning after the tow bar became embedded into the aircraft’s landing gear. The incident took place during push back. The incident has caused minor delays to several flights. A Manchester Airport spokesman said: “We can confirm that an aircraft has come…
A Badr Airlines aircraft suffered a bird strike yesterday near Khartoum in Sudan yesterday. The short flight #J4341 took off from Ad Damazeen to khartoum international airport. The radome of the Boeing 737 was severely damaged during the incident. The crew managed to fly the plane safely to its destination.
A 4.3-kilogram part that dropped from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines passenger airplane hit a moving car in Osaka on Saturday, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry’s West Japan Civil Aviation Bureau said Sunday. The part struck the roof of the vehicle, but neither of its two occupants — the 51-year-old driver and the…
Four people were injured after a private jet crashed late Thursday as it was landing in Istanbul’s Atatürk airport. UPDATE According to local reports, the captain, seriously injured has died. Upon the incident, all air traffic in the airport has been halted. According to first reports, the plane departed Istanbul to Cyprus and tried to return with…
The probe by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the wrong air temperature data is thought to have been inputted into the plane’s flight management systems which meant it was slow to accelerate and lift off. The Boeing 737, registered in Canada but flying on behalf of a UK tour operator, hit a…
The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring a more modern design with cabin pressurization, the 240 series was able to make some inroads as a commercial airliner and also had a long development cycle which resulted in…
An unclaimed mobile phone found in the aircraft cabin of Jet Airways’ Delhi-Bangkok flight on Wednesday created a major scare. The crew of this flight #9W66, sent a distress message to Bangkok by “squawking” code “7700” after entering Thai airspace as this phone was suspected to be a bomb, said highly placed sources. Confirming this,…
A SpiceJet Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway on landing and got stuck in mud at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Tuesday evening. All 183 passengers on the SpiceJet flight are said to be safe. The airline and airport authorities immediately carried out an emergency evacuation following the mishap. According to the initial reports, emergency chutes were deployed…