FAA says Runway Closed at chicago O’Hare (ORD) due to disabled aircraft. Heavy smoke can be seen coming from an American Airlines Boeing 767 that is on fire at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The plane blew a tire at 2:35PM CT and engine caught fire during take off. Footage shows American Airlines #AA383 Boeing 767…
Vídeo del momento de la explosión @Aerolineas_AR #aerolineasargentinas pic.twitter.com/ZGb7lmHp7i — Karen Barg (@karenbarg) October 28, 2016 Aerolineas Argentinas flight #AR1300 from Buenos Aires to New York JFK suffered an engine issue during the flight. The flight took off at 2357 (local time) when flames burst out of the Airbus A330-200 left engine 17 minutes later, forcing the pilots…
Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort an Aurbui A320 to a Scotland airport after it lost communication. Four Typhoon jets were scrambled after ATC lost contact with a plane near Glasgow’s Prestwick Airport. A sonic boom was heard in the Highlands as the aircraft broke the sound barrier after being dispatched from the RAF Lossiemouth base. The…
A 38-year-old pilot was arrested in South Dakota on Wednesday morning under suspicion of operating a flight under the influence of alcohol, local police say. The pilot was taken into custody after TSA officers smelled alcohol on him and called local law enforcement, Rapid City Police Department says. After an investigation, police said it was…
A plane carrying Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence skidded off a runway Thursday night as it landed at LaGuardia Airport in New York. There were no reported injuries in the rough landing, which occurred on a rainy Thursday evening in the city. The press pool in the back of the aircraft, a Boeing 737-700…
A senior official from Myanmar’s Civil Aviation Department in Yangon said “an unidentified aircraft” has crashed into the sea off the west coast on Friday (Oct 28) and authorities were trying to locate it. UPDATE 0950 UTC Myanmar ‘missing aircraft’ search cancelled after no evidence to support claims. UPDATE 0910 UTC Myint Kyaw, the spokesman for…
UPDATE 1619 UTC Small Planet Airlines flight LLX5288 triggered false hijack alarm. UPDATE 1611 UTC The airport is not yet back to normal operations. UPDATE 1607 UTC In a statement, Finnish police says the plane from Malaga landed at 1800 (local time) after an alarm failure. A police operation is in progress at Tampere-Pirkkala Airport (Finland) as an Airbus A320 was escorted…
A British Airways A380 flight #BA286 on its way from San Francisco to London made an emergency landing in Vancouver late Monday night. Number of members of cabin crew were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. Emergency vehicles could be seen surrounding the plane on the tarmac around midnight Monday.
Five people died this morning after the aircraft they were flying in crashed shortly after take-off in Luqa at around 7.20am (local) killing 5 people including 3 French intelligence agents. UPDATE 1135 UTC The five victims were French customs officials, according to AFP. But Reuters said they were three French defense ministry officials and two private contractors.…
A flight from Philadelphia to Boston was delayed after two people were able to gain unauthorized access to the plane, ABC Action News reports. American Airlines Airbus A321 flight #AA1655 was set to depart Philadelphia International Airport at 8 a.m. Sunday, but it did not take off on time due to the incident. The airline…
London City Airport was evacuated on Friday after a number of passengers reported feeling unwell, police said. Reports of a chemical incident sent three fire engines and “a range of specialist appliances” to the scene, the London Fire Brigade said in a statement. Officials said the cause of the incident is unknown. http://ift.tt/2eBbMfY
