Federal officials are investigating an incident that saw a door fall off a plane midflight and land in a Nevada shopping center. The incident occurred Nov. 18 when a baggage compartment door fell off a single-engine Textron T240 after it took off from Henderson Executive Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. “We were driving…
On a JetBlue flight from JFK to Salt Lake City, a man reportedly threatened a woman by holding a razor blade at her neck. The suspect was later identified as a 41-year-old man from Utah. The male passenger was in a conversation with the woman. However, after he noticed that the woman put on headphones…
A Boeing 747 aircraft carrying military personnel was forced to make an emergency landing at O’Hare Airport Monday afternoon. In the air for 58 minutes after departing from Topeka, Kansas, the plane touched down in Chicago at 3:49 p.m. after crew members were alerted to a scare in the cargo compartment. Originally heading for Poznan,…
More than 85,000 households across Montgomery County were left without power after a plane crashed into a power lines tower in Gaithersburg on Sunday evening. First responders said that the crash happened near Rothbury Drive and Goshen Road. The plane was suspended about 100 feet in the air. The plane that hit the lines was…
Due to a specific bomb threat, IndiGo flight 6E 379 was taken for search by the security forces on arrival at Bengaluru International airport. Indigo 6E Flight 379 departed on time from Kolkata International Airport (CCU) at 5:29 Am IST and touched down at Bangalore Airport (BLR) at 8:00 Am. A Tissue paper was found…
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Airbus A330 sustained damage to its nose cone and cockpit windshield after being hit by a hail strike on approach to Jeddah Airport in Saudi Arabia. The Airbus A330-300 with registration HZ-AQ25 was approaching Jeddah as flight SV-452 from Khartoum in Sudan. Following heavy rainfall and violent hailstorms over Jeddah, Flight…
A Flair Airlines plane has run off the runway in Kitchener-Waterloo, south-west of Toronto, Friday morning. The plane, which originated in Vancouver, “exited the runway” at the end of its landing at around 6:30 a.m. The Flair Airlines aircraft was operating flight #FLE501 from Vancouver. It ran off runway 26 during landing at Kitchener-Waterloo Airport…
Berlin Brandenburg Airport closed its runways due to unauthorized access of several people, while a climate group said its activists glued themselves to the tarmac. Climate protesters of the “last generation” entered Berlin airfield without authorization on Thursday and air traffic had to be suspended in the meantime. This was announced by a spokesman for…
Singapore Airlines A380 flight #SQ317 from London Heathrow to Singapore has declared an emergency. A Singapore Airlines A380 has declared an emergency after taking off from London Heathrow Airport earlier. While flying over Belguim to Singapore, pilots informed ATC about a technical emergency. The flight #SQ317 was rerouted to Germany. Due to a cabin pressurisation…
An Envoy Air flight returned to Chicago shortly after takeoff on Saturday night after a pilot was incapacitated and later died, the carrier said Tuesday. Envoy Air Flight 3556, an Embraer E175, flying for parent company American Airlines’ American Eagle returned to Chicago O’Hare International Airport at 7:57 p.m. local time, 37 minutes after departing…
Gulf Air on Tuesday announced that its flight GF19 from Bahrain to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to Erbil, Iraq as a crew member suffered a heart attack. Gulf Air said that flight GF19 from Bahrain to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was on November 22 diverted to Erbil after a…
A male passenger was detained onboard a LOT Polish Airlines flight to JFK Airport after he went up to the cockpit door and began banging on it. The LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 787-9, with registration SP-LSF, was performing flight LO26 from Warsaw Chopin Airport, Poland to New York – JFK Airport on Friday night. Flight…