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
The right nose wheel of Air Algerie ATR fell off on landing at Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport. The flight#AH6193 departed Constantine and landed atAlgiers Houari Boumediene Airport one hour later, in the beginning of the afternoon.
A King Air B200’s nose gear failed to come down when the pilot attempted to land at Wiley Post Airport on Wednesday. That’s when the pilot let air traffic control know he would attempt to land at Will Rogers World Airport, according to KFOR. The pilot was able to successfully land the plane.
The plane carrying Fenerbahce to Manchester for Thursday Europa league match was forced to make an emergency landing after a bird smashed the windscreen. The plane safely landed at Budapest airport. The Turkish team will continue its journey to England for Thursday’s match against Jose Mourinho’s side at Old Trafford. Kafilemizi Manchester’a götüren uçağın camına kuş çarpması…
