Snowy conditions may have been a factor in a plane skidding off a runway at a Northern Michigan airport. A Delta flight from Detroit was landing at the Pellston airport around 11:00 p.m. Sunday night when it skidded about 50 to 100 feet off the runway. Everyone on board remained calm through the landing, even…
According to Civil Aviation Authority’s spokesman, the flight #PK661 was on its way from Chitral to Islamabad when it lost connection with the control tower at 1620 LT today. Please, reload the page for updates… UPDATE 1440 UTC 21 bodies recovered from scene of Pakistan plane crash, military says. UPDATE 1432 UTC First video following PIA…
A South Korean Boeing 777-200ER made an emergency landing in Russia on Monday after a smoke alarm went off, but all aboard are safe, officials said. Asiana Airlines Flight #OZ521 was on its way to London with 197 people on board when it landed at an airport in the central Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk about 10:50…
Passengers felt an ‘almighty shudder’ when flight #VA1531 to Sydney and flight #VA1321 to Melbourne, collided on Wednesday morning. Initially there was confusion as passengers wondered what happened, but they quickly learned of the collision of the two Boeing 737-800. The plane received minor damage.
A Qatar Airways flight that took off from Dulles International Airport near here on Saturday night and bound for Doha made an emergency landing in Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, roughly 1,200 miles southeast of Newfoundland, after hitting a massive air pocket, according to passengers. QR708, which contained dozens of Indian Americans and…
The captain of the KLM aircraft fell unconscious as he was about to leave for Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The crew resuscitated him with the help of a passenger. The co-pilot of the plane, which had 128 people on board, took the aircraft back to the gate. The flight was supposed to leave Saturday at around…
A drunken airline passenger on his way to a funeral threw a punch at an stewardess at 30,000ft after downing four gin and tonics. Guy Lardinois ended up with a broken leg after being ‘rugby tackled’ by another passenger on the Turkish Airlines flight TK1995 from Istanbul to Manchester. The Belgian national had been approached…
My @SouthwestAir flight from PHL to MCO was diverted to Charleston because a woman went into labor. Flight crew did a great job. pic.twitter.com/63yVrkWWRL — Izzy Gould (@IzzyGould) December 4, 2016 A Southwest Airlines airplane headed to Orlando made an emergency landing after a baby was born in the middle of the flight. Airline spokeswoman…
A United Express Embraer E175 had to make an emergency landing at San Antonio International Airport on Sunday at about 2pm. The plane was on its way from Houston to Mexico when the crew reported landing gear issues. Authorities said 55 people were safely evacuated from the plane via emergency slide. San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Woody Woodward said…
A de-icing truck collided with the side of the turbine engine of an Airbus A320 on a parking stand at Dublin Airport yesterday morning. The plane was being de-iced at approximately 6.20am when the rig used to de-ice the plane reportedly malfunctioned and rolled into the engine. The airline brought a reserve aircraft into service…
The wing tips of two aircraft collided at Mumbai Airport today. The incident happened when the wings of an incoming Kuwait Airways aircraft and an outbound IndiGo narrow body aircraft clipped before 6am when it was still dark. The sharklet of an IndiGo Airbus A-320 (reg. V-TIFP) was damaged. The plane returned to the…
A woman who jumped from a plane at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport is being evaluated at a county mental health facility. Houston police tell Eyewitness News the woman was taken to the Neuropsychiatric Center at Ben Taub Hospital. The Harris County District Attorney’s office has declined to press charges against her and the FBI has…