Three new pieces of debris found in Mauritius and in Mozambique could be linked to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester says. Five other fragments have previously been found and identified as definitely or probably from the Boeing 777. All of them were discovered thousands of kilometres from the current search…
A Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Portland (USA) had to turn around while taxiing Monday because a woman on the jet began screaming and removing her clothes. A passenger recorded a portion of the meltdown while the airplane taxied, but he said it only represents a portion of what happened before and after. Passenger’s video shows the…
A @JetstarAirways crew accidentally deployed the emergency slide upon arrival to @Melair this morning. #9News https://t.co/Lfj6kTiKkB — Nine News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) May 25, 2016
The easyJet flight from Tenerife (in the Canary Islands) to London Gatwick airport in London diverted to Porto Santo airport. According to RTP Madeira, the captain requested an emergency landing after smoke signals reported in the cabin. The airport fire service examined the aircraft but didn’t detected any anomaly. For security reasons, the company decided to disembark the 167…
The American Eagle flight AA5931 from Houston has been grounded on the tarmac of Lax after phoned-in bomb threat. BREAKING American #AA5931 parked in safe area at LAX after bomb threat, passengers on board https://t.co/JW1TKH6toU pic.twitter.com/3WCO7ZmWwF — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) May 24, 2016 The airport got a TSA notification of a phone threat made to a…
According to Khou, a Houston Police bomb squad was called to Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (USA) on Tuesday morning after a possible threat was made against a Delta flight. Several bomb squad units were called to look over the aircraft, which was preparing to depart from the airport. The call came in at about 8:30…
The near-miss is said to have happened on Saturday and was reported by the pilots to the control tower as the plane arrived from Frankfurt. It has been described as the most serious incident involving drones at the airport to date. The drones were spotted at around 2,950 feet within protected air space when the…
An air ambulance with 7 people on board crash landed in a field in Najafgarh area of South West Delhi on Tuesday. Fortunately, no one sustained any major injury. The air ambulance had taken off from Patna and was enroute to Delhi when it crash landed. The six-seater Beech King Air C-90A aircraft crash landed…
A Turkish Airlines aircraft at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport was being searched after a note threatening a bomb attack was found on board on Monday, an airline spokesman said. All 134 people, on board the Boeing 737-800 for the flight TK2014 from Istanbul to Kayseri had been evacuated. A note with a bomb threat was discovered in…
UPDATE3 We have confirmation #VS24 will continue to Heathrow. UPDATE2 Virgin Atlantic #VS24 declared an emergency due to sick passenger on board. UPDATE1 Virgin Atlantic #VS24 is still holding 35,000ft to Heathrow.
A Vancouver-bound Lufthansa flight was forced to divert from Munich to Hamburg after a passenger’s erratic behavior threatened safety, according to a fellow passenger. Lufthansa officials confirmed that a passenger was removed and flight LH476 was diverted and forced to land in Hamburg where police are investigating. “It was reported that there was a man in…
Two Greek F16 fighter jets intercepted a Boeing 767-400ER of Delta Airlines plane after it strayed into its airspace in the Mediterranean Sea without identifying itself, according to Greek media. The civil aircraft reportedly belonged to Delta Airlines and was flying from Germany to Kuwait. But mystery surrounds why the pilots did not identify themselves…