A Lago bound flight has been forced to make an emergency landing in London Heathrow after a passenger became ill. Virgin Atlantic flight VS651 was less than half way through it journey when it declared an emergency and returned too it origin of Heathrow Airport. Specific details on the medical emergency or the passenger’s condition…
Delta #DL444 from JFK to Rome declared an emergency. The A330-300 is still heading to Rome FCO, starting approach. BREAKING Delta #DL444 to Rome is declaring an emergency. Live: https://t.co/5fYTk8bAUJ pic.twitter.com/rLyUjQtt1t — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) April 27, 2016
Stuck in Singapore Airlines flight SQ-403 at the Delhi airport with fire engines on call. Major lack of information as to what the technical error is. We've spent 2+ hours on the airport runway, some without power, with another 1-2 hours expected. The long flight just got longer with a missed connecting flight – Great…
China Southern Boeing 737-800 was hit by a baggage loading vehicle earlier today 12:30pm (25 April 2016) at the Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The flight (0392) was scheduled to fly to Guangzhou in China at about 12:30pm. A cargo vehicle dashed it on the gate just before pushback. More on Bangladesh Aviation Hub
Recent reports of an unidentified flying object striking a British Airways flight at London’s Heathrow Airport spurred a wave of fear over drones interfering with commercial aircraft. But now it appears the object may have only been a floating plastic bag, according to British transport minister Robert Goodwill. The Telegraph reports that Goodwill could not…
Airlines flying Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets with the latest General Electric Co. engines were ordered to repair them, or swap out at least one with an older model, in an urgent safety directive issued after an in-flight failure. A GEnx-1B PIP2, part of a family of engines plagued by issues related to icing, suffered “substantial damage” in…
A man has died after the JetBlue aircraft he was on made an emergency medical landing at the Wilmington International Airport so that he could be treated. Airport Director Julie Wilsey tells The StarNews of Wilmington that the unidentified passenger suffered an undisclosed medical issue Wednesday night on board the flight from New York to…
UPDATE 10:28 UTC British Airways is confirming AIRLIVE.net the pilot of #BA68 has requested a priority landing after a medical emergency on board. UPDATE 10:12 UTC We have confirmation British Airways #BA68 safely landed runway 09L at Heathrow. More details soon on this page. UPDATE 09:55 UTC British Airways #BA68 has no serious technical issue…
A Charlotte bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Phoenix on Thursday, after a bird hit the aircraft, damaging the pilot’s windscreen. The bird strike occurred when American Airlines flight AA713 has just taken off from Las Vegas and was climbing through 15,000 feet. Matt Miller, An airline spokesman, said none…
