Swiss Air flight #LX8 was forced to return to Zurich for an emergency landing. Swiss Air flight #LX8 from Zurich to Chicago returned to Zurich. The Airbus A340 entered holding pattern shortly after takeoff from Zurich Airport at 13.20. Due to a technical issue, the 18-year A340 holding 17,000ft and dumped fuel South of Zurich…
A girl recorded live the crash of the plane she was onboard into a river in Brazil. The live video shows the ditching of a private Embraer 810C Seneca II aircraft. The plane with registration PR-FDL has crash landed into a river in in Brazil. No one was injured. Both pax were able to emergency…
A plane of Romanian airline TAROM was forced to make an emergency landing in Istanbul due to a bomb threat. The aircraft was returning from Tel Aviv to Bucharest on Thursday night when the pilot received a warning about the presence of a bomb on board. 88 passengers were on board the plane. The crew…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was in its takeoff roll at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) when an ambulance crossed the same runway, coming within 173 feet of the plane. The distance between the moving plane and the ambulance was less than half the length of a football field. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…
An off-duty pilot from another airline has helped a Southwest Airlines plane land safely in Las Vegas after one of its pilots required “medical attention” shortly after departure. A Southwest Airlines spokesman told FOX Business that the incident involving Flight 6013 from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio, happened on Wednesday. “The Pilot was removed from…
Several passengers have been injured after High Fly A330 was hit by severe turbulence. Taag’s Flight #DT650 was operated by High Fly from Luanda to Lisbon. When flying at an altitude of 38,000 feet, the Airbus A330 (reg: 9H-HFG) was hit by severe turbulence over Northern Africa . When the turbulence occurred, 10 people were…
A Ryanair flight from Milan was met by police at Palermo Airport. The alarm on this Ryanair flight was raised when the plane landed and police, along with firefighters and bomb disposal experts, rushed to the scene to check the plane and all of its luggage. At 20:20 local time on March 17, Ryanair flight…
On 18th March, an IndiGo A320neo was damaged by hail while on approach to Hyderabad Airport in India. The Airbus A320neo with registration VT-ITA was operating flight 6E-6594 from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad. However, while on approach to Hyderabad, the A320 encountered heavy downpours with hail causing damage to the nose and windshields. Flight 6E-6594 continued…
Emirates Flight #EK205 made a U-turn over the Atlantic on March 13, 2023 and returned to Milan. The A380 was performing flight #EK205 from the international airport of Milan Malpensa to new York JFK Airport. As the flight was expected to last 7 hours, the co-pilot suddenly felt an illness preventing from continuing his duty. The pilot’s…
On 14th March, two Wizz Air Airbus A320s collided while on the ground at Suceava Airport in Romania. A Wizz Air Airbus A320 with registration number 9H-WBV was departing from Suceava Airport bound for Dortmund, Germany. However, during taxiing, the aircraft’s left winglet collided with the right stabilizer of another parked Airbus A320 with registration…
A Singapore Airlines flight was grounded in Johannesburg’s airport in South Africa on Tuesday following a bomb threat. The Airports Company South Africa confirmed it received a call from someone claiming that there was a bomb on Singapore Airlines Flight #SQ478, which was scheduled to fly from Johannesburg to Cape Town on Tuesday morning. “The…
A ground stop was triggered Tuesday morning at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, according to the FAA. It happened around 10 a.m. According to an FAA advisory, the emergency ground stop was issued after a plane’s air conditioning leaked fuel. The plane made an emergency landing as a result. The airport was reduced to one runway,…