London Gatwick main runway was closed due to a Virgin Boeing 747-400 dropping oil. Flights departed from the old disused backup runway 08L. Many flights were diverted to Southampton Airport and flight delay was increasing. ALERT Difficulties at London Gatwick airport, many flights are diverting. Live: https://t.co/3WsAp7pYU7 pic.twitter.com/jcirk7C4xr — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) February 29, 2016 Flight operations resumed…
Ryanair flight FR2306 from London Luton to Bratislava diverted to Berlin Schönefeld airport at (19:10 LT). A group of 12 English passengers were going to Bratislava for bachelor party. Six of them (including the soon-to-be groom) were asking to drink alcohol and disrupted the flight. Medias reported one of them undressed and refused to obey the crew’s instructions. German police…
British Airways #BA469 from Bilbao to London LHR declared an emergency and diverted to Bordeaux. The crew declared PAN PAN and headed to BOD. The aircraft (an Airbus A320), suffered a cabin pressure control issue. Departure from Bordeaux is still not scheduled. UPDATE British Airways #BA469 safely landed runway 05 at Bordeaux. UPDATE British Airways #BA469…
United Airlines flight UA76 from Belfast to New York (Newark) declared an an emergency a short moment after takeoff. BREAKING #UA76 is declaring an emergency and holding over Belfast – @DUB_Aviation https://t.co/RhTvQApnls pic.twitter.com/6mww1w35Lt — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) February 27, 2016 United decided to divert the flight to London Heathrow but the Boeing 757 started holding pattern…
The British Airways Boeing 777 damaged by fire 5 months ago at Las Vegas is heading to Victorville Southern California Airport (VCV) for repaint. Then the plane will do some flight test before entering back in service. UPDATE British Airways B777 damaged by fire at Las Vegas is airborne to VCV for repaint https://t.co/RhTvQApnls pic.twitter.com/g3TSADsXB4…
A plane did an emergency landing at Guam’s airport. The Asia Pacific Boeing 727 cargo landed at Guam International airport with its nose gear wheel still retracted. The B727 burned excess fuel to allow a light and safe landing.
A mayday call was received reporting an aircraft emergency landing on water in the vicinity of Kuala Selangor, according to aviation sources this morning. The military type aircraft CN235 was sighted by local residents who captured the photos of the emergency landing above. All 8 crew members were able to escape with only minor injuries.
A plane (registration 9N-8AB) belonging to Air Kastamandap crash landed at Chilkhaya in Kalikot district on Friday. The single engine plane that flew from Nepalgunj at 12:16pm with 11 people including 2 crew members. Update: Pilot, co-pilot killed in crash-landing in western Nepal. First report said accident was occurred while emergency landing after technical problem…
Malaysian Airlines Airbus A380 #MH2 to London Heathrow was in holding pattern during more than one hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur. The plane returned after dumping fuel to allow a safe landing at KUL. UPDATE3 Malaysian Airlines #MH2 to London Heathrow returned to KUL due to problem with engine number 1 (strange smell). Looked…
On the 18th February 2016, a Virgin A330 (registration G-VRAY) took off around 11:24am bound for Washington. After rotating off runway 27R the airbus aircraft did not raise the gear, and left it down for well over a minute before finally retracting the gear at around 7,000ft.
A vehicle towing a Virgin America plane caught fire Tuesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, but no injuries were reported. The fire was reported on a tow vehicle on Taxiway E between E11 and E12 just before 10 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Airport Police. No passengers were on the Virgin America plane.…
2 pilots & 1 ATC grounded off after a Newark bound AI flight with 447 passengers on board, took wrong taxiway. pic.twitter.com/jHkfaMCzba — ANI (@ANI_news) 25 février 2016 The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) has suspended an air traffic controller and two pilots of Air India, who were operating a Boeing that hit a…