Border Force officers at Heathrow seized material contaminated with uranium. Terror police are investigating after a small amount of uranium that has been detected in a package at Heathrow airport following a routine screening A small amount of uranium has been detected in a package that arrived in the UK at London Heathrow airport following…
Delta flight #DL221 from Paris CDG to Salt Lake City diverted to Madrid after declaring an emergency over Scotland. The Airbus A330-300 (reg. #N805NW) took off from Paris at 10.45 local time and declared an emergency 1h35 later after flying over Scotland. The crew detected heating system issue on left engine and requested a diversion…
An international flight from Moscow to Goa made an emergency landing at Jamnagar following a bomb threat on Monday. A National Security Guard (NSG) team has been deployed for detection of any suspicious substance on the Azur Air flight ZF2401, which was forced to make an emergency landing at Gujarat’s Jamnagar airport on Monday evening,…
In Russia, the door of the plane opened right during the flight at an altitude of several kilometers. An IrAero airline’s Antonov An-26, flying from Magan to Magadan, Russia suffered a rare and serious incident. The aircraft (reg. RA-26174) suddenly depressurized as the back door was half opened over Russia. Pilots were forced to make…
A Pobeda Boeing 737-800 rolled out of the front landing gear off the runway. Pobeda Boeing 737-800 (VQ-BTD, illegal reg RA-73294) ran off the side of runway 21 whilst accelerating for take-off at Perm-Bolschoi Airport, Russia. This was reported in the official Telegram channel of the Ural Transport Prosecutor’s Office. The Boeing 737 plane was…
Supporters of Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the Supreme Court, the Congress building and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia. Images on social media show what looks like thousands of people, many draped in the yellow and green of the Brazil flag, streaming up the steps of the National Congress building…
The bodies of two young men, who were possibly from the Dominican Republic, were found in the undercarriage of an Avianca airplane during maintenance in Colombian capital Bogota. “At its arrival to the El Dorado airport in Bogota, personnel from the airline discovered the bodies of two people who flew irregularly (stowaways) in the undercarriage…
A Jetstar A320 made an emergency landing at Chubu Airport near Nagoya following a bomb threat. Jetstar Japan Airbus A320 (reg. JA14JJ) operating flight #GK501 from Tokyxo NRT to Fukuoka, safely diverted to Nagoya Chubu Centrair Airport, Japan following a bomb thread. The plane, which was carrying 136 passengers and six crew members, took off…
Mexican airline Aeromexico said the fuselage of a plane scheduled to fly from Culiacan, Sinaloa to Mexico City was hit by gunfire Thursday morning. The Aeromexico Connect E-190 (reg. XA-ALW) performing flight #AM165 came under gunfire while in its take-off run at Culiacan Airport, Mexico. Bullets penetrated the aircraft. At the time an armed standoff…
A plane coming into Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from Mexico slid off the taxiway Tuesday evening, airport officials confirmed. According to MSP Airport, Delta Flight 1819, an Airbus A320, was taxiing into the airport from Cabo San Lucas around 6:40 p.m. when the nose gear when off the pavement. The nose gear went about 30…
Air France AF72 to Los Angeles is declaring an emergency. The Boeing 777-300ER (reg. F-GSQL) has declared an emergency over London. The flight was scheduled to land in Los Angeles LAX at 16.05. UPDATE Air France #AF72 returned to Paris due to a technical problem (engine oil system). UPDATE AF72 has landed safely runway 27L…
An IndiGo flight suffered a tailstrike on landing at Kolkata Airport, India. The plane was performing flight flight #6E1859 between Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India. The Airbus A321neo (reg. VT-ILR experienced extensive tailstrike on landing. IndiGo confirmed the incident occurred during landing at Kolkata. The aircraft was grounded at Kolkata for assessment and repair. The…