The birth took place just hours after the Qatar Airways flight took off from Florida on Sunday morning and before the pilot was able to make the emergency landing in Gander, Newfoundland, eastern Canada. With the help of two doctors travelling on the plane the woman gave birth to a healthy boy, Brian Hicks, safety…
A cracked windshield forced an emergency landing at the Burlington airport Thursday morning. The US Airways Express jet was flying from Philadelphia to Montreal when the pilot reported a crack developing. To be safe, the pilot decided to land and Burlington was the closest airport. “The crack was reportedly getting larger and working its way…
Germanwings crash scene (AFP/Denis Bois/Gripmedia/AFP TV) Latest developments: One of the pilots on board Germanwings Flight 9525 was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed Tuesday, a senior military official told The New York Times, citing evidence from the cockpit voice recorder. Helicopters have airlifted some victims’ remains from the site of the…
An Air China passenger plane today made an emergency landing in eastern China due to mechanical faults. The flight CA1802 landed in Hefei which is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province. The Boeing 737 coming from Xiamen City in east China’s Fujian Province to Beijing was forced to land in Hefei at 9:17…
A Thai Air aircraft suffered a bird strike on its right engine while landing at Tribhuvan International Airport on Sunday afternoon. No major damages were caused when the right engine of the Boeing 777 ingested the bird at around 1:35 this afternoon. The plane was grounded and engineers from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal…
Ryanair flight FR8321 was forced to make an emergency landing this morning after a fire extinguisher discharged in the cockpit. Flight FR8321 from London to Valencia first headed to Girona then diverted to Barcelona shortly after 10am this morning. The flight landed safely at 10.26am. The flight trucks are lined up as we make an…
A United Express flight from Denver to Kansas City was forced to return to DIA after one of its tires blew on takeoff. The drama played out Saturday morning and involved a operating as Flight 4870, The turbo-prop circled to burn off fuel before the plane made a successful landing at 10:55 a.m., according to…
An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in North Carolina Tuesday afternoon when a Minnesota woman went into labor mid-flight. Shaniqua Cherry wasn’t due for another two weeks, but her daughter apparently couldn’t wait any longer, WSOC-TV says. She started having contractions before boarding, but didn’t think anything of it, WSOC says, but when…
An Indore-bound IndiGo flight with 181 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Devi Ahilyabai airport here after a warning of smoke billowing from it. All the 181 passengers, including three infants, were safe, an official said. The IndiGo flight 6E-496 took off from Mumbai for Indore at around 10.55 AM. En-route, the pilot…
Flight Air France AF 724, which departed from Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 11:26, made a normal landing in Nouakchott (Mauritania) on Monday 9 March 2015 at 15:33 (local time). During the taxiing phase, the aircraft turned around at the end of the runway in order to reach its parking stand. During this manoeuvre, the aircraft,…