Earlier this evening, a hot air balloon lost height, landed safely outside Gaywood surgery, North Street. No harm done, doctors not required, just a lot of social media activity and red faced crew.
An airplane made an emergency landing at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport on Tuesday afternoon due to a broken window. The Wizz Air airplane was conducting flight number W64363 from Sofia to Bologna with 173 passengers on board, daily Sega reports. The airplane had taken off from Sofia and was above the Serbian city of Nis, when…
The Transportation Safety Board says there were no mechanical problems with an Air Canada passenger jet that crashed about 200 metres short of the runway at the Halifax airport in March. The independent board issued a statement today saying the Airbus 320 was correctly configured for landing, its air speed was consistent with a normal…
An Air Canada jet that declared an emergency while flying from Toronto to St. John’s, Newfoundland, because of a report of smoke has landed safely at Maine’s Bangor International Airport. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says the pilot decided to divert Flight 692 because of a report of smoke in the cabin. The Embraer…
UPDATE Preliminary inspection on the aircraft reveals no physical evidence of fire externally. Safety is our utmost priority. UPDATE EMERGENCY Malaysian Airlines #MH148 fire is out. Live: http://t.co/oJLISOE3Ll — AirLive.net (@airlivenet) June 12, 2015 BREAKING Malaysian Airlines #MH148 returned to Melbourne. Reports of an engine fire. Live: http://t.co/oJLISOE3Ll pic.twitter.com/rmqyuPsusI — AirLive.net (@airlivenet) June 12, 2015…
American Airlines flight AAL/AA183 from Los Angeles, CA, USA to Shanghai/Pudong, China diverted to Narita, Japan because of fuel starvation. The plane landed on the runway 34L of Narita International Airport safely, however, fuel was leaking from the No. 1 engine. The plane was stuck on the runway for 50 minutes. No injury were reported.…
A 16-year-old pilot has walked away unharmed after making an emergency landing in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains. Stacey Gibb, pictured after his first solo flight (Facebook: Jindabyne Aero Club) Stacey Gibb, who was on his fourth solo flight, took off from the Jindabyne airport yesterday and the alarm was raised when he did not…
One killed, one injured after small plane goes down near Paine Field. Raw video: http://t.co/FHhgrqoc6o pic.twitter.com/eUT1zNl3P8— KIRO 7 (@KIRO7Seattle) 10 Juin 2015
Allegiant Airlines Flight 864 had only been in the air for about 10 minutes, heading to Hagerstown, Maryland from St. Pete-Clearwater when passengers were alerted to a problem. “At one point we were told there was a burning sensation and we’d return to St. Pete,” said passenger Pattie Dell. Turns out the pilots reported smoke…
A Honolulu-bound flight on American Airlines diverted to Los Angeles Sunday morning after three of the six toilets on the 8-½ hour flight stopped working. American Airlines Flight 005 had taken off from Dallas/Fort Worth, but the Boeing 767-300ER diverted to L.A. because of the lavatory problems, airline spokesman Alexis Aran Coello confirmed to The…