The Air Accident Investigation Unit said the co-pilot, who possesses an Irish flying license, took control of the October 2013 flight from East Midlands Airport in the UK to the Canary Islands after the main pilot fell unconscious following a bout of illness. The captain had been suffering from a head cold during the week…
Flight VN350, with 184 passengers and crewmembers on board, safely landed at the Hong Kong airport at 4:10 am (Hong Kong time) while it was flying from Ho Chi Minh City to Japan’s Fukuoka.The plane, an Airbus 321, had taken off at the city’s Tan Son Nhat Airport at 12:30 am the same day (Vietnam…
A United Boeing 737-800, N14235 was performing flight UA183 (1st Jan) from Guam to Manila with 146 passengers and 6 crew and was flying at 36,000ft over the Pacific Ocean and was about 70 minutes into the flight when the right hand engine needed to be shut down. The aircraft then drifted down to 22,000ft which…
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, N957WN was performing flight WN3395 from Phoenix to Houston Hobby with 140 passengers, where after departure the crew did not receive an indication that the gear had fully reached the uplock position. The aircraft stopped the climb at 10,000 feet and entered a hold for the crew to work checklists and…
No injuries were reported after an Air France Boeing 777-300 was forced to make an emergency landing at Trudeau Airport in Montreal Thursday afternoon. Air France flight AF54 which was carrying 152 passengers and 17 crew members, was en route from Paris, France to Washington D.C. Thursday afternoon when it diverted to Montreal. “We took…
The pilot of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 may have pulled off the perfect emergency water landing before being the plane was overcome by high seas and sank. While the hunt is on for the black boxes, several aviation experts believe the absence of any usual crash transmission data means the plane could have touched down…
A plane flying from New York to Doha made an emergency landing in Manchester to haul off a drunk male passenger on board. The Qatar Airways flight was diverted after the pilot decided he wanted to remove the man who was causing a disruption and had to be restrained by staff. The suspect was arrested…
A US Airways Express flight has made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport after passengers saw fiery flashes from one of the engines as the plane took off.The flight bound for Manchester, New Hampshire, quickly returned to the airport Monday morning before 75 passengers and crew boarded another plane and continued on.
The BE996 flight from Southhampton – which was expected to arrive at 6.05pm on Tuesday – landed safely at the airport at 5.54pm. A spokesperson from George Best Belfast City Airport said: “Following a request from a Flybe pilot of an inbound Southampton flight, emergency procedures were enacted as a precautionary measure.
[Updated statement] QZ8501 27 décembre 2014, 21:23 AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours. The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC.…