A United Airlines flight from Wichita to Chicago was forced to return to Mid-Continent Airport Wednesday night for an emergency landing. Flight tracking websites indicate Flight 5240 left the Wichita airport at 6:27 p.m. But it developed landing gear problems and landed back in Wichita around 7:30. No injuries were reported. The flight took off…
A man has missed his honeymoon and caused a Thomas Cook holiday flight to be diverted after getting drunk and abusing cabin crew and fellow passengers onboard. Mohammed Khelya, 22, was reportedly drinking from a bottle of vodka when he became aggressive on the flight from Manchester to Cuba on Tuesday. Cabin crew members asked…
It was at 2pm Monday when a pilot reported a problem with one of the engines, a possible explosion in a turbine, forcing the aircraft to return and make an emergency landing. The plane, an Airbus 319 owned by Avianca airlines (still with the TACA logo), had just taken off from the San José airport…
An All Nippon Airways flight bound for Tokyo with 192 people on board turned back to Manila Friday for an emergency landing after smoke billowed from its cockpit, officials said.There were no injuries as Flight NH950 landed safely some 35 minutes after it departed, the Manila airport’s media office said.Eric Apolonio, spokesman for the Civil…
Officials say a twin-engine aircraft had to make an emergency landing at a municipal airport in northwest Nebraska after it lost power to both engines.A spokesman for the city of Chadron says the emergency landing happened around 8 p.m. Monday at Chadron Municipal Airport. No injuries were reported.The aircraft landed short of the runway in…
flight from Dublin to Paris had to make an emergency landing in Birmingham tonight after a crack appeared in one of its windows.Flight AF1117, operated by Air France, gave notice of the problem just before 6.30pm on Sunday when it was flying over Wales.It then looped over a section of the English midlands before then…
A bird strike damaged a plane, knocked out the pilot’s instrument panel and forced it to land at Oakland International Airport. The plane had to loop around over the East Bay shortly after takeoff. One of the passengers told ABC7 News they were just minutes into the flight when a stern, but calm announcement came…
Philippine Airlines flight from Nagoya, Japan made an emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila on Friday.The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) said in a state news report that PAL’s Airbus with flight number 347 touched down at 1:22 p.m.Initial reports said that the flight encountered machine malfunction.All of the flights 160…
Officials say an airplane bound for Seattle made an emergency landing in Pasco, Washington, on Thursday. No one was hurt.The plane operated by Horizon Air left Boise with 76 passengers and four crew members. It landed at Tri-Cities Airport just after 4 p.m.Cole Cosgrove, a spokesman for Alaska Airlines, a sister company to Horizon, says…