Fighter jets were scrambled in response to Copenhagen Airport bomb threat. Denmark’s military scrambled two fighter aircraft on Monday after Copenhagen Airport received a bomb threat. The military sent two F-16s into the air in connection with a threat to a LOT aircraft that was approaching Copenhagen Airport. The two F-16s remained at Copenhagen Airport…
A Cape Town to Munich flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday after one of engines reportedly stalled mid-air. A Lufthansa flight LH-575, an Airbus A350-900 with registration D-AIXE travelling from CapeTown, South Africa issued a mayday call after one of the aircraft’s left engine failed. The aircraft was carrying 286 passengers…
An EasyJet flight heading to the UK from Poland has been diverted to the Czech Republic after a report of a ‘possible bomb’ on board. Flight EZY6276 from Krakow to Bristol was an hour into its two-and-a-half-hour flight when it landed at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport at 10.50pm on Sunday. Prague Airport tweeted: ‘There was…
Domestic arrivals, check in and security are were closed at Glasgow Airport. Police Scotland said they got a call around 5.55am. A suspicious item found in a passengers bag at Glasgow. What appears to be a bomb disposal robot has been seen entering Glasgow Airport. UPDATE Glasgow Airport has reopened after passengers and staff were…
A woman who the FBI said forced a Southwest Airlines plane from Houston to Columbus, Ohio, to make an emergency landing in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday said in midflight that “Jesus told her to open the plane door,” court documents released Monday said. Documents released by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District…
On 30th November, an EVA Air Boeing 777 skidded off an icy part of the taxiway at Vancouver Airport and ended up stuck in the mud. The Boeing 777-300ER with registration B-16707 was operating flight BR10 from Taipei, Taiwan to Vancouver, Canada. However, due to heavy snow and low visibility in Vancouver, the aircraft skidded…
Federal officials are investigating an incident that saw a door fall off a plane midflight and land in a Nevada shopping center. The incident occurred Nov. 18 when a baggage compartment door fell off a single-engine Textron T240 after it took off from Henderson Executive Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. “We were driving…
On a JetBlue flight from JFK to Salt Lake City, a man reportedly threatened a woman by holding a razor blade at her neck. The suspect was later identified as a 41-year-old man from Utah. The male passenger was in a conversation with the woman. However, after he noticed that the woman put on headphones…
A Boeing 747 aircraft carrying military personnel was forced to make an emergency landing at O’Hare Airport Monday afternoon. In the air for 58 minutes after departing from Topeka, Kansas, the plane touched down in Chicago at 3:49 p.m. after crew members were alerted to a scare in the cargo compartment. Originally heading for Poznan,…
More than 85,000 households across Montgomery County were left without power after a plane crashed into a power lines tower in Gaithersburg on Sunday evening. First responders said that the crash happened near Rothbury Drive and Goshen Road. The plane was suspended about 100 feet in the air. The plane that hit the lines was…
Due to a specific bomb threat, IndiGo flight 6E 379 was taken for search by the security forces on arrival at Bengaluru International airport. Indigo 6E Flight 379 departed on time from Kolkata International Airport (CCU) at 5:29 Am IST and touched down at Bangalore Airport (BLR) at 8:00 Am. A Tissue paper was found…
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Airbus A330 sustained damage to its nose cone and cockpit windshield after being hit by a hail strike on approach to Jeddah Airport in Saudi Arabia. The Airbus A330-300 with registration HZ-AQ25 was approaching Jeddah as flight SV-452 from Khartoum in Sudan. Following heavy rainfall and violent hailstorms over Jeddah, Flight…