Indonesia’s Directorate General of Marine Transport has confirmed that the black box has been found, Indonesia authorities said in a press release on Sunday (Jan 11). The black box is believed to be wedged between pieces of wreckage, and the search crew will attempt to retrieve it by moving parts of wreckage to loosen it…
#China detains 25 plane passengers who opened emergency exits before take-off: Xinhua http://t.co/uNizyBAA4O pic.twitter.com/IDdU4fwebX— The Straits Times (@STcom) 11 Janvier 2015
A brief scare for those aboard British Airways flight #BA103. The Calgary-bound Boeing Dreamliner 787 had to return to London’s Heathrow Airport after one of its engines reportedly shut-down mid-air.
A Boeing 757 cargo plane had to make an emergency landing, shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, from Portland International Airport in Oregon after five ducks hit the plane. The impact with the birds caused problems in the engine forcing the plane to land, according to reports. The plane had taken off at about 6:30 p.m.…
A KLM Cityhopper plane en route from Nice to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing at Luxembourg’s airport on Monday.Around 140 kilometres away from Luxembourg, smoke started building up in the cabin and the pilot of the Embraer 190 decided to divert the plane to Luxembourg.Within 20 minutes the plane touched down in the…
Emergency services were standing by at Dublin Airport this evening after a flight landed with a burst tyre. Air France Flight 1016 is understood to have burst a tyre on departure from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris at around 6.30pm Irish time. Shortly before the scheduled flight was due to land in Dublin, the…
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…