Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans has said that one of the 298 people killed in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine was found wearing an oxygen mask. He indicated that not everybody on board had died instantly when the plane was hit by a missile.
The plane bound for Darwin was forced to turn back after one passenger fell seriously ill last night. There are fears his condition is higly contagious after he was met by paramedics, one wearing a protective HAZMAT suit. The plane landed in Sydney around 12am where quarantine officials examined the plane and the man, aged…
A plane made an emergency landing at the Midland airport Tuesday night. The Sheriff’s Department told that a passenger became ill and that paramedics were called to discuss symptoms possibly related to Ebola. Officials on the scene say all passengers had been released as of 1:15 a.m. Midland Public Information Officer Sarah Higgins says that…
A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing Monday afternoon at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after discovering a blown tire on the plane’s main landing gear, an official said. The damage apparently occurred during the takeoff of Flight 1359 from Phoenix to Newark. The flight took off shortly after leaving the gate at 10:05…
After flying for an hour and fifty minutes, Flight VN421, which had left South Korea’s Busan at 10 am (local time) for Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, made an urgent landing at the Cao Hung Airport so that Lee J., a South Korean passenger who had fainted, could receive treatment.
Steve Cox The aircraft was en route from Chicago to Warsaw when the captain declared declared an emergency after apparently smelling smoke. The Boeing 787, which has been grounded in the past over safety fears, made a safe landing around 11.35am. Source
A WestJet flight from Las Vegas to Canada made an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport just 13 minutes after takeoff. Airport spokeswoman says the flight crew for Thursday’s flight 1709 to Victoria, British Columbia, worried the plane might have a fuel leak shortly after it took off around 3:18 p.m. The Boeing 737 with…
(NovaCan Live Seafood/Twitter) An Air France Airbus A380 — the world’s largest passenger airliner — was diverted to Halifax on Thursday after a passenger died on the plane. The plane was travelling from Paris to New York when a 58-year-old American man was found dead, according to Nova Scotia RCMP. Sgt. Alain LeBlanc said the…
A cross-country flight from Boston to Los Angeles had to make an unscheduled landing in Omaha, Nebraska, because one of the passengers was allegedly masturbating. Doug Adams, 26, was removed from the Virgin Airlines flight he was on Monday morning after the plane made an emergency landing because of a patient having a “medical emergency.”…
A commercial airplane traveling from Boston to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Nebraska on Monday, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Virgin America flight made the unscheduled landing Monday morning at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield following a medical emergency on board. The agency didn’t provide additional details, but passengers say a man…
A Virgin America flight bound from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted Monday morning after a mid-air scare. Details surrounding the incident remained unclear; however, Flight 363 had to make an emergency landing in Omaha, Nebraska, the airline said.