Two pilots walked away red-faced but unharmed after the co-pilot forgot to lower the landing gear on approach and the plane made a belly landing at an airport in Taiwan. It happened while the Daily Air pilots were simulating an emergency landing at the airport in Taitung City on Sunday. The failure to deploy the…
A flight from Seattle to Newark was forced to make an emergency landing in Spokane Sunday night just before 7. Officials say there was a sudden problem with the engine on United Airlines Flight 273. The airline wouldn’t say exactly what that issue was, but no one was hurt. A different aircraft was brought in…
A South African woman was arrested in Halifax on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting two flight attendants during a flight from London to Toronto. RCMP Sgt. Al LeBlanc says the Air Canada flight had to be diverted to Halifax at about 12:30 p.m. local time. LeBlanc says police apprehended the woman after it landed at the…
Vietnam Airlines has suspended a flight crew pending a procedural investigation into an emergency landing that took place on Tuesday night. Spokesman Le Truong Giang said Wednesday that the airline suspended Czech captain Pechanec Marek and his co-pilot Do Hoang Nam and five other crew members. The suspension will last until the conclusion of an…
A plane flying from Chongqing to Hong Kong was nearly forced to do an emergency landing after two female passengers got into a physical fight over their seating arrangements. The dispute was triggered by some passengers who complained about a noisy child in the back, according to the Chongqing Morning News. Passengers in the back…
A FlyBe flight from Glasgow to Belfast City Airport has been forced to make an emergency landing after an engine fire. It was diverted to Belfast International where it was met by emergency services. No-one was injured but Simon Tiernan who was on board tweeted: “Lucky to be alive tonight. Serious credit to the pilots…
An American Airlines flight from Seoul to Dallas has been diverted, after 15 passengers were reportedly injured due to turbulence. Flight 280 is set to make an emergency landing in Narita Airport,Japan. The plane is carrying 240 passengers plus crew. It has been forced to make the landing five hours after leaving Incheon Airport, just…
A plane departing from Ho Chi Minh City for the north-central town of Vinh had to reroute to Hanoi on Tuesday after the flight crew pressed the “wrong” warning button, a Vietnam Airlines spokesman said. Le Truong Giang dismissed information that the flight had been hijacked as reported earlier, according to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.…
A Delta Airlines Flight 32 from Seattle to Paris with more than 200 people aboard made an emergency landing in Billings, Mont., Monday evening after an “electrical odor” was detected, the Billings Gazette reported. “They smelled an electrical odor on board, so they made a precautionary landing here,” Shane Ketterling, operations supervisor for Billings Logan…
An Air France passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Ireland after a shipment of peppers set off a fire alarm during its transatlantic journey. The Boeing 747-400 was flying from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic to Paris when its flight crew was alerted to a potential fire in the cargo…