Passengers of of KLM flight #KL598 are currently blocked in the Boeing 777-300ER. The passengers were not allowed to disembark for more than 3 hours. Flight KLM #KL592 has landed at 11.15CET. Passengers of KLM flight #KL598 arriving at Amsterdam Schiphol from South Africa are informed they cannot leave the aircraft yet amid sudden Covid…
A passenger onboard a returning flight from Egypt to Russia is believed to have died by suicide inside the plane’s lavatory, media reported Tuesday. Flight attendants discovered the unconscious man inside the airplane toilet shortly after the S7 Airlines flight’s takeoff from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the southwest Russian city of Samara, the…
The accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend. The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. ET when a “prohibited item” was detected in a passenger’s property while going through the X-ray…
A loaded .380-caliber gun was found in a woman’s duffle bag at Pittsburgh International Airport on Thursday morning, Allegheny County Police said. Federal Transportation Security Administration officers found it in an X-ray machine around 5:20 a.m. at the main security checkpoint and alerted county police. The TSA said the black handgun with a gold-colored trigger…
A fire erupted in the auxiliary power unit of a United Airlines Boeing 757-200. United Airlines Boeing 757-200 (reg. N13138) was at a gate in Terminal B Tuesday morning when a small fire was reported on the tail end outside of the plane. Officials say no passengers were on board at the time. The flight…
Man who flew to space with William Shatner aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket dies in plane crash. Glen de Vries, 49, was flying in a Cessna 172 when it went down in norther New Jersey, killing the entrepreneur and another man who was on board. A man who flew to space with William Shatner aboard Jeff…
The singer Marília Mendonça died, aged 26, this Friday 5 November, in a plane accident. The singer was traveling to fulfill her schedule of concerts when the plane crashed into a watercourse, in the city of Piedade de Caratinga, in Vale do Rio Doce, in the west of Minas Gerais. According to Infraero, the plane…
Two Bamboo Airways Airbus A321s sustained minor damages in a ground collision at Hanoi-No Bai International Airport. Bamboo Airways A321neo, with registration VN-A222, was being pushed back from its gate to operate flight QH1621 when it struck another Airbus A321neo with registration VN-590, which was parked at the time of the collision. Both aircraft sustained…
A Kuwait Government Boeing 737-900BBJ experienced a tailstrike on departure from Glasgow-Prestwick Airport, Scotland. The State of Kuwait Boeing 737-900BBJ, with registration 9K-GCC, was departing runway 12 as flight KUG007 to Birmingham when it hit the runway, as the plane rotated and started to lift off the ground. The aircraft made a safe landing in…
An El Al flight that took off from Thailand Monday on its way to Israel carried out a successful emergency landing with just one engine in Goa, India. The Boeing 787 plane left Bangkok and made a planned stop in Phuket before the pilot noticed that the fuel leak indicator light had turned on, according…
An An-12 cargo plane that crashed in the Irkutsk Region in Eastern Siberia caught fire when hitting the ground. “The fire-fighting and rescue teams have arrived at the crash site. The plane is ablaze, the press office said. UPDATE There were nine persons on board the An-12 that crashed near Irkutsk, all have died. A…
In a shocking incident, a male passenger punched a female flight attendant on an American Airlines flight from New York City to Orange County, California after refusing to wear a mask. The assault by the passenger forced the pilot to divert the plane to Denver. According to witnesses, the passenger punched the flight attendant twice…