Brussels Airlines flight to Luanda was forced to make diversions after Angolan airspace was closed off, without advance notice. Brussels Airlines flight SN359 from Brussels departed as scheduled. The Airbus A330 was on its descent to Luanda Airport when it was unexpectedly informed that Angolan airspace was closed due to the arrival of Turkish President…
A MD-87 is on fire after crashing near Houston Executive Airport with 21 people on board. The corporate McDD MD-87 (reg. N987AK) crashed behind the runway and burst into flames at Houston Executive Waller County Airport. Please reload for updates… UPDATE The aircraft was taking off to North and overran runway 36 during an aborted…
An American Airlines Embraer ERJ-175 suffered a hydraulic failure on landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Several tires blew out after landing. The Embraer ERJ-175, with registration N404YX, was operating flight AA4965 from Memphis to Reagan National Airport in Washington on Saturday. On landing, the aircraft stopped on the runway for about 15 minutes…
Air Europa flight declared an emergency while descending in Montevideo. A Boeing 787-9 (reg. EC-NFM) of Air Europa, coming from Madrid with 321 passengers on board, declared “ mayday ”, while it made the descent at Carrasco International Airport. The crew indicated an “inoperative engine” in communication with the Carrasco control tower. The engine affected…
The flight #P57436 from Medellin to Punta Cana suffered an engine issue on October 16. The 737-800 took off from Medellin when the left engine began to bang. The crew decided to continue and took off and climbed to 13,000 feet. however Medellin Airport is at about 7,000 feet. The pilots returned to approach runway…
A TUI Airlines Belgium Boeing 737 MAX was forced to return to Seattle Boeing Field due to technical issues shortly after departure. The Boeing 737-8 MAX, with Belgian registration OO-TMZ, was operating flight TB-981F from Seattle Boeing Field to Brussels on Wednesday, 14th October. The aircraft, leased from Aviation Capital Group, was scheduled to arrive…
A Boeing 777-300ER suffered an engine problem on departure from Los Angeles LAX. Japan Airlines flight #JL15 to Tokyo Haneda experienced an issue with engine #2. The Boeing 777-300ER took off at 2.33pm local time from runway 25R on Friday October 15th. The crew decided to circle for about 30 mins, holding 6,000ft in order…
A Flyegypt Boeing 737-700 had all the tires on its main landing gear blown out during landing at Cluj-Napoca International Airport in Romania. The Boeing 737-700, with registration SU-TMM, was operating flight FT-3103 from Hurghada in Egypt to Cluj-Napoca International Airport in Romania with 113 people on board on Friday, October 15. Upon touchdown on…
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 was forced to return to Canary Island Tenerife in Spain after both engines ingested volcanic ash from the La Palma volcano eruption earlier this Monday. The Boeing 737-800, with registration EI-ENP, was operating flight FR-8179 from Tenerife to Brussels Charleroi when it was forced to return to Tenerife. After encountering the…
A passenger plane of Jazeera Airlines on Thursday made an emergency landing in Turkey’s Trabzon province airport after a bomb warning, the local governorate said. The Turkish security officials have evacuated the passenger aircraft, which took off from Kuwait and was bounded to Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, Governor Ismail Ustaoglu…
At least 16 people were killed and seven injured on Sunday as an L-410 jet crashed in the Republic of Tatarstan, east of Moscow, Russian media reported. Russia’s Emergency Ministry confirmed that 23 people had been on board. They also said that the plane had been carrying parachute jumpers. The plane crashed around 9:23 a.m.…
No one seriously hurt when plane crashes on Highway 124 in Winnie at Rice Festival Parade site. No one was hurt when a biplane crashed on Highway 124 at the site of the Rice Festival Parade in Winnie. Sheriff Brian Hawthorne tells KFDM/Fox 4 the plane had been towed to the parade and the pilot…