On Jan. 5, a Vietnam Airlines aircraft, which took off from Japan’s Narita airport for Hanoi International, was threatened that it would be shot down over Tokyo Bay. Flight VN5311 took off from Narita International Airport with 47 passengers, three pilots, and 12 cabin crew members on board. At 11.10 a.m. local, around 40 minutes…
A LANHSA BAe Jetstream 31 sustained substantial damage in a runway excursion at Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Roatan. The British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 31, with registration HR-AYY, landed at Roatan but shortly, its right-hand main gear collapsed, resulting in the runway excursion. The aircraft came to rest on an uneven terrain off the…
Finnair flight #AY141 returned to Helsinki. The flight #AY141 to Bangkok only lasted 32 minutes. The Airbus A350-900 (reg. OH-LWH) took off from Helsinki-Vantaa at 17:32 Local time. Some filled the cabin shortly after take-off. The pilots stopped the climb at 3,800 ft and immediately returned to Helsinki for an emergency landing.
A newborn baby has been found in toilet bin of Air Mauritius plane. An Air Mauritius cabin crew hold a newborn baby boy that was abandoned in the aircraft toilet bin during the 91-minute flight from Madagascar to the neighboring island nation of Mauritius on January 1st. A 20-year-old woman, who is suspected of giving…
South African Airlink Jetstream 41 suffered a large birdstrike on final approach to Venetia Mine Airport in South Africa. On January the 3rd, an Airlink Jetstream 41 aircraft operating a private charter flight struck a large bird upon landing at Venetia airfield. A propeller blade broke and penetrated the aircraft fuselage. None of the passengers…
A Ryanair flight has been forced to make an emergency landing in France after a fire broke out on board. Flight FR4052 took off from Manchester at 6.33pm on Monday headed for Faro, southern Portugal, where it was expected to land at around 9.30pm. But just over an hour into the flight, pilots of the…
A British Airways Airbus A350 sustained damage to its tailstrike while landing at Heathrow Airport. The Airbus A350-1000, with registration G-XWBC, was performing flight BA-104 from Dubai International Airport to London Heathrow Airport when it sustained a tailstrike during its approach to Heathrow’s runway 27L. The crew then decided to go around before positioning and…
An Air Caraibes Airbus A330-300 was forced to return to Princess Juliana International Airport after a left-hand engine explosion during take-off. The Airbus A330, with registration F-ORLY, was departing as flight TX-527 from Princess Juliana International Airport, Sint Maarten, to Paris Orly Airport when a loud explosion was heard by witnesses on the ground, forcing…
Ex-‘Baywatch’ Actress Patricia Cornwall was arrested by the FBI after she went on an expletive-laced tirade and slapped a fellow passenger aboard a Delta flight from Tampa to Atlanta. The unhinged woman — identified as Patricia Cornwall — was arrested by the feds after the wild incident aboard Flight 2790 on Thursday, Atlanta police said…
A British Airways jet suffered a shattered windscreen when a block of ice fell from another plane flying 1,000ft above, causing misery for passengers unable to get back to the UK for Christmas. The Boeing 777 was flying from London Gatwick to Costa Rica at 35,000ft when the ice struck its windshield in a ‘one-in-a-million…
A Learjet 35A crashed in a residential area, killing all on board. The aircraft was completing the turn for the final approach to runway 27R at San Diego Gillespie Field, California. It struck Pepper Drive in a residential area of El Cajon, San Diego, 2,6 km east of the runway threshold and burst into flames.…
A private Learjet 35A sustained substantial damage, ripping both engines when it was involved in a hard landing incident at Cancun Airport. The aircraft with registration XA-VDK was operating a flight from Opa-Locka Executive Airport, Florida, to Cancun Airport, Mexico, on 21st December. The private aircraft made a hard landing at Cancun Airport due to…