A Boeing 747 to China is dumping fuel prior an emergency landing. A Boeing 747-400F to Hangzhou, China is dumping fuel due to an engine issue after take off. UPDATE 11.22UTC The Boeing 747-400F has landed in Frankfurt. UPDATE 10.53UTC The Boeing 747-400F is now at 10,000 ft and heading to Frankfurt. UPDATE 10.45UTC The…
Freezing weather conditions are causing some delays and cancellations today. Snow is disrupting travel at Gatwick airport as up to 10cm is forecast to hit London and the South East tonight. UPDATE 2131UTC Broken clouds at a height of 100 ft at London Stansted. UPDATE 2125UTC London Stansted Airport is now closed. UPDATE Runway was reopened at…
At Munich Airport, climate activists of the so-called “last generation” glued themselves onto the tarmac to protest against climate change. Climate activists from the group “Last Generation” stuck themselves on a runway at Munich Airport. One of the two runways had to be temporarily closed. Several activists from the “Last Generation” protest movement stuck themselves…
Twenty-seven passengers fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport this morning after a woman pretended she was in labour so plane would make emergency landing. The drama occurred this morning after the A321 landed at 4.30am. As flight attendants helped the woman. who claimed her waters had broken, disembark, a group of 28 migrants…
Fighter jets were scrambled in response to Copenhagen Airport bomb threat. Denmark’s military scrambled two fighter aircraft on Monday after Copenhagen Airport received a bomb threat. The military sent two F-16s into the air in connection with a threat to a LOT aircraft that was approaching Copenhagen Airport. The two F-16s remained at Copenhagen Airport…
A Cape Town to Munich flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday after one of engines reportedly stalled mid-air. A Lufthansa flight LH-575, an Airbus A350-900 with registration D-AIXE travelling from CapeTown, South Africa issued a mayday call after one of the aircraft’s left engine failed. The aircraft was carrying 286 passengers…
An EasyJet flight heading to the UK from Poland has been diverted to the Czech Republic after a report of a ‘possible bomb’ on board. Flight EZY6276 from Krakow to Bristol was an hour into its two-and-a-half-hour flight when it landed at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport at 10.50pm on Sunday. Prague Airport tweeted: ‘There was…
Domestic arrivals, check in and security are were closed at Glasgow Airport. Police Scotland said they got a call around 5.55am. A suspicious item found in a passengers bag at Glasgow. What appears to be a bomb disposal robot has been seen entering Glasgow Airport. UPDATE Glasgow Airport has reopened after passengers and staff were…
A woman who the FBI said forced a Southwest Airlines plane from Houston to Columbus, Ohio, to make an emergency landing in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday said in midflight that “Jesus told her to open the plane door,” court documents released Monday said. Documents released by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District…
On 30th November, an EVA Air Boeing 777 skidded off an icy part of the taxiway at Vancouver Airport and ended up stuck in the mud. The Boeing 777-300ER with registration B-16707 was operating flight BR10 from Taipei, Taiwan to Vancouver, Canada. However, due to heavy snow and low visibility in Vancouver, the aircraft skidded…
Federal officials are investigating an incident that saw a door fall off a plane midflight and land in a Nevada shopping center. The incident occurred Nov. 18 when a baggage compartment door fell off a single-engine Textron T240 after it took off from Henderson Executive Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. “We were driving…
On a JetBlue flight from JFK to Salt Lake City, a man reportedly threatened a woman by holding a razor blade at her neck. The suspect was later identified as a 41-year-old man from Utah. The male passenger was in a conversation with the woman. However, after he noticed that the woman put on headphones…