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…
A C-160 cargo plane caught fire while at runway at Dolow airfield. The plane caught fire shortly after landing at the dusty runway. The plane (reg. EY-360) was carrying cargo from Mogadishu to Dolow, Gedo region. No casualties reported.
Flight recorders and all major components of a cargo jet have been successfully recovered from the Pacific Ocean, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday. The recorders and wreckage recovered were from a Boeing 737-200 freighter, operated as TransAir flight 810 when it was ditched after the flight crew reported anomalies in both engines shortly…
An Optimum Aviation Antonov AN-26 cargo aircraft crashed during the initial climb after take-off from Juba International Airport. The cargo plane was operating a domestic cargo flight from Juba Airport to Maban Airstrip in South Sudan with five crew members on board. Sadly, the aircraft crashed after the crew decided an emergency about 3 minutes…
A parked UPS Airlines Boeing 747-400F tipped onto its tail at Seoul Incheon Airport, South Korea. The Boeing 747-400F, with registration N572UP, arrived at Incheon Airport as flight UPS12 from Dubai International Airport and was parked when the incident took place on 27th October. The aircraft reportedly suffered an issue with its main landing gear,…