Qatar Airways said on Thursday that it had been ordered by regulators in the Gulf state to ground 13 of its Airbus A350 aircraft over the rapid degradation of fuselage surfaces. Qatar Airways said in a statement that it had been forced to press out-of-service Airbus A330 aircraft back into operation to fill the gap…
The mysterious figure known as the “jetpack man” was spotted again over Los Angeles. A pilot spotted a flying object that resembled a person wearing a jetpack on Wednesday evening near Los Angeles International Airport, where at least four “jetpack” sightings have been reported in the last year, CBS News reports. “A Boeing 747 pilot…
A belligerent passenger was arrested after causing chaos during a flight to South Florida, authorities said. The situation got so bad that flight attendants had to duct tape the man to his seat. Cellphone footage shows the accused frisky flier, Maxwell Berry, 22, being duct-taped to the back of a seat on Saturday’s Frontier flight…
A flight headed from Newark Liberty International Airport to Buffalo made an emergency landing in Rochester on Sunday due to a fuel leak, officials said. Pilots aboard GoJetAirlines flight 4583 operating as United Express “encountered a possible fuel imbalance” and decided to divert to Greater Rochester International Airport, about 60 miles east of the plane’s…
Alaska Airlines Embraer 170 declared an emergency inbound Seattle. The flight Alaska Airlines #OO3466 – on behalf of Skywest Airlines – has declared an emergency 8 mins from Seattle on Tuesday 27 July 2021. The flight departed from Palm Springs at 13.45 to Seattle. But few mins from landing, pilots of the Embraer 170-200LR (reg.…
A San Francisco International Airport spokesperson says all passengers were re-screened after de-boarding but the teen was not allowed back onboard. A United Airlines flight was evacuated ahead of take-off at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday after a teenager sent a picture of an Airsoft gun to other passengers onboard via Airdrop, an iPhone…
For nearly 20 years, a haunting relic of one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history has been tucked away in a cavernous warehouse in Northern Virginia. The fuselage of the Boeing 747, painstakingly reassembled from nearly 1,600 pieces plucked from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, is a macabre jigsaw puzzle of wires…
A Cargolux 747 was set to take off from Prestwick airport. However, the engine blasted off the asphalt from the runway. This is a serious issue as the incident occurred before the world leaders were expected to arrive in Scotland for a summit. The Cargolux 747 blew up parts of the runway as it was…
A FlyDubai Boeing 737 and Gulf Air Airbus A321neo collided with each other on the taxiway at Dubai International Airport on Thursday, July 22nd. The tail of the Gulf Air A321 was hit by flyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 wingtip while taxiing for flight FZ1461 to Bishkek International Airport, Kyrgyzstan. The Civil Aviation Authority of UAE confirmed…
It was chaos in a Frontier Airlines flight that arrived from Philadelphia. The fight occurred after the plane had landed at Miami Airport. According to a passenger, who recorded the fight, the fight started after one of the passengers took too long to collect his bags, and the other passenger was not so happy about…
A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Malaga was forced to make an emergency landing in France when a passenger died on board the plane. The 84-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack despite the efforts of his fellow passengers and members of the crew to resuscitate him. It was approximately one hour into flight…
An 18-year-old pilot made an emergency landing on a New Jersey bridge in the middle of traffic after experiencing an engine problem. Landon Lucas was flying a small plane for Paramount Air Service, and he reported an engine problem while flying near Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at around 12:30 pm on Monday.…