A British tourist is being hailed for restraining a woman on a Jet2 flight from Larnaca to Manchester this week after she ran in her underwear through the plane and tried twice to break into the cockpit while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. A father-of-three Phillip O’Brien, 35, who was travelling with his family on the flight…
Las Vegas police said reports of a shooting at an international airport terminal were unfounded after a loud noise sent crowds running for cover. “Reports of a shooting Sunday morning at Harry Reid International Airport are unfounded,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department tweeted. “The noise is believed to have been caused by an unruly…
Canberra Airport has been evacuated. At approximately 13:30 AEST gunshots were fired inside the terminal. Canberra is Australia’s capital city and home to Parliament House, the Prime Minister’s and Governor-General’s official residences, the High Court of Australia and various embassies. Canberra is located inside the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The whole of @CanberraAirport has been…
An Aer Lingus flight made an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport with visible fire coming from its engine Tuesday afternoon, according to the state firefighters’ union. The flight from Dublin, Ireland was scheduled to land at Boston Logan Airport but was diverted to Bradley due to severe weather in the Boston area, according to…
A knife-wielding man has been shot dead at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Police were called to the scene, an area near the airport’s 2F terminal, this morning. Officers ‘neutralised’ the threat, the force posted on Twitter. French radio station RTL reports that the man ‘showed signs of aggression.’ The broadcaster added: ‘Refusing…
The wing of a JetBlue Airways plane clipped the wing of a Southwest Airlines jet at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday morning. As JetBlue Flight 2519 was being pushed back from its gate at around 9:40 a.m. Sunday, the plane’s left wingtip hit the right wingtip of an empty Southwest plane parked at an adjacent…
A Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777 Freighter struck a lighting pole while taxiing at Chicago-O’Hare International Airport. The Boeing 777F, with registration A7-BFH, sustained a severe dent on its right-hand wing leading edge. The aircraft arrived as flight QR8141 from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. “Qatar Airways can confirm that a cargo aircraft, QR8141, operating from…
An American Airlines Boeing 737 collided with a tug vehicle, while it was being towed at New York-La Guardia Airport. The Boeing 737-800 with registration N949NN, was being towed when the tow truck collided with the aircraft and became wedged under the centre fuselage of the aircraft. No one was on board the aircraft and…
A KLM Boeing 737-700, flying from Leeds to Amsterdam landed with the right-hand cargo door partially open. On August 2nd, KLM flight #KL1542 departed from Leeds to Amsterdam. The Boeing 737-700 (reg. PH-BGT) is often used for this particular route. The aircraft landed runway 18R at Amsterdam after a 50 minute-flight with the inward opening…
British Airways flight #BA438 was forced to perform a go-around at Amsterdam because a passenger was in the toilet. The Airbus A319 (reg. G-EUPY) was performing the flight from London Heathrow to Amsterdam on August 3, 2022. Pilots were forced to peform a go-around as they were informed a passenger was in toilet during the…
A 911 call was placed by 2 FAA staffers after they got word a pilot of the cargo plane that was about to make an emergency landing had jumped from the plane. One of the FAA employees is on the call telling the North Carolina 911 dispatcher, “This is from Raleigh Airport … We have…
More than 100 firefighters fight huge bushfires that send a large plume of smoke into the sky near Heathrow airport About 100 firefighters are fighting a massive grass fire near Heathrow Airport in west London, according to the London Fire Brigade. A video shows a large plume of smoke shooting up from a field near…