A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 was forced to return to Canary Island Tenerife in Spain after both engines ingested volcanic ash from the La Palma volcano eruption earlier this Monday. The Boeing 737-800, with registration EI-ENP, was operating flight FR-8179 from Tenerife to Brussels Charleroi when it was forced to return to Tenerife. After encountering the…
A passenger plane of Jazeera Airlines on Thursday made an emergency landing in Turkey’s Trabzon province airport after a bomb warning, the local governorate said. The Turkish security officials have evacuated the passenger aircraft, which took off from Kuwait and was bounded to Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, Governor Ismail Ustaoglu…
At least 16 people were killed and seven injured on Sunday as an L-410 jet crashed in the Republic of Tatarstan, east of Moscow, Russian media reported. Russia’s Emergency Ministry confirmed that 23 people had been on board. They also said that the plane had been carrying parachute jumpers. The plane crashed around 9:23 a.m.…
No one seriously hurt when plane crashes on Highway 124 in Winnie at Rice Festival Parade site. No one was hurt when a biplane crashed on Highway 124 at the site of the Rice Festival Parade in Winnie. Sheriff Brian Hawthorne tells KFDM/Fox 4 the plane had been towed to the parade and the pilot…
Firefighters and Milan police at work in via Marignano, near the San Donato metro station, for a plane carrying six people crashed at 1pm. The people on board, six passengers and two crew, all died. From the first information the passengers were French: it was a private flight from Linate to Olbia. There was also…
Passengers of a Spirit Airlines A320 were forced to evacuate via emergency slide at Atlantic City Airport. The Airbus A320 (reg. N922NK) was performing flight #NK3044 from Atlantic City Airport to Ft Lauderdale. The plane suffered a birdstrike and a fire in engine #2 during its take-off on runway 31. The passengers were evacuated on…
Two people are dead after a helicopter reportedly collided mid-air with a small plane before crashing Friday near a Chandler airport. According to the Chandler Fire Department, a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane was reported on Oct. 1 near the Chandler Municipal Airport. The plane landed safely, but the helicopter crashed…
The Miami-Dade Police Department reports an American Airlines passenger has been detained after opening the plane’s emergency exit and walking on the wing. MDPD said the incident happened at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after the flight from Cali, Colombia had just arrived at Miami International Airport. According to MDPD, the male passenger opened the emergency…
A Delta airliner with 248 passengers and crew on board landed safely in Athens on Sunday after the pilot reported an indication of a problem in the hydraulic systems, Greek authorities said. Emergency protocols were deployed and the aircraft landed safely at Athens International Airport. Flight #DL148 from Atlanda to Athens operated by an Airbus…
A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan today after a female passenger became ill on board. Flight BA260 departed from Islamabad, Pakistan at 00:38 on Wednesday and was scheduled to fly into London Heathrow. However, the Boeing 777 made its emergency landing two hours and 50 minutes into the…
An Antonov-26 (reg. RA-26673) with six people on board has disappeared from radar in Russia’s Khabarovsk region. Russian media quoted a defence spokesperson for emergency services who informed that the An-26 plane with six crew members on board disappeared from radars 38 kilometres South-West of Khabarovsk. UPDATE The crew of an Antonov An-26 that went…
A plane from Los Angeles tipped onto its tail after arrival at Lewiston Airport. The Boeing 737-900 (reg. N78448) was carrying USC Trojans college Football team for their game with Wazzu. The aircraft tipped over at Lewiston Airport during the unloading process. According to sources, half the team was still on board when the incident…