An easyJet plane was forced to make an emergency landing after its wing was suddenly struck by lightning. The aircraft took off from Milan when it was hit by the lightning while flying over Italy. The plane diverted to Bari instead of Naples on Sunday (September 25). An image showed the extent of the damage,…
Keflavik airport received a message about a bomb threat. Just before midnight a cargo airplaine landed in Keflavík Airport after a threat about a bomb being on board the airplane was received. This was confirmed by the Chief of Police in Reykjanes peninsula, Úlfar Lúðvíksson, to mbl.is Because of the threat all air traffic to…
Emergency services are at Heathrow Airport after two commercial passenger planes “scrapped into each other”. The incident took place at some point around 8pm tonight (September 28). A Korean Air Boeing 777-300 was taxiing to runway 27R when it clipped another aicraft. The plane (reg. HL7782) was performing flight #KE908 to Seoul. It clipped an…
A Singapore Airlines flight to San Francisco was escorted by fighter jets after a passenger allegedly claimed there was a bomb in his carry-on bag and assaulted the crew. A 37-year old man was arrested on Wednesday morning (28 September) after making a bomb threat on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from San Francisco.…
A Copa Airlines Boeing B737-800 has run off the runway on landing at Tocumen Airport, Panama. The Copa Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg. HP-1539) performed flight #CM135 from Mexico City on Sunday, 25 September. The plane skidded off the runway while landing at Tocumen International Airport on evening. The airport was closed and flight operations were…
A British Airways flight to Rhodes made an emergency diversion after its windshield shattered mid-flight, according to a passenger. Caroline Edmunds tweeted that she was on BA624 from London to Rhodes, Greece, on Saturday afternoon when it was forced to land in Athens after the windscreen “broke”. Edmunds, who posted a picture of the Airbus’s…
Plumes of black smoke seen near Orly airport in Paris, France. The fire is at a marketplace in Paris close to the airport. Despite smoke, the flights operations are currently not affected.
Two pilots died in a collision between two planes on Saturday evening on the outskirts of Gera, Germany. According to a spokesman for the fire brigade, the casualties are two aerobatic pilots who collided in the air with their planes near the Leumnitz airfield. The planes crashed after the collision over an open area, the…
A Boeing 737-300F skidded into the edge of a lake on landing. West Atlantic Boeing 737-300F (reg. EC-NLS) overran the end of runway 12L at Montpellier Airport, France. The aircraft ended at the edge of a lake. The flight #SW5745 landed in Montpellier from Paris CDG. The runway is closed until further notice. Both pilots…
A man had to be rescued after falling unconscious while working on a FedEx fuel tank at LAX. The Los Angeles Fire Department was called out to the FedEx Express Hub, 5927 W. Imperial Highway, at about 12:40 a.m. to help a 30-year-old man who had been pulled unconscious from inside an aircraft fuel tank…
A California man who was captured on video punching an American Airlines flight attendant during a flight from Mexico to Los Angeles was arrested this week. The episode on Flight 377 began about 20 minutes after takeoff on Wednesday when Mr. Le got up from his seat as flight attendants provided food and beverage service,…
A Boeing 777-200ER made an emergency landing at Newark after sparks were observed on departure. The aircraft performing flight #UA149 from Newark to Sao Paulo was seen with sparks coming from the landing gear compartiment on takeoff from runway 22L. The Boeing 777-200ER (reg. N787UA) climbed to 24,000ft over the sea and started to dump…