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.…
A United Parcel Service (UPS) Boeing 747 freighter was forced to return to Hong Kong International Airport after one of the engines malfunctioned. The Boeing 747-8, with registration N624UP, departed Hong Kong at 12:16 local time as flight 5X-3 bound to Dubai International Airport. The crew members reportedly received a fire warning after one of…
A passenger flight from Nairobi crashes at El-Wak Airport in Gedo region of Somalia. A Skyward Express Dash 8-100 crash-landed at CEEL WAAQ Airport, today July 21. The plane (reg. 5Y-GRS) was carrying 45 people from Nairobi. According to the eye witnesses, the plane went out of the runway. Ceel-waaq District officials told Media that…
A Canadian citizen was arrested after he gave a fake bomb threat at Florida Airport. The Canadian man Wegal Rosen’s fake threat caused an evacuation of three terminals and caused the airport to shut down for some hours. The 74-year-old man got into an argument with an Air Canada employee. He was arguing over”additional charges…
An Air Europa ATR 72 was damaged at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport after being hit by a catering truck on Sunday, July 18th. The catering truck collided with the Air Europa ATR 72’s nose. As a result, the ATR further collided with another vehicle that was nearby on the rear side, as seen in the…
The small Hawaii-based cargo operator that lost one of its planes July 2 when the pilots were forced to ditch it into the ocean after it lost power had been under investigation since last fall for alleged maintenance violations. Rhoades Aviation Inc. was grounded on Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency said Friday…
An Air Baltic Airbus A220 came to a stop on the taxiway after both engines automatically shut down on landing at Copenhagen Airport. The Airbus A220, with registration YL-AAQ, landed on Copenhagen’s runway 04L as flight BT-139 from Riga International Airport, Latvia, earlier this week on July 11th. However, both the Pratt & Whitney PW1500G…
On June 18th, a British Airways 787-8 (G-ZBJB) had collapsed at Heathrow when it was preparing for a cargo flight to Frankfurt. The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has issued a bulletin saying human error caused the incident. The incident took place when crews were performing a “Dispatch Deviation Guide” (DDG) procedure, a procedure…
An American Airlines Boeing 787 and Aer Lingus Airbus A330 were involved in a minor collision on the ground at Dublin Airport on Friday, July 16th. The American Airlines Boeing 787-8 tipped an Aer Lingus A330 while the Dreamliner was being pushed back from the stand. The 787 was scheduled to depart Dublin on flight…