An Air France flight en route from Paris to New Delhi made an emergency landing at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport on Friday at 5 p.m. after a passenger caused disruptions onboard. As reported by Reuters, a passenger started quarrelling with fellow passengers soon after the flight took off. The passenger, an Indian citizen, also assaulted a…
A Batik Air Airbus A320-200 made an emergency landing with nose gear turned 90 degrees at Sultan Thaha Jambi Airport in Indonesia after a technical problem with its landing gear. The aircraft, with registration PK-LUT, was performing flight ID-6803 from Jambi to Jakarta with 117 passengers and 6 crew members on board. The aircraft was…
American Airlines said on Friday that a Boeing 737 MAX bound for New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport declared an emergency after the captain shut down one engine over a possible mechanical issue. American’s Flight 2555 from Miami with 95 passengers and six crew landed safely at Newark without incident, the airline said. The possible…
The National Transportation Safety Board published an investigative update Friday for its ongoing investigation of the Feb. 20, 2021, United Airlines flight 328 engine failure event. UAL flight 328 experienced a failure of the right Pratt & Whitney PW4077 engine shortly after takeoff from Denver International Airport, Denver. There were no injuries reported, and the…
A flight was diverted to Sacramento International Airport Thursday night after a passenger died on a plane. Delta Flight 1837 was headed to Seattle from Cabo when a passenger became unresponsive, an airport spokesperson said. Just after 7 p.m., the flight diverted to SMF, and airport fire personnel pronounced the person dead at the scene.…
Air Algérie flight AH6200, an ATR 72, suffered a nose landing gear issue on landing at Ghardaïa Airport, Algeria. During the approach to Ghardaïa after a flight from Algiers, the nose landing gear failed to deploy after the flight crew selected the undercarriage down. The flight crew failed to resolve the issue and performed a…
A JetBlue flight was forced to make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport Wednesday night, according to the FAA. Officials say an operated by JetBlue Airways reported a flap issue and made an emergency landing around 8:10 p.m. JetBlue says the flight was diverted out of an abundance of caution due to…
Several people are feared dead due to a plane crash in South Sudan, the director of Juba International Airport said in a statement late Tuesday according to Anadolu Agency. Meanwhile, South Sudan News Now, a local newspaper, reported that the plane crashed in Jonglei State’s Uror County several minutes after leaving for Juba from Pieri’s…
A Tarco Airlines Boeing 737 was forced to return to Khartoum Airport after an angry cat attacked the pilots. The aircraft was operating a passenger flight from Khartoum International Airport, Sudan, to Doha Hamad International Airport, Qatar. However, after around 30 minutes of the takeoff, the angry cat got into the cockpit and started attacking…
Three aircraft, a two Boeing 737-800s, and a Boeing 757-200 subsequently landed on Birmingham runway 33 while there was a ladder just to the runway centreline’s right. A total of 406 passengers were on board the three planes. The first aircraft was an ASL Airlines 737-800, with registration EI-DPC followed by a Jet2 Boeing 737-800,…
A LAM Mozambique Airlines Boeing 737 suffered a runway excursion on landing at Quelimane Airport in Mozambique. LAM Mozambique Airlines was operating flight #TM1134, a Boeing 737-700. No injuries reported.
A Boeing 777 operated by Rossiya Airlines made an emergency landing in Moscow due to engine trouble. A Boeing 777 operated by Rossiya Airlines made an emergency landing in Moscow at 4:44 a.m. local time due to engine trouble, less than a week after a similar aircraft flown by United Airlines suffered a dramatic blowout over…