Venezuelan police prevented the take-off of a TAP Air Portugal cargo flight after sniffer dogs detected narcotics substances during an inspection. The TAP Airbus A330-900 was preparing to operate flight TP9532 from Simón Bolívar International Airport to Lisbon Portela Airport on May 5. However, the cargo flight was cancelled after the Regional Anti-Drug Intelligence Unit…
A UNI Air ATR 72 was forced to make an emergency landing at Taipei Songsang Airport on Monday after two wheels on the right landing gear got ruptured. The ATR 72-600 was operating flight B79091 from Taipei’s Songshan Airport to Matsu Nangan Airport with 74 passengers and crew members on board when the captain noticed…
Fire crews have responded to an incident at Tauranga Airport. Passengers have been evacuated from a plane. Fire and Emergency New Zealand confirm they have been on the scene at the airport. The Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 (reg. ZK-NEZ) has been evacuated due to smoke alarm. “We have been on the scene at Tauranga Airport…
A Gulfstream G-150 jet ran off the runway and stopped in the wetlands at Ridgeland-Claude Dean Airport on Wednesday. The 11 seater jet suffered the runway excursion after it suffered a brake malfunction. The jet was lifted by a large crane and relocated away from the runway. There were five people on board, including two…
A Jet Serve Aviation air ambulance made an emergency belly landing in Mumbai after losing a front landing gear wheel during takeoff from runway 32 in Nagpur. The Beechcraft charter aircraft with registration VT-JIL was carrying one patient, two crew members, a paramedic and a doctor from Nagpur Airport to Mumbai International Airport. A full…
The pilot of flight MH370 that disappeared seven years ago made numerous turns to avoid detection before the passenger jet took its final, fatal course, a new study found. MH370 vanished in March, 2014, with Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah dying alongside 238 passengers and crew, including six Australians. The research by aerospace engineer…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released an investigation report of the Air Inuit DHC-8-314 hard landing and tailstrike incident in January 2020. On 20 January 2020, the DHC-8-314 operated by Air Inuit, with registration C-GXAI, was conducting a flight from Quebec-Jean Lesage Airport, to Schefferville Airport, with 45 people on board including three…
A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A330-900neo suffered damage to its winglet at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Guinea Bissau on Saturday morning. The A330neo, with registration CS-TUJ, was performing flight TP1477 from Lisbon to Guinea with 232 passengers on board. The aircraft was moving to the apron when its left winglet collided in a lamp…
An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner was escorted by fighter jets over Europe after the pilot raised the alarm on Friday. The pilots raised the alarm after they suspected a bomb on board. The Boeing 787-9 was performing flight LY2 from New York JFK to Tel Aviv. The aircraft took off from JFK at 16:18…
A Caspian Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 jet was flying on a domestic route from Tehran to Kish when its autopilot malfunctioned. This malfunction caused the aircraft to climb 400 feet above its assigned altitude. A Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000, with registration A7-ANO, was en route to Los Angeles nearby the MD-83 with registration EP-CAS. After…
A brand new KLM Boeing 777-300ER was damaged during pushback at Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport on 22 April. The new Boeing 777-300ER, with registration PH-BVV, was scheduled to depart as flight KL895 to Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport via Seoul-Incheon International Airport. It was a cargo-only flight. During pushback, the passenger bridge was still attached to the aircraft. After…
A Fiji Airways flight to Auckland was delayed after prayer beads known as “Rudraksha” was found in one of the engines. The Airbus A330 was preparing for its flight from Nadi International Airport to Auckland. The prayer garland was found by Fiji Airways engineers undertaking pre-flight inspections. In a statement, the airline said: “Fiji Airways…