Chinese and U.S. safety investigators have stepped up cooperation in their effort to determine what caused a Boeing 737 flown by China Eastern Airlines to crash last month, killing all 132 people on board. The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder, discovered at the mountainous crash site in the Guangxi province, has been transferred to a National…
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate what went wrong when the cockpit windshield of a Delta plane shattered mid-air during a flight on Thursday to Washington, D.C., from Salt Lake City, Utah. The Boeing 757 made a safe emergency landing in Denver at around 11:35 a.m. on Thursday “after the crew declared an emergency due…
A LATAM flight was forced to return to proceed an emergency landing following a nose landing gear issue. The Airbus A320-200 (reg. CC-BAS) was performing flight LA4292 from Medellín-José María Córdova Airport (MDE) to Cartagena-Crespo Airport (CTG) in Colombia. Shortly after takeoff, the pilots detected an issue with the nose landing gear. After notifying ATC,…
A SpiceJet aircraft collided with an electric pole at the Delhi airport on Monday. The incident caused severe damage to both the plane and the pole. The collision occurred during pushback of SpiceJet Boeing 737-800 (reg. VT-SLJ). The aircraft received wing damage when it hit an apron light mast at Delhi Airport, India on flight…
The second “black box” has been recovered from the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed all 132 people on board last week, Chinese state media said Sunday. Firefighters taking part in the search found the recorder, an orange cylinder, on a mountain slope about 1.5 meters (5 feet) underground, state broadcaster CCTV…
Search area to be expanded in hilly and forested crash site, where constant rain and landslide fears are making recovery efforts more difficult More than 10km (6.2 miles) from where China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed, a farmer has found what he suspects to be a piece of aircraft debris, indicating the vast expanse of…
Authorities have yet to declare the number of victims, but there has been no sign so far that any of the 132 people onboard had survived. Investigators still do not know why the plane suddenly entered a near-vertical dive in southern China on Monday. But the recovery of the intact cockpit voice recorder is hoped…
A Qatar Airways Airbus A350 en route to Doha was forced to divert to Karachi after cargo hold smoke indication. The A350 was performing a flight from Delhi to Doha as flight QR-579 when the occurrence forced it to divert to Karachi. The aircraft was met by emergency service in Karachi, and they found evidence…
The China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed Monday was diving at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review. Such an impact may complicate the task for investigators because it can obliterate evidence and, in rare cases, damage a plane’s data and…
China authorities have found one of the two black boxes belonging to the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Monday, according to an official of the aviation regulator. UPDATE CAAC official said in #MU5735 press conference that based on preliminary inspection, the black box found today is the Cockpit Voice Recorder. It has…
A Jet2 flight heading from Manchester to Turkey was forced to divert to Vienna after an “out of control” woman became disruptive and slapped other passengers. A plane was forced to divert after an “out of control” woman became aggressive and allegedly slapped another passenger on board. The Jet2 flight headed to Antalya, Turkey left…
China’s aviation authority said Monday that a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane had crashed with 132 people on board, including 123 passengers and nine crew members. Contact was lost with the flight over Wuzhou, in the Guangxi region, the authority said. It was scheduled to fly from Kunming to Guangzhou in the southeast…