A plane at New York City’s JFK Airport was evacuated Sunday following a bomb threat, according to the the Port Authority Police Department. Authorities said the threat was received from an incoming flight from Moscow, Russia, which landed at the New York airport at about 3:49 p.m. EST with approximately 250 passengers. The Aeroflot flight…
A SpiceJet Boeing 737 undershot the runway while landing at Guwahati airport on Friday. The Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation has grounded both the SpiceJet pilots who were operating the flight. The Boeing 737-800 with registration VT-SLL was performing flight SG-960 from Bangalore to Guwahati. Sources reported that the pilots lost perception of…
A single-engine plane made an impressive emergency landing on a busy Minnesota freeway. According to local media, the Bellanca Viking aircraft made the landing at about 9:30 p.m. (0330GMT) Thursday in the northbound lanes of I-35 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb Arden Hills, hitting an SUV. The driver of the SUV was not injured. The…
A Cessna T303 type aircraft left the runway and crossed a road nearby, upon landing in snowy weather conditions at Annecy-Meythet Airport. The incident took place on Friday afternoon, December 4. A Swiss pilot and two French passengers were on board the aircraft. All of them were injured, two seriously. Although the investigation is being…
A B-52 bomber, callsign Cake11 made an emergency landing at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after suffering a suspected engine failure while flying over the Mediterranean. An American B-52 bomber performed an emergency landing at RAF Fairford after burning fuel over Worcestershire following engine failure over the Mediterranean. The bomber departed Minot AFB, North Dakota ahead…
A Japan Airlines Boeing 777-200 suffered loss of fan blades in engine 1 shortly after takeoff from Okinawa-Naha Airport. The Boeing 777 with registration JA8978, was performing flight JL-904 from Okinawa to Tokyo Haneda with 178 passengers and 11 crew on board. After the aircraft suffered left-hand engine failure prompting large noise, the crew decided…
A Boeing 787 experienced an uncommanded shutdown of its right Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine while the aircraft was on descent into Perth Airport due to a blocked inlet filter in a fuel metering valve servo assembly, an ATSB investigation report details. Operated by Scoot Airways, the Boeing 787-9, registered 9V-OJE, departed Singapore on 11 October…
An Air Djibouti Boeing 737-500 suffered the collapse of its right-hand main landing gear at Garowe Airport, Somalia. The aircraft was operating flight IV-206 from Hargeisa, Somalia to Garowe, the capital of Puntland. A total of 44 people including 5 crew members were onboard the aircraft. During the landing, the aircraft remained on the track…
A Cubana Embraer EMB-110 performed a gear-up landing at Jose Marti International Airport of Havana. The aircraft skidded along the runway and came to a stop with all gear collapsed. The aircraft with registration CU-T1541 was performing flight CU-801 from Gerona to Havana (Cuba) with 15 passengers and 4 crew members on board. The incident…
A Mwant Jet Embraer E-145 suffered a bird strike while it was climbing out of Kinshasa, causing the left-hand windshield to crack. The aircraft with registration 9S-AYE was performing flight 301 from Kinshasa Ndjili International to Gemena in Congo. After suffering the windshield damage, the aircraft returned to Kinshasa airport for a safe landing. The…
An aircraft suffered runway excursion at Novosibirsk after emergency landing caused by uncontained engine number 2 failure. The Volga-Dnepr An-124 (reg. RA-82042) suffered a runway excursion and the nose landing gear collapsed after landing back on runway 07/25 at Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport, Russia. A pair of BREM armored recovery vehicles pulling out the An-124-100 aircraft at…
A DHL Airbus A300-600 freighter aborted take-off at high speed at Brussels Airport on 26 November. Due to this, the aircraft’s tire became so hot that multiple tires burst out. Due to the aborted take-off, the airport had to close runway 25R. The airport used runway 25L for landings and runway 19 for take-off. Emergency…