A Skywest Embraer E-175 was damaged when it was hit by 3 fully loaded cargo dollies while parked at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. The Embraer was the only parked airplane in the vicinity at that time. The three Lufthansa freight dollies detached from a runaway train. The total collective weight of the three dollies was…
A British Airways Boeing 747-400 parked at Castellon Airport caught fire. The Boeing 747-400 (reg. G-CIVD, One World livery) suffered important damages. The fire broke out right behind the cockpit. Firefighters from Castellón airport managed to extinguish the fire in an aircraft. There have been no injuries and the fire is already confined.
A LATAM Airbus A321 returned to Sao Paulo after both of the aircraft’s windshields had cracked. The aircraft made an overweight safe landing back in Sao Paulo. The aircraft was operating LATAM flight LA3304 from Sao Paulo International Airport to Belem International Airport with 178 passengers and seven crew members on board. The aircraft was…
The nosecone of an Azul A320 was damaged on approach to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On November 15th 2020, the Airbus A320-200neo (reg. PR-YRQ) was performing Azul flight #AD4194 from Curitiba to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The plane encountered hail during the approach to Janeiro Santos Dumont/SDU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There was 135 PAX…
The Qantas Boeing 787-9 suffered a tailstrike during take off from London Heathrow. The Boeing 787-9 Qantas plane, which had 237 people on the flight at the time, was shaken by strong winds causing it to smack into the runway. The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow due to the incident after the…
A ground collision occurred at Amsterdam Schiphol. According to sources, two KLM widebody aircraft experienced a ground collision. A KLM Boeing 747-400 has been damaged at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, by the wingtip of a KLM Airbus A330 (reg. PH-AOM). The Boeing 747-400 (reg. PH-BFV) has been damaged. A long dent was visible on the nose…
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening in Yakutat, killing the animal and causing some damage to the plane. Airport crew members had cleared the runway about 10 minutes before flight 66 was expected to land. The crews did not see any signs of wildlife during the check,…
At least three rockets were fired at Eritrea’s capital from Ethiopia, and at least two of the rockets hit the Asmara airport, five regional diplomats told Reuters. Forces in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have fired rockets at airports in a neighbouring state, as their conflict with the government grows. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),…
An-124 suffered a runway excursion at Novosibirsk after emergency landing caused by uncontained engine failure. A Volga-Dnepr An-124 (reg. RA-82042) suffered runway excursion at Novosibirsk (OVB) after emergency landing caused by uncontained engine number 2 failure. The aircraft operated Volga-Dnepr flight 4066 from Seoul-Incheon Airport in South Korea to Vienna-Schwechat Airport in Austria with an…
A scantily clad passenger on a United Airlines flight on Thursday was so belligerent that authorities diverted the Houston-bound flight to Mobile, police said Monday. According to the Mobile Airport Authority Police Department, the female passenger, 25, caused the disturbance. Police said the Universal City, Texas, woman got into an altercation with another passenger. A…
An AgustaWestland A109 medical helicopter carrying a donated heart for transplant crashed in Los Angeles on Friday, November 6. The eight-seater helicopter ambulance registered to Prime Healthcare Air Transportation flipped onto its side after experiencing a hard landing on the roof of Keck Medicine Centre, University of Southern California (USC). Three people were on board…
A woman died of coronavirus on a plane. Her fellow passengers were never notified. When Spirit Airlines learned that a Texas woman had died of covid-19 on one of its flights in July, the airline said it alerted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and received an acknowledgment from the agency. But Spirit spokesman…