Ryanair Boeing 737 sustained damage to its right engine after it began to taxi prematurely with its tow bar still attached after pushback. The Boeing 737-800, with registration 9H-QAH, was scheduled to depart as flight FR2907 from Frankfurt International Airport to Puerto del Rosario Airport on 17th December. The tow bar remained attached below the…
An Aeroflot airplane, which was supposed to leave Sheremetyevo for the Mexican resort of Cancun, collided a truck for de-icing during taxiing. “At Sheremetyevo, a passenger Airbus A350-900 collided with a truck. The driver was injured, there were no casualties on the plane” a sourced said to TASS agency. The ground collision occurred on the…
Nine people were killed on Wednesday after a private aircraft crashed while making an emergency landing at Las Americas Airport in the Dominican Republic’s capital Santo Domingo, according to the plane’s operator, Helidosa Aviation Group. Seven passengers and two crew members died in the incident, it said in a statement posted to Twitter. Six were…
An Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 executive jet sustained substantial damage after it skidded off the runway at Santa Rosa Airport, Rio Grande do Sul. The executive jet with registration PR-TDV was involved in the runway excursion on 14th December. The aircraft came to rest in a ditch at the end of the runway. A pilot…
An employee of IndiGo airlines, who works as a baggage loader, fell asleep in the cargo compartment of the airline’s Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flight. An employee of IndiGo airlines, who works as a baggage loader, fell asleep in the cargo compartment of the airline’s Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flight, but was found safe on arrival in the capital…
A Finnair Airbus A350 suffered a runway excursion at Helsinki International Airport while lining up at the edge of runway 15. The Airbus A350-900, with registration OH-LWA, was scheduled to depart Helsinki as flight AY1963 to Dubai International Airport when it skidded off the edge of the runway. The aircraft’s nose gear ended up to…
The Pakistan International Airlines flight PK301 made an emergency landing at the Islamabad International Airport on Sunday and then aborted the take-off twice, scaring the already panicked passengers to death. Eventually, most of them refused to board the aircraft which took off with only six passengers. The flight was travelling from Islamabad to Karachi when…
A Beech 200 Super King Air has crash-landed on its belly at Perth Airport after its landing gear collapsed. The twin-turbo prop aircraft, which had flown in from a mid-west mine, was due to land about 10.40am on Tuesday before reporting a landing indicator problem. It is understood that as the plane hit the tarmac,…
A KLM Cityhopper Embraer ERJ-175 was struck by an airport bus at Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport. The Embraer ERJ-175STD sustained damage to its APU after it was struck by the airport bus. However, it’s not clear whether the aircraft was being pushed back or parked at the time of the incident. No injuries were reported…
A DC3 experienced engine trouble after departing Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Wednesday morning, prompting an emergency landing at Merrill Field Airport near downtown, an official from the National Transportation Safety Board said. The TransNorthern Aviation Douglas DC-3 landed with wheels up on runway seven around 10:40 a.m., said Clint Johnson, president of the…
A man has been arrested after allegedly jumping out of a plane on the Phoenix Sky Harbor tarmac. Phoenix Fire officials say the incident happened Saturday morning just after 8 a.m. when 30-year-old Daniel Ramirez exited a Southwest Airlines flight located on the south portion of the airport. Officials with Southwest Airlines say a passenger…
US-bound Air India flight returns to Delhi due to death onboard. New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): An Air India flight to Newark in the USA returned to Delhi airport after three hours of departing due to the death of a passenger onboard. “Air India Delhi-Newark (US) flight returned to Delhi after more than three…