A LATAM Cargo 767-300F experienced a tailstrike while departing out of Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport in Brazil. The LATAM Cargo Boeing 767F, with registration N538LA, was performing flight UC-1108 from Sao Paulo Guarulhos to Santiago International Airport on Friday, November 26th. Upon rotation, the aircraft experienced a tail strike sending out smoke, which was noticed…
Federal authorities have taken into custody a 26-year-old man who apparently stowed away in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines fight that arrived at Miami International Airport from Guatemala on Saturday morning. The man was in the wheel well area of the Boeing 737-800 when the flight arrived from Guatemala City, Guatemala. The…
A Boeing 737 was damaged by heavy bird strike while on approach to Bologna Airport in Italy. Ryanair flight #FR1194 took off from London Stansted at 20.38 on Wednesday, November 24 2021. While on final approach to runway 12, the Boeing 737-800 (reg. 9H-QDG) experienced severe birdstrikes. The 9H-QDG aircraft apparently encountered some herons during…
Passengers of of KLM flight #KL598 are currently blocked in the Boeing 777-300ER. The passengers were not allowed to disembark for more than 3 hours. Flight KLM #KL592 has landed at 11.15CET. Passengers of KLM flight #KL598 arriving at Amsterdam Schiphol from South Africa are informed they cannot leave the aircraft yet amid sudden Covid…
A passenger onboard a returning flight from Egypt to Russia is believed to have died by suicide inside the plane’s lavatory, media reported Tuesday. Flight attendants discovered the unconscious man inside the airplane toilet shortly after the S7 Airlines flight’s takeoff from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the southwest Russian city of Samara, the…
The accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend. The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. ET when a “prohibited item” was detected in a passenger’s property while going through the X-ray…
A loaded .380-caliber gun was found in a woman’s duffle bag at Pittsburgh International Airport on Thursday morning, Allegheny County Police said. Federal Transportation Security Administration officers found it in an X-ray machine around 5:20 a.m. at the main security checkpoint and alerted county police. The TSA said the black handgun with a gold-colored trigger…
A fire erupted in the auxiliary power unit of a United Airlines Boeing 757-200. United Airlines Boeing 757-200 (reg. N13138) was at a gate in Terminal B Tuesday morning when a small fire was reported on the tail end outside of the plane. Officials say no passengers were on board at the time. The flight…
Man who flew to space with William Shatner aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket dies in plane crash. Glen de Vries, 49, was flying in a Cessna 172 when it went down in norther New Jersey, killing the entrepreneur and another man who was on board. A man who flew to space with William Shatner aboard Jeff…
The singer Marília Mendonça died, aged 26, this Friday 5 November, in a plane accident. The singer was traveling to fulfill her schedule of concerts when the plane crashed into a watercourse, in the city of Piedade de Caratinga, in Vale do Rio Doce, in the west of Minas Gerais. According to Infraero, the plane…
Two Bamboo Airways Airbus A321s sustained minor damages in a ground collision at Hanoi-No Bai International Airport. Bamboo Airways A321neo, with registration VN-A222, was being pushed back from its gate to operate flight QH1621 when it struck another Airbus A321neo with registration VN-590, which was parked at the time of the collision. Both aircraft sustained…
A Kuwait Government Boeing 737-900BBJ experienced a tailstrike on departure from Glasgow-Prestwick Airport, Scotland. The State of Kuwait Boeing 737-900BBJ, with registration 9K-GCC, was departing runway 12 as flight KUG007 to Birmingham when it hit the runway, as the plane rotated and started to lift off the ground. The aircraft made a safe landing in…