A Canadair water bomber has crashed in Portugal while taking part in the extinction of fires in the Lobios forest, on the border with Spain. The CL-215-1A10 (reg. EC-HET) has crashed on a hillside while firefighting near Lobios, Ourense, Spain. UPDATE One of the pilots has died, the other is in critical condition. Both…
Air India Express Flight No IX1344 from Dubai to Calicut skidded off the runway. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. VT-AXH) has crashed on landing in heavy rain at Calicut, India from Dubai. UPDATE Death toll rises to 18 and more than 100 injured. UPDATE The chairman of India’s DGCA reported 16 people have lost their lives…
A Kenya Air Force Harbin Y-12-II suffered an accident at Dhobley runway in Somalia. There were no serious injuries to the 10 people on board but the aircraft was seriously damaged. The landing gear as well as the left-hand wing have collapsed. The accident happened after the aircraft had taken off from Dhobley Airstrip after…
WizzAir Airbus A320 (reg. HA-LWH) left wing trailing edge and flap were damaged when an airstair vehicle hit the parked A320 from behind at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria. Credit photo: Dragiya Stoychev
A C-130 of the Cameroon Air Force suffered a runway excursion after landing at Maroua-Salam Airport, Cameroon. The aircraft landed on a wet runway and failed to come to a stop on the runway. Several persons have reportedly been injured.
KLM said both men were restrained with the help of other passengers and were later arrested by Spanish police on arrival in Ibiza. “Two unruly passengers refused to wear their face masks, and they were bothering their fellow passengers physically and verbally,” a spokesperson for the airline said. “The pilot informed the local authorities and…
An Emirates Boeing 777-300ER suffered a teachnical issue. The L1 slide deployed at Sydney Airport. The flight #EK2608 was operating as cargo only from Sydney to Dubai Airport. The engineers have removed the slide and the flight departed 18 minutes late. No further damages were reported. Twitter user ‘Mike’ posted a photo of the Boeing…
Two pilots were killed Thursday when their air tankers collided in midair as they were helping to fight a large wildfire in southern Nevada, federal officials said. A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said that neither aircraft was able to land. The cause of the 12:55 p.m. incident wasn’t immediately clear, the Federal Aviation Administration…
At Sheremetyevo airport, a fuel truck collided with an Aeroflot Airbus A321. According to the press service of the airport, the A321 (VP-BAX) was in a remote parking lot without a crew and passengers on board. The truck driver was injured. The incident at the airport occurred at 5.49 am on August 1. The plane…
A Middle East Airlines A330 collided on Wednesday with a Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 at Lagos airport in Nigeria. The MEA A330 (reg. OD-MEA) was operating flight #ME572 to Beirut. It clipped a parked Turkish Airlines 777-300ER while being pushed back by the ground staff.
A Trigana Air Boeing 737 ALERT Trigana Air Boeing 737 has been damaged during unstable landing at Wamena Airport, Indonesia. A Trigana Air Boeing 737-300 freighter (reg. PK-YSZ) suffered damage to the outer flap fairing on the left wing. The aircraft operated a domestic flight between Jayapura-Sentani Airport and Wamena Airport, Indonesia. The aircraft appearing…
A plane is thought to have collided with a hot air balloon shortly before it crashed into an apartment block, killing three people and injuring a child. A fire was started when the light aircraft hit the building in the German city of Wesel, around 35 miles north of Dusseldorf, on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses told…