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…
This week marks 10 years since Captain Richard de Crespigny, 63, made world headlines for his quick thinking following the mid-air emergency just minutes after QF32 took off from Singapore’s Changi Airport bound for Sydney. The A380 jet was four minutes into its journey with 440 passengers and 29 crew members on board when the…
A man who disrupted a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu was taken into federal custody Wednesday. The airline says the “unruly passenger” tried to open the plane’s exit doors during the flight. The added that crew members were aided by an off-duty law enforcement officer on the flight in restraining the man.…
A ground collision between two planes occurred this Thursday at Santiago Airport. Two Airbus A320s of LATAM Chile clipped wings during pushback collision at gate 21A/B at Santiago de Chile Airport. Damages occurred to both wings of the A320s (reg. (CC-BAE & CC-BFL). In a statement, the DGAC confirmed that the event occurred at 11:30…
Shocking footage shows the moment a fight broke out between passengers in the middle of a Ryanair flight. Two male passengers were filmed running down the aisle towards a fight at the front of the plane between a woman and a man. Ryanair staff can be seen desperately trying to separate the passengers who were…
A Boeing 747SP was critically damaged in a hangar during hurricane in Lake Charles, LA, USA. In recent images that appeared on social networks, a Boeing B747SPs can be seen badly damaged in a hangar in Lake Charles, LA, USA after hurricane Laura in September. Apparently, the plane has hit the wing of another plane…
A DHL cargo plane made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport on Saturday evening after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. The Airbus A300 touched down safely after 11pm with emergency vehicles on standby it then taxied to the terminal. Airport firefighters were supported by fire crews from London Fire brigade The incident was…