A mother has given birth to a baby girl while she was on an evacuation aircraft fleeing from the Taliban in Afghanistan. The mother, whose identity has been kept anonymous, was on the second leg of her journey after fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and was aboard a US military plane travelling from a…
Travelers were urged to check with their airlines for possible delays after a problem shut down a runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport Friday morning. A departure runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport was closed after a plane that was being towed clipped the wing of a parked plane. According to airport officials, an American Airlines plane…
One of the tires of a Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737 caught fire on landing at Oujda-Angad Airport earlier this week. The fire broke out from the left main landing gear immediately after the aircraft touched down on Oujda-Angad’s runway 06. The Royal Air Moroc Boeing 737-800, with registration CN-RNP, was operating a domestic flight…
The U.S. embassador has departed for the airport, taking the embassy’s flag with him, according to media reports. Taliban fighters made dramatic gains on Sunday, entering the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, as the US deployed troops to evacuate thousands of people, government officials said. UPDATE Evacuations have resumed from Kabul Airport after hours-long halt…
Turkey’s official news agency says a firefighting plane crashed in Kahramanmaras in southern Turkey. A firefighting plane that was rented from Russia crashed Saturday in a mountainous area in southern Turkey, Turkish state media reported. UPDATE Five Russian and three Turks military have died in the crash. UPDATE Search and rescue teams were dispatched to…
An American Airlines flight from Maui to Los Angeles was diverted to Honolulu after a 13-year-old boy became disruptive. Witnesses said the boy attempted to kick out the window next to his seat and became physical with his own mother about an hour into the flight. The video shows other passengers helping to restrain the…
A firefighting Pezetel aircraft has crashed in Greece. An accident with a firefighting Pezetel aircraft occurred in Macherado, Zakynthos. A small fire broke out in the area and the aircraft rushed to provide assistance in the firefighting efforts. The pilot managed to make a crash-landing while the aircraft ignited. At the last moment, the pilot managed to…
Azul E195-E2 damaged after suffering tail strike while landing at Caxias do Sul Airport, Brazil. Azul Embraer E-195 (reg. PR-PJN) suffered a major damage in a tailstrike landing runway 33 in good weather at Caxias Do Sul Airport, Brazil. Flight #AD2860 from Viracopos completed the landing safely and no one was injured. The return flight…
Qatar Airways said on Thursday that it had been ordered by regulators in the Gulf state to ground 13 of its Airbus A350 aircraft over the rapid degradation of fuselage surfaces. Qatar Airways said in a statement that it had been forced to press out-of-service Airbus A330 aircraft back into operation to fill the gap…
The mysterious figure known as the “jetpack man” was spotted again over Los Angeles. A pilot spotted a flying object that resembled a person wearing a jetpack on Wednesday evening near Los Angeles International Airport, where at least four “jetpack” sightings have been reported in the last year, CBS News reports. “A Boeing 747 pilot…
A belligerent passenger was arrested after causing chaos during a flight to South Florida, authorities said. The situation got so bad that flight attendants had to duct tape the man to his seat. Cellphone footage shows the accused frisky flier, Maxwell Berry, 22, being duct-taped to the back of a seat on Saturday’s Frontier flight…
A flight headed from Newark Liberty International Airport to Buffalo made an emergency landing in Rochester on Sunday due to a fuel leak, officials said. Pilots aboard GoJetAirlines flight 4583 operating as United Express “encountered a possible fuel imbalance” and decided to divert to Greater Rochester International Airport, about 60 miles east of the plane’s…