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…
The top U.S. aviation regulator issued an emergency order requiring operators of the Boeing 737 passenger jet to inspect and potentially replace a key engine component, following four reports of unexpected engine shutdowns. The FAA’s “emergency airworthiness directive” applies to any 737 that has been in storage, which covers any plane that has not been…
The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on Jan. 8 confirm the fact of illegal interference with the plane, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister wrote on Twitter on Friday. Yevhenii Yenin said Kyiv was expecting an Iranian delegation to visit Ukraine next week for talks. The Canadian Transportation…
Two men who were arrested on suspicion of making threats to endanger an aircraft have been released from bail without charge. The aircraft was forced to land at Stansted Airport on Monday, July 13 at around 6.40pm, when a note left in one of the aircraft’s toilets was found during the flight from Krakow to…
Iranian state television reported on Thursday a Mahan Air passenger flight was approached by an unidentified fighter jet in Syrian skies, forcing the plane to take emergency measures that caused injuries among the passengers. The flight was en route from Tehran to Beirut and was in Syrian airspace when the alleged incident occurred. Please reload…
An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Fire broke out from the tail of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft around 4pm and developed rapidly. The cabin roof near the tail was burnt through and the plane became engulfed in heavy smoke. The Shanghai Fire Control Bureau said…
A man that fell from around 3,500 feet and landed in a Clapham back garden is still yet to be identified more than a year on from the incident. The suspected stowaway fell from a Kenya Airways flight that was preparing to land at Heathrow Airport a short distance away. He is believed to have…
Iran’s AAIB team has arrived at BEA in Paris with flight data recorder (FDR) & cockpit voice recorder (CVR). A technical cooperation program agreement has been signed between. Technical work on the Cockpit Voice Recorder: visual inspection, assessment & opening. The cockpit voice recorder data – including the event itself – has been successfully downloaded.…