A flight was diverted to Sacramento International Airport Thursday night after a passenger died on a plane. Delta Flight 1837 was headed to Seattle from Cabo when a passenger became unresponsive, an airport spokesperson said. Just after 7 p.m., the flight diverted to SMF, and airport fire personnel pronounced the person dead at the scene.…
Air Algérie flight AH6200, an ATR 72, suffered a nose landing gear issue on landing at Ghardaïa Airport, Algeria. During the approach to Ghardaïa after a flight from Algiers, the nose landing gear failed to deploy after the flight crew selected the undercarriage down. The flight crew failed to resolve the issue and performed a…
A JetBlue flight was forced to make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport Wednesday night, according to the FAA. Officials say an operated by JetBlue Airways reported a flap issue and made an emergency landing around 8:10 p.m. JetBlue says the flight was diverted out of an abundance of caution due to…
Several people are feared dead due to a plane crash in South Sudan, the director of Juba International Airport said in a statement late Tuesday according to Anadolu Agency. Meanwhile, South Sudan News Now, a local newspaper, reported that the plane crashed in Jonglei State’s Uror County several minutes after leaving for Juba from Pieri’s…
A Tarco Airlines Boeing 737 was forced to return to Khartoum Airport after an angry cat attacked the pilots. The aircraft was operating a passenger flight from Khartoum International Airport, Sudan, to Doha Hamad International Airport, Qatar. However, after around 30 minutes of the takeoff, the angry cat got into the cockpit and started attacking…
Three aircraft, a two Boeing 737-800s, and a Boeing 757-200 subsequently landed on Birmingham runway 33 while there was a ladder just to the runway centreline’s right. A total of 406 passengers were on board the three planes. The first aircraft was an ASL Airlines 737-800, with registration EI-DPC followed by a Jet2 Boeing 737-800,…
A LAM Mozambique Airlines Boeing 737 suffered a runway excursion on landing at Quelimane Airport in Mozambique. LAM Mozambique Airlines was operating flight #TM1134, a Boeing 737-700. No injuries reported.
A Boeing 777 operated by Rossiya Airlines made an emergency landing in Moscow due to engine trouble. A Boeing 777 operated by Rossiya Airlines made an emergency landing in Moscow at 4:44 a.m. local time due to engine trouble, less than a week after a similar aircraft flown by United Airlines suffered a dramatic blowout over…
The National Transportation Safety Board issued an investigative update for its ongoing investigation of Saturday’s engine event on a Boeing 777-200. United flight 328 experienced a right engine failure shortly after takeoff from Denver International Airport. The airplane returned safely to Denver; none of the 229 passengers or 10 crewmembers were injured. The flight’s destination…
The FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) (PDF) that requires U.S. operators of airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines to inspect these engines before further flight. The FAA is taking this action as the result of a fan-blade failure that occurred Saturday on a Boeing 777-200 that had just departed from Denver International…
Finnair’s Airbus A350-900 aircraft hit the taxiway sign, damaging both the sign and the aircraft’s left engine when leaving the Helsinki Airport de-icing site. The aircraft with registration OH-LWE was preparing to operate flight AY73 from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport to Tokyo-Narita Airport Tokyo on 21st February. After the incident, the aircraft returned safely to the gate,…
An Air India Express Boeing 737 sustained damaged after hitting an electric pole while landing at Vijayawada International Airport in Gannavaram, India. The aircraft landed as flight IX1676 from Doha to Vijayawada with 64 passengers on board. The aircraft departed Hamad International Airport at 10:25 am and landed in Vijayawada at 4:48 pm local time.…