A Lockheed Martin C-130B Hercules plane of the Colombian Air Force suffered main landing gear failure while taxiing at the El Dorado International Airport in Bogota. The aircraft with registration FAC1001 was carrying out a transport mission. The aircraft had taken off from Bogota bound for Tres Esquinas Air Base in Colombia. However, the pilots…
Six Israeli passengers were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to wear masks on a Lufthansa flight from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt. On a Lufthansa flight that departed from Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and flew to Frankfurt in Germany, six Israeli passengers acted with disorderly conduct onboard the airplane, in spite of repeated…
A fight broke out on a Tunisair plane minutes before take-off due to a dispute between passengers over overhead bins allocation. The fight broke out on Saturday as the aircraft was preparing to operate flight TU216 from Istanbul Airport to Tunis-Carthage International Airport. The flight was delayed for five hours after the fight between passengers…
AzurAir flight from Sochi suffered a cabin depressurization and was forced to return. Russian airline AzurAir Boeing 737-800 (reg. VP-BIR) took off from Adler airport at 20:49 on April 11 and headed for St. Petersburg. After a few minutes of flight, the pilots reported to the ground about the depressurization of the cabin and requested…
A woman gave birth on a plane with the help of a medical student who happened to be on board. Kultumah Mohammed, 27, was on a flight from N’Djamena, in Chad, to Cairo, in Egypt, when she realised her baby was coming. The Egypt Air flight tried to make an emergency landing in Aswan, about…
On 11th April, a pallet full of smartphones caught fire in a parking lot at Chek Lap Kok Hong Kong International Airport. At around 5 am this morning, the fire broke out near stand 452. The firefighters arrived at the scene, and the fire was put out about 40 minutes later. However, the cause of…
A suspected open door forced a British Airways Boeing 777 to return to London Heathrow. The British Airways #BA277 to Hyderabad entered a holding pattern after departure from London Heathrow at 6,000 feet. The crew reported to ATC that aircraft systems indicated the rear cargo door was open. The Boeing 777-200ER returned to Heathrow almost…
A family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight from Orlando to NY, because their two-year-old child who was eating, wasn’t wearing a mask. An Orthodox Jewish family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight from Orlando to NY, because their two-year-old child who was eating, wasn’t wearing a mask. The two-year-old child was sitting…
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 accidentally landed at the wrong airport in Zambia. Another Ethiopian 737 also did almost the same on Sunday, April 4. The first Boeing 737-800, with registration ET-AYL, was scheduled to land at Ndola Airport as flight #ET3891 from Bole International Airport as a cargo flight. However, the aircraft lined up…
Chopin Airport in Warsaw have received information that one of the planes may have an explosive charge. Flight #TK1765 from Istanbul landed at 15.30UTC at Warsaw. The Airbus 319 (reg. TC-JLZ) was preparing for return flight #TK1766 ut was stopped on the apron. Authorities received information of a possible bomb on board. The 103 pax…
A Batik Air shuttle bus crashed into Batik Air’s Airbus A320neo at Jakarta Soekarno Hatta International Airport. The Airbus A320neo with registration PK-BDP was parked when the crew bus collided with its nose. This incident was confirmed by the Head of Public Relations, Director General of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Transportation Budi Prayitno. “Yes (there…
A passenger plane operated by Japan’s All Nippon Airways made an emergency landing in Russia after encountering difficulties on a flight to Frankfurt. ANA Flight #NH203 landed safely at 6:32 a.m. local time at Russia’s Krasnoyarsk airport on Sunday, after signs of low oil quantity and oil pressure in the left engine were indicated on…