An All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner made an emergency landing in Novosibirsk after the pilot became unconscious. The Boeing 787-8, with registration JA814A, was performing flight NH-216 from Paris to Tokyo Haneda when the captain suffered a stroke, according to Japan’s Transport Ministry. The First Officer declared an emergency and decided to divert to…
Police are investigating after the body of a man was found underneath a plane that had landed at Amsterdam airport from Nigeria. The man is thought to have died of hypothermia after the near seven hour flight from Nigeria to the Netherlands. The man, thought to be a stowaway, was discovered inside a wheel arch…
A Gates Learjet 25B sustained substantial damage in an emergency landing at Toluca-Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos International Airport, Mexico. The aircraft with registration XB-PIZ was operating a flight from Cancun, Quintana Roo, with seven passengers and two crew members. The AIT reported that it closed its runway from 3:27 p.m. after the aircraft a belly…
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…