An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing and evacuation shortly after takeoff from San Francisco. Flight AC8839 was scheduled to fly from San Francisco to Vancouver. The aircraft departed normally. However, almost immediately after takeoff it declared an emergency due to smoke in the lavatories. The plane landed safely and the crew performed an…
Drone activity is causing significant disruption at Frankfurt airport. Flight operations are suspended at Frankfurt Airport due to drone activity. All inbound flights are diverting to nearby airports. UPDATE Flight operations are resuming earlier than expected. UPDATE Eurocontrol says the airport will not be available until at least 14h00 local time.
Safety was “much reduced” when a passenger jet came too close to another plane near Stansted Airport, a report said. An Airbus A320 had to pull out of attempting to land as a smaller Saab 340 was preparing for take off on 12 February 2019, an Airprox Board report said. Air traffic controller actions did…
Two men were met by police when easyJet flight #U26980 touched down in Edinburgh Airport after travelling from Copenhagen, Denmark, yesterday afternoon Two men were arrested when an easyJet flight from Copenhagen to Edinburgh touched down today amid claims of a “violent confrontation”. Fellow travellers said areas of the cabin were ‘covered in blood’ and that cabin crew had…
A Bombardier DHC 8-300 was forced to make emergency landing in Lokichar, Turkana County after it developed mechanical problems. The plane with registration number 5Y-CGH was headed to Nairobi when the incident occurred at Kapese Airstrip on Friday morning. “At 9:54am, Fly540’s DASH8 300 had a suspected foreign object strike which led to an engine…
A Rossiya Boeing 777 to Bangkok just made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport supposedly due to a cracked windshield. A Boeing 777-300ER flight #SU6275 from Moscow SVO to Bangkok performed an emergency landing at Moscow VKO Airport due to a technical issue, a Russia airline representative said in a statement. A reserve airplane…
A runway was closed after the nose gear of an A321 broke during landing at Istanbul Airport. The Turkish airlines A321 was performing flight #TK1598 from Frankfurt to Istanbul when the nose gear was broken during the landing. First reports state the aircraft (reg. TC-JSH) performed a hard landing. The runway 16R was closed and…
Trigana Air Service aircraft received serious damage in a runway excursion on landing at Jayapura-Sentani Airport, Indonesia. The Boeing 737-300F (reg. PK-YSG) exited the on landing at Jayapura-Sentani Airport, Indonesia. The main landing gear as well as the nose gear were seriously damaged. All 4 crew evacuated without serious injuries.
An emergency exit door of PIA ATR 42-500 broke opened when the aircraft landed at Sukkur Airport in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The aircraft (reg. AP-BHM) performed flight #PK631 from Islamabad. it landed safely without any further incident. Passenger Fahimida tweeted “Emergency door of #PK631 got broken today, the moment it touched base…
A plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin Airport on Thursday morning after it hit a rabbit during take-off. Firefighters raced to the scene after the Stobart Air flight to Leeds Bradford had to return to the tarmac in the early hours. A spokesperson for Stobart Air, who ran the flight for…
A dramatic landing of a twin-engine jet with two people on board at Daytona Beach International Airport has been captured in chilling footage that shows the small plane skidding down the runway engulfed in flames. A fiery video of a Cessna Citation Mustang performing a landing without its gear in a tornado of sparks and…
A female passenger has died on board KLM #KL808 flight from Manila to Amsterdam. A female passenger started coughing after departure from Manila. Over Russia, she suddenly felt unwell and fell into her seat 1K. Another passenger noticed her difficulties and understood she was unresponsive. Flights attendants were immediately alerted and provided medical assistance…