All flights cancelled and diverted from Houston’s Hobby Airport due to lack of water. Airport staff manually delivering water to bathrooms and working to restore limited water to the airport. The water supply at Hobby Airport, and the surrounding area, has been impacted by the winter storm. The airport is working to restore water —…
A UPS Boeing 747-400F slid off the taxiway during line-up at Louisville International Airport on Monday, 15th February. The Boeing 747-400 freighter, with registration N575UP, was taxiing for departure as flight 5X-1540 from Louisville Airport to Trenton Mc Guire Air Force Base when the aircraft slid off the taxiway as it was snowing. The airline…
A Manta Air seaplane crash-landed and flipped while landing next to Male Velana International Airport on Saturday, The de Havilland Dash DHC-6-300 Twin Otter with registration 8Q-RAE was performing flight NR-117 from Como Malifuushi Resort to Male. According to the Maldives National Defense Force, nine people, including 3 crew members, were on board. Manta Air…
An Atlanta-bound Delta Boeing 717 slid off the taxiway at Pittsburgh International Airport on Wednesday night. The Boeing 717, with registration N998AT, was about to depart Pittsburgh as flight DL2231 around 6:30 p.m. when it slid off the taxiway. A total of 77 people, including 5 crew members, were on board. One of the passengers…
The Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed last month killing 62 people had an imbalance in engine thrust that eventually led the plane into a sharp roll and then a final dive into the sea. When the 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 plane reached 8,150 feet (2,484 m) after take-off, the left engine throttle lever moved back…
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it carried out a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport on Wednesday which caused a fire in a civilian aircraft. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said four Houthi drones were used in an attack that he said struck Abha airport, in southern Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday afternoon. Flyadeal Airbus…
An Antonov An-12 aircraft of the Russian Air Force lost its landing gear during a hard landing at a base in Iturup in the Kuril Islands on Tuesday afternoon. The four-engined turboprop transport aircraft with tail number “09” red landed slightly to the left of the runway in a snow storm. As a result, the…
A Embraer Phenom 100 landed at Paris Le Bourget airport with a broken landing gear. Three people injured. An accident occurred at Paris Le Bourget airport on Monday February 8, 2021, late in the morning. A business plane has landed “on its belly”. The landing gear broke said the press service of Aéroports de Paris…
A stowaway has been found alive after hiding in the wheel well of a plane which flew from London to Maastricht airport. The 16 year old kenya boy was found on Thursday afternoon in the space next to the aircraft landing gear and was taken to hospital suffering from severe hypothermia. ‘He has had a…
A Martinair Boeing 747-400F had lost a bottom panel while flying over the Netherlands on January 16th. The aircraft with registration PH-CKC, owned by KLM was operating flight #MP8561 from Amsterdam Schiphol to Johannesburg via Nairobi on January 16th. Upon arrival at the destination, it appeared that a lower panel on the underside of the…
A plane carrying Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday in Washington at the end of an official visit, the country’s communications ministry announced. Moreno and several members of his government traveling with him were “all fine,” the announcement said. “The president’s plane suffered a mechanical failure a few minutes…
A Nippon Cargo Airlines Boeing 747-8F suffered a tail strike during a go-around at Tokyo Narita Airport. A scar with three meters long and a meter wide was found in the lower rear fuselage. The Boeing 747F was operating flight KZ-258 from Hong Kong to Tokyo Narita. The aircraft landed safely in the second attempt…