A man suffering a panic attack tried to open the door of a British Airways flight to Saudi Arabia in midair but was stopped by fellow passengers, including the brother of the boxer Dillian Whyte. The incident occurred on Monday night about an hour before BA flight 263 from Heathrow to Riyadh was due to…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an evacuation slide fell off a plane and landed in a Milton backyard on Sunday. The pilot of Delta Air Lines Flight 405 from Paris, France, reported a loud noise as the plane approached Boston Logan International Airport around noon, according to the FAA. Workers discovered that the…
All passengers were evacuated onto the taxiway as operations were suspended for 15 minutes while this incident was ongoing. Operating flight LO641 to Bucharest, Romania for LOT, ES-ACD was taxying towards Runway 29 for departure when smoke filled the cabin and an evacuation was ordered. Multiple inbound aircraft were forced to hold until operations were…
An erupting volcano in Mexico forced KLM #KL685 with horses on board to return to Amsterdam after an 11-hour flight. Flight #KL685 took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and made it all the way to eastern Canada when the crew realized that a volcanic eruption in Mexico meant that the flight wouldn’t be able to…
The fuselage of Boeing 777X aircraft was split by a high-pressure rupture just as it approached its target stress level during a test in early September. The Seattle Times said photos it had obtained of the test on the 777X showed that the extent of the damage was greater than previously disclosed. During the final…
A Turkish Airlines clipped an Ethiopian Airlines plane at Kinshasa Airport. The wing of a Turkish Airlines A330-200F (reg. TC-JOV) clipped horizontal stabilizer of an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350-900 (reg. ET-AWO). The incident took place on the taxiway of Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, DR Congo.
An Air Canada Boeing 787 plane that was flying across the Atlantic from London Heathrow to Toronto instead landed in Dublin after a crack in its windshield was noticed mid-flight. Air Canada confirmed that flight 857 was diverted to Dublin “due to a cracked Captain’s side window” while there were 254 passengers on board. The…
A piece of an Airbus plane has fallen in flight. The piece was was found in a garden of a man in the town of Daux, 10 km from Toulouse, we learned Tuesday. An Airbus spokesman confirmed to AFP that the piece was “a piece of an Airbus plane”. “An investigation is in progress,” he…
A Boeing 737 with 88 people on board suffered a serious landing gear malfunction when touching down in Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday, causing it to list to one side, with one engine scraping the ground. The landing gear on the right side of the Venezuelan Avior Airlines plane collapsed, causing the aircraft to tilt dramatically…
An Airbus A350-1000 suffered an “incident” in paint shop in Toulouse. Airbus confirms the aircraft suffered an “incident” but not disclosed the nature of the event. According to FlightGlobal, the A350-1000 was parked in a paint shop and sustained surface damage from work crew equipment that surrounds the aircraft in the paint hangar. Airbus says…
A Proflight aircraft was seriously damaged when it encountered intense hail. The plane was performing a flight from Livingstone to Lusaka, Zambia. The DHC-8-300 (reg. ZS-DHF) was severely damaged when it encountered intense hail midair. The pilots made a safe landing in Lusaka. There were no injuries reported.
The 49-year-old is believed to have suffered a heart attack during the Russian state airline Aeroflot domestic flight from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday An Airbus A320 was forced to make an emergency landing after a pilot suffered a suspected heart attack in the cockpit before dying. The 49-year-old was flying the Russian state airline…