Southwest Airlines Co said it temporarily grounded 130 Boeing 737-800 aircraft after it discovered discrepancies in aircraft weight data. The Dallas-based airline said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution, we have temporarily ceased flying the respective aircraft to enter the correct weights of the aircraft in question into the system and…
British Airways flight #BA113 to JFK returned to LHR. Flight #BA113 took off from Heathrow at 15:38 local time. The Boeing 777-200ER (reg. G-VIIC) declared an emergency before leaving UK airspace. Pilots were forced to dump fuel close to Cardiff at 10,000 ft in order to reduce weight for the emergency landing. The Boeing 777…
Malta’s state hospital witnessed an unexpected birth of a boy on Monday, hours after an airplane made an emergency landing because the mother had gone into labor. A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 plane landed in Malta after the pregnant woman, who was in her eighth month, ruptured her waters and started the process to give…
A Peach Aviation plane had to make an unscheduled landing midway through its flight after a male passenger refused to wear a face mask. Before the plane’s takeoff from Kushiro Airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan, at 12:30 p.m. Monday, staff members of the Japanese budget airline affiliated with ANA Holdings Inc. asked the man to…
A military chartered performed an emergency landing after an in-flight engine shut down, shortly after departing from Honolulu. An Atlas Air Boeing 767-300 with 212 people on board performing flight from Honolulu to Guam suffered a right hand engine failure during the initial climb out of Honolulu. As a consequence of repeated compressor stalls/surges, the…
British Airways #BA269 to Los Angeles LAX was forced to return to London Heathrow. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (reg. G-ZBKO) dumped fuel over the North Sea at 11,000 feet before returning to London Heathrow. You can watch London Heathrow live 27/7 at cam.airlive.net/lhr
On Sunday, August 30th, Airlines pilots landing at LAX Airport, reported seeing “a guy in a jetpack” flying around 300 yards next to their wing while they were on the final approach. The pilots of American Airlines flight 1997 from Philadelphia reported the situation with the ATC: American Flight 1997: “Tower, American 1997, we just…
A China Airlines cargo plane on its way to Los Angeles returned to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Saturday (Aug. 29) after the pilot was told the aircraft had probably blown a tire. The Boeing 747-400F (reg. (B-18725) took off at 10:41 a.m., and soon afterward the control tower at Taoyuan told the pilot that pieces…
An Omni Air Boeing 767 suffered damage when its left-hand landing gear collapsed after landing in Bucharest, Romania. The Boeing 767-300ER (reg. N432AX) was flying from Kabul to Washington. A refueling stop was planned in the Romanian capital. All 64 on board were evacuated safely.
In the wake of rough weather and heavy rainfall, the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan has announced the suspension of a number of its flights at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. According to the Meteorological Department, Karachi has received 500mm rain so far and has predicted more rains in the city. On Friday, 28th August…
Iran says black boxes from downed Ukraine jet show missiles hit 25 seconds apart. Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast, Iran said on Sunday.…
A UN World Food Programme (WFP) chartered cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Juba Airport on Saturday morning, killing seven people who were aboard. Madut Biar Yel, the National Minister of Transport, told reporters that the cargo plane that belongs to South West Aviation crashed in the Referendum area of Juba a few minutes…