A pilot flew from London to RAF Valley because he wanted to go to the beach. A Pilatus PC-12 registration N412MD departed Fairoaks to fly to RAF Valley. RAF Valley was closed (bank holiday Monday) with work in progress scheduled on RWY19 barrier and families on the periphery of the airfield. At 1250L the ac…
Lightning struck an An-124 landing from Paris Vatry to Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The An-124 cargo board of Volga-Dnepr Airlines received a lightning strike during the approach to Krasnoyarsk, Russia on Tuesday, May 26. The aircraft sustained damage to its nose cone while flying through lightning and a thunderstorm. The Volga Dnepr Airlines An-124 (RA-82078) is currently…
The Cockpit Voice Recorder has been found under wreckage pieces. The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of crashed PIA Airbus A320 (reg. AP-BLD) has been found today. The CVR was found under wreckage/rubble at the crash site when wreckage pieces were being removed from the crash site. The CVR was handed over to AAIB team. This…
French investigators confirm the cockpit voice recorder of PIA #PK8303 had not been found. The French BEA confirmed that investigators are still in Karachi for initial investigation into the #PIA8303 A320 crash. French investigators also said that the cockpit voice recorder has not been found at this time. However, the flight data recorder has been…
An Air Asia flight made an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Tuesday afternoon. The Air Asia flight I51543 which was flying from Jaipur to Hyderabad had to make an emergency landing at the Hyderabad airport. 76 passengers were aboard the Air Asia flight. The plane landed safely at the…
An Airbus and Safran experts arrived in Karachi on Monday to investigate the crash of PIA A320. The 11-member investigating team of Airbus reached Pakistan from France on Tuesday to probe into the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crash. The probe team inspected the runway of the Jinnah International Airport. They also visited the air…
This Sunday morning (24th), two LATAM Boeing were involved in an incident at Sao Paulo Airport, Brazil. The incident occurred in the remote parking lot of Guarulhos International Airport, where several aircraft are stored due to the Coronavirus crisis. A LATAM Boeing 777-300ER (reg. PT-MUB) collided its wing with a Boeing 767-300ER (reg. PT-MSS). Important…
An Airbus team will arrive in the southern port city on Monday to investigate the recent crash of one of its own manufactured aircraft. Airbus will run an independent investigation into the plausible reasons for PIA A320 crash into a narrow residential street in Karachi on Friday. Due to the arrival of the Airbus team,…
Three warnings issued by the air traffic control to lower the altitude were ignored by the pilot of the ill-fated PIA plane that had crashed on Friday. According to a report from air traffic control, the flight left the Lahore airport at 01:05pm and was scheduled to land at the Jinnah International Aiport in Karachi…
A repatriation flight to London Heathrow declared an emergency and was forced to land in Faro as a passenger died on board. The Air Tanker Airbus A330 (G-VYGM) was performing a repatriation flight from Accra to London Heathrow on behalf of Titan Airways. The crew declared an emergency and the flight diverted to Faro, Portugal…
Pakistani tv is showing images of scrape marks on the Karachi runway, purportedly caused by the engines of PIA flight #PK8303. The photos confirm the A320 made a go-around after the engines touched the runway. The ATC was also mentioning a belly landing. PIA Airbus A320 (aircraft registration AP-BLD) engines scrape marks on Karachi Airport…
Pakistan International Airlines PK8303 had “lost the engines” and was attempting “belly landing” before it crashed in a residential area in Karachi on Friday, an audio clip of the ATC’s conversation with the pilot has revealed. Based on the audio clip, the plane went on a go-around. The tower can be heard warning the pilot…