Shenzhen Airlines Flight ZH9209 sent out emergency code 7700 when dropping nearly 6,000m in 2 mins, some 25 mins after takeoff from China’s Shenzhen en route to NW China’s Xi’an on Sun. The plane had taken off from Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong, and was headed to Xi’an in north-west China. The flight dived…
Pakistan has announced that it will allow the full resumption of all types of international flights to and from the country’s airports from Sunday. The announcement comes weeks after Pakistan partially reopened its airports for domestic and international commercial flights. Earlier this week authorities allowed to resumption of domestic flights from all of the country’s…
Captain Deepak Vasant Sathe and First Officer Akhilesh Kumar were both killed in the crash of Air India Express flight #IX1344. Captain Sathe was a decorated air force officer who, according to a family member, had survived a military plane crash in the 1990s. First Officer Kumar leaves behind a pregnant wife who is expecting…
The Air India Express plane, carrying 190 people from Dubai, on Friday touched down near a taxiway that is around 1,000 metres from the beginning of the runway at the Kozhikode airport before breaking up into two pieces, according to AAI. The pilot of the ill-fated flight #IX1344 could not sight the runway in the…
A Canadair water bomber has crashed in Portugal while taking part in the extinction of fires in the Lobios forest, on the border with Spain. The CL-215-1A10 (reg. EC-HET) has crashed on a hillside while firefighting near Lobios, Ourense, Spain. UPDATE One of the pilots has died, the other is in critical condition. Both…
Air India Express Flight No IX1344 from Dubai to Calicut skidded off the runway. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. VT-AXH) has crashed on landing in heavy rain at Calicut, India from Dubai. UPDATE Death toll rises to 18 and more than 100 injured. UPDATE The chairman of India’s DGCA reported 16 people have lost their lives…
A Kenya Air Force Harbin Y-12-II suffered an accident at Dhobley runway in Somalia. There were no serious injuries to the 10 people on board but the aircraft was seriously damaged. The landing gear as well as the left-hand wing have collapsed. The accident happened after the aircraft had taken off from Dhobley Airstrip after…
WizzAir Airbus A320 (reg. HA-LWH) left wing trailing edge and flap were damaged when an airstair vehicle hit the parked A320 from behind at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria. Credit photo: Dragiya Stoychev
A C-130 of the Cameroon Air Force suffered a runway excursion after landing at Maroua-Salam Airport, Cameroon. The aircraft landed on a wet runway and failed to come to a stop on the runway. Several persons have reportedly been injured.
KLM said both men were restrained with the help of other passengers and were later arrested by Spanish police on arrival in Ibiza. “Two unruly passengers refused to wear their face masks, and they were bothering their fellow passengers physically and verbally,” a spokesperson for the airline said. “The pilot informed the local authorities and…
An Emirates Boeing 777-300ER suffered a teachnical issue. The L1 slide deployed at Sydney Airport. The flight #EK2608 was operating as cargo only from Sydney to Dubai Airport. The engineers have removed the slide and the flight departed 18 minutes late. No further damages were reported. Twitter user ‘Mike’ posted a photo of the Boeing…
Two pilots were killed Thursday when their air tankers collided in midair as they were helping to fight a large wildfire in southern Nevada, federal officials said. A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said that neither aircraft was able to land. The cause of the 12:55 p.m. incident wasn’t immediately clear, the Federal Aviation Administration…