The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with knowledge of the cockpit voice recorder contents said. It is the first time the voice recorder contents from…
An airliner caught fire on landing at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on Tuesday but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury, the head of Iran’s emergency department said on state television. The fire broke out after the aircraft’s landing gear did not open properly, and was later brought under control, emergency department head Pir-Hossein Kolivand said.…
NTSB suspect that pilot error led to the deadly Prime Air crash on February 23, The Wall Street Journal reported. The NTSB said on March 5 that the Boeing 767-300 cargo jet entered some turbulence shortly before the plane’s crash. The engines increased to maximum thrust, after which the airplane pitch turned slightly up. That…
A British Airways #BA174 declared an emergency and diverted to St. John’s due to fire alarm. The Boeing Boeing 777-200 (reg. G-ZZZA) with 209 people onboard operating flight #BA174 from JFK to London Heathrow was forced to divert to St. John’s during the night. The captain announced a potential fire in the forward cargo hold. Fire crews were on…
Fars Air Qeshm Boeing 747-281B (reg. EP-FAB) was damaged after cargo handling workers of Doha International Airport, Qatar mistakenly unloaded the cargo from the nose. The flight arrived from Tehran. It is the sole airworthy 747 Fars Air Qeshm. This aircraft is suspected to often carry weapons for IRGC to Syria.
Anti-terror police were called after a man reportedly shot multiple people in a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The incident occurred at 24 October Square, which has now been secured by officers. Dutch military police said to be on “extra alert” at Dutch airports and “vital buildings” due to police manhunt in Utrecht. Amsterdam Schiphol…
Ethiopian authorities have requested France assistance for the analysis of FDR & CVR. Please reaload the page for updates… UPDATE 4 Data from the black boxes of crashed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737MAX show ‘clear similarities’ with Lion Air Boeing 737MAX crash – Ethiopian Transport Minister says. UPDATE 3 Data from the FDR has been successfully downloaded by…
A Ural Airlines Airbus A321 aircraft, flying from Bahrain to Moscow, made a safe landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport on Monday at 14:56 Baku time (10.56 UTC). The reason for the emergency landing is the commander of the aircraft’s suspicion of a bomb on board the plane”. There are at least 225 people on…
An Air France A380 returned to land at Abidjan following an engine failure. Air France flight #AF703, an Airbus A380 (reg. F-HPJC), returned to land at Abidjan, Ivory Coast, following a GP7200 failure. The aircraft departed Abidjan at 23.38 UTC yesterday. The aircraft was climbing to the cruising altitude when one of the engines failed.…
More than two dozen people were injured and at least 10 were taken to a hospital after a Turkish Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on its approach to JFK on Saturday, officials said. The New York Fire Department said it was treating 29 passengers for “non-life-threatening injuries” at the airport. The 10 passengers from Turkish…
Ethiopian Airlines flight #ET302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi has crashed. Still very few details available on the accident but Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 (reg. ET-AVJ) was involved in a fatal accident. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 12 Ethiopia cannot read black boxes from Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed, they will be…
Caribbean Airlines ATR-72 (9Y-TTA) was severely damaged when it hit a wall during taxiing under maintenance guidance at Piarco Airport (POS), Trinidad & Tobago. The aircraft was empty and no one on the ground was injured, but the plane’s nose was badly damaged. CAL said in a release at about 11.15 last night a plane…