Passengers on Delta Airlines’ Flight 500 from Indianapolis to Paris got an unexpected visit to Detroit on Thursday after an “unruly passenger” caused the plane to divert. The disturbance happened just after 6 p.m. EDT, according to a federal criminal complaint. About 40 minutes after boarding the flight to Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport, authorities…
Two MiG-29 fighters took off from Sliač Air Base today in the evening due to a loss of communication with a civilian aircraft. The Italian Airbus 320, which flew on the Milan-Kharkov route has been intercepted as pilots didn’t answer ATC. The two Mig-29 broke the sound barrier and sonic booms have been heard in…
The flight P47291 departed Abuja Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (ABV) and arrived in Port Harcourt International Airport (PHIA) around 1 hour late. An Air Peace Boeing 737-500 (reg. 5N-BRN) on Saturday afternoon skidded off the Port Harcourt International Airport runway upon landing. The flight #P47291 was reported to have taken off from Abuja and arrived…
An Air China Boeing 777-300 ended with front and main gears on the grass beneath taxiway “Uniform”. The Air China Boeing 777-300 (reg. B-2036) performed flight #CA965 from Beijing to Frankfurt when it needed to be repositioned on tow from north side to the south side of the airport for long term parking when the incident…
A Southwest Airlines provisioning truck made contact with an aircraft parked at gate A1 at Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday morning. The aircraft at the gate was a Boeing 737 -800 that was scheduled to operate Flight #WN157 to Denver with 174 Customers onboard and a Crew of six. The aircraft will be taken out…
Passengers on a Bulgarian airline were torn from their seats by violent in-flight turbulence and sent crashing into the cabin ceiling – and one another – leaving ten with injuries. The Boeing 737-300, headed for Basel, Switzerland from Kosovo’s Pristina, encountered severe turbulence about 30 minutes into its journey, causing a rapid drop in altitude…
A United Airlines jet skidded off the runway after landing on Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport with 166 passengers and six crew members aboard, briefly halting flights, officials said. The plane had “multiple flat tires upon landing,” according to the airline. The left landing gear of the Boeing 757 was stuck in a grassy…
SpiceJet flight SG-58 flying from Dubai to Jaipur landed safely at the Jaipur airport after one of its tyres burst during landing. The flight carrying 189 passengers landed safely at around 9 am in the morning, ANI reported. “While aircraft was descending at Jaipur, Pilots were informed by Jaipur ATC of suspected tyre burst in…
A helicopter crash landed onto the roof of a building in midtown Manhattan and then caught fire on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The crash occurred atop 787 Seventh Avenue, a 54-story building located between West 51st and West 52nd streets, at the north end of Times Square. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 6…
Corendon Airlines Airbus A320 (ZS-GAL) experienced birdstrike into the left engine #1 upon take-off runway 17 at Graz Airport (LOWG). The pilots of flight #XC3204 to Antalya took off safely and returned to land without further incident.
Two Republic of Singapore Air Force F-15SG jets were scrambled to escort a Scoot flight from Cebu to Singapore yesterday following a bomb threat. It was later discovered to be a hoax. A 13-year-old boy who was on the flight is allegedly behind the bomb scare. In a Facebook post on the incident, Defence Minister…
A 52-year-old man is dead after his American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Ottawa early Thursday. Paramedics were called at 2:18 a.m. by a report of a man with chest pains aboard the Dallas to London flight. He went into cardiac arrest before paramedics arrived and the flight crew began CPR. Once on…