A woman took over controls and crash-landed a plane at Martha’s Vineyard Airport after the pilot suffered a medical condition. The primary runway at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport was shut down Saturday afternoon after a plane crashed off the runway while attempting to land. An 80-year-old man who was piloting the small private plane was…
A United Airlines Boeing 767 plane lost its emergency evacuation slide in mid-air Monday near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, maintenance workers at O’Hare discovered an emergency evacuation slide was missing from a United Airlines Boeing 767 that had just safely landed after a flight from Zurich, Switzerland sometime Monday…
The go around of a British Airways A380 has been caught on cam during strong wind. Evie Aviation caught the landing attempt of a British Airways A380 during a livestream at London Heathrow. The winds were strong from South West at London Heathrow on Saturday 15th July 2023. The A380 (reg. G-XLEA) was flying from…
Emirates flight was forced to divert to Glasgow after trying to land at London Heathrow. Flight #EK29 from Dubai to London Heathrow was supposed to land at 14:25 BST. The Airbus A380 attempted to land runway 27L but was forced to go around due to strong wind from South-West. The same occurred on second attempt…
Qantas flight #QF2 from London Heathrow to Singapore was forced to return due to a technical issue. The Airbus A380 turned around over Hungary and Slovakia after 2 hours of flight in the night from July 14th to July 15th 2023. London Gatwick is usually the only airport accepting flights landing that late in the…
Thieves have stolen the lighting system for one of the runways at Nigeria’s busiest airport just months after it was installed. An investigation has now been launched to “arrest the criminals [and] recover what’s missing”, Yakubu Funtua added. It is not clear when the system was taken from Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. But…
A Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Las Vegas was forced to divert to Denver because of a foul-mouthed, caught-on-video catfight between two women. Flight 2143 was en route to Vegas on Tuesday night when the two women, who were traveling together, began fighting and hurling loud expletives at each other in front of shocked…
Climate activists blocked a runway at Hamburg airport early Thursday, causing numerous flights to be canceled. Climate activists from the Last Generation group on Thursday stuck themselves to the taxiways at both Hamburg and Düsseldorf airports, causing major disruption to flights. In Hamburg, the protest action comes on the first day of the school holidays,…
British Airways A380 quickly returned to Johannesburg only minutes after takeoff. British Airways flight #BA56 to London Heathrow landed back in Johannesburg only 45 minutes after takeoff. The aircraft was forced to return due to a burning smell in the cabin. The Airbus A380 (reg. G-XLEH) dumped fuel at 10,000 ft and landed back in…
Jet2 flight to Ibiza returned to Manchester due to a technical issue. The flight #LS171 departed Manchester at 17:42 BST but turned around over the channel. The Boeing 757-200 was supposed to land in Ibiza 2h30 later but had to return to Manchester Airport. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. G-LSAN) is 29 years old. It landed…
A LATAM Airbus A321 lost directional control on landing at Florianopolis Airport, Brazil. The Airbus A321 (reg. PT-MXM) veered to the left after landing runway 32 at Florianopolis Airport, Brazil. Flight #LA3300 from Sao Paulo (GRU) came to a stop halfway off paved ground. The right maingear broke into the weaker hard shoulder strip. All…
A female passenger was taken into custody at Mexico City International Airport after she destroyed a ticket counter because the agent would not refund her money for a missing reservation. María Guadalupe, 56, lost her temper after the flight reservation she made through a travel agency did not show up in the Volaris system. Cellphone…