Anthonius Gunawan Agung was a young air traffic controller at Mutiara SIS Al-Jufri Airport in Palu, Central Sulawesi, who died on Friday evening (28/09) while jumping from a collapsing control tower shortly after ensuring that the last commercial flight cleared the runway just as a massive earthquake struck the area. Agung, who would have celebrated…
A LATAM Airbus A32O suffered an incident on the afternoon of 28 September at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo. The aircraft was being towed from the hangar to the ramp when there was a problem in the trailer fork, setting the aircraft loose. The aircraft rolled into a tree, causing damage to the stabilizer and…
The Indigo Airline had to offload a passenger who was drunk as he tried to enter the cockpit of the plane to charge his mobile phone. Luckily, this incident took place when the plane was on the ground and so, the Low-cost Carrier Indigo reported the Business Standard that the man was immediately removed from…
The Dassault Falcon 50, which was carrying four people, crashed into boundary fencing at Greenville Downtown Airport at around 1.40pm local time (5.40pm BST). The aircraft came to a stop after crashing into the fencing, but broke into two. The Greenville Police Department reported four people were on board the aeroplane: three men and one…
A Papua New Guinean plane has sunk in a lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia. UPDATE Air Niugini has confirmed that divers found the body of the missing passenger in the Boeing 737-800 which crashed at Chuuk last Friday. UPDATE According to first reports, the Boeing 737-800 was too low and landed in the lagoon before the…
@nbcbayarea @volaris Fuel gushing from an airbus due to a ‘short circuit’ finally evacuated from plane, currently being cleaned up. We were told half a tank leaked out…! #sfo #volaris #eeek pic.twitter.com/4kSHtTmaB4 — Candy Avila-Baca (@CandyAB) September 25, 2018 A Volaris flight scheduled to depart from San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday was canceled after…
Ryanair has cancelled 150 flights scheduled for Friday because of strikes by cabin crew in Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and Germany. The flights represent 8% of the 2,400 originally scheduled. The airline said in a statement that all affected customers have received emails or text messages informing them of the cancellation. About 30,000…
Volaris flight #Y4423 from Guadalajara to Tijuana, México experienced severe turbulence. The airline reported that 11 passengers or crew members were injured during turbulence. The Airbus A320 (reg. XA-VOW) landed safely at Tijuana, México. The mayor of Tijuana, Juan Manuel Gastelúm, reported that two passengers had to be transferred to a hospital because they suffered…
A passenger has been taken off an Indian domestic flight after trying to enter the cockpit to charge his phone. The man, who some Indian media reports said was intoxicated, tried to enter the cockpit while the plane prepared to take off for Kolkata from the western city of Mumbai. “While an IndiGo aircraft was…
China said it is opposed to US jets taking “provocative actions” in the disputed South China Sea, a day after Washington confirmed that its B-52 long-range bombers flew near the contested territories. On Tuesday, a group of B-52 bombers “participated in a regularly scheduled, combined operation in the East China Sea,” Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel…
