Wizz Air, one of the fastest growing airlines in Europe and the leading low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe, has taken delivery of its 100th A320 Family aircraft, an A321ceo, at an event in Budapest Airport. The event was attended by Mr. Levente Magyar, Hungary’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. József Váradi, WIZZ’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Andreas Kramer, Airbus…
A flight that was headed to Phoenix from San Antonio diverted to El Paso after the plane was so damaged due to a hail storm. American Airlines flight #AA1897 took off from San Antonio at 00:02 UTC and entered in the middle of a hail storm. The pilots declared an emergency one hour later and landed…
The Taiwanese Air Force lost communication with an F-16 fighter during the annual Han Kuang military exercises on Monday, the CNA news agency reports citing military sources. One F-16 single-seat fighter went missing at 13:43 local time [05:43 GMT] while performing tasks set during the military exercises on Monday, a search and rescue operation has…
The clip was filmed on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight. The aisle running down the Airbus is shown completely covered with food wrappers and other trash.
An American Airlines Boeing 737-8MAX to Miami, Florida returned to Trinidad after one of the pilots allegedly heard screams coming from the aircraft’s cargo hold. About 30 mins after flight #AA2282 departed Piarco International Airport, pilots contacted ATC to alert someone being potentially stuck in their cargo hold. The Boeing 738 MAX 8 returned to…
A smoking passenger forced a Southwest Airlines flight to make an emergency landing at San Jose International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, the airline said. Flight 1250 departed San Francisco International Airport and was headed to Los Angeles International Airport when the pilot reported a “mechanical difficulty,” said San Jose International Airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes. The…
The Transavia flight from Gran Canaria to Amsterdam diverted to Faro after crew tried to quarantine the man in a toilet. The Transavia flight #HV5666 to Amsterdam was forced to divert when travellers became distressed by the stench of a man who “smelt like he hadn’t washed in weeks”. The man smelt so bad other…
An Atlanta-bound Delta flight had to be diverted to Tulsa, Oklahoma, after a disturbance midflight. The flight crew reported a disturbance with a passenger and requested law enforcement help. Flight #DL1156 was flying from Portland to Atlanta. The Boeing 737-900 landed around 11:30 a.m. in Tulsa with 172 passengers and six crew members on board.…
A military plane has had to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon in Milwaukee after what was “believed to be a lightning strike.” According to the 128th Air Refueling Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard, the in-flight emergency happened on the KC-135 plane Wednesday. It landed at Mitchell International Airport at about 2:45 p.m.,…
Service on what Singapore Airlines says will become the longest commercial flight in the world begins on Oct 11. The flights will be daily beginning on Oct 18. Singapore Airlines will be the first airline to use Airbus’ A350-900 ULR (for ultra long range) planes, which have extra fuel capacity, are made of a carbon…
Yakutia Airlines Antonov An-24 experienced three out of four maingear tires burst on landing. The flight #R3438 from Lensk landed at at Yakutsk with 28 passengers and 4 crew.
An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window. The Beijing Capital Airlines flight #JD421 bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard returned to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news…
