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…
A passenger has been pinned to the ground by police at Dublin Airport after running out of the terminal towards a plane and shouting at the pilot to wait. Moments earlier the man was inside banging on the window of the terminal and asking ground crew to hold the plane. He made it to the…
American Airlines flight #AA101 was en route from London Heathrow to New York when pilots received an engine fire indication. The Boeing 777-200 with 206 passengers and a crew of 13 on board was passing overhead Ireland when the crew opted to divert to Dublin Airport. The crew advised air traffic controllers that they needed to divert…
