Airlines across the region canceled more than 100 flights on Saturday as Super Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines and was set to disrupt travel from Hong Kong to Japan. Cathay Pacific said in a statement it’s canceling all flights in and out of Hong Kong on Sunday beginning at 2:30 a.m., and wouldn’t resume…
Runway is closed until further notice at East Midlands Airport. UPDATE East Midlands Airport now reopened. UPDATE The aircraft is now off runway, inspection in progress. UPDATE All pax now offloaded from FR9387 BNC-EMA and nosewheel tyres being changed in situ on runway before a/c will be moved to stand for luggage offload & inspection. The…
Alitalia #AZ621 Boeing 777-200ER from #LAX (Los Angeles) to FCO (Rome) dumped fuel and made an unscheduled stop in Salt Lake City International Airport due to reports of unruly passenger. Thanks to SLCScanner (https://twitter.com/SLCScanner)
Malaysia Airlines #MH1 returned to Heathrow due to landing gear door issue. To reduce weight, the Airbus A350 had to dump fuel over the channel at 10,000ft.
USAF F-22 stealth fighter jet intercepts Russian nuclear-capable “Bear” bomber west of Alaska on Sept. 11th, NORAD says. Second time this month Russian bombers flew near United States; both times remaining in international airspace
UPDATE #67A At 200 AM EDT (0600 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Florence was located near latitude 33.7 North, longitude 80.8 West. Florence is moving toward the west near 6 mph (9 km/h). A turn toward the northwest with an increase in forward speed is expected today, followed by a turn toward the north…
All early flights to Nnamdi Aziiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, have been cancelled over overshooting of the runway by a chartered aircraft. A Gulfstream aircraft belonging to Skybird Airline with the registration number 5N-BOD overshot the runway on Wednesday night, thereby leading to the closure of the runway by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria…
British Airways flight #BA103 from London Heathrow to Calgary diverted to to Iqaluit after reporting fumes in the flight deck. The pilots used oxygen masks and witnesses claimed the fumes filling the cockpit smelt of “electrical burning”. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (reg. G-ZBKA) set off from London Heathrow at 6.30pm on Wednesday and was due to land…
A 17-year-old student pilot making her first solo flight executed a successful emergency landing in Massachusetts after losing a wheel during takeoff, authorities said. Shortly after takeoff, Maggie Taraska on commands of the single-engine aircraft reported losing her right main wheel assembly, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. An instructor on the ground talked the…
A UK CAA spokesman said: “The government, the UK Civil Aviation Authority and the entire aviation industry have been clear that our collective preference is to secure the UK’s ongoing participation in the European Aviation Safety Agency system once the UK withdraws from the European Union. “However, as a responsible regulator, we continue to make…
An Iberia Airways flight en route to Madrid made an emergency landing overnight at Logan Airport after suffering an engine-related issue mid-flight. The plane landed without incident and there were no injuries, according to an Iberia spokeswoman. The flight, which had 265 passengers, originated Tuesday around 9:15 p.m. at New York’s John F. Kennedy International…
Ryanair is cancelling dozens of flights after pilots and flight attendants in Germany started a one-day strike over pay and conditions, union officials said. The Cockpit union said the 24-hour strike began at 3am Wednesday and would affect all the airline’s bases in Germany, including Frankfurt and Berlin. The union, representing pilots, is being joined…
