Air France flight #AF7627 to Paris CDG suffered landing gear issue and diverted to Paris ORY. Air France Airbus A321 (reg. F-GTAK) from Bordeaux to Paris CDG attempted to land runway 26L but aborted landing due to landing gear issue (nose) and strong wind. Pilots decided to divert to Paris ORY for a safe landing…
The United Arab Emirates on Monday accused fighter jets belonging to Qatar of intercepting two passenger planes en route to Bahrain, in an ongoing row over alleged airspace violations. “Qatari fighter jets intercept an Emirati civilian aircraft during a routine flight to Manama in a flagrant threat to civil aviation safety and in a clear…
Delta Air Lines flight #DL2164 to San Antonio was evacuated due to smoke in the cabin on Sunday night. Delta says the crew on board #DL2164 noticed smoke in the rear of the cabin before takeoff from New York JFK Airport. Everyone safely left the aircraft, passengers were taken to San Antonio on a replacement…
RAF jets have been scrambled this morning to intercept Russian planes approaching UK airspace. Two Typhoon fighters took off from RAF Lossiemouth just before 9:30am as QRA. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 11:15 UTC The two Russian Tu-160 Blackjacks are over the north sea. UPDATE 11:07 UTC Two Belgian Air Component F-16s have…
A Virgin Atlantic flight to JFK suffered oil leak. The Airways Airbus A340-600 (Reg. G-VWEB) flight #VS3 from London Heathrow to JFK declared a PAN at 11:40 am local time due to engine #1 oil leak. The aircraft safely landed on runway 22L.
A woman has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, Scotland Yard has said. The 27-year-old is a UK national. She had just arrived on a flight from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa when she was arrested on Friday. Police said she had been taken to a south London police…
A part fell from an airliner taking off from John Wayne Airport and landed on a moving vehicle near Los Angeles John Wayne Airport. No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred Dec. 29. The motorist, who has not been identified, was driving on Park Avenue near Diamond Avenue on Balboa Island at about…
President Donald Trump has mistakenly said the US sold Norway fighter jets that exist only in a video game. “In November we started delivering the first F-52s and F-35 fighter jets,” Trump said. “We have a total of 52 and they’ve delivered a number of them already a little ahead of schedule.” Trump was reading…
Heathrow received 78,794 noise complaints last year, and 62 per cent of those were made by 10 people, according to new figures from the airport. The 10 people who made the most complaints last year accounted for 48,562 complaints, while 2,775 individuals filed a complaint over 2017. Some 1,566 complainants contacted Heathrow once, while 10…
It looks a disaster was barely averted on Thursday when the Air Traffic Control at the Mangalore International Airport spotted a vacant tractor parked on the runway just as a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight was about to takeoff. According to news agency ANI, the tractor – used for cutting grass beside the runway – was…
A panel the size of a laptop computer fell off one of the Japanese prime minister’s jumbo jets, the defense force said on Friday. Officials noticed the panel was missing from the Boeing 747, one of two jetliners used by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for foreign trips, after it flew from Tokyo to its base…
French fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday after Air Algerie #AH1460 to Lyon after loss of communication. On Tuesday 9 January 2018, Air Algerie Boeing 737-800 (reg. 7T-VKK) was interecepted by a Mirage 2000 scrambled from France Air Force airbase of Orange. Air Algerie flight #AH1460 from Constantine to Lyon restablished communication with Marseille ATC control…
