A Hong Kong Airlines flight was forced to abort take-off to avoid a collision with a Cathay Pacific aircraft crossing its path on the tarmac on december 24. Flight HX709, bound for Bali in Indonesia, was ordered by air-traffic control to come to an immediate stop on a runway at Hong Kong International Airport despite…
A flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo turned back on Tuesday because of an apparent mix-up involving an unauthorized passenger on board. All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight bound for Tokyo’s Narita Airport turned around to go back to Los Angeles International Airport, due to an unauthorized person on the plane. “During the flight, the cabin…
Depsite a source telling Korean Air plans to remove its first A380 from fleet and store it at Roswell, we have confirmation the airline will not! Korean Air confirmed to AIRLIVE there is no plan to ground its A380 nor to look at A350 instead. All 10 A380 for Korean Air are in operation and…
Aeroflot has become the first airline in Russia to provide real-time location information for all the baggage it handles, choosing SITA, the global IT provider, to deliver an end-to-end baggage tracking solution using its BagJourney system. BagJourney allows Aeroflot to accurately track passengers’ bags at key points along their journey, including at check-in, loading onto…
A British Airways worker plunged 70ft to his death from a Heathrow car park in what is feared to have been a Christmas Eve suicide. Shattered colleagues saw the man, thought to have been in his 40s, appear to jump. He plummeted from a staff area of the six-storey short stay car park at Terminal…
A JetBlue plane skidded off the taxiway at Boston’s Logan Airport Monday night after reportedly hitting a patch of ice. JetBlue Flight B650 from Savannah, Georgia, encountered the ice shortly after landing at Logan at around 7:15 p.m., skidding off the taxiway, spinning as it slid and ending up facing the opposite direction, according to…
RAF Typhoons were scrambled to “intercept” Theresa May’s plane in a display of British firepower. A pair of 1,500mph Typhoon fighter jets thundered into the sky before pulling alongside the Prime Minister’s Voyager plane to tip their wings and flash their lethal missiles. Amid mounting tensions with Moscow, Mrs May agreed to her aircraft being…
Authorities say several people have died in a plane crash at the Bartow Municipal Airport. The twin-engine plane crashed at the end of a runway at the airport near Ben Durrance Road. Emergency operators received a call about the crash at 7:20 a.m. The Bartow Municipal Airport is the former location of a U.S. Air…
A Malaysian was arrested late Friday at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, for trying to smuggle firearms and ammunition in his luggage, the Airport Security Force (ASF) told Arab News on Saturday. Al Muhd Alfie Kqhyriel, 20, was arrested by the ASF as he was travelling to Kuala Lumpur via Bangkok from Karachi on Thai Airways…
After landing at Bristol Airport at 11.36 this morning an Embraer 145 inbound from Frankfurt (flight number BM1822) left the runway while taxiing. Passengers were disembarked and returned to the terminal by coach. None of the 25 people on board were hurt. UPDATE 23:40 UTC The aircraft was removed and the runway is open. UPDATE…
A Boeing 737-500 ran off runway at Kiev this morning. The flight #B2843 from Minsk landed at 08:00 UTC when it ran runway 18L due to snow at Kiev Boryspil International Airport. No injuries were reported but the airport was temporarily closed.
Boeing is discussing a “potential combination” with Brazil’s Embraer the companies said. A blockbuster deal that would expand the U.S. aerospace giant’s lineup of commercial and military aircraft. The talks have centered on a takeover, with Boeing offering Embraer a substantial premium over its $3.7 billion market value, the Wall Street Journal said Thursday. Any…
