Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport was evacuated yesterday evening after a battery pack was found in a passenger’s luggage. The suspicious item was found during a security check and had to be assessed by specialist officers, police said. They described the item as “a battery pack of unique appearance” and the man was detained. In a statement…
A screaming passenger who started attacking cabin crew forced a pilot to perform an emergency landing. The angry man even started lashing out at fellow passengers before the pilot finally landed the plane and four security raced on board. The man can be heard growling and shouting furiously as someone says in the background: “He…
A flight from Stansted Airport was forced to make an emergency landing when a group of drunken passengers began demanding more alcohol. The incident happened on Friday (August 25) on board a Ryanair flight to Ibiza from London Stansted. The pilot was forced to divert to the French city of Bordeaux where airport police…
The barge of Australian tourists has been hit by French water bomber. The incident took place on August 27 near Nimes, in France. Three water bombers were scooping in the Rhône river, at harbor of Vallabregues. A Canadair CL-415 (reg. F-ZBF) has hit a barge without real explanation. It’s unclear if the pilot flew too close to…
South Korean fighter jets simulated a bombing campaign in response to North Korea’s missile test. The show of force involved four F-15K fighter jets, which dropped eight MK-84 bombs on targets at a military field near the border. The South said the display was intended to show its “powerful capability to punish North Korea”.
North Korea fired a missile that passed over northern Japan early Tuesday, the Japanese government said. The government’s J-Alert warning system advised people in the area to take precautions, but public broadcaster NHK said there was no sign of damage. The Japanese military did not attempt to shoot down the missile, which passed…
A Yak-40 aircraft skidded off the runway at Zhukovsky airport near Moscow. As reported by the telegram channel Mash, the incident occurred after a training flight. Only the crew members were on board. The Yakovlev Yak-40 is a small, three-engined airliner. It is the world’s first commuter trijet. The maiden flight was made in 1966, and it was…
Around 500 Southwest customers flew out of closed Houston Hobby Airport Sunday. Five of the airline’s stranded Boeing 737s flew out of the flooded airport Sunday evening back to Love Field in Dallas, according to one of the sources. Without working airport lights at Hobby Airport, the Southwest aircraft had to move quickly before the…
Vietnamese airline VietJet has promised that all flight attendants on their soon-to-be-opened route from Ho Chi Minh City to Jakarta will be fully clothed after Indonesian authorities raised concerns. The budget airline shot to prominence in 2012 when it hosted a mid-flight dance by bikini-clad beauty pageant contestants on a flight from Ho Chi Minh…
Customs officials discovered a royal python in the luggage of a Guinean passenger at Terminal 2E of Paris CDG on Monday (August 21). When customs officials approached this 22-year-old man from Cotonou (Benin), he claimed to carry black soap in his wooden box, which he had placed with him in the cabin. The customs officers then…
