Close call at New York JFK airport after Volaris flight attempts to land on runway 13R, dedicated for takeoffs. A Delta plane was rolling down runway 13R when a Volaris A319 flight #Y4880 mistakenly lined up on the same runway. The Volaris flight was supposed to land on a parallel runway, runway 13L. The crew…
Indian media reports claimed the Mumbai-bound flight of Singapore Airlines mistakenly made an approach to land at the Juhu airport on Monday morning but it looks as a safe go-around procedure. According to an Indian source “the Singapore pilots were in touch with the Mumbai air traffic control and were supposed to make an approach…
Airlines Jetstar and Virgin Australia have resumed flights in and out of Bali as gushing ash from Mount Agung has dissipated into a plume of steam. Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said the volcano remains at its highest alert level but most of Bali is safe for tourists. The exclusion zone around the volcano still extends…
The crew of a Cathay Pacific flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong reported seeing a North Korean ballistic missile break up and fall out of the sky last week, the airline has said, highlighting an unforeseen danger of the North’s weapons tests. Flight trackers put the plane close to Japan around the time of…
On December 1, flight #U27124 was travelling from the Spanish resort of Alicante last night when the incident occurred. Staff on board claimed the small blonde female was being disruptive and was drinking her own alcohol. easyJet claim the flight made an emergency landing at Bordeaux airport after the woman, who was sat near the…
Finnair flight #AY86 from Helsinki to Gothenburg diverted to Turku due to smoke in cabin. The Embraer ERJ-190 (reg. OH-LKE) was climbing to 30,000 ft when passengers reported smell of smoke in the cabin. Pilots decided to divert immediately and turned right to Turku Airport, Finland for a safe landing runway 26. Passengers were evacuated via slides. The…
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency diversion on Thursday when flight crew detected a mobile Wi-Fi network named “Bomb on Board.” The flight from Nairobi to Istanbul diverted to Khartoum, Sudan, when flight staff noticed the suspiciously named Wi-Fi network. After the emergency landing, all 100 passengers had to leave the aircraft for inspection.…
On Saturday, workers at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport happened to notice something unusual inside of a container that had been put through the X-ray machine at one of the airport’s pre-flight security checkpoints. When they opened the container up to see what exactly was inside, out scuttled a cockroach, scaring one poor female worker.…
Final assembly of the newest member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, has started and is on track for the first flight planned in mid-2018. The A330-800 complements the A330-900, the largest member of the A330neo Family. With its 242-tonne Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) as base variant, the A330-800 can operate routes of up to…
British officials say a Heathrow Airport security worker has been arrested in an airport toilet after seven kilograms (15 pounds) of cocaine was seized. The National Crime Agency said Saturday the 30-year-old man, from London, was arrested Thursday with a 37-year-old Colombian man in a lavatory in Terminal 5 at Heathrow. Officials say the Colombian…
British Airways owner IAG has confirmed it is buying the majority of the Gatwick take-off and landing slots being sold by the administrators for fallen carrier Monarch. IAG, which also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus, said the price it was paying was “commercially confidential”, although it is thought to have agreed a multi-million pound deal…
A tow tug caught fire as it was pulling a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 to a departure gate at Singapore Changi Airport at around 4am on Wednesday (Nov 29). There were no passengers on board the aircraft at the time, SIA’s spokesman said. The plane was being moved from a remote parking bay to Terminal…
