Changi Airport staff are evacuating passengers out of Terminal 2’s departure hall right now, with reports of smoke emerging. UPDATE 1053 UTC Changi Airport says cause of fire identified, “situation under control” but flight operations affected. UPDATE 1048 UTC This is the statement from the Changi Airport Group: “The fire alarm was activated at Changi Airport Terminal 2 at…
Egypt Air flight #MS-955 to Beijing suffered uncontained failure of the left engine on takeoff. The Air Airbus A330-200 (reg. SU-GCI) rejected takeoff from Cairo due to failure of engine #1 which caused an important hole in the cowl.
A Learjet 35 crashed on approach to Runway 1 at Teterboro Airport at 3:30 pm today. The aircraft went down about 1/4 mile from the airport in a residential area. Plane crash @NBCNewYork @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/lVIdU2lFfK — Godwin (@GodwinClassic33) May 15, 2017 Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 2039 UTC Carlstadt police confirm 2 people…
A female passenger died on a flight that was forced to divert to Shannon Airport on Friday evening. Yesterday, Air Canada flight #AC849 from London Heathrow Airport to Toronto in Canada diverted to Shannon after the crew declared a medical emergency. LIVE Air Canada #AC849 U-turn over Atlantic and diverting to Shannon due to medical emergency…
Eurowings flight #EW9224 flying from Germany to Gothenburg was forced into an emergency landing Friday night after a crack appeared in the windshield of the cockpit. The aircraft, with 106 passengers on board, was travelling from Düsseldorf to Gothernburg’s Landvetter airport. After taking off at around 7pm, it declared an emergency over German airspace, LIVE…
Profits at Dubai-based airline, Emirates have dropped a massive 82% in what the carrier has described as a “brutal” year. The newly published results for 2016/2017 show the airline made AED1.3 billion ($353 million USD) with profits at its parent company, Emirates Group, dropping 70% from last 2015’s record breaking year. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al…
The A350-1000completed successfully its first and unique “Early Long Flight” with 310 passengers on board, including 10 Airbus Flight Test crew members and 13 Virgin Atlantic cabin crew. Test aircraft MSN065 took off from and landed in Toulouse on May 11th after a 12 hour flight. During the long-haul flight the passengers, comprising Airbus employees…
A Russian fighter jet came within 20 feet of a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea Tuesday, according to a military spokesperson. A Russian Su-27 fighter approached the U.S. P-8A Poseidon as it was “conducting routine operations in international airspace,” said Capt. Pamela Kunze, a U.S. Naval Forces Europe spokeswoman. The Russian defense…
U.S. and European officials will discuss airline security issues at a meeting in Brussels next week, including possibly expanding the number of airports that ban passengers from carrying electronic devices bigger than cellphones aboard flights, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Friday. U.S. Homeland Security Department Secretary John Kelly told European ministers by phone Friday…
