The company has booked an order for two 747 jumbo jets that will become the aircraft for the President of the United States. Seattle-based Boeing announced Thursday, Nov. 9, that it finalized the order for the jets, which will be modified with top of the line safety features. The 747-8 model sells for about $351…
Evacuation underway at the DHL sorting center. UPDATE 2350 UTC: Area is cleared. Officials said the facility was evacuated after a suspicious package was tracked to the building. A spokesman for DHL courier company said: “There has been an evacuation after tracking a shipment that was not trusted. A bomb disposal team has arrived at the…
SpiceJet DHC-8-400 (VT-SUL) #SG2642 suffered a tail strike upon landing in Delhi on Wednesday afternoon. A SpiceJet spokesperson confirmed the incident and said none of the passengers were injured. The airline representative identified the damaged aircraft as VT-SUL, a Bombardier Q400 turboprop. The official ruled out lack of visibility as a possible reason…
While it’s exceptionally rare for an aircraft’s slides to have to be deployed, every commercial aircraft is fitted with a number of them, to ensure that in the event of an emergency, customers can get off the aircraft quickly and safely. The huge inflatables which can be up to 14 metres (or 46 ft) long,…
Airlink Avro RJ-85 airliner operating flight #SA8103 from Harare to Johannesburg was involved in an event which resulted in it making an emergency landing at O.R. Tambo International Airport shortly after 20.40 local time on Wednesday 8 November. While en route one of the four engines suffered an uncontained failure which then caused damage to…
Priti Patel summoned back from Africa by Theresa May with minister set to be sacked over secret Israeli meetings. Number 10 confirmed Ms Patel has been requested to return to London by the Prime Minister, just hours after she set off for Uganda. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed runway 27R at 15:05 local time. Watch…
Tuesday evening, Hawaiian Airlines A330-200 (N375HA) #HAL8075 left engine caught fire after landing at Seattle Sea-Tac Airport, WA. Officials with Sea-Tac Airport said the flight was ferrying in from Everett with only the crew on board. The landed safely and the fire was extinguished. No one was injured. The plane was towed to a hanger…
United Airlines will fly passengers on its Boeing 747 for the last time today. The carrier is operating one last flight on the iconic jumbo jet, a specially scheduled “farewell” flight from San Francisco to Honolulu operating as United Flight 747. The flight will be United’s final passenger flight on the 747 before retiring the…
Flights of small airport in Alaska were disturbed by a seal. While it’s not uncommon for wildlife to wander onto airport runways every now and then, one animal in Utqiagvik, Alaska, surprised an airport worker who thought he’d seen everything. Scott Babcock, a foreman at the Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport, said he saw a…
A man pretending to talk on a cellphone made it past Miami International Airport security Saturday, jumped onto a luggage carousel, and sprinted onto the tarmac, exclusive video shows. The footage shows a man casually strolling past an empty security checkpoint at the American Airlines ticket counter and diving into a luggage conveyor belt. The…
A plane from the Latvian national airline Air Baltic was hit by an air bridge Riga International Airport. The Bombardier Dash8 Q400 (reg. LY-BBT) flight #BT360 from Turku Airport (Finland) landed at Riga International Airport on Friday at around 6:25 local time. Passengers were disembarked when the plane was hit by an air bridge while…
Sunday night, Ryanair #flight #FR1431 to Athens was taking off from Rhodes Airport shortly after 22:00 local time when when the aircraft was hit by a dog on runway. The collision was instantly perceived by the captain. But at speed of V1, the Boeing 737-800 had to takeoff and stopped climb at 4,000ft before to…
