A Porter Airlines flight approaching Toronto was forced to take evasive action to avoid a drone Monday morning, injuring two cabin attendants. The Dash 8-400 turboprop was inbound to Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport when the pilots spied an unidentified object and took quick action to avoid a mid-air collision. “The flight crew performed an evasive…
What happent to the Lufthansa Cargo flight was really serious. On Thursday 10, the Lufthansa MD-11F (reg.D-ALCM) from Brazil suffered impressive damages. The incident is still under investigation but we know that during landing at Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport, the left wheel of nose gear separated the leg and damaged the fuselage.
On its journey to South America, the biggest aircraft of the world landed at Leipzig, Germany. The Antonov An-225 (reg. UR-82060) was taxiing to stand when visible flame was out of engine #2 during about a minute. Emergency vehicles quickly reached the aircraft. The An-225 continued as planned its journey and took off to Keflavik…
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In line with its vision to offer a superior passenger experience and improve environmental performance through a modern and state of the art wide-body aircraft fleet, Emirates has retired the last Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft in its fleet from active service. This makes Emirates the first and only airline in the world to operate…
Lone Khin villager Ko Maung Myo told The Myanmar Times yesterday that at 6am he heard what sounded like an explosion and felt the ground vibrate. It struck near an abandoned jade mine between Hmaw His Zar village and Nat Ma Pyeit village in Hpakant township. The mysterious cylindrical object is about 12 feet (3.7…
Thomas Cook Airbus A321 flight #MT1033 hit a flock of around 50 storks on Tuesday, damaging both engines. At least 13 of the birds were sucked into the engines. The plane was carrying 170 passengers from Banjul airport in Gambia when it flew into the birds shortly after taking off. Cabin crew Kayleigh Loveridge wrote on her…
Qatar Airways has been fined $185,000 by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for airspace violations. The airline was penalised for operating flights in regions in which a Federal Aviation Administration flight prohibition was in effect while carrying the American Airlines (AA) code, the DOT said in a statement. Under a statement of authorisation permitting…
On the Flightdeck of the South African Airways Airbus A340-600 from Munich to Jonahhesburg.
