The latest airline-safety statistics show that for all of 2015, not a single passenger died from a jetliner accident anywhere in the world. Capping years of unprecedented improvements in overall commercial-aviation crash rates, data released Monday by the airline industry’s leading international trade association show what had been considered an unreachable goal: zero fatalities from…
A mid-air scare forced a Seattle-bound Alaska Airlines flight to return to Washington, D.C., for an emergency landing. Smoke began pouring into the cockpit of the Boeing 737 about five or 10 minutes after taking off from Reagan National Airport on Monday, forcing the pilots to put on gas masks. Recordings of radio communications captured…
Due to snow and ice, A Traffic Management Program is in effect for traffic arriving into John F Kennedy Int’l Airport. @PablogtzT47 Just now pic.twitter.com/WR11ACo4dY — JFKJeff (@jfknewsandviews) February 15, 2016
A body discovered by horrified ground staff who noticed blood dripping from a plane which was carrying suitcases of cash may have been a stowaway from a previous flight, it has been claimed. The plane, owned by Florida-based Western Global Airlines, is understood to have been transporting large sums of cash from Munich in Germany…
A ‘violent’ passenger on board flight Emirates EK5 from Dubai to Heathrow was restrained by four cabin crew after allegedly launching a terrifying mid-air attack on staff. The man was forced to the floor before being tied up on the Heathrow-bound Airbus A380 when he allegedly began assaulting crew members in a fit of rage. Witnesses said three…
Montreal – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for the 2015 safety performance of the commercial airline industry. The 2015 global jet accident rate (measured in hull losses per 1 million flights) was 0.32, which was the equivalent of one major accident for every 3.1 million flights. This was not as good as…
Blue Air Boeing 737 flight #OB133 from Bucharest declared an emergency today at around 11:am before a safe landing in Liverpool. The reason of emergency is still not clear at that time.
Tailpipe of Boeing 737 (registration PR-GXA) of GOL Linhas Aéreas caught fire on the ground at Brasilia Airport today. A turbina de um avião pega fogo antes de decolar do aeroporto de Brasília para a cidade de São Paulo. pic.twitter.com/Kxh2jrKxZf — Rádio BandNews FM (@radiobandnewsfm) February 14, 2016 View from inside the Boeing 737,…
After holding for an hour or so the aircraft made an emergency landing at Liverpool Airport. After it was discovered that there was a problem with the aircraft’s flaps. This meant that the landing speed of the aircraft would have to be faster than normal so the pilot opted to land at LPL.
