Venezuelan police prevented the take-off of a TAP Air Portugal cargo flight after sniffer dogs detected narcotics substances during an inspection. The TAP Airbus A330-900 was preparing to operate flight TP9532 from Simón Bolívar International Airport to Lisbon Portela Airport on May 5. However, the cargo flight was cancelled after the Regional Anti-Drug Intelligence Unit…
A UNI Air ATR 72 was forced to make an emergency landing at Taipei Songsang Airport on Monday after two wheels on the right landing gear got ruptured. The ATR 72-600 was operating flight B79091 from Taipei’s Songshan Airport to Matsu Nangan Airport with 74 passengers and crew members on board when the captain noticed…
A Gulfstream G-150 jet ran off the runway and stopped in the wetlands at Ridgeland-Claude Dean Airport on Wednesday. The 11 seater jet suffered the runway excursion after it suffered a brake malfunction. The jet was lifted by a large crane and relocated away from the runway. There were five people on board, including two…
An American Eagle flight to Charlotte was forced to divert to Charleston due to severe thunderstorms. The flight was being operated by Republic Airways. The Embraer ERJ-175 regional jet was performing flight AA4798 from Key West International Airport, Florida, to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday. However, due to bad weather, it was forced to divert…
UK’s Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK residents can leave the country for the first time in months from 17 May, allowing them to go on foreign holidays to green list countries. On Friday, 12 countries and territories have been added to the green list, meaning anyone returning from these countries will not…
A Jet Serve Aviation air ambulance made an emergency belly landing in Mumbai after losing a front landing gear wheel during takeoff from runway 32 in Nagpur. The Beechcraft charter aircraft with registration VT-JIL was carrying one patient, two crew members, a paramedic and a doctor from Nagpur Airport to Mumbai International Airport. A full…
London Heathrow Airport has pushed back the reopening date of Terminal 3 due to continued uncertainty over travel restrictions imposed by the government. Heathrow’s Terminal 3 was shut down in April 2020 after the global outbreak of the coronavirus. The terminal was previously announced to reopen on May 17. However, it has now been pushed…
Delta Air Lines has resumed selling middle seat blocks on Saturday, becoming the last major U.S. air carrier to unblock the middle seats. Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian announced in late March that the middle seats would be reopened in all cabin classes on every aircraft on May 1. In a statement following the first-quarter earnings…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released an investigation report of the Air Inuit DHC-8-314 hard landing and tailstrike incident in January 2020. On 20 January 2020, the DHC-8-314 operated by Air Inuit, with registration C-GXAI, was conducting a flight from Quebec-Jean Lesage Airport, to Schefferville Airport, with 45 people on board including three…
The former CEO of Etihad, James Hogan, was caught at Heathrow trying to violate the UK’s quarantine rules. He is now facing a fine of £10,000. Hogan flew from Geneva to London Heathrow on March 19 using his UK passport. However, he didn’t declare that he had visited the United Arab Emirates days before his…
A 9-year-old boy was found safe after making his way into the conveyer-belt baggage handling system at Minneapolis International Airport on Saturday. He went missing when a group of around 20 travellers were checking in their bags. In a statement, Pat Hogan, spokesperson for Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport via MPR News said: “Among them was a…
Three Stars of the hit Netflix show “Too Hot to Handle” were fined for abusing and threatening British Airways crew members. Matthew Mawhinney, 29, Harry Johnson, 28, and Beaux Greenslade, 23, were arrested after they landed at Heathrow Airport for a connecting flight. They were filming the series in the Turks and Caicos Islands. They…
