A Lufthansa Airbus A321neo suffered a bird strike during landing at Heraklion Airport in Greece. The Airbus A321-200NX, with registration D-AIEF, was operating flight LH-1554 from Frankfurt International Airport to Heraklion International Airport when it crashed into a bird during landing. As a result of the bird strike, the nose part of the radome was…
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 was damaged in a tug incident after being hit by a tug at London Stansted Airport. The Boeing 737-800 sustained substantial damage with parts of the lower belly ripped off underneath the aircraft. However, the registration of the plane is unknown as of now. The incident took place when the 737…
A Jayawijaya Dirgantara Boeing 737 freighter suffered a runway excursion after landing at Jayapura-Sentani Airport in Indonesia. The Boeing 737-300 freighter, with registration PK-JRB, was operating flight JT667 from Wamena Airport to Jayapura-Sentani International Airport. The aircraft safely landed on Jayapura’s runway 30 at 09:30LT but overran the runway and skidded off the runway by…
On Friday, October 4, 2019, an An-12BK, operated by the Ukraine Air alliance crashed 1.1km southeast of Lviv-Danylo Halytskyi International Airport. The aircraft, with registration UR-CAH, had first flown in 1968 and had 12,922 total airframe hours under its wings, completing 6616 cycles. The plane with 4 Ivchenko AI-20M engines was a cargo plane with…
Former Alitalia flight attendants undressed in a protest in the streets of Rome over job losses on Wednesday earlier this week. The ex-Alitalia stripped off their uniforms in protest at the airline’s demise. The protest resulted after Unions failed to reach an agreement with ITA over labour terms for former Alitalia employees. Only 3,000 of…
Frankfurt Hahn Airport has filed for insolvency, according to a German court filing on Tuesday, 19 October. However, it is unclear how this filing would affect the previously scheduled flight operations from the German international budget flights hub, primarily used by low-cost airline Ryanair. Today 82.5% of the airport is owned by Chinese airport group…
An Ex-Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ER left Amsterdam Schipol, where it had been parked for 2.5 years since the spring of 2019. The Boeing 777-300ER, with new American registration N377CL (formerly VT-JEW), departed Schipol at 11:55 local time and arrived in Victorville at 13:29 local time on Tuesday, October 19. The Boeing 777 was bought by…
Brussels Airlines flight to Luanda was forced to make diversions after Angolan airspace was closed off, without advance notice. Brussels Airlines flight SN359 from Brussels departed as scheduled. The Airbus A330 was on its descent to Luanda Airport when it was unexpectedly informed that Angolan airspace was closed due to the arrival of Turkish President…
Charlotte Airport was out of the water after the water main in the city ruptured, sending out water cascading into the sky. The major water main broke out at 1400 Remount Road at around 5 pm, impacting the city’s main airport’s operation, several neighbourhoods and dozens of local businesses. After the breakout, the water authority…
Singapore Airlines has announced that it will operate the world’s shortest Airbus A380 flight between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur starting in early November. Singapore Airlines confirmed that it would deploy A380s on flights SQ106 (SIN-KUL) and SQ105 (KUL-SIN) three times a week starting November 4 to December 2, 2021. In addition, the Changi based airline…
All Nippon Airways has finally taken the physical delivery of its third and last of three Airbus A380s from Toulouse. The third All Nippon Airways A380, with registration JA383A, took off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport bound to Tokyo-Narita in its unique Orange turtle livery at 06:10 pm local time on Friday, October 15 arriving in Tokyo…
An American Airlines Embraer ERJ-175 suffered a hydraulic failure on landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Several tires blew out after landing. The Embraer ERJ-175, with registration N404YX, was operating flight AA4965 from Memphis to Reagan National Airport in Washington on Saturday. On landing, the aircraft stopped on the runway for about 15 minutes…
