A Mahan Air aircraft had taken off from Tehran, and was headed to Guangzhou in China when it received a bomb threat. While in Indian airspace- Mahan Air contacted Delhi airport ATC after it received the bomb threat. The pilot asked permission for an immediate landing at Delhi. Delhi ATC suggested the aircraft to go…
A Myanmar National Airlines MNA flight flying to Yangon was shot at on the landing of Loikko Airport on Friday morning, September 30, and a man was injured. Flight UB 149 of Myanmar National Airlines MNA departing from Yangon was shot at as it prepared to runway 19 at Loikaw, Myanmar. Three projectiles impacted the…
A Sunwing flight attendant saved a passenger’s life who went into cardiac arrest as a pilot made an emergency landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport this week. On Tuesday, Marisa Rodrigues was preparing for a standard landing of a Sunwing flight from Cancun to Toronto while on duty as the Cabin Safety Manager (CSM). Then,…
An easyJet plane was forced to make an emergency landing after its wing was suddenly struck by lightning. The aircraft took off from Milan when it was hit by the lightning while flying over Italy. The plane diverted to Bari instead of Naples on Sunday (September 25). An image showed the extent of the damage,…
Keflavik airport received a message about a bomb threat. Just before midnight a cargo airplaine landed in Keflavík Airport after a threat about a bomb being on board the airplane was received. This was confirmed by the Chief of Police in Reykjanes peninsula, Úlfar Lúðvíksson, to mbl.is Because of the threat all air traffic to…
Emergency services are at Heathrow Airport after two commercial passenger planes “scrapped into each other”. The incident took place at some point around 8pm tonight (September 28). A Korean Air Boeing 777-300 was taxiing to runway 27R when it clipped another aicraft. The plane (reg. HL7782) was performing flight #KE908 to Seoul. It clipped an…
A Singapore Airlines flight to San Francisco was escorted by fighter jets after a passenger allegedly claimed there was a bomb in his carry-on bag and assaulted the crew. A 37-year old man was arrested on Wednesday morning (28 September) after making a bomb threat on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from San Francisco.…
A Copa Airlines Boeing B737-800 has run off the runway on landing at Tocumen Airport, Panama. The Copa Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg. HP-1539) performed flight #CM135 from Mexico City on Sunday, 25 September. The plane skidded off the runway while landing at Tocumen International Airport on evening. The airport was closed and flight operations were…
A British Airways flight to Rhodes made an emergency diversion after its windshield shattered mid-flight, according to a passenger. Caroline Edmunds tweeted that she was on BA624 from London to Rhodes, Greece, on Saturday afternoon when it was forced to land in Athens after the windscreen “broke”. Edmunds, who posted a picture of the Airbus’s…
Plumes of black smoke seen near Orly airport in Paris, France. The fire is at a marketplace in Paris close to the airport. Despite smoke, the flights operations are currently not affected.
Two pilots died in a collision between two planes on Saturday evening on the outskirts of Gera, Germany. According to a spokesman for the fire brigade, the casualties are two aerobatic pilots who collided in the air with their planes near the Leumnitz airfield. The planes crashed after the collision over an open area, the…
A Boeing 737-300F skidded into the edge of a lake on landing. West Atlantic Boeing 737-300F (reg. EC-NLS) overran the end of runway 12L at Montpellier Airport, France. The aircraft ended at the edge of a lake. The flight #SW5745 landed in Montpellier from Paris CDG. The runway is closed until further notice. Both pilots…