Five passengers were injured when an AirAsia X flight from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur encountered severe turbulence on Thursday. In a statement, the airline said Flight D7377en route to Kuala Lumpur from Taipei with 291 passengers and 11 crew members on board, encountered the turbulence mid-flight on Thursday. The Airbus A330-300 landed safely at Kuala…
The Airbus A320 (reg. N453UA) flew from Orlando and landed at Newark. The incident happent while the aircraft was parked. The FAA said no passengers were on board. The right main gear of the aircraft suffered important structure damage. The A320 Airbus was removed to be repaired and to determine what caused the axle to break, the…
One of the runways at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) has been closed until further notice, after a Malaysia Airlines plane’s tyres deflated upon landing. Flight MH726 from Jakarta had two tyres deflate after it landed at 7.13am on Tuesday. In a statement, Malaysia Airlines said the Boeing 738 aircraft’s passengers and crew safely disembarked and…
An Aeroflot Boeing 777-300 flight #SU270 hit several successive areas of turbulence en route from Moscow to Bangkok. UPDATE According to Aeroflot, there were 313 passengers on board. 25 were sent to hospitals in Bangkok, 11 were already discharged from the hospital. Russian Embassy in Thailand provides all necessary assistance to the Russian citizens who were…
A Boeing 737-700 NG belonging to Linhas Aereas de Angloa suffered a serious incident at Sory, Angola. During landing runway 24 at Soyo, Angola Sunday morning, the front gear collapsed. The flight #DT130 arrived from Luanda with 44 passengers on board. A spokesperson for the airline reported that the crew were working the after landing checklist when they…
A Frontier Airlines plane tilted up while at a gate at O’Hare Airport Saturday. The Frontier plane arrived at O’Hare shortly before 7 p.m. and came to a stop at a gate. As passengers exited, the nose of the plane tipped up. A witness said that too much weight at the back of the plane caused…
A small plane made a dramatic emergency landing at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport on Friday afternoon. The plane had taken off . Shortly after takeoff from Belize, the pilot was notified that a wheel had fallen off the plane. The pilot did a flyby maneuver after arriving in Sarasota and the control tower confirmed a wheel was…
An Antonov An-26 has crashed in the western province of Artemisa, killing 8. A Cuban military plane crashed into a hillside Saturday morning in the western province of Artemisa, killing eight troops on board, the government said. The military said in a written statement that the Soviet-made AN-26 took off from the Playa Baracoa airport…
Keflavik International Airport has been closed after Icelandic airline Primera Air Boeing 737-800 (reg.YL-PSH) from Alicante skidded off the runway upon landing. The cause of the accident is likely heavy snowfall and ice on the runway. Nobody was injured in the accident. UPDATE 1930 UTC Keflavik International Airport is now open using runway 29 The accident…
A Delta flight from Beijing to Detroit in the USA had to make an emergency landing on Friday afternoon after one of its engines caught fire. The fire was reportedly caused by a bird strike, which led to a failure of the right-hand engine, shortly after take-off. The DL188 flight landed safely back at Beijing…
We have confirmation American Airlines #AA211 declared an emergency due to maintenance issue.
An American Airlines flight from Reagan National hit a flock of birds during takeoff Wednesday evening. Flight #AA4411 was headed to Fort Myers, Fla., but diverted to Dulles International to make an emergency landing. The plane touched down safely after sustaining the bird strike. There were 56 passengers on board. No one was hurt. American…
