Something happening [email protected] [email protected] pic.twitter.com/43fAzIzixs — Jimmy Norman (@JimmyNorman) October 16, 2017 Flybe flight #BE4521 was followed by emergency vehicles after landing at Dublin Airport. The Embrer 195 from Cardiff reported fumes in the cabin. The aircraft (reg. G-FBEM) safely landed and passengers disembarked on stand.
An Indonesia AirAsia flight travelling from Perth to Denpasar with 151 passengers on board was turned back on Sunday morning after a mid-air emergency. Flight #QZ535 was 25 minutes out of Perth when an indicator alerted the pilot to a loss of cabin pressure. The plane had to drop from 32,000 feet to 10,000 feet…
A doctor who was on an El Al flight to Belgium performed a successful CPR on a passenger who had a heart attack. A 88-year-old womansuffered a heart attack and lost consciousness during El Al flight #LY333 to Brussels. A doctor performed a CPR while the plane returned to Ben Gurion Airport. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. 4X-EKP)…
On October 12, 2017, a Skyjet flight was struck by a drone while inbound to Jean Lesage International Airport in Québec City. This is the first time a drone has hit a commercial aircraft in Canada. The Beechcraft A100 King Air only sustained minor damage and was able to land safely. Transport Canada is monitoring…
Etihad flight 450 from Abu Dhabi to Sydney was forced to divert to Adelaide early Saturday morning. The diversion was due to a warning light coming on in the cockpit. The B777 landed at Adelaide around 4.50am local time. Adelaide Airport has a curfew between 11pm and 6am, excluding emergencies. Passengers were deplaned on the…
A plane crashed Saturday morning at sea shortly after taking off from Abidjanelix Houphout Boigny airport around 0900 UTC. UPDATE 4 have died and 4 survived the crash. First reports say it’s an Antonov An-26 (reg.ER-AVB) from the cargo charter company Valan Air carrying equipments for the French Army. The crash could have occurred during a storm…
Cebu Pacific Air Airbus A320 (reg. RP-3237) skidded off rain-slickened runway on landing. Operations at Iloilo International Airport in Philippines are closed during Saturday. Passengers were evacuated by emergency slides. In a notice to airmen (NOTAM) early Saturday, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said that the airport was closed after the plane’s nose gear landed…
A Munich-bound flight from Dubai had to make an emergency landing after a child passenger onboard died, according to local press reports. Emirates Airline said Wednesday its Airbus A380 flight en route from Dubai to Munich was diverted 45 minutes after take-off to Kuwait after a seven-year old passenger girl passed away during the flight,…
Two Royal Air Force fighter jets were scrambled this afternoon to intercept an aircraft with loss of communication as part of QRA exercice. The two Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Coningsby airbase to intercept a French aircraft over the Channel. UPDATE The Ministry of Defence has since confirmed the jets were dispatched as part of an exercise…
Two fire engines were scrambled on to the tarmac at Kiev Airport this morning to deal with the incident after the flight#BA882 from Heathrow landed in the Ukrainian capital early in afternoon. A video was posted by Damian De C @dboxxer on Twitter is showing British Airways A320 surrounded by foam, fire fighters and fire…
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) cleared a plane to take off after the flight made an emergency landing at the Allama Iqbal airport early today. Flight #PK755 was enroute to Riyadh from Sialkot when the pilot observed smoke in the cockpit, leading him to suspect the engine had caught fire. Subsequent initial inspection by the…
According to Reuters, Air France A380, reg. F-HPJE stranded in Goose Bay will return to France. The rump of the broken engine will be taken off the wing and flown to UK, where manufacturer General Electric can examine it in Cardiff repair workshop. A spare engine will be mounted on the right wing but this will…
