Passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth evacuated via slides after the Airbus A330 was forced to return as the cabin filled with smoke. Qantas said flight 575 returned to Sydney shortly after takeoff on Sunday morning due to a hydraulic issue. “Once back at the gate, the captain made the decision to…
Ethiopian Airlines aircraft has skidded off the runway at Juba Airport. Ethiopian Airlines DHC-8-400 has skidded off the runway during takeoff in adverse weather conditions at Juba Airport, South Sudan. The DHC8-Q402 was performing flight #ET355 on runway 31. The left main gear gave way causing damage to the left wing. The left propeller was…
Liverpool airport has been closed after a plane came off the runway. A spokesman for Liverpool John Lennon Airport said no one was injured when the private jet, carrying three crew and one passenger, came off the runway after landing at about 6am on Wednesday. UPDATE Involved aircraft is a Bombardier Global 6000 (reg. 9H-VJM).…
A man suffering a panic attack tried to open the door of a British Airways flight to Saudi Arabia in midair but was stopped by fellow passengers, including the brother of the boxer Dillian Whyte. The incident occurred on Monday night about an hour before BA flight 263 from Heathrow to Riyadh was due to…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an evacuation slide fell off a plane and landed in a Milton backyard on Sunday. The pilot of Delta Air Lines Flight 405 from Paris, France, reported a loud noise as the plane approached Boston Logan International Airport around noon, according to the FAA. Workers discovered that the…
All passengers were evacuated onto the taxiway as operations were suspended for 15 minutes while this incident was ongoing. Operating flight LO641 to Bucharest, Romania for LOT, ES-ACD was taxying towards Runway 29 for departure when smoke filled the cabin and an evacuation was ordered. Multiple inbound aircraft were forced to hold until operations were…
An erupting volcano in Mexico forced KLM #KL685 with horses on board to return to Amsterdam after an 11-hour flight. Flight #KL685 took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and made it all the way to eastern Canada when the crew realized that a volcanic eruption in Mexico meant that the flight wouldn’t be able to…
The fuselage of Boeing 777X aircraft was split by a high-pressure rupture just as it approached its target stress level during a test in early September. The Seattle Times said photos it had obtained of the test on the 777X showed that the extent of the damage was greater than previously disclosed. During the final…
A Turkish Airlines clipped an Ethiopian Airlines plane at Kinshasa Airport. The wing of a Turkish Airlines A330-200F (reg. TC-JOV) clipped horizontal stabilizer of an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350-900 (reg. ET-AWO). The incident took place on the taxiway of Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, DR Congo.
An Air Canada Boeing 787 plane that was flying across the Atlantic from London Heathrow to Toronto instead landed in Dublin after a crack in its windshield was noticed mid-flight. Air Canada confirmed that flight 857 was diverted to Dublin “due to a cracked Captain’s side window” while there were 254 passengers on board. The…
A piece of an Airbus plane has fallen in flight. The piece was was found in a garden of a man in the town of Daux, 10 km from Toulouse, we learned Tuesday. An Airbus spokesman confirmed to AFP that the piece was “a piece of an Airbus plane”. “An investigation is in progress,” he…
A Boeing 737 with 88 people on board suffered a serious landing gear malfunction when touching down in Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday, causing it to list to one side, with one engine scraping the ground. The landing gear on the right side of the Venezuelan Avior Airlines plane collapsed, causing the aircraft to tilt dramatically…
