A Qatar Airways flight that took off from Dulles International Airport near here on Saturday night and bound for Doha made an emergency landing in Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, roughly 1,200 miles southeast of Newfoundland, after hitting a massive air pocket, according to passengers. QR708, which contained dozens of Indian Americans and…
The captain of the KLM aircraft fell unconscious as he was about to leave for Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The crew resuscitated him with the help of a passenger. The co-pilot of the plane, which had 128 people on board, took the aircraft back to the gate. The flight was supposed to leave Saturday at around…
A drunken airline passenger on his way to a funeral threw a punch at an stewardess at 30,000ft after downing four gin and tonics. Guy Lardinois ended up with a broken leg after being ‘rugby tackled’ by another passenger on the Turkish Airlines flight TK1995 from Istanbul to Manchester. The Belgian national had been approached…
My @SouthwestAir flight from PHL to MCO was diverted to Charleston because a woman went into labor. Flight crew did a great job. pic.twitter.com/63yVrkWWRL — Izzy Gould (@IzzyGould) December 4, 2016 A Southwest Airlines airplane headed to Orlando made an emergency landing after a baby was born in the middle of the flight. Airline spokeswoman…
A United Express Embraer E175 had to make an emergency landing at San Antonio International Airport on Sunday at about 2pm. The plane was on its way from Houston to Mexico when the crew reported landing gear issues. Authorities said 55 people were safely evacuated from the plane via emergency slide. San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Woody Woodward said…
A de-icing truck collided with the side of the turbine engine of an Airbus A320 on a parking stand at Dublin Airport yesterday morning. The plane was being de-iced at approximately 6.20am when the rig used to de-ice the plane reportedly malfunctioned and rolled into the engine. The airline brought a reserve aircraft into service…
The wing tips of two aircraft collided at Mumbai Airport today. The incident happened when the wings of an incoming Kuwait Airways aircraft and an outbound IndiGo narrow body aircraft clipped before 6am when it was still dark. The sharklet of an IndiGo Airbus A-320 (reg. V-TIFP) was damaged. The plane returned to the…
A woman who jumped from a plane at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport is being evaluated at a county mental health facility. Houston police tell Eyewitness News the woman was taken to the Neuropsychiatric Center at Ben Taub Hospital. The Harris County District Attorney’s office has declined to press charges against her and the FBI has…
A United Airlines Boeing 747 airline bound for Tokyo rdumped fuel and eturned safely to San Francisco International airport Monday after eyewitnesses reported hearing a loud bang and seeing flames coming out of its engine. Officials at SFO said Flight #UA837, flying from SFO to Narita International Airport, had to shut down one of its…
Several passengers have been injured after a China Eastern flight from Kunming/Wujiaba hit heavy turbulence coming in to Sydney International Airport. Passengers described their horror as the China Eastern plane Flight #MU777 suddenly dropped, resulting in multiple injuries including three who suffered neck injuries, one a lacerate jaw and another a broken wrist. The two…
An Aerospace 146 Avro RJ85 carrying the Brazil’s Chapecoense football team has crashed in Colombia, en route to the Copa Sudamericana finals. Investigators say it is ‘very suspicious’ that the plane did not explode on impact as it smashed into a mountain on its way from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin. A surviving flight…
The American firefighting aircraft nicknamed the Supertanker has landed at Ben Gurion Airport to help fire crews on the ground and in the air to extinguish a series of fires raging around the country, especially in the hills surrounding Jerusalem.
