An Antonov An-74 freight plane of Ukraine’s CAVOK Air airline has crashed in Sao Tome and Principe Island in Central Africa, and the plane crew was injured, Deputy Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lavreniuk has said. “An hour ago An-74 freight plane of Ukraine’s CAVOK Air airline crashed while taking off from Sao Tome Island.…
A Jet2 aircraft has made a second emergency landing in as many weeks after an apparent recurrence of a technical problem. A flight from Ibiza to Leeds was diverted to Barcelona on 16 July. On Friday, the same plane was diverted to Frankfurt after a similar incident, Jet2 confirmed. It said passenger safety had not…
A Boeing 767 of DHL suffered tailstrike on landing yesterday at Lahore Airport.
An Atlasjet flight from Istanbul to North Cyprus was damaged by hail and had to return. The Airbus A320 departed from Istanbul Ataturk Airport when it reached 5,000 feet and was damaged by hail storm. The windshield cracked and the radom was damaged. The plane returned to Istanbul Atatürk Airport with 121 passengers on board. The footage of…
An unruly passenger on United flight 898 from Houston to New Orleans forced pilots to make an emergency landing. Just 25 minutes into the flight, passengers say a woman seated in the back row started yelling and hitting the wall of the plane. “I hear a woman screaming in the back of the plane, you…
Air India has grounded two pilots who forgot to retract aircraft landing gear after take off and then flew all the way from Kolkata to Nagpur with the wheels out. While the flight’s destination was Mumbai, flying with the wheels out meant flying low and more fuel burn due to which the plane had to land…
Lufthansa flight #LH543 from Bogota to Frankfurt had to land at Manchester Airport after a woman gave birth on board. The Airbus A340 (reg. D-AIFC) landed at 13:15 local time and is scheduled to refuel and take off in about one hour to Frankfurt.
Travellers were evacuated from Perth Airport this afternoon after an alarm was evacuated. Hundreds of flight passengers stood in the car park of the domestic airport while the alarm was investigated about 2pm. A Perth airport spokesperson confirmed the alarm sounded after someone activated a “break glass” emergency system. It was deemed a false alarm…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK617 from Istanbul Ataturk International Airport to Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport was forced to divert to Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport today due to a bomb threat. The Boeing 777 (reg. TC-JJR) diverted to Algiers today after the Turkish company received a message of a bomb on board the plane from a…
A Boeing 737-800 operated by Kenya Airways suffered damages to the fuselage at Nairobi-Jomo International, Kenya. A tow truck hit the right side of the plane, causing serious damage to the fuselage. The plane was being prepared to flight to Johannesburg, South Africa had been damaged during the night at 11.23 local time.
Photos emerged of a tourist throwing an object to a plane on approach to Princess Juliana Airport, St Maarten. A video of still pictures is showing a tourist in the sea throwing a ball to Amerijet Boeing 767 over the world famous Maho Beach. However this has still be be confirmed as the distance between the man and the plane is…
A man from Middlesbrough has slammed an airline after his oxygen mask failed to drop during a plane’s 30,000ft dive to an emergency landing. John Hatfield was forced to frantically rip down a metal panel to access his safety mask when the Jet2 plane he was travelling on was forced to land 35 minutes into…
