Over 30 people have been killed after Boeing 747-400F crashed into a small village in Kyrgyzstan. The aircraft was believed to be making a stop-over in Bishkek before continuing onto Istanbul. UPDATE Flight recorder retrieved from 747 crash debris. Turkish Airlines flight #TK6491 crashed at approximately 7:18 a.m. local time about two kilometers (1.2 miles)…
An air collision was avoided above Belgium on the night of 31 December to 1 January, between an Egyptian A300 cargo and an Air France A320 with passengers on board. The Directorate General of Belgian Air Transport (DGTA) confirmed the incident this weekend, after the Flemish newspaper VRT deredactie echoed it in its columns.…
A Qantas plane flown from Toowoomba blew two tyres when it landed at Sydney Airport on Sunday evening Qantas flight QF2123 was operated by a Bombardier Dash 8 with registration VH-QOV when it blew two tyres upon landing runway 16L. The runway was closed down for over an hour as engineers cleared the runway of…
An airplane operated by Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, made an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul after a passenger assaulted an air hostess. The MEA jet was heading from Beirut to London when the man attacked the stewardess and started hitting her. A brawl erupted aboard the plane when another passenger…
Investigators found a disturbing parallel between the initial alerts and the location of a phone and a tablet in the cockpit. An iPhone 6S and an iPad mini 4 and four perfume bottles including two aerosols were in the cockpit. So many apparently innocuous objects that are at the heart of the French investigation about the…
The Detroit Police Department is investigating the death of a man who was found dead on the runway of the Coleman A. Young Airport in Detroit. According to Detroit Police, an air traffic controller at the airport spotted something on the runway around noon. Security was called to investigate and said that the object was…
A plane carrying the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars landed safely at St. Louis Downtown Airport despite having smoke in the cockpit. The Stars 737 airplane took off at 11:52 a.m. to head to Los Angeles for their next game with the Kings, but less than five minutes into the flight had to turn around…
Flight Emirates #EK863 from Muscat was grounded after baggage handlers found the serpent in the cargo hold of the Boeing 777-300ER. A spokesperson for the airline, quoted by Dubai-based media, said the snake was found before passengers boarded the plane. The aircraft was searched before re-entering service and arriving at its destination several hours later.…
A Shaheen Air plane made emergency landing at Lahore Airport after one of its engines caught fire on Sunday. The flight #NL902 arriving from Manchester landed at its destination Alama Iqbal Airport using only one of its engines. According to spokesperson civil aviation authority, the engine of Airbus 330 had caught fire before landing.
The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter walked casually through baggage claim before suddenly pulling his gun out and wreaking havoc. TMZ has obtained video of the shooting (and decided to show only the seconds leading up to the first shots fired and the panic that ensued). The shooter, 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, with a 9 mm handgun…
