A Thomson flight to Bristol was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot’s windscreen cracked at 30,000ft. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. G-OOBB) from Gran Canaria was forced to divert to Porto, Portugal after the damage meant the pilots had to drop from 30,000ft to 10,000ft last night. “The cockpit windscreen was cracked so had to…
All 12 people on board a police helicopter that crashed in Turkey have died. It disappeared ten minutes after taking off from a town in the east of the country. Seven police officers, a judge, a soldier and three crew members were on board. The interior minister says the accident was caused by bad weather…
An aircraft has crashed into a supermarket car park in Portugal. The plane is thought to have been carrying four people, with witnesses saying it exploded in mid-air. It came down near the Lidl Supermarket in Tires, near the coastal town of Cascais, which is 20 miles west of Lisbon. Tragédia há momentos na zona…
Thomson flight #BY108 aborted takeoff this morning due to ‘smoke under the carriage’. The runway was shut down while the Dreamliner, which had been due to head to the Barbados capital Bridgetown at 10.45am, was met by fire engines. It has been escorted back to the apron for inspection, with passengers understood to be still…
A United Nation helicopter crashed on takeoff today at Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Fairbanks International Airport was evacuated at about 9 p.m. Wednesday due to a threat that had been received by telephone. Airport spokeswoman Angie Spear declined to provide details of the nature of the threat but said in an interview shortly before 10:30 p.m. that the incident had concluded. “It was a threat that was called…
The ATSB has today released a preliminary report into the in-flight propeller detachment involving a Regional Express SAAB 340 aircraft near Sydney Airport on 17 March 2017. The REX aircraft, VH-NRX, at Sydney airport after the incident. The ATSB’s inspection of the aircraft identified that the propeller shaft fractured, leading to the separation of the…
The ATSB is investigating a stick shaker activation involving a Qantas Boeing 747, VH-OJU, 110 km SE of Hong Kong (BETTY IFR), on 7 April 2017. While holding at flight level 220, the flight crew received a stick shaker activation and detected airframe buffeting. The flight crew disconnected the autopilot and manoeuvred the aircraft in…
Lineas Aereas Suramericanas charter flight overran the runway at Bogota on Monday after rejected takeoff. The Boeing 727-200F (reg. HK1271) performing charter flight from Bogota to Pasto (Colombia) overran runway 13R. The aircraft had to reject takeoff at high speed for a reason unknown. The aircraft stopped at about 150m after the runway. Aeronautic Civil is investigating the…
A Reuters photographer at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport said on Tuesday there was black smoke rising from a part of the airfield where planes are parked. UPDATE 1333 UTC End of fire. UPDATE 1330 UTC Russian authorities says fire from direction of Vnukovo airport in Moscow is due to burning grassland. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson…
