LATAM Airlines found a bullet hole in a wing of a Boeing 767-300 during a maintenance inspection in Brazil, the company said Wednesday. The aircraft was examined during a routine inspection on Sunday after the plane flew to New York, Barcelona and Lima last week. “There is no way to be sure where it happened.…
A 69-year-old passenger died on Wednesday morning after an emergency landing at Afonso Pena International Airport in Sao Jose dos Pinhais, Brazil. The passenger was on board KLM flight #KL701 from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to the press office, the Boeing 777-300 (reg. PH-BVF) diverted to Afonso Pena airport around 6:50 am…
Lufthansa flight #LH1034 skidded off taxiway after landing in Paris CDG Airport at around 1.40 pm on Wednesday. UPDATE 1443 UTC We have more details: the aircraft was taxiing to the stand when the left main gear wheel stuck in the grass. UPDATE 1440 UTC No impact on traffic. UPDATE 1435 UTC Return flight #LH1035 is cancelled. The…
Two planes clipped each other on the ground at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday afternoon, the Port Authority said. American Airlines Flight 1365, a Boeing 737, struck American Eagle Flight 4548 as it was leaving from the D gate at Terminal B, the airline and the Port Authority said. The American Eagle aircraft was being operated by…
A Germany-bound Eurowings passenger flight from Oman landed in Kuwait on Sunday over a bomb threat but no explosives were found on board, authorities said. Eurowings said there were 287 passengers and 10 crew members on board the flight, which was being flown by SunExpress on its behalf. The plane (reg. D-AXGF) from Salalah…
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…
