A passenger is facing up to 10 years in jail after he allegedly attempted to open a door of a Sydney-bound Qantas A380 above the Pacific Ocean on January 17. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Qantas A380 was cruising at 39,000 feet from Los Angeles, more than an hour away from Sydney when a passenger left his seat and…
A United Airlines flight set to depart from New York to Denver early Thursday morning hit a fuel truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport, according to a United spokesman. It was the second collision of the week. United Flight #UA1561 hit the truck during pushback. The tip of the plane’s winglet collided, causing very…
A Qantas flight from Auckland to Melbourne has turned back after a passenger died following a heart attack. The adult male suffered a cardiac arrest and died during Thursday morning’s flight #QF152, a St John’s ambulance spokeswoman confirmed. The flight departed at 0610LT with a nurse on board who helped cabin crew, a Qantas spokesman told NZ…
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…
