United Flight #UA1516 to Houston, Texas, from Liberia, Costa Rica made an emergency landing after one of its engines overheated. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. N16234) planned to take off at 1225 LT had to burn fuel for about one hour over gulf of Mexico before returning to Liberia. Liberia Airport stopped traffic for a while to allow United Airlines…
Hi-Fly Airbus A340 (reg. CS-TQZ) suffered a taxiway excursion at Istanbul Ataturk Airport today. There were no passengers on board the Airbus 340 which landed from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft is belonging to a Portuguese airline. The plane landed at Ataturk Airport for maintenance and then headed to the hangar when…
On April 6, a federal air marshal left her loaded service weapon in the aircraft’s bathroom of Delta flight #DL221 from Manchester to New York JFK. A passenger found the weapon and returned it to a member of the flight crew, who returned it to the air marshal. The Air marshal didn’t report the incident…
JAI234 AMS-YYZ returned to Amsterdam after pressurization problems following a tailstrike on departure of runway 18C. The Boeing 777-300ER dumped fuel before landing and was parked on a remote stand. No damage visible from the outside.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating after a runway incursion at Toronto Pearson International Airport today. Safety board spokesperson Chris Krepski told they have sent a team of investigators to the airport to follow up on an incident that happened at the intersection of a taxiway and runway around 11 a.m. today. United flight…
Passengers on a flight from Aero Contractor, from Port Harcourt to Lagos in Nigeria on Tuesday, reported panic on the aircraft when the cabin was invaded by smoke. According to the passenger, 20 minutes after the take-off, smoke appeared onboard and for 35 minutes passengers were praying, screaming and panicking. The passenger also reported that the…
Flight #9W2882 with 60 passengers and 5 crew members on board had a nose wheel malfunction today when it landed at the IGI Airport in Delhi. A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight with 60 passengers and 5 crew members on board had a nose wheel malfunction today when it landed at the IGI Airport in Delhi.…
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…
