A cargo Boeing 737-400 from Paris (CDG) suffered a runway excursion at Bergame-Orio al Serio (Italy) on landing at around 4h local time. The Boeing chartered by DHL failed to stop on runway 28 and continued to a highway. The crew (two pilots) were not injured. The crew, composed of a captain and a first officer, was unhurt.…
Two Indigo aircraft escaped colliding with one another over Guwahati, leaving some passengers and crew members shaken and needing medical aid, officials said on Wednesday. At least four passengers and two cabin crew were shaken by the near disaster, a spokesman for Indigo Airlines said. The passengers complained of giddiness while the cabin crew needed…
A Qantas flight has been forced to return to Sydney with a technical snag. The Airbus A380 registered VH-OQI was flying at 31,000ft when it made rapid descent to 9,800ft at -6,000ft per minute. From a Qantas spokesperson “The captain of yesterday’s QF1 from Sydney to Dubai decided to return to Sydney about an hour…
The airline said flight WS142 landed safely in Thunder Bay at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday after a phone caller warned there was an explosive device on board the Boeing 737-type aircraft. The flight was scheduled to arrive in Ottawa at 11:45 p.m. Thunder Bay police said in a statement “125 passengers and the crew … were…
An Emirates Boeing 777 has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport, before bursting into flames on the runway. Emirates airline has confirmed that a jet carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew has been “involved in an accident”. The flight involved was EK521 coming from Kerala, India. The Boeing 777 attempted to go around from low height but did not…
Easyjet flight U27688 Airbus A320 from Basel to Lisbon declared an emergency. Reload the page for updates… UPDATE 2113UTC Easyjet flight U27688 diverted to Toulouse due to a technical issue. UPDATE 2021UTC Easyjet flight U27688 safely landed runway 32L in Toulouse. UPDATE 2015UTC Easyjet flight U27688 starting final approach to Toulouse. UPDATE 2004UTC Easyjet flight U27688 is diverting to Toulouse.
An Iraqi plane carrying 216 passengers made an emergency landing late Sunday at Kuwait International Airport. The plane, which took off from Baghdad airport towards New Delhi, made the emergency landing at Kuwait airport after discovering a technical failure in one of the engines. The Boeing 767 landed safely.
#BREAKING Air China passengers evacuated at Beijing international airport, details to follow pic.twitter.com/SA4S2kzI8R — CCTVNEWS (@cctvnews) July 31, 2016 Air China flight #CA1661 from Beijing to Changchun interrupted take off from after possible engine fire. The Boeing 737-800 was evacued.
A Boeing 737-800 (reg. D-ASXO) of the Turkish airline Sun Express #XG3264 skidded off runway into the grass at Stuttgart airport. The aircraft was on the grass, but too close to the runway which was immediatly closed and all flights diverted. 200 passengers were on board the Boeing. The traffic resumed before 1600 local time. According to a…
Lisbon airport was closed for about 30 minutes on Saturday, at about 2030LT due to an unidentified persons close to the runway. Five TAP flights were diverted to Porto and Faro. Source
At least 16 people were feared dead after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture near the central Texas city of Lockhart on Saturday morning in one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record. The Federal Aviation Administration said the crash occurred near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south…
A Jetstar and an AirAsia plane came dangerously close to a midair collision after taking off from the Gold Coast, China’s Xinhua news agency reported Australian authorities as saying. It was reported that the AirAsia Airbus A330 (flight D7206) on its way to New Zealand came within 152 metres of a Jetstar flight that was…
