If the hunt for MH370 doesn’t turn up anything over the next few months, the head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the search of a 46,000-square-mile swath of the Indian Ocean will likely be called off by July, NBC News reports. Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan says the Malaysian, Chinese, and Australian governments, who…
Thomson Airways flight TOM38 was delayed at Gatwick while 25 passengers described as ‘drunk’ were removed from the flight. The Dreamliner was due to take off for Costa Rica when a large group of people started being abusive to cabin crew. Witnesses said that the flight was first delayed due to technical issues before the passengers…
EditA resident on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion who last year found a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on Sunday he had come across a second possible piece from the missing plane. Johnny Begue, who found the “flaperon” part while cleaning a beach last July, told AFP he handed over…
French aviation investigators are looking into a report that a drone narrowly missed a passenger plane during its approach to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. The co-pilot spotted the drone within about 5 metres (16 feet) of the wing of the Airbus A320 as it came in for a landing on February 19. The French…
Air Canada #AC873 to Toronto was forced to divert to London Heathrow after report of smoke in the cabin. ALERT Air Canada #AC873 to Toronto is diverting to London Heathrow https://t.co/RhTvQApnls pic.twitter.com/a6vTj7v3Cf — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) March 3, 2016 The flight was forced to turn around for a second time shortly before 6.30pm. ALERT Air Canada…
Jet Airways flight 9W354 on landing in Mumbai reported a technical fault with the main landing gear. All 120 passengers and 8 crew were safely disembarked. As per preliminary assessment of the aircraft by the Jet Airways engineering team, the right hand main landing gear has been damaged. Efforts are currently underway for recovery of the aircraft…
While being towed from Gate L3 to a remote hardstand to make way for other aircraft arrivals and departures, Frontier aircraft, tail registration N918FR, struck the tow vehicle that was towing it between gates at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD). There were no passengers on-board the plane at the time of the incident. Only an…
A cabin pressure problem forced the emergency landing of an Allegiant Air plane early this morning, March 2, at Jacksonville International Airport. Eturbonews reported that spokesperson Debbie Jones, spoke with First Coast News and confirmed that the plane landed safely at 8:13 a.m., and taxied to Gate C3. The flight, which originated from Orlando Sanford International…
Captain of Arabian Airlines flight #SV1734 from Bisha to Riyadh died after suffering a heart attack shortly before landing. According to Gulf Digital News report, co-pilot Rami Ghazi Batabara requested an emergency landing and safely landed the plane after alerting the control tower. “The aircraft and the passengers were not in danger for one moment as…
Security officials at Kenya’s major airports are on high alert this week after Kenya’s Airports Authority issued a warning to all airport managers about possible terror threats against the facilities. The internal memo, marked as “secret,” was sent to CNN and has been verified by a high-level source in the Kenyan aviation industry who received…
Two Israel Air Force fighter jets came “dangerously close” to the Ryanair passenger plane, which had 162 passengers on board, close to Ovda Airport, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the southern resort town of Eilat, Army Radio reported. The incident occurred at 27,000 feet. The Ryanair pilots prevented a crash by changing course…
A Spicejet flight had to make an emergency landing in Kolkata today after one of its tyres blasted. The incident took place around 8:30 PM and the flight SG 517 was travelling from Bengaluru to Kolkata. The pilots were able to land the flight safely.
