UPDATE 10:28 UTC British Airways is confirming AIRLIVE.net the pilot of #BA68 has requested a priority landing after a medical emergency on board. UPDATE 10:12 UTC We have confirmation British Airways #BA68 safely landed runway 09L at Heathrow. More details soon on this page. UPDATE 09:55 UTC British Airways #BA68 has no serious technical issue…
A Charlotte bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Phoenix on Thursday, after a bird hit the aircraft, damaging the pilot’s windscreen. The bird strike occurred when American Airlines flight AA713 has just taken off from Las Vegas and was climbing through 15,000 feet. Matt Miller, An airline spokesman, said none…
United Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight UA900 from London Heathrow diverted to New-York Newark airport due to copilot broken leg. He had broken it the day before, not during the flight. Pilots planned to fly to Newark as it didn’t have enough crew to fly to San Francisco according to regulations state to fly the distance…
British Airways Boeing 777 flight #BA74 from Lagos suffered a bird strike this morning on approach to Heathrow Friend of mine operating a B777 @ LHR this morning "met" a bird on approach #avgeek #crewlife #boeing @airlivenet pic.twitter.com/UEKCOWJpwM — Joe Smith (@Joeyoneear) April 19, 2016
A SpiceJet flight (SG487) from Mumbai to Kolkata was stranded at the Nagpur airport on Sunday night due to a technical snag. SpiceJet does not have regular service from Nagpur so there is no support or ground staff here. The plane therefore had to wait at Nagpur till a Spicejet Engineer could check it. A…
An Emirates flight made an emergency landing at Larnaca airport on Monday after a passenger fell ill. The A380 aircraft was headed to the UK from Dubai when it asked for permission to land at Larnaca airport at around 6pm due to a medical emergency before departing for Manchester at 8pm. This was the first…
A four-month-old baby girl died on board a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from London to Hong Kong over the weekend, leaving the parents inconsolable. According to Apple Daily, a Chinese-French couple took Cathay’s CX256 flight from Heathrow Airport on Sunday along with their infant daughter. The family was planning to take a transfer flight to…
Jet2 flight LS232 was on route into Leeds from Barcelona and had 2 failed attempts at landing due to wind. The first attempt was an unstable approach and the second was wind shear at 500ft causing a +25kt speed increase which caused the second go around. Aircraft diverted to Doncaster due to low fuel.
Last night the Iberia A330-200 flight #IB6012 with from Montevideo to Madrid 268 passengers on board diverted to Fortaleza due to a cabin fire. All passengers and crew are fine.
