Severe turbulence caused injuries to seven people aboard United Flight UA15 from Newark to Honolulu on Saturday. Rain and winds up to 60 mph buffeted the Hawaiian islands over the weekend, causing trouble for at least six other flights, though all landed without incident. Four crew members were taken to the hospital, along with a…
An Air France #AF267 Boeing 777 carrying 290 passengers made an emergency landing Sunday in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg with no casualties, reported the Tass news agency. The airliner was en route from Seoul to Paris and the plane had left engine failure.
A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu with 234 people aboard had divert to Hawaii’s Big Island because of a mechanical issue. The airline says in a statement that Flight 1559 encountered a mechanical issue Thursday with one of the plane’s two engines. The flight landed safely in Hilo and another plane…
Flight FR3131 from London Stansted to Paphos had to land in Budapest.The flight diverted to Budapest after a passenger became ill on board. The flight carrying 182 passengers and six crew had been expected at Paphos at 4.50pm.It was re-scheduled for 6.55pm.
A plane carrying Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was forced to make an emergency landing at Sofia airport on Wednesday because of a problem with the landing gear, BNT state television reported. The problem occurred when the aircraft’s landing gear failed to retract shortly after it took off for Brussels, the network said. The…
An Air Canada jet airliner carrying nearly 120 passengers made an emergency landing in Anchorage Tuesday night after its oil pressure began dropping, according to an airline spokesperson. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off from Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday afternoon en route to Narita, Japan. About 5 hours and 30 minutes after leaving Vancouver, the…
Ryanair flight FR3326 flight Krakow (Poland) – Shannon (Ireland) took off around 22:00 local time and was in flight from less than an hour when pilots were alerted that one of the passengers warned the crew that he had a bomb with him and threatened to detonate. The pilots then immediately diverted to Schönefeld Airport…
