Hacker attack at LOT Polish Airlines flight scheduling system at Warsaw Chopin Airport. Many domestic and international flights are canceled LOT statement:Today afternoon LOT encountered IT attack, that affected our ground operation systems. As a result we’re not able to create flight plans and outbound flights from Warsaw are not able to depart. We’d like…
Fire in the cargo hold forced a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight to make an emergency landing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Sunday evening. Singapore Airlines flight SQ425 from Mumbai to Singapore, carrying 190 passengers touched down in Sepang at about 3.55pm, after reporting a “technical error”. Fire and Rescue Department officers were despatched to…
A flight bound for Copenhagen was forced to make an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport Friday evening. The Scandinavian Airlines Flight 0936 left SFO at 5:31 p.m. bound for Denmark. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. The plane was diverted back to SFO. While on the way back, the…
A plane flying from the Siberian city of Irkutsk to Moscow on Friday was forced to make an emergency landing at Chelyabinsk’s Balandino airport because of a singing passenger, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. According to Elena Epimakhova, a representative of the Urals region headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the incident took place around 6:30 a.m. local time. “The plane requested a landing and landed at the airport in Chelyabinsk. One…
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A stowaway is believed to have fallen to his death after clinging to the bottom of a British Airways jet as it flew over west London yesterday. The man reportedly plunged from the the British Airways Boeing 747 on to the offices of a clothes business in Richmond. He is said to have held onto…
Two commercial planes flirted with disaster tonight after beginning their takeoffs on intersecting runways at Chicago Midway International Airport, the Chicago Tribune reports. “Stop, stop, stop, stop!” an air controller can be heard shouting on a recording of the incident posted at LiveATC.net. The two pilots—one on Southwest flight 3828, the other on Delta Air Lines…
Earlier this evening, a hot air balloon lost height, landed safely outside Gaywood surgery, North Street. No harm done, doctors not required, just a lot of social media activity and red faced crew.
An airplane made an emergency landing at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport on Tuesday afternoon due to a broken window. The Wizz Air airplane was conducting flight number W64363 from Sofia to Bologna with 173 passengers on board, daily Sega reports. The airplane had taken off from Sofia and was above the Serbian city of Nis, when…
The Transportation Safety Board says there were no mechanical problems with an Air Canada passenger jet that crashed about 200 metres short of the runway at the Halifax airport in March. The independent board issued a statement today saying the Airbus 320 was correctly configured for landing, its air speed was consistent with a normal…
