File picture Due to an incident onboard an easyJet aircraft from Manchester to Morocco this afternoon, as a precautionary measure, passengers were taken off board whilst police investigated. Manchester police said they were called at about 3.30pm following reports that a passenger claimed to have a bomb in his bag. The aircraft was immediately evacuated…
UPDATE Polish Small Planet Airlines says passenger who made bomb threat at flight to Egypt said ‘it was only a joke’ – statement Polski samolot awaryjnie wylądował w Bułgarii. “64-letni mężczyzna poinformował że ma bombę” – TVN24. Fałszywy alarm pic.twitter.com/QEOEwXPOvZ — Łukasz Woźnicki (@lukaszwoznicki) November 19, 2015 A plane flying from Warsaw to Egyptian resort…
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A spokesman for British Airways said a passenger on board a Boston-bound flight from London tried to open one of the doors of the plane. The woman was restrained after trying to open what the airline said was an exit door.
On August 1 last year, a Boeing 737-838 (VH-VZR) operated by Qantas performed a “tailstrike” while taking off from Sydney airport. Today, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has concluded that the strike was caused by the co-pilot fat-fingering the plane’s takeoff weight: instead of typing the plane’s actual weight of 76,400kg into the iPad,…
18 years ago, a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 Crash lands at London Heathrow with partial undercarriage failure. Investigation discovered that a 4 inch metal pin belonging to the left braking system had worked loose during take-off and had become lodged in such a way as to keep the wheel-doors from opening. (function(d, s, id) {…
UPDATE #BA56 British Airways A380 safely landed runway 21R at Johannesburg after 2h30 flight. UPDATE British Airways A380 flight #BA56 is dumping/burning fuel west of Johannesburg https://t.co/nimcSB9JZs pic.twitter.com/5y7r3FYHIV — AirLive.net (@airlivenet) November 15, 2015 ALERT British Airways A380 flight #BA56 to London LHR is returning to Johannesburg. Track: https://t.co/nimcSB9JZs pic.twitter.com/0rOHeLqAWM — AirLive.net (@airlivenet) November 15,…
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The Shaheen Air International pilot commandeering flight NL-142 which crash-landed at Lahore airport earlier this month was intoxicated and fatigued at the time of landing, a medical report reveals. In an official press release by the Civil Aviation Authority titled ‘Snap/random medical tests of cockpit and cabin crew’, the CAA stated that it has conducted…
