Iranian state television reported on Thursday a Mahan Air passenger flight was approached by an unidentified fighter jet in Syrian skies, forcing the plane to take emergency measures that caused injuries among the passengers. The flight was en route from Tehran to Beirut and was in Syrian airspace when the alleged incident occurred. Please reload…
An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Fire broke out from the tail of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft around 4pm and developed rapidly. The cabin roof near the tail was burnt through and the plane became engulfed in heavy smoke. The Shanghai Fire Control Bureau said…
A man that fell from around 3,500 feet and landed in a Clapham back garden is still yet to be identified more than a year on from the incident. The suspected stowaway fell from a Kenya Airways flight that was preparing to land at Heathrow Airport a short distance away. He is believed to have…
Iran’s AAIB team has arrived at BEA in Paris with flight data recorder (FDR) & cockpit voice recorder (CVR). A technical cooperation program agreement has been signed between. Technical work on the Cockpit Voice Recorder: visual inspection, assessment & opening. The cockpit voice recorder data – including the event itself – has been successfully downloaded.…
Iran has sent the black box of a Ukrainian passenger plane which was accidentally downed in Tehran earlier this year to France. Iran’s deputy foreign minister said the black boxes were taken to Paris on Friday and would be read on Monday. Iran initially denied responsibility for the incident, which came amid heightened tensions with…
Police are at Oslo Airport after a bomb threat against a Ryanair plane that came from Stansted airport in London. The plane has landed safely. According to police, the plane received the bomb threat while it was in the air. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE A 51-year-old British man has been arrested. He…
A plane carrying aid to the flood victims in Beledweyne and other parts of the region has crashed in Beledweyne, the regional capital of Hiran region, Somalia. The plane crashed at Beledweyne airport, carrying aid from Djibouti The three crew members were rescued. According to local sources the aircraft ID was 5Y-VVU, a 1999 built…
An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a black passenger threatens to kill everyone on board if they don’t “accept that Jesus was a black man”. An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Seattle, Washington on Saturday after a passenger threatened to…
A flight from Krakow to Dublin was forced to land after a note was discovered in a toilet claiming there were explosives on board. The Ryanair flight was diverted to Stansted Airport where Essex Police officers were carrying out checks. Ryanair’s FR1902 flight left Krakow in Poland for Dublin at about 4.30pm. Two RAF Typhoon…
Iran blames bad communication, alignment for jet shootdown. Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people. The report released late Saturday by Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization comes months after the crash. The shootdown happened…
An IndiGo flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Kashmir, India was rocked by severe turbulence on Saturday, causing people on board to scream in terror. The IndiGo flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Kashmir, India on Saturday encountered severe turbulence ten minutes from touchdown when the plane began to shudder. A constant low-level shaking that…
A flight attendant employed by American Airlines died during a recent flight, the airline announced. Joe Tormes, a flight attendant based in St. Louis, passed away suddenly on July 5. Tormes was working a flight with his wife Elsa Jett-Tormes when he died, airline officials told employees in a letter The steward had worked for…
