A Boeing 757 cargo plane had to make an emergency landing, shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, from Portland International Airport in Oregon after five ducks hit the plane. The impact with the birds caused problems in the engine forcing the plane to land, according to reports. The plane had taken off at about 6:30 p.m.…
A KLM Cityhopper plane en route from Nice to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing at Luxembourg’s airport on Monday.Around 140 kilometres away from Luxembourg, smoke started building up in the cabin and the pilot of the Embraer 190 decided to divert the plane to Luxembourg.Within 20 minutes the plane touched down in the…
Emergency services were standing by at Dublin Airport this evening after a flight landed with a burst tyre. Air France Flight 1016 is understood to have burst a tyre on departure from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris at around 6.30pm Irish time. Shortly before the scheduled flight was due to land in Dublin, the…
The Air Accident Investigation Unit said the co-pilot, who possesses an Irish flying license, took control of the October 2013 flight from East Midlands Airport in the UK to the Canary Islands after the main pilot fell unconscious following a bout of illness. The captain had been suffering from a head cold during the week…
Flight VN350, with 184 passengers and crewmembers on board, safely landed at the Hong Kong airport at 4:10 am (Hong Kong time) while it was flying from Ho Chi Minh City to Japan’s Fukuoka.The plane, an Airbus 321, had taken off at the city’s Tan Son Nhat Airport at 12:30 am the same day (Vietnam…
A United Boeing 737-800, N14235 was performing flight UA183 (1st Jan) from Guam to Manila with 146 passengers and 6 crew and was flying at 36,000ft over the Pacific Ocean and was about 70 minutes into the flight when the right hand engine needed to be shut down. The aircraft then drifted down to 22,000ft which…
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, N957WN was performing flight WN3395 from Phoenix to Houston Hobby with 140 passengers, where after departure the crew did not receive an indication that the gear had fully reached the uplock position. The aircraft stopped the climb at 10,000 feet and entered a hold for the crew to work checklists and…
No injuries were reported after an Air France Boeing 777-300 was forced to make an emergency landing at Trudeau Airport in Montreal Thursday afternoon. Air France flight AF54 which was carrying 152 passengers and 17 crew members, was en route from Paris, France to Washington D.C. Thursday afternoon when it diverted to Montreal. “We took…
The pilot of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 may have pulled off the perfect emergency water landing before being the plane was overcome by high seas and sank. While the hunt is on for the black boxes, several aviation experts believe the absence of any usual crash transmission data means the plane could have touched down…
A plane flying from New York to Doha made an emergency landing in Manchester to haul off a drunk male passenger on board. The Qatar Airways flight was diverted after the pilot decided he wanted to remove the man who was causing a disruption and had to be restrained by staff. The suspect was arrested…
A US Airways Express flight has made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport after passengers saw fiery flashes from one of the engines as the plane took off.The flight bound for Manchester, New Hampshire, quickly returned to the airport Monday morning before 75 passengers and crew boarded another plane and continued on.
