Officials say an airplane bound for Seattle made an emergency landing in Pasco, Washington, on Thursday. No one was hurt.The plane operated by Horizon Air left Boise with 76 passengers and four crew members. It landed at Tri-Cities Airport just after 4 p.m.Cole Cosgrove, a spokesman for Alaska Airlines, a sister company to Horizon, says…
The short-distance Air Canada flight 8481 to Grande Prairie from Calgary was forced to crash-land after a tire burst during take-off on Thursday night. Emergency crews immediately responded to aid and assist the dazed 71 passengers. But there was more than meets the eye. When the Jazz Aviation craft hit the ground, its’ landing gear…
A DHC-8-400 of Air Canada Express suffered a right hand main gear collapse on runway 02/20 at Edmonton International Airport, AB (YEG). Preliminary reports indicate that the airplane experienced a blown tire upon take-off from Calgary Airport about 19:41 hours local time. Strong winds at Calgary made the crew decide to divert to Edmonton to…
140 passengers of a Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight from Surat had a narrow escape on Thursday evening when the aircraft hit a stray buffalo on the runway, as it was about to take-off. Due to the hit, the aircraft’s engine suffered damage and the take-off had to be aborted. The incident occurred around 7 pm. “A…
Last night American Airlines Boeing 767 flight #AA992 from Belo Horizonte (Brazil) to Miami had engine damaged few minutes after departure and returned to Belo Horizonte for emergency landing.
An Alitalia plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Wednesday evening after being struck by lightning. There were “moments of fear” but no injuries among the 51 passengers and crew on board the plane, which had been travelling to the capital from Ancona. The pilot made the emergency landing…
A hijack code coming from Virgin Atlantic Flight 45 from London to JFK Airport in New York resulted in the plane being diverted to Canada Friday morning. The flight, carrying 271 passengers and 17 crew members, was diverted to Canada escorted by Canadian fighter jets scrambled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The jets…
Chinese aviation authorities have defended their handling of a Beijing-bound passenger aircraft’s diversion to an eastern city after a newspaper alleged that the flight’s pilots had been forced to declare an emergency as its fuel ran low. Pilots of the Beijing-bound China Eastern Airlines MU750 declared an emergency when smog forced the plane to divert and…
On 31 March 2007, a Volga-Dnepr Airlines Antonov AN 124-100 (registration RA-82078, serial number 38718017006) was being operated as VDA 2100 on a flight from Greer, South Carolina, United States, to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. On arrival in Gander, the crew completed an approach to Runway 03/21. The aircraft touched down at 0216 Newfoundland daylight…
