A plane overran a runway at Cape Yakataga on Saturday, Oct. 10, said Federal Aviation Administration airway transportation systems specialist Rick Sudano. Images of the scene show damage to the Douglas DC-4 (reg. N96358) cargo plane’s nose, with the front landing-gear wheel detached and lying on the grass nearby. Although the plane was carrying fuel,…
For the second time in two months, a person flying in a jet pack was reportedly spotted Wednesday above Los Angeles International Airport. Around 1:45 p.m., a China Airlines crew reported seeing “what appeared to be someone in a jet pack” at an altitude of roughly 6,000 feet about seven miles northwest of the airport,…
An Aer Caribe Antonov An-32 cargo plane has crashed during landing at Iquitos Airport, Peru. Footage from the scene shows that the An-32 suffered a runway excursion at Iquitos Airport with the right wing separated from the fuselage. The aircraft was performing a cargo flight from Lima. The Antonov An-32 stopped on the left of…
A United Airbus A320-200 returned back to Chicago O’Hare after suffering windshield cracks on Monday afternoon while it was operating flight to Washington Dulles. The aircraft was hit by hail during initial climb. The aircraft with registration N462UA was operating flight to Washington as UA349. The aircraft suffered captain’s windshied crack after it was hit…
A Lufthansa Cargo Boeing 777-200 freighter returned back to Frankfurt after the crew declared Mayday due to unreliable airspeed. The crew reported an altitude issue. The Luftansa Cargo Boeing 777F, with registration D-ALFG, was operating flight GEC-8402 from Frankfurt Airport, Germany to Shanghai Pudong International, China. The crew declared Mayday, reporting unreliable airspeed, when the…
Five people have died after two small planes crashed mid-air in France. An ultralight two-person plane collided midair with a tourist plane in Loches, Indre-et-Loire at around 4.45pm local time. The ultralight crashed on the fence around a house and the DR400 crashed several hundred metres away in an uninhabited area. All five people involved…
The search for the flight MH370 has seen a new twist after media reports said pieces of a plane had washed ashore recently on a beach in Queensland, Australia. The debris was discovered by Mick Elcoate, who was fishing in the area on 5 October. Elcoate told The Australian newspaper that he initially thought that…
Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350-1000 “Queen of Hearts” has been damaged at London Heathrow. The nose gear of the aircraft has been damaged during tug maneuver. The pins holding a bar on the gear that the tow bar attaches to have fallen out. The right hand tyre of the front landing gear was damaged during the…
About 40 environmental activists were arrested after entering the tarmac at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport on Saturday, October 3. The militants “broke in” around 9 am through a fence and were “blocked by the police at Terminal 2A on the tarmac”, where several planes were parked. The airport said the activists didn’t reach the runways. The Action…
An American Airlines Airbus A320 made an emergency landing shortly after departure at a higher than normal speed at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport due to flaps problem. The aircraft was operating American flight #AA578 from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The aircraft suffered a flaps problem on departure. After facing…
A Qatar Airways Boeing 747-8F suffered the hydraulic system 1 failure when the aircraft was descending towards Doha. The hydraulic System failure had depleted all its hydraulic fluid. The 747-8 freighter was performing flight QR-8222 from Frankfurt to Doha, when the aircraft suffered the failure and the crew declared an emergency on 28th September. After…
An Anadolujet Boeing 737-800 operating on behalf of Turkish Airlines suffered in flight engine shut down when it was climbing out of Kars’ runway 24. The number 1 engine failed with a large boom sending out streaks of flames. The aircraft was performing Turkish flight TK-7091 from Kars to Ankara. After suffering engine failure, the…
