Two men were met by police when easyJet flight #U26980 touched down in Edinburgh Airport after travelling from Copenhagen, Denmark, yesterday afternoon Two men were arrested when an easyJet flight from Copenhagen to Edinburgh touched down today amid claims of a “violent confrontation”. Fellow travellers said areas of the cabin were ‘covered in blood’ and that cabin crew had…
A Bombardier DHC 8-300 was forced to make emergency landing in Lokichar, Turkana County after it developed mechanical problems. The plane with registration number 5Y-CGH was headed to Nairobi when the incident occurred at Kapese Airstrip on Friday morning. “At 9:54am, Fly540’s DASH8 300 had a suspected foreign object strike which led to an engine…
A Rossiya Boeing 777 to Bangkok just made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport supposedly due to a cracked windshield. A Boeing 777-300ER flight #SU6275 from Moscow SVO to Bangkok performed an emergency landing at Moscow VKO Airport due to a technical issue, a Russia airline representative said in a statement. A reserve airplane…
A runway was closed after the nose gear of an A321 broke during landing at Istanbul Airport. The Turkish airlines A321 was performing flight #TK1598 from Frankfurt to Istanbul when the nose gear was broken during the landing. First reports state the aircraft (reg. TC-JSH) performed a hard landing. The runway 16R was closed and…
Trigana Air Service aircraft received serious damage in a runway excursion on landing at Jayapura-Sentani Airport, Indonesia. The Boeing 737-300F (reg. PK-YSG) exited the on landing at Jayapura-Sentani Airport, Indonesia. The main landing gear as well as the nose gear were seriously damaged. All 4 crew evacuated without serious injuries.
An emergency exit door of PIA ATR 42-500 broke opened when the aircraft landed at Sukkur Airport in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The aircraft (reg. AP-BHM) performed flight #PK631 from Islamabad. it landed safely without any further incident. Passenger Fahimida tweeted “Emergency door of #PK631 got broken today, the moment it touched base…
A plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin Airport on Thursday morning after it hit a rabbit during take-off. Firefighters raced to the scene after the Stobart Air flight to Leeds Bradford had to return to the tarmac in the early hours. A spokesperson for Stobart Air, who ran the flight for…
A dramatic landing of a twin-engine jet with two people on board at Daytona Beach International Airport has been captured in chilling footage that shows the small plane skidding down the runway engulfed in flames. A fiery video of a Cessna Citation Mustang performing a landing without its gear in a tornado of sparks and…
A female passenger has died on board KLM #KL808 flight from Manila to Amsterdam. A female passenger started coughing after departure from Manila. Over Russia, she suddenly felt unwell and fell into her seat 1K. Another passenger noticed her difficulties and understood she was unresponsive. Flights attendants were immediately alerted and provided medical assistance…
A GoAir Airbus A320neo rejected take-off at Ahmedabad Airport, India following an engine issue. The Airbus A320neo (reg. VT- WGY) rejected take off at Ahmedabad Airport due to right engine vibration and stall after a suspected bird ingestion. The aircraft was operating flight 802 to Bangalore. After being doused, the plane was taken to isolation…
An Air Canada plane bound for Toronto was forced to declare a mid-air emergency after one of its wheels fell off during take-off. Air Canada flight 715 from LaGuardia Airport landed safely after 4 p.m. in Toronto. A spokesperson for Air Canada said the Airbus A319 lost one of it’s six tires while departing…
Emergency slide was accidentally deployed on Virgin Atlantic 747 at Manchester Airport. As Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 (G-VAST) was about to be catered for flight #VS75 to Orlando, an emergency slide was activated, possibly after the door wasn’t properly disarmed. The flight #VS75 finally departed to Orlando with a delay of more than 6 hours.
