A Southwest Airlines provisioning truck made contact with an aircraft parked at gate A1 at Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday morning. The aircraft at the gate was a Boeing 737 -800 that was scheduled to operate Flight #WN157 to Denver with 174 Customers onboard and a Crew of six. The aircraft will be taken out…
Passengers on a Bulgarian airline were torn from their seats by violent in-flight turbulence and sent crashing into the cabin ceiling – and one another – leaving ten with injuries. The Boeing 737-300, headed for Basel, Switzerland from Kosovo’s Pristina, encountered severe turbulence about 30 minutes into its journey, causing a rapid drop in altitude…
A United Airlines jet skidded off the runway after landing on Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport with 166 passengers and six crew members aboard, briefly halting flights, officials said. The plane had “multiple flat tires upon landing,” according to the airline. The left landing gear of the Boeing 757 was stuck in a grassy…
SpiceJet flight SG-58 flying from Dubai to Jaipur landed safely at the Jaipur airport after one of its tyres burst during landing. The flight carrying 189 passengers landed safely at around 9 am in the morning, ANI reported. “While aircraft was descending at Jaipur, Pilots were informed by Jaipur ATC of suspected tyre burst in…
A helicopter crash landed onto the roof of a building in midtown Manhattan and then caught fire on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The crash occurred atop 787 Seventh Avenue, a 54-story building located between West 51st and West 52nd streets, at the north end of Times Square. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 6…
Corendon Airlines Airbus A320 (ZS-GAL) experienced birdstrike into the left engine #1 upon take-off runway 17 at Graz Airport (LOWG). The pilots of flight #XC3204 to Antalya took off safely and returned to land without further incident.
Two Republic of Singapore Air Force F-15SG jets were scrambled to escort a Scoot flight from Cebu to Singapore yesterday following a bomb threat. It was later discovered to be a hoax. A 13-year-old boy who was on the flight is allegedly behind the bomb scare. In a Facebook post on the incident, Defence Minister…
A 52-year-old man is dead after his American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Ottawa early Thursday. Paramedics were called at 2:18 a.m. by a report of a man with chest pains aboard the Dallas to London flight. He went into cardiac arrest before paramedics arrived and the flight crew began CPR. Once on…
The Airports Authority of TT (AATT) on Thursday confirmed the emergency landing of Venezolana Airlines flight AW1303 which was en route to Caracas from the Piarco International Airport. In a statement released to media on the incident AATT said shortly after departure at 12.45 pm the flight’s pilot “indicated engine failure and requested permission from…
A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg. N37281) from Honolulu to Majuro experienced left engine failure and was forced to return on 26 May 2019. The flight UA132 with 141 passengers and 8 crew onboard, experienced engine failure as flames began to shoot out of the engine within minutes of takeoff. The aircraft then circled over…
China Southern Airlines flight #CZ3101 suffered damage while flying through a hail storm. The Airbus A380 encountered a hail storm during the flight from Guangzhou to Beijing. The aircraft (reg. B-6140) suffered damages to its radome and windshields. Pilots declared an emergency prior to landing at Beijing before 04:00 UTC.
A WestJet pilot flying from Newfoundland to Orlando International Airport had his eyes burned by a green laser light, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration officials said Wednesday. Spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said that the WestJet Airlines aircraft was about 40 kilometres from the airport when the laser light hit the pilot. The flight landed safely a short…
