South Africans on a South African Airways repatriation flight departing from Frankfurt in Germany have faced multiple delays after the plane’s door reportedly malfunctioned. According to a South African on the flight, they were scheduled to leave Frankfurt at 13:55 on Friday. Once boarded, the passengers were informed one of the plane’s doors was not…
A Pakistan International Airlines flight from Riyadh had to make an emergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport, Karach. PIA flight PK8726 from Riyadh was scheduled to land at Multan airport but developed a technical fault, forcing it to make an emergency landing at the Karachi airport. Sources said that the issue developed with the…
Work to remove aircraft parts from house roofs has begun. Wing of crashed PIA Airbus A320 have been removed from the roof of a house in Karachi. Cockpit section and a landing gear of crashed PIA Airbus A320 (AP-BLD) removed from house roofs on June 8. An engine to be removed from a house roof…
Iranian authorities on Tuesday said six persons have been arrested in connection to the downing of Ukrainian plane, in which 176 people were killed. “Six have been so far arrested in relation to the ongoing investigations; three of them were released on bail, while the other three are still being held,” Gholamhossein Esmaili, a spokesperson…
A LATAM A350 suffered an incident at Sao Paulo GRU airport. The Airbus A350 (reg.PR-XTI) suffered some damages in her engine cowling when a luggage transportation vehicle impacted the nacelle during ground operations.
A Boeing 737-400 Special Freighter operated by Kalitta Charters II ran off runway at Rochester, New York a rejected take-off on 5 June Kalitta Charters II (on behalf of DHL) Boeing 737-400 (reg. N733CK) ran off runway 22 at Rochester Airport (KROC), NY during a rejected take-off coming to rest on the grass. The airport…
Ground stairs of SpiceJet airlines crashed into an IndiGo aircraft at at Mumbai Airport. The collision happened due to strong winds on Saturday. As per a statement released by the Mumbai Internation Airport Ltd, the only damage that the IndiGo aircraft sustained in the accident was to its wing and engine cowling. “Unpredictable cyclonic storms…
French BEA tweeted that technical work (downloading and decoding FDR & CVR data) has ended. However analysis will continue. Pakistan’s AAIB will publish at a later date a preliminary statement on the event based on downloaded data.
Copa Airlines undoubtedly has that sinking feeling today after one of its 737s got stuck in the mud. The Boeing 737-700 was being pushed back at San Jose International Airport in Costa Rica when it skidded off taxiway. The right main landing skidded into the grass. The Boeing 737 (reg. HP-1374) was being pushed back…
A British Airways Dreamliner skidded off taxiway at Edmonton, Canada. As the Boeing 787-9 was preparing to perform flight #BA3587 to London Heathrow, the push back didn’t happened as planned. As the Dreamliner (reg. G-ZBKP) was pushed back, the right main gear left the parking area into the grass. Work was in progress to pull…
Mumbai Airport temporarily halted flight operations on Wednesday after a cargo aircraft was involved in a runway excursion or over shooting after landing. A FedEx MD-11F (reg. N583FE) overshot the runway 14 on landing in rain at Mumbai Airport, India. A senior Mumbai Air Traffic Control (ATC) official said that there was a “minor excursion”…
The Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder of crashed PIA #PK8303 A320 (reg. AP-BLD) arrived in BEA’s headquarter in Paris Le Bourget. A coordination meeting was held this morning with Airbus & CFM engines experts. Then technical work started in the BEA lab in the presence of president of AAIB. Today, the French Civil…