An erupting volcano in Mexico forced KLM #KL685 with horses on board to return to Amsterdam after an 11-hour flight. Flight #KL685 took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and made it all the way to eastern Canada when the crew realized that a volcanic eruption in Mexico meant that the flight wouldn’t be able to…
The fuselage of Boeing 777X aircraft was split by a high-pressure rupture just as it approached its target stress level during a test in early September. The Seattle Times said photos it had obtained of the test on the 777X showed that the extent of the damage was greater than previously disclosed. During the final…
A Turkish Airlines clipped an Ethiopian Airlines plane at Kinshasa Airport. The wing of a Turkish Airlines A330-200F (reg. TC-JOV) clipped horizontal stabilizer of an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350-900 (reg. ET-AWO). The incident took place on the taxiway of Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, DR Congo.
An Air Canada Boeing 787 plane that was flying across the Atlantic from London Heathrow to Toronto instead landed in Dublin after a crack in its windshield was noticed mid-flight. Air Canada confirmed that flight 857 was diverted to Dublin “due to a cracked Captain’s side window” while there were 254 passengers on board. The…
A piece of an Airbus plane has fallen in flight. The piece was was found in a garden of a man in the town of Daux, 10 km from Toulouse, we learned Tuesday. An Airbus spokesman confirmed to AFP that the piece was “a piece of an Airbus plane”. “An investigation is in progress,” he…
A Boeing 737 with 88 people on board suffered a serious landing gear malfunction when touching down in Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday, causing it to list to one side, with one engine scraping the ground. The landing gear on the right side of the Venezuelan Avior Airlines plane collapsed, causing the aircraft to tilt dramatically…
An Airbus A350-1000 suffered an “incident” in paint shop in Toulouse. Airbus confirms the aircraft suffered an “incident” but not disclosed the nature of the event. According to FlightGlobal, the A350-1000 was parked in a paint shop and sustained surface damage from work crew equipment that surrounds the aircraft in the paint hangar. Airbus says…
A Proflight aircraft was seriously damaged when it encountered intense hail. The plane was performing a flight from Livingstone to Lusaka, Zambia. The DHC-8-300 (reg. ZS-DHF) was severely damaged when it encountered intense hail midair. The pilots made a safe landing in Lusaka. There were no injuries reported.
The 49-year-old is believed to have suffered a heart attack during the Russian state airline Aeroflot domestic flight from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday An Airbus A320 was forced to make an emergency landing after a pilot suffered a suspected heart attack in the cockpit before dying. The 49-year-old was flying the Russian state airline…
A plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Congo’s eastern city of Goma, killing 26 people, including passengers, crew and people on the ground, the government said. The 19-seater aircraft crashed into residential homes on Sunday in the Mapendo district near Goma’s airport in the North Kivu province. The wreckage could be seen amid destroyed homes…
Philippine Airlines #PR113 to Manila returned to Los Angeles after flames were seen from right engine. The Boeing 777-300ER (reg. RP-C7775) suffered a failure (compressor stall) on right engine. The crew immediately declared a mayday and requested return to LAX after takeoff. The aircraft landed runway 25L and was met by emergency services. Due…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK467 from Istanbul suffered a nosegear collapse on landing at Odessa Airport, Ukraine. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. TC-JGZ) performed a go around and finally attempted to land on runway 16. The nosegear collapsed during the landing. The crew decided to deploy the emergency slides and the plane was evacuated.
