A plane caught fire at Maila Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) tonight, carrying medical supplies and personnel bound to Tokyo (Haneda Airport). It is reported the aircraft is owned by Lion Air – a charter service company in the Philippines, not the Indonesian commercial airline. 8 pax including pilots are confirmed dead.
A Vietnam Airlines A321 has suffered a tire explosion on takeoff at Ho Chi Minh airport on Wednesday morning. The flight number VN920 was due to depart for Phnom Pehn in Cambodia mid-afternoon, but a tire failure meant it couldn’t take off. In an unusual twist, the tire explosion appears to have caused a…
A 5.7 earthquake hit Magna early Wednesday morning. The earthquake was felt around Salt Lake County, Utah County as well as Wyoming and Idaho. Delays in transportation are well underway with the Salt Lake International Airport has been shut down. The FAA tower, terminals and concourses have been evacuated. However, the road to the airport…
A parked business jet’s vertical stabilizer was seriously damaged by a Thai Airways Aircraft. A Thai Airways Airbus A330-300 has damaged a parked Gulfstream IV business jet (reg. M-YWAY) while taxiing at Vientiane Airport, Laos. The ground collision has damaged the left wing of the Airbus A330-300 (reg. HS-TEU) which was performing flight #TG575…
An American Airlines flight from Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday when an unidentified passenger tried to open an exit door. Multiple passengers helped to subdue the man on board AA Flight 2300. Another passenger, who was seated in the emergency exit row, told NBC DFW that…
Last Friday, an Airbus A300B4-203 has hit a tug at Sharjah airport. The aircraft is still parked today at gate 57 and the engine is covered, waiting for repairs. Sharjah Airport is an airport located 7 nautical miles east-southeast of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing and evacuation shortly after takeoff from San Francisco. Flight AC8839 was scheduled to fly from San Francisco to Vancouver. The aircraft departed normally. However, almost immediately after takeoff it declared an emergency due to smoke in the lavatories. The plane landed safely and the crew performed an…
Drone activity is causing significant disruption at Frankfurt airport. Flight operations are suspended at Frankfurt Airport due to drone activity. All inbound flights are diverting to nearby airports. UPDATE Flight operations are resuming earlier than expected. UPDATE Eurocontrol says the airport will not be available until at least 14h00 local time.
Safety was “much reduced” when a passenger jet came too close to another plane near Stansted Airport, a report said. An Airbus A320 had to pull out of attempting to land as a smaller Saab 340 was preparing for take off on 12 February 2019, an Airprox Board report said. Air traffic controller actions did…
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…