Ethiopian authorities have requested France assistance for the analysis of FDR & CVR. Please reaload the page for updates… UPDATE 4 Data from the black boxes of crashed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737MAX show ‘clear similarities’ with Lion Air Boeing 737MAX crash – Ethiopian Transport Minister says. UPDATE 3 Data from the FDR has been successfully downloaded by…
A Ural Airlines Airbus A321 aircraft, flying from Bahrain to Moscow, made a safe landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport on Monday at 14:56 Baku time (10.56 UTC). The reason for the emergency landing is the commander of the aircraft’s suspicion of a bomb on board the plane”. There are at least 225 people on…
An Air France A380 returned to land at Abidjan following an engine failure. Air France flight #AF703, an Airbus A380 (reg. F-HPJC), returned to land at Abidjan, Ivory Coast, following a GP7200 failure. The aircraft departed Abidjan at 23.38 UTC yesterday. The aircraft was climbing to the cruising altitude when one of the engines failed.…
More than two dozen people were injured and at least 10 were taken to a hospital after a Turkish Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on its approach to JFK on Saturday, officials said. The New York Fire Department said it was treating 29 passengers for “non-life-threatening injuries” at the airport. The 10 passengers from Turkish…
Ethiopian Airlines flight #ET302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi has crashed. Still very few details available on the accident but Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 (reg. ET-AVJ) was involved in a fatal accident. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 12 Ethiopia cannot read black boxes from Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed, they will be…
Caribbean Airlines ATR-72 (9Y-TTA) was severely damaged when it hit a wall during taxiing under maintenance guidance at Piarco Airport (POS), Trinidad & Tobago. The aircraft was empty and no one on the ground was injured, but the plane’s nose was badly damaged. CAL said in a release at about 11.15 last night a plane…
A security camera caught the final moments of Amazon Prime Air aircraft’s dive into a bay near Houston airport. The Boeing 767F appeared unable to pull up from its nosedive into Trinity Bay. The plane continued to plunge until it slammed into waters. The footage was recorded on Feb. 23 by a security camera outside the Chambers…
Passengers of Virgin Atlantic flight #VS610 from Bridgetown are being held on board the Boeing 747-400 after landing. The aircraft is parked at a remote area at London Gatwick Airport after it landed at 5.30. A passenger has reported being held on board for 2 hours after it had landed due to ‘sickness’ on board. Emergency…
The Met Police Counter Terrorism Command has launched an investigation after three suspicious packages were received at buildings in London today, Tuesday, 5 March. The packages – all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags – have been assessed by specialist officers to be small improvised explosive devices. These devices, at this early stage…
An Air China flight carrying 188 passengers from Beijing to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Siberia on Tuesday morning. All passengers and crew of CA983 were evacuated safely by inflatable slides at Anadyr airport which serves Russia’s easternmost town in the subarctic district of Chukotka. Left hand slides turned out to be unusable…
Passengers were forced to wear oxygen masks as a flight from Adelaide to Canberra was diverted to Melbourne on Tuesday morning following a mid-air incident. The QF706 flight, which departed Adelaide just after 6.10am, was given a priority landing at Melbourne Airport. A loud bang was heard from the back of the Qantas aircraft before…
United Express #UA4933 from Newark to Presque Isle skidded off runway on landing (2nd attempt) at 16.30 UTC. Nosegear of the ERJ-145 broken off and embedded in the engine. At least 4 people received minor injuries. According to Public Information Officer Kim Smith, United Airlines flight 4933 landed on the runway and then slid off…
