An American Eagle jet with 43 passengers was forced to abort a takeoff Tuesday morning when it struck a deer at the Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville. None of the passengers headed to Philadelphia was injured and they either were rebooked on a later flight or made other travel arrangements. The 50-seat Embraer 145 twin-engine…
Icelandair says one of its planes made an emergency landing in Quebec late Friday night because of a cracked cockpit window. The airline says flight #FI688 from Orlando to Reykjavik, Iceland, was over Canada when pilots noticed the crack in the window. There were reports the Boeing 757 had to make a rapid drop to…
Airport officials in New York say an Air Canada flight that had just landed at the city’s LaGuardia Airport late Monday afternoon was damaged as it sat on the taxiway by another passing plane. Rudy King, spokesperson for the Port Authority New York and New Jersey, says the Air Canada jet was stationary on the…
The incident took place on June 25 over Central London, as a Virgin Atlantic jet doing 250mph and flying at 3,200ft approached Heathrow. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, which can carry up to 264 passengers, was passing over residential streets north of Clapham Common when itcame within 10ft of crashing into a drone, The Mail on Sunday can…
A Malaysian Airlines flight from Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur on Sunday morning was cancelled, due to a burst tyre during takeoff. Flight MH387 was set to leave the Pudong International Airport at 1.30am on Sunday (Oct 21) and arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 7.30am when the incident occurred. The aircraft was then towed to the…
Severe turbulence caused Aerolineas Argentinas passengers to suffer injuries during a flight from Miami to Buenos Aires on Thursday. According to the airline’s spokesperson, the crew on flight AR1303 reported the passengers were injured after the plane reached cruising altitude and there were sudden movements due to atmospheric conditions. There were 192 passengers, who departed from Miami International Airport about 9:30 a.m.…
KLM Boeing 747-400 took serious damage to its #4 engine cowling when it was hit by a high-loader during parking at Amsterdam Schiphol. A KLM Boeing 747-400 (reg. PH-BFN) was badly damaged on Monday morning when it collided with a high-loader while being towed at Amsterdam Schiphol. According to the airline, there were no passengers on…
An Air India flight scraped a brick wall on takeoff Friday, leaving gashes along the under belly of the airliner’s fuselage and forcing it to make an emergency landing. The aircraft took off early Friday from Trichy in Tamil Nadu when air traffic controllers warned the pilots they may have hit the wall. The Boeing…
A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit, Michigan, to Shanghai, China, was unresponsive, causing the plane to return back to the airport Monday. Upon landing at the airport, the passenger was declared dead. The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office said the passenger died of natural causes. The passenger was suffering from hypertensive…
Four people were injured when a Sukhoi Superjet 100 skidded off the runway after a landing in Yakutia. The main landing gear of the aircraft broke during the incident, an emergency services representative told RIA. A total of 91 passengers, including seven children, were on board the Yakutia Airlines flight from the Siberian city of…
On 8 October at around 22.48 (local time) Boeing 747-400 from Guangzhou suffered a runway excursion. The flight #TG679 landed at runway 19R with 116 people on board. The main left gear left pavement and was stuck into grass under inclement weather conditions. “There was heavy rain upon landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and the aircraft experienced…
A passenger boarding bridge collapsed at the Islamabad International Airport on Tuesday injuring a man. It has been reported that no damage was caused to the parked aircraft at the sight that belonged to a foreign airline. The cause of the collapse has not yet been determined. The new airport, which is designed as “Y”…
