An Air France Boeing 777-300 was intercepted by German fighters jets. Air France flight #AF267 from Seoul to Paris CDG was over Germany when German Air Traffic Control scrambled two Eurofighter jets to intercept the aircraft. The Boeing 777-300 (reg. F-GSQE) was intercepted on July 23th at 10:55 UTC over Wuppertalat 36,000ft due loss of communications.…
Flights delayed and diverted after grass fire breaks out at Bournemouth Airport, UK. Firefighters are said to be on the scene tackling the blaze. A Ryanair flight from Krakow, Poland, has been diverted to Bristol, while outgoing flights have been cancelled.
A Transavia flight to Amsterdam has been intercepted over Italy. Transavia flight #HV5042 from Kos Island to Amsterdam has been intercepted by Italian Air Force Eurofighter jets on Sunday morning at 10:40 UTC. Two fighter jets were scrambled from Istrana Air Base in Italy to intercept the Boeing 737 (reg. PH-HZN) on its way…
Cork Airport closed after an executive jet incurred a burst nose wheel before departure. The plane involved is a Cessna 750 Citation (reg. N752TX) . Aircraft will be towed from main runway to allow flights to resume. No injuries reported.
The crash happened on a runway at the airport shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 21. The C-47 “Bluebonnet Belle” was reportedly trying to take off when the crash happened, according to the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office. Thirteen people were onboard at the time of the crash. Eight were injured. One person was airlifted…
Polar Airlines Antonov An-24 suffered nose cone damages. Polar Airlines An-24 departed from the village of Olenek to Yakutsk . The nose cone was damaged in flight by intense hail. On board the An-24 were 33 passengers and four crew members, no one was injured. The Territorial Administration of the Federal Air Transport Agency has set up…
A British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick airport after experiencing technical problems. Flight BA2605 was travelling from Naples when it encountered the problem, prompting emergency services to rush to the scene as it landed at the London airport about 12.30am. Incoming flights were temporarily diverted from the airport while…
Ryanair flight FR7312, due to fly from Dublin to Zadar, was forced to make an emergency landing at at Frankfurt-Hahn airport in Germany on Friday night after a depressurisation in the cabin. The sudden loss of cabin pressure forced the pilot to descend from 37,000 to 10,000 feet over a seven-minute period. Several passengers suffered…
Dramatic footage filmed by a passenger shows how flames spewed from the engine of Convair CV-340 aircraft which shook violently moments before crashing at Wonderboom near Pretoria. Two people died and two pilots were critically injured when the Convair 340 (first flew in 1954) ferried passengers on luxury air safaris and crashed on July…
A regularly scheduled Delta flight from Detroit to Kansas City made an emergency landing Monday afternoon after reporting an engine problem. Delta flight 923, a Boeing 717, landed without incident at Kansas City International Airport around 4:45 p.m. Monday, but was greeted on the runway by Kansas City, Mo. Fire Department crews. Video from 41…
A plane crash that killed 112 people in Cuba on May 18 was caused by human error, the Mexican company that owned the jet said Monday. Global Air, whose operations were suspended by the Mexican authorities over the accident, said a study by international experts of the black boxes from the Boeing 737 had found…
