Just 30 minutes after the flight had left Auckland International Airport, the Boeing 777 (reg. B-2007) turned around and made a “full emergency landing,” according to an Auckland Airport spokesperson. China Southern flight CZ306 departed from Auckland International Airport at 11pm last night and had been scheduled to arrive in Guangzhou, China at 5.20am this…
Air France flight #AF7627 to Paris CDG suffered landing gear issue and diverted to Paris ORY. Air France Airbus A321 (reg. F-GTAK) from Bordeaux to Paris CDG attempted to land runway 26L but aborted landing due to landing gear issue (nose) and strong wind. Pilots decided to divert to Paris ORY for a safe landing…
British Airways 225, Boeing 787-8 (reg. G-ZBJB) returned to London Heathrow with a windscreen crack. It flew west of Luton, while jettisoned fuel over Bedfordshire. The aircraft returned safely with no further instances. We will continue to update as we find more information.
Delta Air Lines flight #DL2164 to San Antonio was evacuated due to smoke in the cabin on Sunday night. Delta says the crew on board #DL2164 noticed smoke in the rear of the cabin before takeoff from New York JFK Airport. Everyone safely left the aircraft, passengers were taken to San Antonio on a replacement…
A Virgin Atlantic flight to JFK suffered oil leak. The Airways Airbus A340-600 (Reg. G-VWEB) flight #VS3 from London Heathrow to JFK declared a PAN at 11:40 am local time due to engine #1 oil leak. The aircraft safely landed on runway 22L.
A Pegasus Boeing 737-800 on flight #PC8622 overran the runway during landing at Trabzon Airport in Turkey. After overrunning runway 11 at the airport, the Boeing 737 slid downhill towards the Black Sea with 168 passengers and crew on board. The Crew was able to safely evacuate the Boeing 737. Trabzon Governor Yucel Yavuz said that…
A part fell from an airliner taking off from John Wayne Airport and landed on a moving vehicle near Los Angeles John Wayne Airport. No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred Dec. 29. The motorist, who has not been identified, was driving on Park Avenue near Diamond Avenue on Balboa Island at about…
It looks a disaster was barely averted on Thursday when the Air Traffic Control at the Mangalore International Airport spotted a vacant tractor parked on the runway just as a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight was about to takeoff. According to news agency ANI, the tractor – used for cutting grass beside the runway – was…
A panel the size of a laptop computer fell off one of the Japanese prime minister’s jumbo jets, the defense force said on Friday. Officials noticed the panel was missing from the Boeing 747, one of two jetliners used by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for foreign trips, after it flew from Tokyo to its base…
An UPS Airlines MD-11 (reg. N271UP) from Seoul skidded off end of runway 23R after landing Almaty Airport, Kazakhstan at 16:40 local time. For a reason still unknown, instead of following green lights and the “follow me”, the aircraft didn’t turn right but continued to move 20 meters into snow and red lights at the…
Air India flight was forced to return to Indira Gandhi International airport here shortly after take-off due to a crack in the windshield of the Boeing 787 aircraft, an official said. Delhi-Kolkata #AI20 took off from Delhi at 2.25 pm but returned to the airport due to a crack in its windshield, said an Air…
FAA investigators launched an investigation after an Aeromexico aircraft was ordered to abort a landing when it lined up on the wrong runway which was occupied by another commercial jet. Aeromexico flight #AM668 from Mexico City Tuesday 09 January 2018 at around 19:45 UTC, was cleared to land on Runway 28R, and correctly read back…
