The NTSB issued an investigative update Thursday for its ongoing investigation of the fatal, April 17, engine failure on Southwest Airlines flight 1380. The Boeing 737, powered by CFM International engines, experienced a failure of the left CFM-56-B engine after departing New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The engine experienced a failure of a fan blade, which…
Newly released video shows just how close an Air Canada Airbus A320 came to mistakenly landing on a crowded taxiway at San Francisco International Airport last year. The Air Canada airliner can be seen descending as it travels along the top of the frame. About 67 seconds into the video, the plane rises quickly, barely…
A 25-five-year old Chinese man was arrested by police after opening the emergency door of a plane. The passenger told police he had been feeling hot and stuffy, and so decided to open the emergency door of the plane. The plane was waiting to take-off from Mianyang Nanjiao Airport, in Sichuan Province, when Super Brains…
Southwest flight #WN957 from Chicago Midway to Newark made an emergency landing in Cleveland after new window incident. The Boeing 737-700 (reg. N713SW) suffered a window incident. According to reports, the emergency exit window shattered in-air. A passenger reported that it sounded like a loud crack after something hit the window and shattered it. Passengers…
An aircraft operated by a Spanish low-cost airline was evacuated this afternoon after an ‘explosion’ and then smoke and a burning smell filled the inside the plane. The Volotea flight from Asturias Airport to Sevilla, Spain was evacuated with no reports of any injuries. Passengers took to social media to Tweet photographs of a plume…
Lion Air aircraft was damaged after skidding off runway overran on landing in rain at Gorontalo Airport Indonesia. The flight #JT892 took off from Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta and landed runway 27 at Gorontalo. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. PK-LOO) became stuck in muddy ground. The 174 passengers and 7 crew members were evacuated by emergency escape slides. No…
The plane suffered an explosion during take-off at the Sharara oilfield in southern Libya, also injuring a fourth crew member, said Mohammad al-Zardumi, an official who works at the oilfield. So far, the cause of the crash has not yet been established. Brigadier Ahmad Alal, who heads military forces guarding the oilfield, said a technical…
Today at 14:53 LT, a Vietnam Airlines A321 from Ho Chi Minh City landed on wrong runway at Nha Trang Cam Ranh International Airport. A total of 203 passengers were on board with 7 crew members including the US citizen captain, working for Vietnam Airlines since January 2018. At the time of landing, the weather…
An Alaska Airlines flight safely touched down at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Friday night after reports of engine trouble. An Alaska Airlines spokesperson says 157 people were on board flight #AS145 when an oil filter bypass light came on in the cockpit. Pilots reportedly throttled down one engine and declared an emergency as…
The Boeing 787 was travelling from Amritsar and Delhi last Thursday when it experienced more than 10 minutes of turbulence. The inside panel of the window fell off, but the outside panel remained intact — which meant there was no depressurisation of air, and no risk of anything or anyone being sucked out through the…
A U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement jet carrying 101 people was forced to make an emergency landing at Alexandria International Airport Friday afternoon. According to England Airpark Executive Director Jon Grafton, the crew of the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 operated by World Atlantic in support of ICE called in an emergency approach around 2:45 p.m. Grafton…
Malindo Air flight from Kathmandu to Kuala Lumpur suffered a runway excursion after an aborted takeoff. The Boeing 737-900 (reg. 9M-LNJ) was cleared for takeoff from runway 20 and aborted takeoff at around 22:00 hours local time. The flight #OD181 failed to stop on the remaining runway and overran. The passengers were evacuated via the…
