According to Reuters, Air France A380, reg. F-HPJE stranded in Goose Bay will return to France. The rump of the broken engine will be taken off the wing and flown to UK, where manufacturer General Electric can examine it in Cardiff repair workshop. A spare engine will be mounted on the right wing but this will…
During the night, the wingtip of an Airbus A320 clipped the stabilizer of an other A320 at Mexico Airport. The incident occurred during taxi. The two aircraft belonging to Viva Aerobus airline suffered damages. The first Airbus A320 (reg. XA-VAK) landed from Villahermosa, the second (reg. XA-VAV) landed from Guadalajara at around midnight (local time). The two aircraft will…
A pilot collapsed in the cockpit of a Thomson Boeing 737-800 (reg. G-TAWC) to Larnaca on Sunday. One passenger on the Thomson Holiday Flight 1714 saw the pilot “lying prostrate on the floor” after he keeled over just 16 minutes into the flight from Newcastle to Larnaca, Cyprus on Sunday. Panic and fear spread throughout…
A Lufthansa Airbus A380 had to return because landing gear could not retract. The Airbus A380 (reg. D-AIMM) #LH440 to Houston had to dump fuel before returning to Frankfurt after 1 hour flight. It landed safely at 11:40 local time. Via Breaking Flight News
A piece of loading equipment caught fire at Hong Kong International Airport next to the plane that was due to to fly from the city to Los Angeles. The Boeing 777 was close to the terminal shortly after 5pm local time (10am GMT) when the fire started to the left of the plane. One man was injured…
Missing parts of Air France A380 (reg. F-HPJE) engine have been spotted on the ice sheet by helicopter. According to the BEA, they were located on a desert area covered with ice, located about 150 km southeast of the town of Paamiut, located on the west coast of Greenland. The missing parts were located by using…
Footage has emerged showing fire crews dousing a blaze next to a easyJet A319 at Liverpool airport. Smoke was seen rising near an easyJet plane after it appeared aGPU (Ground Power Unit) had burst into flames next to the aircraft. Witnesses who captured video and photos of the blaze thought the easyJet plane was on…
A plane crashed into a pair of deer while trying to land on the runway in northern Alberta on Tuesday. Police said the two deer jumped in front of the aircraft and hit the propeller. It happened at the MEG Energy Christina Lake Aerodrome, east of Conklin, Alta. The Dash 8, was owned by Sunwest…
Just after 11:00 on Wednesday, evacuation of the new terminal was initiated after finding a suspicious object. When scanning a luggage a grenade-like object was revealed. The airport terminal, T3, was immediately evacuated, reports police officer Lars Geitle. The object was examined and it turned out it was made of ceramics. A police car arrived at…
Two RAF Typhoons from Coningsby have escorted a Ryanair passenger jet into Stansted airport as Quick Reaction Alert. The aircraft was a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (reg. EI-FZH) flight #FR2145 from Kaunas to London Luton. UPDATE 09:03 UTC Security threat confirmed as hoax. UPDATE 09:01 UTC Sniffer dogs going round the luggage. UPDATE 08:52 UTC Passengers escorted to buses…
American Airlines flight #AA62 to Paris was forced to divert to Shannon this morning. The Boeing 777-200 (reg. N790AN) had to divert due to cargo hold fire indication. The fire vehicles were scrambled to meet the aircraft right after landing. Passengers has been disembarked on the tarmac.
Delta flight #DL964 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Detroit was carrying 154 people when the Airbus A320 suffered engine failure. “There was a crackling noise a couple of times, in the middle of the flight ,” a passenger in row 16, who did not want to be identified, told WWJ-TV. The flight was…
