An Atlanta-bound Delta flight had to be diverted to Tulsa, Oklahoma, after a disturbance midflight. The flight crew reported a disturbance with a passenger and requested law enforcement help. Flight #DL1156 was flying from Portland to Atlanta. The Boeing 737-900 landed around 11:30 a.m. in Tulsa with 172 passengers and six crew members on board.…
Yakutia Airlines Antonov An-24 experienced three out of four maingear tires burst on landing. The flight #R3438 from Lensk landed at at Yakutsk with 28 passengers and 4 crew.
An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window. The Beijing Capital Airlines flight #JD421 bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard returned to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news…
A British traveller has died after falling from a plane door onto the tarmac of a Turkish airport. Staff at Dalaman Airport, in southwest Turkey, were trying to remove the 30-year-old from the flight when he fell from an exit. The 30-year-old man fell on the tarmac and was knocked unconscious. An ambulance took him…
Part of Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 was evacuated after a crack formed in the floor of a temporary gate lounge, sparking confusion for passengers. Travellers reported loud noises as the crack suddenly formed, with one saying it sounded like the floor was “collapsing” and another describing “mad panic”. One photo posted online showed a crack…
Panicked passengers of a Lion Air flight were evacuated after a new bomb hoax in Indonesia. This is the 9th bomb hoax on airplanes in Indonesia in May 2018.
A security camera captured the moment before ground impact of the Global Air Damojh B737-200 (XA-UHZ) operating as Cubana flight #CU972 on May 18, 2018. The aircraft plummeting out of control before it crashed near Havana Airport leaving 111 dead. All updates: https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-plane-has-crashed-after-take-off-from-jose-marti-international-airport-cuba/
A plane has been struck by another passenger jet at Stansted Airport. Ryanair flight #FR205 to Dublin was stationary at the designated holding point on the taxiway at London Stansted Airport this morning when the winglet of a Primera Air aircraft taxiing behind scraped its tail stabiliser. Cabin crew quickly confirmed to those on board that…
A company jet crashed off the runway Tuesday, almost splitting in two, when it landed at Toncontin International Airport near the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. All six people aboard – four passengers and two crew members – survived. One of the passengers and a crew member sustained extensive injuries. The accident occurred around 11 a.m.…
A passenger jet arriving at San Francisco International Airport got too close to the terminal hitting the building with its wing tip and causing minor damage. Aer Lingus Airbus A330-300 (reg. EI-GAJ) from Dublin was being towed to gate G91 when the tractor crew misjudged the turn and the wing clipped a concrete pillar. The spokesman…
Flydubai has denied reports on Wednesday of an attempt to hijack its plane in Iranian airspace. Azad News Agency said: “The Iranian Air Traffic Engineering Directorate announced that the flight of FlyDubai Airlines, from Dubai to Kabul, was over Iran when a person armed with a knife tried to enter the cockpit. The pilots succeeded…
Turkish Airlines #TK1556 from Hannover to Istanbul diverted to Bucharest, Romania due to a medical emergency. On Monday, about two hours after take off, the crew decided to land at the nearest airport due to medical emergency. The Airbus A321 (reg. TC-JSK) landed at Bucharest at 22.30 Local time. The medical team who immediately arrived to treat…
