A Munich-bound flight from Dubai had to make an emergency landing after a child passenger onboard died, according to local press reports. Emirates Airline said Wednesday its Airbus A380 flight en route from Dubai to Munich was diverted 45 minutes after take-off to Kuwait after a seven-year old passenger girl passed away during the flight,…
Two fire engines were scrambled on to the tarmac at Kiev Airport this morning to deal with the incident after the flight#BA882 from Heathrow landed in the Ukrainian capital early in afternoon. A video was posted by Damian De C @dboxxer on Twitter is showing British Airways A320 surrounded by foam, fire fighters and fire…
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 dog checked as cargo by a passenger on a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport Monday morning escaped before being loaded onto the plane, causing a runway to be shut temporarily and disrupting a total of 14 flights. The large poodle had been placed in a special basket but when JAL staff tried…
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…
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has issued Air Transat a please explain after 2 of it’s European flights to Montreal spent hours on the tarmac with passengers onboard on July 31. The flights were 2 of approximately 20 that were diverted to Ottaw a during a chain of storms affecting Montreal. Flight TS507 from Rome…
Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and New South Wales Police carried out a counter-terrorism raid in several suburbs of Sydney late Saturday night 29 July 2017, with 4 men being arrested. Australian Prime Minsister Malcom Turnbull has confirmed that raids disrupted a plot to make an improvised explosive device and smuggle…
JetBlue is disputing family members’ characterization of an episode that prompted their removal from a June 21 flight and said it is considering barring the family from flying with the airline. Through a press release from their attorney, Tamir Raanan and Mandy Ifrah said they were returning home to New York from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with…
A man from Middlesbrough has slammed an airline after his oxygen mask failed to drop during a plane’s 30,000ft dive to an emergency landing. John Hatfield was forced to frantically rip down a metal panel to access his safety mask when the Jet2 plane he was travelling on was forced to land 35 minutes into…
An Emirates Airbus A380, flying from Dubai to Mauritius last Friday, had been cleared to descend to 38,000 feet by Air Traffic Control on its approach to the Indian Ocean island, with an Air Seychelles Airbus A330, Flight #HM54, having taken off from Mauritius travelling in the opposite direction. However, the crew of the Emirates…
It’s hard to imagine just how close an Air Canada pilot came to crashing into four fully-loaded passenger jets on a crowded SFO taxiway after mistaking it for a runway. The altitude sounds low. The distance above planes appears very short. The audio rings alarm bells.
