Reading Time: < 1 minute A Smartwings Boeing 737, performing flight from Heraklion (Greece) to Pardubice (Czech Republic) with 120 people on board, landed on Pardubice’s runway 27 at 18:12L but overran the end of the runway and came to a stop about 20 meters/70 feet past the end of the runway with all gear on soft ground (no paved […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A passenger jet was reportedly forced to make an emergency landing in Moscow after a small dog, which somehow opened the luggage compartment from the inside, triggered an alarm onboard. The commander of a Boeing 737 travelling from St. Petersburg informed the ground services of the complications as it was approaching the Russian capital on […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute In a remarkable political turnaround since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in February after the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn, a generation of hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the long-running border war has come to an end. The result has seen the first commercial flight between the two countries for twenty years with […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Boeing and VietJet  signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the 2018 Farnborough International for an additional 100 737 MAX airplanes. The agreement, which includes 80 737 MAX 10s and 20 737 MAX 8s, is valued at more than $12.7 billion at current list prices. The Vietnamese low-cost carrier will become the largest MAX 10 customer […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Jet2 Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Tenerife South, Spain to Belfast Aldergrove, UK, landed on Belfast Aldergrove’s runway 07 when a loose trolley moved from the aft galley towards the front of the aircraft colliding with passenger arms and feet on the way until impacting a lavatory door in the front of the aircraft. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Pegasus Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Novosibirsk (Russia) to Antalya (Turkey) with 190 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute at FL360 about 200nm northeast of Atyrau (Kazakhstan) when the crew decided to divert to Atyrau due to an engine failure and subsequent shut down. Enroute from Novosibirsk to Antalya when the crew received indication […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Norwegian is continuing its Irish expansion with the launch of the carrier’s first route to Canada. Commencing 31st March 2019, the new daily service between Dublin and Hamilton – Toronto will mark the first direct flight between the two cities. Norwegian’s daily nonstop flights from Dublin to Hamilton – Toronto will be operated using brand new […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes By the end of this year there will be more than 5,000 of the world’s most popular aircraft, the Boeing 737-800, in service. Aviation Week Network’s Commercial Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast also predicts that 737-800 num This is obviously great news for maintenance providers, which receive a steady stream of work from an aircraft […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Barcelona to Hamburg, landed on Hamburg’s runway 05 following a non-precision approach but overran the (displaced) end of the runway. The aircraft vacated the runway via taxiway E6 instead of last usable exit A6 and taxied to the apron. The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Hamburg for […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute American Airlines Boeing 737-800, performing flight from New York La Guardia to Orlando with 156 passengers and 6 crew, was climbing out of New York when the crew requested to maintain 12,000 feet while they were troubleshooting a problem. The crew subsequently advised they had an engine failure and wanted to divert to New York’s […]