Reading Time: < 1 minute A Wizz Air Airbus A320 performing flight from Keflavik (Iceland) to Wroclaw with 147 people on board, was climbing out of Keflavik when an electronic cigarette of a passenger began to emit smoke prompting the flight crew to declare emergency and return. The cabin crew secured and cooled the device and stored it into a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A TuiFly Boeing 737-800 performing flight from Frankfurt/Main to Funchal (Portugal), was on final approach when a bird (reportedly a homing pigeon) impacted the nose of the aircraft. The aircraft continued for a safe landing a few minutes later. The aircraft was unable to depart for the return flight however due to the dent in […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sun Express Deutschland Boeing 737-800 was performing flight from Fuerteventura to Dusseldorf, with 192 people on board, when the crew reported an aft cargo smoke indication and decided to divert to Toulouse. Soon after the crew reported the cargo smoke indication had ceased, nonetheless, they continued diversion to Toulouse and would stop on the runway […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon jet crashed in southeastern Arizona on Tuesday, Arizona Air National Guard officials said. Rescue efforts were underway after the fighter jet crashed at about 3 p.m. mountain time (5 p.m. EDT) some 20 miles northwest of the city of Safford, the Air National Guard said in a statement. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Japan Airlines plane bound for New York made an emergency landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday due to engine trouble apparently stemming from a bird strike, the transport ministry and airline operator said. Flames were briefly seen coming from the left engine of the Boeing 777, which had departed the airport shortly after […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways Boeing 787 was performing flight from Doha to Denpasar with 240 people, when the captain reported the first officer had lost consciousness after complaining about chest pain. The crew decided to divert to Hyderabad for a safe landing on runway 27L about 30 minutes later, already past midnight local time. The first officer […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Skywest Airlines Canadair CRJ-700 on behalf of American Airlines was performing flight from Atlanta to Chicago O’Hare, when the crew decided to divert to Saint Louis reporting a flight attendant had sustained a head injury as result of turbulence. The aircraft landed safely in Saint Louis about 25 minutes later. The FAA reported one […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cham Wings Airbus A320-200 was performing flight from Damascus (Syria) to Khartoum (Sudan), when landed on Khartoum’s runway 18, but went off the runway and came to a stop with all gear on soft ground. No injuries are being reported, the aircraft received minor if any damage. The passengers disembarked via mobile stairs onto the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Authorities took a 17-year-old into custody after he opened the emergency exit of a jet preparing to taxi at San Francisco International Airport, jumped onto the wing and dropped down to the tarmac, an airport spokesman said. The bizarre incident unfolded at about 2:30 p.m. as Copa Airlines Flight 208 from Panama City was waiting […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 performing flight from Berlin Schoenefeld (Germany) to Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) with 183 people on board landed on Otopeni’s runway but overran the displaced end of the runway, damaged a runway end light and came to a stop on the paved surface of the runway. The aircraft was able to immediately turn […]