Reading Time: < 1 minute A China Eastern Airlines Airbus A321-200, performing flight from Qingdao to Guangzhou (China), automatically released passenger oxygen masks due to unknown circumstances. Aircraft was enroute at 10400 meters (FL341) about 140nm northeast of Nanchang (China) when the passenger oxygen masks were automatically released, cabin pressure and all other indications remained normal however. The crew decided to divert to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Avior Airlines Boeing 737-200, registration YV2937 performing flight 9V-1260 from Barcelona (Venezuela) to Guayaquil (Ecuador) with 81 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute at FL310 near Manta (Ecuador) when the right hand engine (JT8D) emitted several loud bangs causing the passenger oxygen masks to be released and prompting the crew to shut the engine […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Delhi-bound Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus A-380 with nearly 300 passengers on board had to return to the island nation soon after take off on Thursday after its overhead oxygen masks got deployed. The flight 406, which the airline websites says is operated on the super jumbo A-380, landed safely in Singapore and passengers are […]