Reading Time: < 1 minute A Cargolux Boeing 747-8, performing flight from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Zhengzhou (China), reported smoke and fire in cockpit. Aircraft was climbing out of Kuala Lumpur’s runway 32R when the crew donned their oxygen masks, declared emergency reporting smoke and fire in the cockpit, stopped the climb at FL150 and returned to Kuala Lumpur. The aircraft […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Nouvelair Airbus A320-200, performing flight from Djerba (Tunisia) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), reported IRS failure. Aircraft was climbing out of Djerba’s runway 27 when the crew stopped the climb at 8,000 feet advising of problems with their Inertial Reference Systems (IRS). The aircraft returned to Djerba for a safe landing on runway […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 777-200 freighter, performing flight from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Hong Kong (China) with 6 crew, violated air space regulations. Aircraft was enroute at FL410 near the equator crossing into Indonesian Airspace, about 1200nm south of the great circle route and the usual company route, when Indonesia dispatched fighter aircraft to intercept […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A SAS Scandinavian Airlines Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Alesund to Oslo (Norway),  scraped tail on departure. Aircraft departed Alesund’s runway 07 when the tail of the aircraft contacted the runway surface. The crew continued take-off, stopped the climb at about 6500 feet and diverted to Trondheim (Norway) where the aircraft landed safely on runway 27 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Indonesian Navy divers have finally found the cockpit voice recorder (CRV) of the fatal Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX flight 610 which crashed into the Java Sea on 29th October, 2018, with 189 on board. After over two months of intense search works, the recovered device is expected to help find the reason of the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Travel Service Boeing 737-900 on behalf of Smartwings, performing flight from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Prague (Czech Republic) with 40 passengers and 7 crew, went off the runway. Aircraft was taxiing northbound along taxiway 14 between the two runways at about 14:15L (11:15Z) and was about to line up runway 24C when the aircraft went […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Boeing 707-300 freighter, performing a freight flight from Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) to Karaj (Iran) with 16 crew and a cargo of meat, crashed in residential area near Tehran. According to avherald.com, the aircraft landed at the wrong airport. The aircraft was on approach to Karaj’s Payam Airport when the crew descended towards and landed in Fath’s […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300, performing flight from Auckland (New Zealand) to Hong Kong (China), encountered bird strike. Aircraft was climbing out of Auckland’s runway 23L when the aircraft flew through a flock of birds and received a number of bird strikes. In the absence of abnormal indications the crew continued the climb but stopped […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A China Southern Airlines Airbus A321-200, performing flight from Shenzhen to Luoyang (China), experienced loss of communication. Aircraft was climbing out of Shenzhen when the crew stopped the climb at 6000 meters (FL197) and began to squawk loss of communication. The aircraft returned to Shenzhen for a safe landing about 35 minutes later. The airline […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Scoot Boeing 787-8, performing flight from Singapore (Singapore) to Melbourne (Australia) with 268 people on board, reported weather radar fault. Aircraft was enroute at FL340 about 120nm southeast of Singapore when the crew decided to return to Singapore due to a problem with the weather radar. The aircraft landed safely back in Singapore about 40 […]