Category: ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS

Saurya Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 Experiences Bird Strike

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Saurya Airlines Canadair CRJ-200, performing flight from Kathmandu to Biratnagar (Nepal) with 48 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing out of Kathmandu when the left engine ingested a bird. In the absence of abnormal indications the crew decided to continue the flight to destination, however, about half way into the flight the left engine […]

Wizz Air Airbus A320 Crew Reports Smoke in the Cockpit

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Wizzair Airbus A320-200, performing flight from Nis (Serbia) to Basel/Mulhouse (Switzerland/France) with 180 people on board, was enroute to Zagreb (Croatia) when the crew decided to divert to the city airport reporting smoke in the cockpit. The aircraft turned around and landed safely on Zagreb’s runway 05 about 33 minutes after leaving FL360 and […]

British Airways Boeing 747-400 Could Not Retract Nose Gear

Reading Time: < 1 minute A British Airways Boeing 747-400, performing flight from Chicago O’Hare (USA) to London Heathrow (UK), was climbing out of Chicago when the crew requested to stop climb at 15,000 feet advising, they were unable to accelerate beyond 190 KIAS while working on a technical issue. The crew advised no assistance was needed, they wanted to […]

Egypt Air Boeing 737-800 Blows All Four Main Tyres While Landing

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Egypt Air Boeing 737-800, performing positioning flight from Cairo (Egypt) to Belgrade (Serbia), landed on Belgrade’s runway but came to a stop on the runway with all 4 main tyres blown, the wheel rims damaging the runway surface. There were no injuries, the aircraft received minor damage, the runway surface was damaged, too. The […]

Flybe de Havilland Dash 8-400 Engine Shuts Down in Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Flybe de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing flight from Aberdeen to Birmingham (UK) with 47 people on board, was descending towards Birmingham when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine (PW150) down. The aircraft continued for a safe landing in Birmingham about 10 minutes later. The airline reported the crew shut one of […]

Frontier Airlines Airbus A320-200 Experiences Bird Strike

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Frontier Airlines Airbus A320-200, performing flight from Denver to Washington Dulles (USA), was in the initial climb out of Denver’s runway cleared to climb when the crew requested to level off at 10,000 feet due to a bird strike to figure out what is going on. The crew decided to initially continue the departure route. […]

Aeromexico Fires Three Pilots After July Crash

Reading Time: < 1 minute Despite bad weather being attributed as the cause of July’s crash of an Aeromexico Embraer 190 at Durango International Airport, in a letter sent to the carrier’s workers Chief Executive Andres Conesa has confirmed that all three of the plane’s pilots have since left the company. In the letter he said that: “Irrespective of the […]

South West Aviation L410 Impacts River on Approach

Reading Time: 2 minutes A South West Aviation Let L-410, registration UR-TWO performing a flight from Juba to Yirol (South Sudan) with 20 passengers and 3 crew, impacted Yirol River south of the aerodrome at Yirol City about 1.75nm south of the aerodrome at about position N6.53 E30.49 at about 09:00L (06:00Z). 19 bodies were recovered from the river […]

Two American Airlines Flights Arrive in Philadelphia with ill Passengers

Reading Time: 2 minutes HEALTH authorities in the United States have quarantined all passengers and crew on two flights which arrived in Philadelphia with sick passengers on board, days after an illness struck an Emirates flight. The two American Airlines flights landed at Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday afternoon, local time, one from Munich, the other from Paris. All […]

Aeroflot Boeing 737-800 Cracks Inner Windshield

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Aeroflot Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Kemerovo to Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) with 154 passengers on board, cracked windshield. Aircraft was enroute about 90nm northwest of Novosibirsk (Russia) when the crew reported a cracked windshield and descended the aircraft to reporting it was the inner layer of the windshield, that had cracked. The aircraft diverted to […]