Reading Time: < 1 minute British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Ryanair flight from Kaunas in Lithuania to London’s Stansted Airport on Wednesday after what the airline said was a hoax security alert. Ryanair said that the flight was diverted after a hoax alert was received by Lithuania and communicated to the airline. “This flight from Kaunas to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Dallas to Washington, departed Dallas’ runway when the tail of the aircraft contacted the runway surface prompting the crew to stop the climb at 5000 feet and return to Dallas for a safe landing about 20 minutes after departure. The FAA reported the aircraft sustained unknown damage […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes A transport plane chartered by the Congolese army crashed near Kinshasa on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, military and airport sources told AFP. The Antonov transporter had just taken off with “several dozen people” onboard, heading for the eastern region of Kivu, where the army is fighting militia groups, an airport official told AFP, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles lost one of its four engines over the Atlantic Ocean Saturday, forcing the crew to divert to Goose Bay Airport, in Labrador in eastern Canada. The plane was west of Greenland, about midway through the flight when what passengers described as a loud ‘boom’ shook the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Ural Airlines Airbus A321 performing flight from Moscow Domodedovo to St. Petersburg completed an uneventful flight with a safe landing in St. Petersburg and taxied to the apron. The passengers disembarked via stairs at the front left main door, 90 passengers disembarked without problem, however, when a mother with her one year old infant […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport has been evacuated after an anonymous bomb call, the airport’s press service told TASS on Thursday. “Tolmachevo Airport’s help desk received an anonymous call about a bomb in the airport terminal. Terminal passengers and employees were evacuated,” the press service specified. Law enforcement officers are now carrying out special investigative operations to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Etihad Airways pilot died while operating a cargo flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam, forcing the carrier to make an emergency landing in Kuwait. In a statement on Wednesday, Etihad Airways said the aircraft was diverted safely to Kuwait where a medical team was present to assist him. “Etihad Airways is saddened to report […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Mexico City, the airport of Mexico City suffered from it. A camera footage of an Aeromexico Boeing 787 that was shaken during the earthquake in Mexico.

Reading Time: 2 minutes A private jet crashed on landing and burst into flames Thursday while making an emergency landing at Istanbul’s main international airport, leaving four injured, officials said. The incident forced the temporary closure of Ataturk International Airport and while it later reopened passengers were still experiencing delays. Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said the Cessna Citation plane […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute There were some scary moments for passengers aboard a small plane en route from Comox to Vancouver on Monday night. Emergency crews were called to Vancouver International Airport (YVR) after Pacific Coastal Airlines flight 713, carrying 27 passengers and three crew members, was struck by lightning. Airline spokesperson Kevin Boothroyd said the aircraft was struck […]