Reading Time: < 1 minute A RafAvia Saab 340B, performing positioning flight from Riga (Latvia) to Savonlinna (Finland), reported runway excursion on landing. Aircraft landed on Savonlinna’s runway at about 05:36L, the crew however lost directional control, the aircraft turned and slid sidewards off the runway coming to a stop with all gear in deep snow off the runway surface. There […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A KLM Boeing 747-400, performing flight from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Mexico City (Mexico), suspected bird strike. Aircraft was climbing out of Amsterdam’s runway 24 when the aircraft flew through a flock of birds. The crew initially continued the flight and climbed the aircraft to FL300. Overhead London (UK) the crew decided to return to Amsterdam suspecting […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Spicejet Boeing 737-8 MAX, performing flight from Hong Kong (China) to Delhi (India) with 140 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL340 about 180nm east of Varanasi (India) when the left hand engine (LEAP 1B) shut down due to a restriction in the fuel flow. The crew drifted the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Lviv (Ukraine) to Istanbul (Turkey) with 59 passengers and 6 crew, experienced runway excursion during backtrack. Aircraft was backtracking runway 31 for departure when the aircraft veered left off the runway just ahead of turn loop taxiway 8 (which was closed however. The passengers disembarked via mobile stairs […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Entebbe (Uganda) with 139 people on board, overran runway on landing. Aircraft landed on Entebbe’s runway 17 (length 12,000 feet/3,658 meters) at 00:38L (21:38Z Jan 2nd) but overran the end of the runway and came to a stop about 125 meters/400 feet past the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Frontier Airbus A321-200, performing flight from Cleveland to Tampa (USA), reported six passengers becoming sick. Aircraft was enroute when six passengers became ill, the passengers vomitted and suffered from nausea. The aircraft continued to Tampa for a safe landing. Emergency services awaited the aircraft, examined and treated the sick passengers, who could be released shortly […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Delta Airlines Boeing 717-200, performing flight from Seattle to Spokane (USA), reported sparks from the aircraft while landing. Aircraft landed on Spokane’s runway 03 when the crew of another aircraft reported seeing sparks coming from the landing aircraft. Tower immediately dispatched emergency services. The aircraft slowed without further incident and stopped on the runway. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Skywest Canadair CRJ-700 on behalf of United, performing flight from Aspen to Chicago O’Hare (USA), reported gear problem. Aircraft was descending through FL330 towards Chicago when the crew began to squawk emergency due to a gear problem. The crew decided to perform a low approach to Chicago’s runway 10C to have the landing gear […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Four people were killed after Agusta Westland AW119 helicopter crashed Ulan-Ude, the capital of Siberia’s Buryatia republic. A helicopter crashed in Ulan-Ude. Four people on board of the aircraft were killed. The department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the republic of Buryatia confirmed the information. “We do confirm that a helicopter crashed in Ulan-Ude,” […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Three Emiratis and a foreigner were killed in the helicopter crash, which took place during a search and rescue operation near Jebel Jais. According to the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the Agusta 139 helicopter was conducting a search and rescue mission near Jebel Jais, the UAE’s highest mountain, when the incident took place at […]