Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air France Boeing 777-300, performing flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Shanghai Pudong (China) with 282 passengers and 16 crew, reported smoke in crew rest area. Aircraft was enroute when the crew decided to divert to Irkutsk reporting flight attendants had reported the smell of smoke in the crew rest area. Later the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) ATR-72-212A, performing flight from Karachi to Panjgur (Pakistan) with 54 people on board, experienced runway excursion on landing. Aircraft landed on Panjgur’s runway 31 but overran the end of the runway, burst both left hand tyres on soft ground and came to a stop with all gear on soft ground. There […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Fly Jamaica Boeing 757, performing a flight from Georgetown to Toronto with 120 passengers and 8 crew on board, has crash-landed at Cheddi Jagan Airport, officials said. According to the reports, all passengers are safe. 6 out of 128 people on board received minor injuries and were sent to hospital. According to reports, some time after taking […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Envoy Embraer ERJ-135, registration N836AE performing flight from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX to Lake Charles,LA (USA), was accelerating for take-off when the crew rejected take-off. The crew advised no assistance was needed, vacated the runway and told tower they had hit something on the runway. The aircraft departed about 90 minutes later and landed in […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes With ongoing search works and investigation of the fatal crash of the Lion Air 737 MAX 8 which carried 189 people on board on 29th October, 2018, more and more questions regarding the reasons of the accident are appearing. What do we know at this point? Reason in Boeing 737 MAX 8 Systems? On 7th November […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 787-800, performing flight from Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei) to London Heathrow (UK), engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute to London when the crew decided to shut the left hand engine (Trent 1000) down due to an oil leak and to divert to Vienna. The aircraft landed safely on […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Skylease Cargo Boeing 747-400, registration N908AR performing flight GG-4854 from Chicago O’Hare,IL (USA) to Halifax, NS (Canada) with 4 crew, went off the runway at the Halifax airport in eastern Canada. The aircraft was unable to stop before the end of the runway, overran the end of the runway, went down a slope and through […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air Cargo Carrier Shorts SD-360, performing freight flight from Danville to Louisville (USA), nose gear collapsed on landing. Aircraft landed on Louisville’s runway but suffered the collapse of the nose gear and was unable to vacate the runway. Tower instructed the next approach to go around, then asked whether they were able to vacate the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Newlyweds from Texas, both 23, died in a crash of the Bell 206B Jet Ranger carrying them from the wedding venue after the celebration. Depending on the local media reports, the helicopter malfunctioned and crashed into a nearby hill, about 1.6km from the wedding venue. The pilot operating the aircraft was also killed in the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Brussels Airlines Airbus A330-200, performing flight from Kinshasa N’djili (DR Congo) to Brussels (Belgium), engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute to Brussels when the left hand engine emitted a loud bang. The crew received an “ENG1 STALL” warning. The crew shut the engine down, drifted down to FL280 and continued to Brussels for […]