Category: ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS

Wizz Air Airbus A321-200 Experiences Slats Problem

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Wizz Air Airbus A321-200, performing flight from Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) to Eindhoven (Netherlands) with 228 people on board, was on approach to Eindhoven when the crew reported they had a flight controls problem and needed to level off and enter a hold. The crew subsequently reported they had slats and flaps problems and because of that […]

Air France Boeing 787 Experiences Air Conditioning Problem

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air France Boeing 787-900, performing flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Bogota (Colombia), was climbing out of Paris when the crew stopped the climb. The climb was stopped due to a problem with the air conditioning and decided to return to Paris for a safe landing on Charles de Gaulle’s runway about […]

LC Peru de Havilland Dash 8-400 Fails to Extend Nose Gear

Reading Time: < 1 minute A LC Peru de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing flight from Lima to Ayacucho (Peru) with 59 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Ayscucho when the crew received an unsafe indication for the nose gear. The crew went around, worked the related checklists and decided to return to Lima. The aircraft performed a low […]

Yakutia Airlines Plane Makes Emergency Landing

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Yakutia Airlines plane en route from Yakutsk, the capital of Russia’s Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, to the the settlement of Chokurdakh in the north of the region, has returned to the airport of departure because of the malfunction of one of its engines, no one was injured, the air carrier’s press service informed TASS on […]

Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Left Engine Separated From the Wing

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Xiamen (China) to Manila (Philippines) with 157 passengers and 8 crew, experienced runway excursion. Aircraft had gone around from low height on first final approach to Manila’s runway due to weather, positioned for another approach and continued for a landing on runway. However, aircraft went off the left […]

Rossiya Airlines
Rossiya Airlines Boeing 747 with Failed Engine Successfully Lands in Moscow

Reading Time: < 1 minute A double-decker Boeing 747 with one malfunctioning engine has successfully landed in Moscow Vnukovo Airport. The huge Rossiya Airlines plane managed to safely land in after one of its four engines reportedly had failed mid-flight around 1pm local time on Tuesday. The plane took off from Larnaca, a popular tourists destination in Cyprus. About 500 […]

Iberia Airbus A340-600 Experiences Tyre Damage

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Iberia Airbus A340-600, performing flight from Madrid (Spain) to Quito (Ecuador), touched down on Quito’s runway when the crew initiated a go around. The aircraft entered a hold for about 20 minutes, positioned for another approach to runway and landed about 30 minutes after the go around. One of the main tyres was found […]

Stolen Horizon Air Aircraft Crashed into Forest

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Horizon Air de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing an unauthorized flight from Seattle, WA (USA) to an undefined destination, departed Seattle’s runway without takeoff clearance with tower trying to query callsign and authorization. Pierce County, WA Sheriff’s Office reported a 29 year old employee of Horizon Air stole the aircraft and performed an unauthorized takeoff. […]

Air Iceland Connect de Havilland Dash 8-400 Experiences Engine Failure

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air Iceland Connect de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing flight from Reykjavik to Egilsstadir (Iceland) with 40 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing out of Reykjavik’s runway 31 when the crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet, shut the right hand engine down and returned to Reykjavik for a safe landing on runway 01 about […]

Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 Experiences Engine Failure

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 777-300, performing Hajj flight from Lahore (Pakistan) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with 395 people on board, was accelerating for takeoff from Lahore when an engine failed prompting the crew to reject takeoff. The aircraft came to a stop with four blown of six left main tyres. A replacement Boeing […]