Reading Time: < 1 minute A Vietnam Airlines Airbus A321, performing flight from Hue to Hanoi (Vietnam), landed on Hanoi’s runway 11R but temporarily went off the runway and returned onto the runway. The aircraft taxied to the terminal without further incident, the passengers disembarked normally. The airline reported the aircraft landed in adverse weather conditions and temporarily went off […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Delta Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-88, performing flight from Nashville,TN to Atlanta,GA (USA) with 156 people on board, was in the initial climb out of Nashville’s runway 31 when the crew reported they had just lost the #2 engine (JT8D) and declared emergency advising they were able to fly a pattern to runway 31. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A passenger jet was reportedly forced to make an emergency landing in Moscow after a small dog, which somehow opened the luggage compartment from the inside, triggered an alarm onboard. The commander of a Boeing 737 travelling from St. Petersburg informed the ground services of the complications as it was approaching the Russian capital on […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Thai Airways Boeing 777-200  performing flight from Bangkok (Thailand) to Dhaka (Bangladesh) with 172 passengers and 14 crew, landed on Dhaka’s runway in heavy rains but burst its right hand main tyres and temporarily veered off the runway to the right. The aircraft returned onto the runway and became disabled while attempting to vacate […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air France Boeing 777-300 performing flight from Seoul (South Korea) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), was being handed off from Polish to German Air Traffic Control near Szczecin (Poland) when radio communication with the aircraft was lost. Germany dispatched a pair of Eurofighters to intercept the aircraft at supersonic speed, radio communication with […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes A MAC Martin’s Air Charter (owner Rovos Air) Convair, performing a test flight from Pretoria Wonderboom to Pretoria Wonderboom (South Africa), was climbing out of Wonderboom’s runway 29 when ground observers noticed smoke from the left hand engine, the aircraft appeared to not climb anymore, estimated height was about 300 feet. The aircraft appeared to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Gol Linhas Aereas Boeing 737-800 performing flight from Belo Horizonte was enroute when the crew decided to turn around and return to Belo Horizonte after sudden aircraft movements had caused two flight attendants to lift off from the cabin floor and fall uncontrolled sustaining injuries. The aircraft descended for the return and landed safely […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Both EASA and FAA have released different Airworthiness Directives for Boeing 787-800 and Boeing 787-900 aircraft powered by Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines in order to correct unsafe conditions. The FAA reported in their AD that following an inflight shut down of one engine requiring a higher load on the other engine running at maximum […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Jet2 Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Tenerife South, Spain to Belfast Aldergrove, UK, landed on Belfast Aldergrove’s runway 07 when a loose trolley moved from the aft galley towards the front of the aircraft colliding with passenger arms and feet on the way until impacting a lavatory door in the front of the aircraft. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Thomas Cook Airlines Boeing 757-300,  performing flight  from London Gatwick to Arrecife with 284 people on board, had been enroute at FL350 and was descending towards Lanzarote/Arrecife when the crew received indication of the failure of one of the engines (RB211), declared emergency, shut the engine down and continued to Arrecife for a safe […]