Category: ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS

Five Killed as Seaplane Hits Bridge in Shanghai

Reading Time: < 1 minute A seaplane crashed into a bridge on the edge of Shanghai, killing at least five people. The plane, owned by charter airline Joy General Aviation, was taking off on a demonstration flight with 10 people on board including the crew, when it hit a motorway bridge in Jinshan district, Shanghai media platform The Paper reported. […]

Hundreds of Flights Cancelled as Beijing Lashed by Torrential Rain

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alerts issued in capital as the authorities warn it could see the most serious flooding since 79 were killed in storms four years ago. Thunderstorms and heavy rain have led to hundreds of flight cancellations and delays at airports in Beijing and neighbouring Tianjin. Some 195 flights scheduled to leave Beijing Capital International Airport had […]

Delta Flight Returns To Jacksonville After Reports of Engine Fire

Reading Time: < 1 minute A reported engine fire forced a Delta flight to return to Jacksonville International Airport Tuesday, an airport spokesman said. Delta flight 5231 was headed to New York when a reported fire in the right engine caused the plane to return to JIA around 5 p.m., spokesperson Michael Stewart said. There were 27 people on the […]

Eva Air Boeing 747 Damaged by Asphalt Fragments at Manila

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Eva Air Boeing 747-400, registration B-16410 performing flight BR-271 from Taipei (Taiwan) to Manila (Philippines), landed on Manila’s runway 24 and slowed safely. Upon vacating the runway via a high speed exit R3 the taxiway’s asphalt surface broke up and asphalt debris punctured the right hand flaps of the aircraft. The aircraft taxied to […]

Oman Air Flight Suffers Burst Tire

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Oman Air aircraft suffered a burst tire when landing at Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam, over the weekend. The flight was carrying 158 passengers and six crew members on board from Muscat, and no one suffered any injuries during the incident. “All the passengers, however, were deplaned safely without any injuries. The […]

Turkey Coup: All Flights From Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport Canceled

Reading Time: 2 minutes All flights from Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport have been canceled, a Reuters witness said on Friday, citing a pilot, after the military said it had taken control of the government. Turkey’s armed forces said on Friday they had taken power in the country to protect the democratic order and to maintain human rights. Turkish President Recep […]

UPDATED: EgyptAir Crash: Crew Members Were Recorded Desperately Battling a Fire on Board

Reading Time: 2 minutes A search vessel has recovered all mapped human remains under water in the Mediterranean Sea at the crash site of EgyptAir Flight MS804, Egypt’s aircraft accident investigation committee said. UPDATED: According to mirror.co.uk,  the mystery of the missing EgyptAir flight may finally have been solved. The cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 indicate […]

Six People Were Killed in a Russian Plane Crash on Fire-fighting Duty

Reading Time: < 1 minute According to a statement by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Russia, the incident occurred during the early hours of Sunday after the Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashed in the Siberian region of Irkutsk, where a wildfire has been raging for weeks. UPDATED: “During the search mission, body fragments and one of two black boxes […]

Turkish Airlines will Refund Tickets after Istanbul Airport Tragedy

Reading Time: < 1 minute Turkish Airlines will rebook, reroute, extend or refund tickets for passengers in response to the attack that occurred at Istanbul Ataturk Airport Tuesday evening, the company has announced. The announcement applies to all bookings departing from, arriving at, or connecting in Istanbul Ataturk Airport or Sabiha Gökçen Airport between 28 June 2016 to 5 July […]

UPDATED: Explosions Hit Turkey’s Largest Airport

Reading Time: 4 minutes Suicide bombers killed 36 people in a coordinated terror attack on Istanbul Ataturk Airport, Turkey’s largest airport. UPDATED: After the estimated death toll fluctuated throughout Tuesday night, climbing as high as 50 at one point, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim put the number of dead at 36 and wounded at close to 150, according to […]