Lightning strikes are not necessarily highly dangerous but they are certainly a little scary when you watch it happen knowing that the wing is full of fuel. This Kuwait Airways 777-300ER was damaged when it was hit by lightning in flight to Kuwait from Dubai. BOEING 777 – MSN 62569 9K-AOLSerial number 62569 LN:1506Type 777-369ERFirst […]

The co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged. Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti Airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of Pokhara, killing all on board in the country’s worst air disaster […]

There were 72 people, including four crew members, on the flight. Rescuers have managed to find only 71 bodies, with the missing passenger presumed dead. Investigations into the Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal that killed 71 people last month indicate the strong possibility of a startling error by one of the pilots. Five Indians were […]

Two Eva Airways planes were damaged after an Airbus A321-200 under tow collided with a Boing 777-300R parked on the tarmac, yesterday evening, April 16. Both planes were empty at the time of the accident. According to pictures published by Taiwanese media outlets, the wingtip of the A321 was embedded in the 777’s fuselage under the […]

A full emergency situation was launched at Dublin Airport on Sunday after a Ryanair flight from Liverpool required the use of the fire brigade upon landing. Flight FR5542 had departed from Liverpool’s John Lennon International Airport on Sunday afternoon. It landed into Dublin shortly after 5.45pm, but passengers were kept onto the plane after an […]

This happened during 2014, at Sialkot International Airport, Pakistan when a Boeing 737-400 did a High Power Engine Runup. The engineer who signed off on the construction of the ramp at Pakistan’s Sialkot International Airport likely has some explaining to do after a Shaheen Air International Boeing 737-400 rearranged it some during a routine engine […]

Ask any aviation person you know – we always hate to see items in the news like last week’s British Airways flight 2276 where the engine caught fire in Las Vegas. It’s probably safe to say that our entire industry is appreciative that this engine failure played out on the ground where people could react […]

Boeing recommended the grounding of 128 777-engined aircraft Pratt & Whitney, of which 69 are in operational service and 59 are already stored. The global fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft has 1.656 units, most of which are powered by engines created by General Electric. There were also two serious incidents involving Boeing 777 aircraft powered […]

A Flydubai Boing 737-9 MAX, registration A6-FNC performing flight FZ-1569 from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to Male (Maldives), landed on Male’s runway 36 when both right hand main tyres burst. The aircraft rolled out without further incident, came to a stop on the runway and was disabled. The runway needed to be closed for about […]

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The pilots are the most important aspect of safe flight, and several standards are in place to help them maintain the standard operating procedure. One photo is circulating on the internet that resulted in the grounding of two pilots. The image is of the Spicejet aircraft pilots, who are shown eating snacks while keeping beverages […]

Boeing 737 crashes in Australia during a firefighting operation, but both pilots on board survive. The Boeing 737-300 operated by Coulson Aviation firefighting was an ex Southwest Airlines aircraft. Tanker 139 had been contracted by the Australian National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) and was flown to Australia in December 2022 “Initially, investigators will seek to […]

The bodies of 21 people aboard a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside in Nepal have been recovered, authorities said Monday. The Tara Air turboprop Twin Otter crashed Sunday during a 20-minute scheduled flight from Pokhara to Jomsom after losing contact with an airport tower amid cloudy skies while flying in a remote hilly […]

NAIROBI, Dec 28 (Reuters) – U.S. air safety experts say Ethiopian inspectors investigating the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines’ crash that killed nearly 160 people in 2019 did not pay enough attention to crew training and emergency procedures in their report. The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in dissenting comments included in the […]

In the early ’70s, Bruce Campbell paid $25,800 for 10 acres of land in Hillsboro, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. The electrical engineer, who’s now 73, tells CNBC Make It the dream began when he saw an airplane boneyard on TV when he was 15 years old. He decided he wanted to live in one. In 1999, Campbell […]

Flight tracking platforms drew public attention this Friday (23) to the flights of four Airbus A340s which took off from Johannesburg/OR Tambo (JNB) in South Africa, in a possible transfer of aircraft to Iran. According to our partner media Aeroin, if confirmed the move could be classified as an evasion of U.S. sanctions. As reported […]

A single-engine plane carrying two people was caught on camera crash-landing on Santa Monica beach in Los Angeles, US, on Thursday. According to the New York Post, the plane landed upside down just after 3:15pm, and both people aboard were hospitalised.  A video shared on social media showed the plane slowly descending towards the shoreline before […]

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Four flight attendants and 38 passengers were injured after a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 encountered severe turbulence as it descended to land in Honolulu (HNL). Out of the injured, 20 were taken to hospitals, and 11 were diagnosed with severe injuries. It’s reported that the seatbelt sign was on when the aircraft encountered clear air […]

Dec 17th 2022 – De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q400 bad look for a freight flight landing at Abudwak (Somalia) carrying a load of Khat, suffered the collapse of its right main gearKhat is a stimulant drug, which means it speeds up the messages between the brain and the body. Chewing khat is part of […]

A snake was found in a Dubai-bound Air India Express flight on Saturday. Air India Express Boeing B-737 flight from Calicut to Dubai took off as scheduled and after landing at Dubai airport, the staff reported a snake on board the aircraft. “Air India Express B737-800 aircraft VT-AXW operated flight IX-343 (Calicut-Dubai). A snake was […]

A sad day to remember – By Capt Elmo Jayawardena – Source – dailynews.lk This happened 34 years ago, May 3, 1986, to be precise. In the old photo of three pilots, on the left is Capt Rohan Wijesinghe and on the right is Capt Vasava Vajirapani and I stand in the middle. The plane […]

This incident happened few years back. But there is something for us to learn.

The flight crew of an Embraer EMB145XR airplane was attempting to land on runway 1 at Presque Isle International Airport (PQI), Presque Isle, Maine. Snow was falling at the time. A Notice to Air Mission issued 2 hours 19 minutes before the accident indicated that runway 1 was covered with 1/4 inch of dry snow, […]

DALLAS — Just before a midair collision that killed six at a Dallas air show, a group of historic fighter planes was told to fly ahead of a formation of bombers without any prior plan for coordinating altitude, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The report did not give a cause of the crash. […]

13 years old Singapore Airlines Airbus 380-841 (9V-SKH and 9V-SKG ) getting broken down to pieces at Changi Exhibition Centre Source – Fl360aero

A Saudi Airlines Airbus A330 aircraft (HZ-AQ25) sustained hail damages to its nose Radome and had its cockpit windshield cracked while Libyan Airlines A320 aircraft (5A-LAK) received similar damage to the windshield on approach to King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED/OEJN), Jeddah -Saudi Arabia on 24th November. Source – FL360aero

The cockpit voice recording from an Air Canada plane that crashed on a Halifax runway can be disclosed to parties in a class-action lawsuit, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In a 7-2 judgment Friday, the top court upheld a Nova Scotia judge’s decision to make the recording available on the basis it contained […]

“Tower Beluga 5 XL we are beached like a whale”Airbus A330 Beluga (Beluga 5 XL), registration F-GXLN (almost brand new) landed at Albert (France) on runway 27 then rolled to the end, turned into the turn pad to begin the 180 degrees turn for backtracking. The Beluga became disabled with the nose gear off the […]

A newlywed pilot with a child on the way told a witness he was thinking “this is the end” as he crash-landed his light plane at Bankstown Pace way after its engine cut out mid-air on Saturday. The Piper PA28, from an aviation college that operates out of nearby Bankstown Aerodrome, smashed through a fence […]

On 18 November, a LATAM Airlines Airbus A320neo (registered CC-BHB) operated domestic flight LA2213 between Lima and Juliaca, Peru. During the take-off roll, however, the aircraft struck a fire engine that crossed the runway.  The fire engine (an ARFF or Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting), and other firefighting vehicles, were on their way for an […]

As bird strikes go, this one had to be a doozy. Late Tuesday night, American Airlines flight 1855 from Chicago to Kansas City flew through birds on approach, about 7 and a half miles from the runway. The pilots declared an emergency and Kansas City airport fire and rescue trucks hurried into position. The pilots […]

The propeller of a Jabiru aircraft separated in-flight due to fractured propeller bolts likely due to a loss of bolt tension, an ATSB investigation has found.   A student pilot had departed on a training area solo flight in the Jabiru J170-C aircraft from Muchea Greenside airfield, north of Perth, on 22 December 2021. On return […]

Five months old (July 2022 built) Air Transat Airbus A321neo aircraft (C-GOIR) received major damages to the Nose section (section 11/12) of the Fuselage due to a ground incident involving a tow tractor at Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Canada on 2nd November. It is being learnt that the tow bar failed in the act of […]

A Tanzanian passenger plane has crashed into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba, killing at least 19 people. Twenty-six of the 43 people on board the Precision Air flight were initially rescued and sent to hospital. The two pilots survived the crash and managed to speak to local […]

Airbus A320 – MSN 5229 – CC-BAZAirline LATAM ChileSerial number 5229Type 320-214First flight date 11/07/2012Test registration D-AUBOPlane age 10.3 years Latam flight LA1325 A320 has suffered some serious damage during flight from Santiago Chile (SCL) to Paraguay Asunción (ASU). It is known that the A320 entered some severe weather before diverting. Some reports are suggesting […]

Korean Air-operated Airbus A330-300 aircraft has reportedly overshot the runway at Mactan–Cebu International Airport in the Philippines amidst bad weather and poor visibility in the area late on Sunday night. Photos of the accident scene that have been posted on social media show the tail of the aircraft tipped into the air after it apparently crashed […]

Airbus-330 LV-FVH Aerolineas Argentinas. During the flight on the route Madrid – Buenos Aires, at an altitude of 10,950 meters, over the northern coast of Brazil, in the Natal region, the board fell into a zone of severe turbulence, as a result of which 12 unfastened passengers were injured. The crew, having provided first aid […]

Transavia France Boeing 737-800 (F-GZHA, built 2007) operating flight #T03943 from Djerba damaged both its nose gear tires during landing runway 21 at Nantes-Intl AP (LFRS), France with 160 on board. The lower fuselage showed overstress symptoms. The report said that the two front wheels detached from the landing gear bogies as the plane was […]

Passenger plane fired from weapons in Myanmar One passenger was injured as a result of the shelling of the plane of the national airline of Myanmar, which was coming in to land. Passenger aircraft ATR 72-600 (n/n XY-AML) of Myanmar National Airlines, on a flight from Yangon, was fired upon landing at Loiko Airport. According […]

A minor incident involving two aircraft occurred this evening at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) when a Korean Air Boeing 777-300 clipped the tail of an Icelandair Boeing 767 whilst taxiing.It is understood that the Korean air flight, operating KE908, clipped the 767 with its wing.A spokesperson for Heathrow airport confirmed the incident but also added that […]

Copa Airlines Boeing 737-800 (HP-1539CMP) suffered a runway excursion on landing runway 03R at Panama City-Tocumen airport (PTY) coming to rest on soft ground. Flight #CM135 from Mexico City was evacuated. No injuries reported.

A Boeing 737-400 cargo West Atlantic operated by Swiftair Spain, registered EC-NLS, has left the runway in Montpelier (France) airport after a flight from Paris CDG on Friday and Saturday night. The plane stopped in the lake at the end of the runway, and the three crew members left the Boeing 737 without problems. The […]

An Air India Express Boeing 737-800, registration VT-AXZ performing flight IX-442 from Muscat (Oman) to Kochi (India) with 145 passengers, was accelerating for takeoff from Muscat’s runway 08L at about 11:35L (07:35Z) when the crew rejected takeoff at low speed (about 40 knots over ground) due to a right hand engine (CFM56) fire indication. The […]