An RAF Chinook helicopter was in a near miss accident after it was seconds away from being downed in a collision with a drone as it came into land at a British base according to an accident investigation. The |£60m twin-rotor aircraft was flying at 138mph when the drone was spotted as a faint image…
A chartered light plane Twin engine Beechcraft B200 carrying five people has crashed into a Melbourne shopping complex. At 9:00 am local time on Tuesday 21st February 2017. The plane appeared to have had “catastrophic engine failure” on take off from Melbourne’s small Essendon Airport. All five died Victoria’s Police minister Lisa Neville told the…
German Fighter aircrafts Typhoons with a top speed of 1320mph and a powerful 27mm Mauser cannon on board, were scrambled on Thursday 16th February 2017, as London bound Jet Airways plane, 9w 118, was crossing over Cologne, after it lost radio contact. As a precaution the Typhoons continued to escort plane until landing at Heathrow.…
On Tuesday morning two planes IndiGo 6C-729 from Lucknow to Delhi with 176 passengers on board and a Spice Jet SG12 going to Hyderabad which was preparing to takeoff had a near miss at the Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport. According to the report there was miscommunication in the Air Traffic Control and the planes came…
An American Airlines Boeing 767 bound for Miami caught fire at 14:35 local time (19:35GMT) on the runway of Chicago O’Hare airport while taking off and pilot has to abort the take-off and evacuated everyone on board as emergency chutes were deployed as black smoke billowed from the plane, injuring twenty people. Nine crew members…
Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest, was forced to ground all it flights for half an hour just after 8:00 local time (04:00 GMT) on Wednesday 28th September, 2016, due to the drone flying in the area according to Airport authorities. However, arrivals resumed at 8L35 with full operations restored by 09:07. On…
IndiGo GE-054 flight from Singapore to Chennai on 23rd September 2016, averted a major accident when a passenger noticed smoke in an overhead cabin and the fire was extinguished by crew before it spread. The source of the fire is from Samsung Note 2 device that was among the baggage in the overhead cabin. Nobody…
A Flybe flight 1274, from Amsterdam to Manachester, with 76 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport after a tyre burst while taking–off . Birmingham Airport was closed off for half an hour on Monday 29 August 2016, afternoon due to the incident. No-one was injured but flights were…
An Emirates Boeing 777-300 A6-EMW plane EK521 flying from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala to Dubai has crash-landed around 12:45pm local time, at Dubai International Airport. Flights to and from the airport were suspended for several hours as 21 flights were cancelled, but have now resumed. According to Emirates Airlines, there were 282 passengers and 18 crew…
Singapore Airline Boeing 777-300ER, SQ 368, Milan-bound had to turn back about two hours into the flight from Changi Airport following an engine oil warning message, and as it made an emergency landing at 6:50am on 27th June 2016, at the City’s main airport on Monday, plumes of smoke billowing from the aircraft. According to…