The same Qantas jumbo jet that was involved in a mid-air explosion last July has been forced to make an emergency landing at the Perth airport due to a fuel leak. A spokesman reported that the Boeing 747-400 landed at around 3.30pm after being diverted to Perth when the flight crew
Attempting to land in severe weather at the Koh Samui, Thailand airport on Tuesday afternoon, a Bangkok Airways plane skidded off the runway and crashed into an old control tower. One of the plane’s two pilots was killed in the incident, which injured six people on board. Officials at the airport
An airline official in Indonesia reported that a plane with 16 people on board disappeared over the eastern part of the archipelago on Monday. The plane, a Twin Otter, was operating a commercial flight over Papua when it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to Captain Nikmatullah, Merpati Nusantara’s director
The UK airport busiest with holiday flights closed on Friday after a passenger jet was diverted to the airport and forced to make an emergency landing. A Flybe flight on route to Cardiff, carrying 46 passengers on board a Dash 8 aircraft, had to make an emergency landing at Gatwick airport. All
Since 1903, when the Wright brothers took to the skies briefly in the first manned flight, the risk of flying gradually decreased over the next century. After such an extended period of technological and safety improvements, the latest figures are suggesting that the aviation industry may be seeing a decline
On Wednesday, an Iranian passenger plane crashed in the north of the country, and all 168 people on board were reportedly killed. The Caspian Airlines Russian-made jet was on route to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, from Tehran, when it went down near the Iranian city of Qazvin, which is located
www.southwest.com After a hole the size of a football in the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines plane caused the cabin to lose pressure, it was forced to make an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia, according to a spokesperson for the carrier. Marilee McInnes, the airline’s spokesperson, told CNN that there were
www.yemenia.com A Yemenia Airway Airbus A310-300 with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean as it approached the Comoros archipelago in severe weather conditions early Tuesday morning, according to government and airline officials. Some bodies were recovered shortly after the crash, said Yemen’s aviation authority undersecretary, Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Qader. According to
www.airfrance.com One of the last-minute automated messages that was sent by ill-fated Air France flight 447 reported a problem with the aircraft’s rudder safety device. On 31 May, the Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the north-eastern coast of Brazil when it ran into a severe storm on route to
www.qantas.com.au Engineers at Qantas are working with aircraft manufacturer Airbus following the cockpit fire in a Jetstar plane last Wednesday that forced the international flight with 203 people on board into an emergency landing on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. Qantas, the parent company of Jetstar, has announced it
www.airfrance.com Accident investigators have pieced together the last few minutes of Air France’s flight 447 by the use of automated message sent by onboard systems to reconstruct events, according to aviation sources. The messages seem to indicate that the Airbus A330-200, with 228 people on board, broke up in mid-air when it
www.airfrance.com Searchers continued to scour the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil, looking for signs of the Air France plane that is believed to have plunged into the ocean during a severe storm late Sunday night. It is widely believed that all 228 people on board have died. So far, the only
www.airfrance.com An Air France passenger jet with 228 people on board vanished over the Atlantic Ocean late on Sunday, after the Airbus A330-200 flew into thunderstorms and turbulence. The plane sent an automated message indicating a failure of its electrical system. Massive search efforts were launched early on Monday, but it was