According to sfgate.com, a United Airlines jet made an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday morning roughly an hour after lifting off on a trans-oceanic journey. United Flight 863 had departed SFO at 11:45 p.m. Saturday bound for Sydney, Australia, according to an airport spokesperson. The Boeing 747-400 returned and touched down without incident at 12:50 a.m. “due to an engine issue,” according to a statement from United Airlines. Read article
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Ktvu.com reported that, Two men escaped injury Friday when their small plane hit berry bushes at a small airport east of Sonoma, a police sergeant said. The pilot, Leon Scarbrough, 74, of Sonoma, said he was conducting touch-and-go land-and-take-off practice exercises at the Sonoma Skypark airport when the plane got off course and went onto […]
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According to nj.com, a United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport shortly after takeoff this morning when the pilot reported a smoke condition in the cockpit, officials said. United Express flight 4980 landed without incident around 11:15 a.m., according to Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman. Airport […]
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CNN reports that ten people suffered minor injuries Monday when the nose gear of a Southwest Airlines jetliner collapsed after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the city’s Port Authority reported. Southwest Flight 345 was landing at LaGuardia from Nashville about 5:40 p.m. when the accident occurred. The nose of the blue-and-orange jet came to […]
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According to eturbonews.com, awo British tourists are among the victims when a light private helicopter has crashed in the Russian north about 150 kilometers east of Murmansk. The 5-seat Eurocopter EC120 Colibri helicopter was on a scheduled flight to the Lovozersky region in the northeast of the Kola Peninsula, a police source told RIA Novosti […]
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Al Jazeera reports that a loud explosion has been heard at Beijing airport Terminal-3, according to official Chinese news agency Xinhua. There was no word on casualties in the explosion that occurred around 6:30pm local time (10:30 GMT) near the international arrivals section. Read article
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The Washington Post reports that an airport serving Mexico’s fourth-largest city suspended operations for seven hours because of volcanic ash from the Popocatepetl volcano. The international airport in Puebla was temporarily closed as a precautionary measure, said Puebla airport spokesman Herbert Lopez Palma. Read article
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The Calgary Herald reports that authorities in Ecuador say at least 200 people have been evacuated from near the Tungurahua volcano after it spewed an ash plume more than 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) into the air. The regional director of the National Risk Management Secretariat, Lourdes Mayorga, says the explosion produced ash and pyroclastic flows, […]
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As reported by the British Foreign Office all Mozambican airlines have been refused permission to operate services to the EU. The EU ban was imposed because the Mozambican regulatory authority was unable to verify that these airlines comply with international safety standards. You should avoid flying with Mozambican certified carriers subject to the EU operating […]
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As reported by Itv.com, two people have died after a light aircraft came down in Leicestershire this evening. Police were called at 6.45pm to reports that a plane had crashed in fields in Fenny Drayton. Read Article
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