Category Archives: Latest Aviation News

Serious incident: Wrong thrust setting, long takeoff of Boeing 747-8 at Tokyo-Narita, Japan. A serious incident of a Boeing 747-8F of Polar Air Cargo was revealed on 9th August 2017. In the night of 15th July, 2017, just 19 minutes before the curfew, flight PAC/PO213 to Shanghai Pudong International Airport was taking off from runway […]

B737 near tail strike on takeoff, stalls. A Royal Air Maroc B737 almost strikes tail and stalls on take off. Watch the video! Courtesy of www.holykaw.alltop.com/

Southwest B737 on Jul 7th 2017, unreliable airspeed and altitude. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N929WN performing flight WN-3641 from Las Vegas,NV to Cleveland,OH (USA), was enroute at FL290 about 100nm east of Las Vegas when the crew decided to return to Las Vegas, the aircraft descended to 12,000 feet. On the way back […]

Super Puma Offshore Ban to be Lifted. The U.K. and Norway say they’ll soon lift a 17-month ban on the use of two models of Airbus Super Puma helicopters to service offshore oil operations. The H225LP and AS332L2 helicopters were taken off that kind of duty after a crash in April of 2016 in which […]

Airbus launches new fixed and deployable flight recorders. Airbus announced that it is to implement new fixed and deployable flight recorders on its passenger aircraft in collaboration with L3 Technologies. The new devices will come in two versions: a fixed crash-protected Cockpit Voice and Data Recorder (CVDR), capable of recording up to 25 hours of […]

Runway Excursion Bucharest Otopeni Airport. A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration TC-JMH performing flight TK-1045 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) with 176 people on board, landed on Otopeni’s runway 26R at 20:58L (17:58Z) but overran the displaced end of the runway by about 50 meters before coming to a stop. There were […]

China Eastern A332, June 18th 2017, severe turbulence causes loss of 4000 feet and injures 26. A China Eastern Airbus A330-200, registration B-5926 performing flight MU-774 (Jun 17th) from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Kunming (China), was enroute at FL390 about 260nm northeast of Tyumen (Russia) the aircraft encountered severe turbulence including two large […]

Two Trent engine shut downs in flight yesterday Norwegian B788 over Atlantic on Jun 11th, 2017, engine shut down in flight A Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 787-800, registration LN-LNH performing flight DY-7019 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to New York JFK, NY (USA) with 294 people on board, was enroute at FL380 about 400nm […]

‘Pilot error’ blamed for wrong South Dakota airport landing. The flight landed about six miles prematurely. Federal investigators are blaming pilot error for causing a Delta Air Lines flight carrying 129 people to land at the wrong airport in South Dakota. The flight from Minneapolis landed at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, about six miles […]

JetBlue A321 – Inflight Lithium Battery Fire. Flight 915 diverted to Grand Rapids’ Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Michigan, USA after the lithium battery from a passenger’s laptop caught fire.  The aircraft, an Airbus A321, had departed New York-JFK International Airport at 18:25 EDT (22:25 UTC) May 30th on a service to San Francisco, California. […]