Category: Incident

Turbulence injures dozens (11 Seriously) on Hawaiian Airlines flight

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Happened just 30 min before landing. No any PIREP, No any report about TURBULENCE. At least 36 people have been injured, 11 seriously, after a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu was hit by severe turbulence. The airline said it was conducting a “thorough investigation” of the plane before it returns to service.The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will probe a Hawaiian Airlines flight struck by severe turbulence that resulted in three dozen passenger and crew injuries, leaving parts of the cabin’s interior visibly damaged. One passenger said…

A drunk passenger attacks a flight attendant on a Turkish Airlines flight, and the pilot makes an emergency landing. (PAN PAN PAN Unruly Passenger on board, request diversion to the nearest.)

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Indonesian pilot attacks Turkish Airlines cabin crew while traveling out of service. Indonesia’s Lion Air Group has confirmed that the drunk passenger who attacked the Turkish Airlines cabin crew on a flight from Istanbul to Jakarta is a pilot for Batik Air.A drunk Indonesian passenger identified as Muhammad John Jaiz Boudewijn attacked a flight attendant on a Turkish Airline flight traveling from Istanbul to Jakarta. The pilot of the flight was forced to make an emergency landing at the Kualanamu International Airport, Medan, as the ruckus continued. The incident is…

Alaska Airlines pilot and co-pilot engaged a verbal dispute in front of passengers

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A pilot and co-pilot on an Alaska Airlines flight engaged in a verbal dispute in front of their passengers. The incident occurred on July 18 on a flight from DC’s Dulles International Airport bound for San Francisco International Airport. Though it has not been revealed what exactly the two men were feuding about, the disagreement ended with the pilot turning the plane around on the tarmac instead of continuing with the flight’s scheduled take-off. Flight attendants allegedly had no idea what had transpired between the two that led to the…

A British Airways A380 has been damaged while landing in Madrid

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A British Airways A380 suffered a birdstrike while landing in Madrid. The British Airways A380 (reg. G-XLEF) has been damaged while approach to Madrid. The aircraft was performing flight #BA462 from London to Madrid when it suffered a birdstrike. The bird hit the cowling and went through the engine number 2. The passengers have been told “The inbound flight to LHR just cancelled due to major damage”. They will reschedule for tomorrow. The affected aircraft (registration: G-XLEF) is reportedly still on the ground at Madrid Airport at the time of…

An Airbus A330-303, Turkish Airlines, suffered an apparent compressor stall just after take-off

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Turkish Airlines flight Istanbul to Johannesburg, departed Wednesday (07.09.2021) at 01:45 am (Istanbul time), massive booms from the left engine (Nu.1) on take-off, with bursts of flames from front of the affected engine, for about 20 seconds during takeoff.The aircraft entered a holding pattern at 6000 feet to burn fuel and landed safely almost 4 hours and 30 minutes after takeoff.Upon landing, Airplane taxied straight to the Turkish air technical hangar and passengers disembarked to buses to the terminal. Pilot Note: How dangerous is such a situation on a twin-jet…

Afghan plane crash: Mystery over crash in Taliban territory

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The US military has joined an investigation into a plane that crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday. Local officials initially said the aircraft that came down in Deh Yak district, Ghazni province, belonged to state-owned airline Ariana. But the airline denied this, prompting questions about the origin of the aircraft and the cause of the crash. Hardline Iranian news agency Fars posted footage of what it said was the plane, with US Air Force markings. Video and images posted on Fars’s social media accounts appeared to show a Bombardier E-11A…

Failure of the right rudder cable bends C-150

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The pilot reported that, during approach, the automatic weather observation station at the airport in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, reported that the wind was from 170° at 12 knots. He added there was “very massive choppy wind, including what could have been windshear, updrafts, and downdrafts.” During the landing roll on Runway 11, a wind gust blew the Cessna 150 off the runway to the left. The pilot attempted to recover, but the plane hit a ditch, sustaining substantial damage to the fuselage and right wing. The FAA inspector reported that a…

Union Votes for Embraer Strike if Talks Don’t Progress

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Workers at Embraer’s commercial aircraft plant in São José dos Campos on Wednesday voted to begin a strike next Monday if the company and its metalworkers’ union make no progress in contract talks. Contract negotiations under Brazil’s complex labor laws specify negotiations between the labor union on one hand, and on the other an industry association representing the whole industry category, in this case aircraft manufacture, including suppliers such as fuselage manufacturer Latecoere. Talks between Embraer and the union began with the usual gestures, as industry offered an inflation-only pay…