Iranian President Dead in Helicopter crash Yesterday, (19th May 2024) I was called by the Al Jazeera Arabic service asking for comment on a, “hard landing,” by a helicopter carrying the Iranian President and Foreign Minister. They had been en route to a site near Tabriz and reports stated that bad weather was hampering search …
A French made Dassault Falcon 10 crashed on a snow covered Afghan mountain slope on January 21st (2024) there were six people on board, four crew members survived. The aircraft had been chartered by a Russian businessman to repatriate him and his sick wife from Thailand to Moscow. It seems that they were the two …
Alaska Airlines 1282 Door Failure in Flight. On January 5th (2024) an Alaskan Airlines Boeing MAX 9 aircraft lost a blank door section of the fuselage whilst climbing through 16,000 feet after departing from Portland, Oregon, bound for Ontario, California. The event left an emergency door sized hole in the aircraft and the decompression sucked …
Alaskan Airlines Flight 1282 Door Failure and decompression. Read More »
Japan Airlines collision and fire at Tokyo Haneda. January 2nd 2024: JAL flight 516 was cleared to land on Runway 34Right at Haneda Airport and almost as soon as the main wheels hit the runway the Airbus A350 hit a DeHavilland DHC-8 that had lined up on the same runway in preparation for take-off. The …
Yeti Airlines Flight 691 Crash at Pokhara Nepal. A Yeti Airlines ATR 72 crashed on approach to Pokhara airport Nepal on 15th January 2023; there were 68 on board. The event took place as the aircraft was due to land at the new Pokhara International airport, which opened on January 1st. Video footage taken on …
There are media reports of an Air France flight deck crew coming to blows during a flight from Geneva to Paris in June this year. The French investigation body (BEA) has reported on the incident and it seems that the plots are suspended. The reason for the altercation is not known but it would be …
A Boeing 737-800 o a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou, departed its cruise level of 29,000ft in a steep dive, which ended near vertical before hitting the ground at high speed near Wuzhou. There were no survivors among the 9 Crew and 123 Passengers. An investigation is ongoing and this involves the US NTSB and …
China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 – March 21st 2020 Read More »
The UK was hit by a pretty big revolving storm yesterday (9th Feb 2020) which posed significant challenges to the travel world and most notably aviation. Today’s media websites are full of video clips of airliners making approaches in the strong winds, rocking and rolling a bit and often going around when the crew were …