Aviation safety news

On Sunday afternoon a TUI flight bound for Cancun was forced to divert to Quebec in Canada after a drunk passenger began attacking passengers and crew after becoming drunk onboard the flight. TUI flight 182 was flying from Manchester to Cancun when Bridget Hanley, a 34-year-old British woman, became drunk [read more]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive for the immediate inspection of Airbus A380 engines. The airworthiness directive (AD) 2017-21-51 relates to the uncontained engine failure of an Air France Airbus A380 engine over Greenland. It affects Engine Alliance (EA) GP7270, GP7272 and GP7277 engines types. [read more]

A storm which is currently battering Ireland and the UK has had an odd effect on aircraft making it appear as if there is smoke in the cockpit resulting in emergency landings. The phenomenon is being caused by dust from the Sahara which has been pulled up to the UK [read more]

An Aer Lingus Airbus A320 has diverted into Cardiff Airport after it declared an emergency with fumes in the cockpit. The flight, EI845 was en-route to Cork from Amsterdam when the pilots reported smoke or fumes in the cockpit. As a precaution, the aircraft diverted immediately into Cardiff. The Aircraft, [read more]

An Aer Lingus Airbus A320 has diverted into Cardiff Airport after it declared an emergency with fumes in the cockpit. The flight, EI845 was en-route to Cork from Amsterdam when the pilots reported smoke or fumes in the cockpit. As a precaution, the aircraft diverted immediately into Cardiff Airport after [read more]

Two men have suffered life-threatening injuries and burns in a light aircraft crash in near Coventry. The aircraft came down in a field near the village of Wolvey around 4pm this afternoon. The West Midlands ambulance service said that the injured men were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, [read more]

One person has died when a light aircraft crashed at Caernarfon Airport this evening. The Pilot, who was the only person on board, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses described a massive fireball as the aircraft crashed just before 6:30 pm this evening. North Wales Police received their first [read more]

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an emergency directive regarding a potentially explosive Airbus A350 fault. The directive, Number 2017-0154-E, relates to the hydraulic fuel cooling system which is located in the fuel tanks. It has been found that there is an overheat failure mode of the hydraulic pumps [read more]