Aviation safety news

The Azerbaijan Airlines flight which crashed on Christmas while attempting to make an emergency landing was been shot down by Russian Air Defences in the Grozny area according to Reuters sources and evidence from the survivors of the crash. The Embraer E190 was operating a flight from Baku in Azerbaijan [read more]

An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190 crashed while trying to make an emergency landing near Aktau, Kazakhstan. The aircraft was operating a flight from Baku to Grozny, Russia. Video of the flight shows the aircraft heading towards the ground with its landing gear down in an attempt to make an emergency [read more]

Flights in and out of Belfast City Airport (BHD/EGAC) are cancelled this evening following a landing incident involving an Aer Lingus ATR72-600 which closed the runway. The aircraft was positioning into Belfast City Airport from Edinburgh with 4 crew members on board when the nose gear collapsed following what was [read more]

A section of the wreckage of the Boeing 747 N739PA, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on the 21st of December 1988, is being sent to the US ahead of an upcoming trial of Abu Agila Mas’ud who is charged with the destruction of the aircraft. The section being sent to [read more]

A recently published report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) into an incident involving a Ryanair Boeing 737-Max8200 at London Stansted shows the pilots temporarily lost control of the aircraft during a go-around procedure, at one point descending so rapidly the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EWGPS) was triggered. [read more]

Cathay Pacific has temporarily grounded its fleet of Airbus A350 airliners as a precautionary measure after discovering a failed engine component after a Zurich-bound flight returned to Hong Kong shortly after take-off yesterday. The airline says the failure is the “first of its kind” and has notified Rolls-Royce, which makes [read more]

A pilot has been killed when their aircraft crashed in an industrial estate on Sheepbridge Lane near Chesterfield in Derbyshire. Derbyshire Police said the accident occured just after 9am this morning and the pilot was the sole occupant of the plane. The police said: “Roads in the immediate area are [read more]

An ATR72-500 operated by regional carrier Voepass crashed near Sao Paulo yesterday killing 57 passengers and 4 crew. The plane was operating a flight from Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos airport when it appeared to fall out of the sky about 1 hour and 30 [read more]