Local media reported that an aircraft crashed on the A4 motorway near Disneyland Paris after striking an electric power cable. Emergency services responded to the scene, and passers-by filmed the incident while driving past, causing a traffic backlog.
The flight was scheduled to take off at 12.15 am from Hyderabad International Airport. The flight landed back at 3.21 am at the airport where emergency landing protocols were in place.
Witnesses reported the airplane appeared to have mechanical issues, fire officials said. The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.
Flames were seen shortly after the plane took off from Queenstown Airport. No further information about what happened at the time of the incident was known, a Virgin Airlines spokesperson said.
The World War II-era aircraft had no other passengers when it went down around 12:35 PM. An NTSB investigator will be on-site today to begin examining the wreckage for clues.
According to Austrian Airlines, a plane belonging to the airline sustained severe hail damage after encountering a "thunderstorm cell" while airborne on Sunday. A mayday emergency call was made during the flight.
The video of the ghastly mishappening went viral on social media showing a ascending plane with a tail of fire. The fire incident took place within thirty minutes of the take off due to an engine issue that was determined to be a compressor stall.
A person died after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. However, it was not clear whether the person was a passenger or an airport staff.
Preliminary findings released on Wednesday of an investigation into a Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence last week showed that a rapid change in gravitational force and a 54-metre altitude drop caused injuries.
The Singapore Airlines flight was cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet. Just after 0800 GMT, the Boeing 777 suddenly and sharply pitched down to 31,000 feet over the span of some three minutes, the data shows.
Aerial footage showed the Cessna plane flying close above nearby homes and trees, then skidding across the runway as it landed at Sydney's Bankstown Airport.
Former pilot Marco Chan said the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ICZ) is feared by many pilots due to an abundance of thunderstorms in that area. The massive turbulence that struck the Singapore Airlines flight on Tuesday left one person dead and 30 others injured.
A London-bound Singapore Airlines flight was hit by a 'sudden extreme turbulence' on Tuesday, causing the death of a 73-year-old British man while 30 others were injured. The Boeing 777 flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Singapore had 211 passengers and 18 crew members aboard.
An elderly British man died and more than two dozen passengers were injured when a Singapore Airlines flight from London was struck by severe turbulence and plunged 6,000 feet in the span of some a few minutes Tuesday over the Indian Ocean.
"Suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing a seatbelt was launched immediately into the ceiling, some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it," recalled an ill-fated Singapore Airlines passenger.
The Singapore Airlines flight was cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet. Just after 0800 GMT, the Boeing 777 suddenly and sharply pitched down to 31,000 feet over the span of some three minutes, the data shows.
Singapore Airlines says a person has died aboard and others were injured when a London-Singapore flight encountered severe turbulence. The airline said the aircraft was a Boeing 777-300ER with a total of 211 passengers and 18 crew on board.
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The flight originating from Bengaluru was carrying 179 passengers and six crew members. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.
Alarming videos showed the FedEx Boeing aircraft smashing onto the Istanbul airport runway and its nose rubbing onto the concrete. This incident is likely to exacerbate the ongoing crisis for Boeing, which began after the door-plug blowout in an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
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