Japan plane crash: Runway safety concerns in focus 

01/03/2024

PARIS—Japanese investigators are preparing to probe the collision of two airplanes at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, weeks after the global airline industry heard fresh warnings about runway safety. All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 escaped after a…

5 killed in collision between Japan Airlines, Coast Guard planes  

01/02/2024

TOKYO— A passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday, January 2, 2024,  and burst into flames. Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that all 379 occupants of…

Japan Airlines plane on fire at Tokyo airport: 379 passengers evacuated

01/02/2024

TOKYO—(UPDATED) All 379 passengers and crew of a Japan Airlines plane miraculously escaped from a fire following a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday, January 2, 2024, but five of the six crew of…

US Navy plane overshoots Hawaii runway: All 9 aboard escape injury

11/21/2023

HONOLULU — A U.S. Navy plane overshot a runway and went into a bay in Hawaii, and when emergency workers got to the scene, military officials told them that all nine people aboard made it safely to…

PH bans ‘rude’ American national over profane info in eTravel form

Angeline Marcelino 11/10/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said an American national was permanently banned from entering the Philippines after showing “rude conduct” and putting “false and profane information” in the eTravel system. The agency identified the…

Off-duty pilot attempts to disable engines of aircraft on flight

10/24/2023

An off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines jet tried to disable the aircraft’s engines on a flight from the Seattle area to San Francisco, but crew members subdued him, and the plane landed…

Cessna makes emergency landing at Mactan airport

Futch Anthony Inso 10/04/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—A Cessna aircraft from the Philippine Airforce (PAF) made an emergency landing on the runway of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) at around 2:15 a.m. on Wednesday, October 4, 2023. The incident resulted in the…

Cessna plane crashes in Poland; Five killed

07/18/2023

Warsaw, Poland—A small plane crashed into a hangar at an airfield near Warsaw on Monday, killing five people, officials said. Rescuers said three people were aboard the plane when it collided with the corrugated iron hangar, where 13…

Tornadoes in Chicago disrupts air traffic

Reuters 07/13/2023

Tornadoes and thunderstorms battered the greater Chicago area on Wednesday, temporarily forcing O’Hare and Midway airports to halt all air traffic, officials said, as tornado sirens echoed through the third biggest U.S. city. At least eight tornadoes touched down in four counties in…

Nepal helicopter crash: Six bodies retrieved

07/12/2023

KATHMANDU  -Authorities in Nepal have retrieved the bodies of all six people killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, including five Mexican nationals, officials said, the latest in a series of air disasters to strike the Himalayan nation. The…

Airline delays and cancellations are bad. Ahead of the holiday weekend, they’re getting worse

06/29/2023

Travelers are getting hit with delays at U.S. airports again Wednesday, an ominous sign heading into the long July 4 holiday weekend, which is shaping up as the biggest test yet for airlines that are struggling to…

Airlines asked to prepare as PH airspace shuts down for 6 hours

Jane Bautista 05/03/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The entire Philippine airspace will shut down for six hours on May 17, from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., to make way for the replacement of the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system that failed…

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