This video footage from news source Associated Press (AP) shows rescue teams hosing down the burning wreckage of the One-Two-Go Boeing MD-82 that crashed at Phuket airport yesterday (16 September).
The Director General of Thai Transport Authority said that visibility was "poor and the pilot attempted a go-around".
AP's report says that a survivor "knew the aircraft was in trouble before the flight landed because it was making a banging noise."
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy refutes a whistleblower’s claim that Boeing concealed key documents related to the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 accident in January.
Several flights bound for Dubai’s main airport have been diverted after thunderstorms brought torrential rain to the United Arab Emirates on 16 April. Operator Dubai Airports states that the “exceptional weather event” has forced the temporary diversion of inbound evening services, although departures have been able to continue. “The airport ...
Russian carrier Ural Airlines appears to have abandoned ambitions to rescue the Airbus A320 which landed in a field after running low on fuel during a diversion. The carrier has told the Izvestia newspaper that it considered several options for retrieving the twinjet after it touched down on rough ground ...
