Czech Airlines flight OK481 was about to depart on Friday afternoon, 3 August 2018, as a scheduled flight from Helsinki to Prague. The aircraft was an Airbus A319-112 registered OK-PET. There were 135 passengers and five crewmembers on board. Czech Airlines flight...
The FLYBE flight BE484 from Manchester to Belfast was a scheduled passenger transport fight with the No 2 air conditioning pack inoperative, as permitted by the Minimum Equipment List (MEL). Whilst en route, a failure of the No 1 Air Cycle Machine (ACM) occurred,...
Northwest Airlines flight NWA434 was a flight bound to Detroit (Michigan US) on Sunday, 28 November 1993, scheduled at 07:00 eastern standard time (EST). The airplane , a Boeing B727-200 (registered N278US) was was parked at gate 33 at the Montreal International...
On February 7, 2006, about 2359 eastern standard time, UPS flight UPS1307 (United Parcel Service) , a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F (N-748UP) landed at its destination airport, Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a cargo smoke...
On 4 October 2014, Emirates flight EK609 , from Jinnah International Airport (JIAP), Karachi, Pakistan, to Dubai International Airport (OMDB), the United Arab Emirates, with 14 crewmembers and 68 passengers onboard was operated by an Airbus A330 Aircraft, registration...
Air Canada flight AC433 was scheduled to depart Montréal at 0730. As part of its pre-flight preparations, the flight crew performed an external inspection where nothing unusual was found. The aircraft logbook indicated that 6 litres of hydraulic fluid had been added...
The crew took off from Atlanta Hartsfield on a flight bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. In cruise at FL 380, a cabin crew member noticed a smell chracteristic of an electrical fire at the level of seat 4F in Business Class. He turned off electrical power to...
On 19 April 2014, during the descent of Flydubai Boeing 737-800, registration A6-FEK, to Kiev Boryspil International Airport, Ukraine, at approximately 15,000 feet altitude, the visual display unit (VDU) of the In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system at seat 9A started...
Jet2 Holidays flight LS177 was a Boeing B737-804 (G-GDFJ) : as soon as the aircraft commenced its takeoff roll, both pilots commented on a strange smell. A few seconds later, due to what appeared to be smoke in the cabin, the Cabin Service Director (CSD) alerted the...
UPS flight UPS6 , a Boeing 747-44AF departed Dubai International Airport [DXB] on September 03rd 2010 on a scheduled international cargo flight [SCAT-IC] to Cologne [CGN], Germany. Twenty two minutes into the flight, at approximately 32,000 feet, the crew advised...
United Airlines flight UA955 : the accident occurred during engine start after pushback from the stand. After the right generator came online an electrical failure occurred in the right main bus. The failure resulted in severe internal arcing and short circuits inside...
United Airlines flight UA965 was in cruising flight near Paris during an ETOPS flight from Zurich to Washington, DC, abnormal warnings appeared on the flight deck instrumentation and circuit breakers began tripping. The commander, in consultation with the operator's...
An aviation accident is an incident in which an aircraft is damaged or destroyed as a result of a collision, fire, structural failure, or other event. Aviation accidents can be caused by a variety of factors, including mechanical failure, pilot error, adverse weather conditions, and sabotage. Aviation accidents can result in fatalities, injuries, and damage to property.
An aviation incident is an occurrence, other than an accident, that affects or could affect the safety of aircraft operations. Examples of aviation incidents include near collisions, runway incursions, and unruly passenger incidents.
A serious incident in aviation refers to an event that could have resulted in an accident or that had the potential to cause serious injury or death. Some examples of serious incidents in aviation include engine failure, in-flight fires, and loss of control of the aircraft.