Incidents Archives

United 737 MAX Diverts After Suspected Weather-Balloon Strike

A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 (N17327) operating UA1093 from Denver (DEN) to Los Angeles (LAX) diverted to Salt...

October 22, 2025 John Cushma 350

An Air ACT Boeing 747-400 freighter operating as Emirates SkyCargo flight EK9788 veered off Runway 07L at Hong Kong International...

October 19, 2025 John Cushma 1446

Italy’s air-safety agency has opened a serious-incident investigation after an Air Arabia Maroc Airbus A320 reportedly lost altitude to just...

October 18, 2025 John Cushma 575

A 13-year-old managed to move through multiple layers of departures control at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion (TLV) and board an...

October 11, 2025 John Cushma 276

KLM flight 601 from Amsterdam (AMS) to Los Angeles (LAX) diverted to Yellowknife (YZF) on Sunday, October 5, 2025, after...

October 8, 2025 John Cushma 551

Lufthansa’s longest flight turned into an extraordinary 20-hour odyssey across South America earlier this week, as one of the airline’s...

July 9, 2025 John Cushma 869

In what marks one of the deadliest aviation disasters in recent Indian history, an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner operating...

June 12, 2025 John Cushma 814

A seemingly routine transatlantic flight turned into an embarrassing operational misstep this week for American Airlines, after a Boeing 787-9...

June 7, 2025 John Cushma 10759

A routine Lufthansa flight turned into a near-miss incident after a pilot collapsed alone in the cockpit—unintentionally activating switches and...

May 18, 2025 John Cushma 920

Another day, another terrifyingly close call at LaGuardia Airport — and another glaring reminder of just how urgently the U.S....

May 18, 2025 John Cushma 733