A passenger discovered a rat moving in the cabin ceiling of a Jet Blue aircraft mid-air recently, and it's a concern. What could go wrong ?
A rat inside a plane is considered a major aviation safety and bio-security hazard.
Because rodents can chew through critical electrical wiring and control cables, airlines immediately ground, decontaminate, and inspect aircraft the moment a stowaway rodent is spotted.
Rats could be carriers of diseases and parasites that pose a severe health risk to passengers and crew in a confined, recycled-air environment.
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NEW: LATAM Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner grounded at one of the most remote airports in the world after the L2 door was torn off by an airstairs truck.
The incident occurred on Friday at Mataveri International Airport on Easter Island in Chile, located approximately 3,759 kilometres slightly northwest of Santiago.
Photos: Alvaro Romero
NEW: Drunk man banned from Qantas Airways after allegedly biting a flight attendant, forcing the plane to divert to Tahiti.
The man was accused of trying to smoke in the middle of an 18-hour flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Dallas, Texas.
While he was being restrained, the man reportedly bit a flight attendant and a passenger.
When the plane landed in Tahiti, authorities escorted him off the plane, and Qantas Airlines issued him a no-fly ban.
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WATCH: A passenger onboard Croatia Airlines A220-300 captured the moment the aircraft veered off the runway during its takeoff roll at Split Airport.
📹: Neven Brnjas
😂 Only Ryanair can deploy the emergency slide THIS straight.... fully erected like it’s ready for takeoff in a whole different way
"Boarding now via the world’s most confident staircase. Mind the thrust."
Picture this... it's your second day as a British Airways flight attendant and you’re already living the aviation nightmare. 😅
Yesterday afternoon (May 16), on BA217 from Heathrow T5 to Washington Dulles, a brand new crew member on literally his second flight ever heard the captain say 'Cabin doors to automatic' during pushback... and thought it meant 'open the damn door.'
Boom... he yanks the handle on Door 3L. Emergency slide deploys full send onto the tarmac. Fire trucks roll in thinking it's a real evac. The 26-year-old Boeing 777-200ER (G-VIIY) sits there for over SIX HOURS while engineers swap the slide and check everything.
That one mistake cost BA a fortune... new slides aren't cheap, plus lost slots, crew hours, etc. Passengers were stuck on the plane or gate for ages.
As someone who's been through the training, they DRILL this into you: door ops are sacred. One wrong move and you're suspended + retraining. Poor guy must be mortified.
* The images are taken from far away and are low quality. These are upscaled images. I'll post the originals in the comments.
@Fahadnaimb I was there and I didn't take anything but Frontier has yet to find my bags that were in the cabin. I had important stuff in there. So even if I had to do it again I wouldn't take my bags but I would appreciate not being punished for doing the right thing.
Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-343 evacuated at Kathmandu Airport after a fire broke out in its landing gear upon arrival from Istanbul.
All 277 passengers and 11 crew arriving from Istanbul were evacuated using the emergency exits following the fire, and nobody was injured, Gyanendra Bhul, a Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal spokesperson said.
Turkish Airlines said smoke was observed in the landing gear while taxiing, and technical inspections had been initiated. "Initial assessments indicate that the smoke was caused by a technical malfunction in a hydraulic pipe," Yahya Ustun, the airline's senior vice president, communications, said on social media platform X.
This is what flying through a hailstorm looks like from an Airbus A320 cabin over Paraguay in an absolute emergency.
There are five ways pilots can tackle a thunderstorm while airborne:
1. Fly around
2. Fly over
3. Divert
4. Fly under
5. Fly through
In that order.
Flying under and flying through are both dangerous options, although flying under can be slightly safer depending on the storm.
Jet engines are actually tested and certified for hailstone ingestion. The rest of the aircraft, maybe not.
On weather radar, color codes are used to represent different intensities of precipitation and weather conditions:
Green: Light precipitation, such as drizzle or light rain.
Yellow: Moderate precipitation, indicating heavier rain or snow.
Red: Heavy precipitation, such as thunderstorms or intense rain.
Magenta: Extreme precipitation, often associated with severe weather, hail, or severe turbulence.
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Lufthansa flight LH1753 evacuated in Athens after returning to the airport when the crew received an APU fire warning and reported smoke in the rear of the cabin.
Lufthansa confirmed that three passengers suffered minor injuries during the evacuation on Monday and were transferred to a hospital in Athens for first aid treatment.
A spokesperson for the airline said, "The crew of the Airbus A321, following the standard procedures, declared a state of air emergency in flight, in order to obtain priority landing clearance. During the evacuation process, three passengers were slightly injured and taken to a hospital for first aid. The safety of passengers and crew is our absolute priority."