A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-400, flight MH-864 from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Medan (Indonesia), was destined for Medan’s Polonia Airport estimated to land at 15:20L (scheduled landing at 15:00L) but approached Kuala Namu International Airport’s runway. Just before touch down at approximately 15:30L the crew recognized the error, went around and...
A gear collapsed and after that a runway excursion. Let us see what Aviation Herald has to say about this. The SAAICD reported the aircraft was performing flight Magal 100 from Khartoum to Heglig carrying 4 crew and 13 tons of cargo. The captain (52, ATPL, 7,050 hours total, 6,000 hours on type) was assisted by a first officer (57, ATPL, 10,038 hours total,...
A Qantas Boeing 737-800, registration VH-VZL performing flight QF-718 from Perth,WA to Canberra,AC (Australia), was preparing for departure from Perth’s runway 06 when the crew received ATIS information indicating winds were coming from 060 degrees at 8 knots, weather conditions were CAVOK with temperature at 37 degrees C. The aircraft lined up runway 06...
In most of the cases it goes wrong .. a runway excursion. The same with this report brought to you by Aviation Herald. A Myanma Airways Xian MA-60, registration XY-AIQ performing a flight from Heho to Monghsat (Myanmar) with 55 passengers, overran the end of the runway while landing on Monghsat’s runway 30 at about 11:50L (05:20Z) by about 240 meters and...
What is this … a bomb hoax? This is far from good news. The only good news is that all passengers and crew could leave the aircraft. Let us see what Aviation Herald has to say about it. A Shenzhen Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration B-6359 performing flight ZH-9243 from Xian to Shenzhen (China), was enroute near Guilin (China) when the crew was informed...