All flights to Krakow, Poland are currently holding and diverting.

Visibility was only 50 this morning due to fog. It looks the airport was hoping for the visibility to increase but it is currently only 250m.

Diversions:

• Transavia flight from Lyon
• Ryanair flight from Madrid
• Ryanair flight from Leeds
• ASL flight from Paris CDG
• Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt

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Emirates took delivery of its first Airbus A350 (registration A6-EXA), the first of 65 A350 aircraft to be delivered to the airline over the course of the next few years.

The aircraft will officially enter commercial service in January when it makes its debut flight to its first destination, Edinburgh, followed by 8 other destinations across the Middle East, West Asia and Europe.

Today is a media day at Dubai International Airport as Emirates opens its first A350-900 to journalists.

Richard Schuurman, a freelance aviation reporter for AirlinerWorld is on board, taking photos.

The first 15 A350 aircraft will seat 312 passengers. The remaining 50 A350s will be ultra-long range with 298 seats due to a crew rest area.

Emirates expects one more Airbus A350-900 this year plus three through late March.

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There was an incident after landing of British Airways #BA246 from São Paulo at London Heathrow.

The Airbus A350-1000 (registration G-XWBA) is blocking the southern runway 27L after a nosewheel issue.

Heathrow is now on single runway operations on the northern runway 27R.

The Airport said it plans to resume normal operations as soon as possible.

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According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany narrowly avoided a plane crash in July when an air freight package caught fire, possibly initiated by Russia .

It was a luck that the package caught fire on the ground in the DHL logistics center in Leipzig and not during the flight, said Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution President Thomas Haldenwang during a public questioning of the German secret services in the Bundestag.

The incident was actually more serious than previously known confirmed Haldenwang.

When the incendiary device ignited, the package was about to be loaded onto a cargo plane and the entire cargo container caught fire.

“We are observing aggressive behavior by the Russian intelligence services, in particular, espionage and sabotage by Russian actors have increased in Germany” explained Haldenwang.

According to Tagesspiegel information, the plane in question was delayed. If it had taken off on time, the package would have caught fire during the flight.

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An American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER (registration N772AN) clipped the wing tip of a Frontier Airlines Airbus A321-2200 (registration N714FR) at Terminal E at Logan Airport in Boston.

No injuries were reported which occurred at a Terminal E gate while passengers were on board during the incident Monday, November 25 2024.

The American plane was a Boeing 777 that was being towed when it hit the Frontier jet, an Airbus A321.

While pulling into its gate at Boston, American Airlines flight 109, with service from London Heathrow to BOS, made contact with Frontier aircraft from Dallas.

There were no reported injuries, and customers deplaned the aircraft shortly after. The aircraft has been removed from service for inspection by maintenance team.

After this incident, a tug vehicle towing an empty JetBlue A321-200 (registration N948JB) struck the rear of a Cape Air plane at a slow rate of Speed.

“The JetBlue aircraft will undergo a thorough inspection” a spokesperson for JetBlue said.

The Cape Air flight had 3 passengers and 2 crew members on it at the time of the collision, according to a spokesperson for Cape Air.

No one on the Cape Air flight reported any injuries according to a spokesperson for the company, though a Massport official did confirm to Boston 25 News that both pilots of the flight were taken to an area hospital as a precaution.

No JetBlue crewmembers were injured as a result of this incident, according to JetBlue.

This marks the second similar incident at Logan, Monday. Earlier in the day there was a collision involving two planes.

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The two bombers departed South-West Fairford for a BTF mission. The two aircraft can’t be tracked on websites.

The planes were cleared to climb to FL230 then reached 24,000 ft altitude.

Four U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrived at Royal Air Force Fairford, England for Bomber Task Force on Nov. 8, 2024. 

The B-52s are operating as the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron with NATO Allies and other international partners to synchronize capabilities.

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A DHL Boeing 737-400F flying from Leipzig, Germany, to Lithuania hit a building in Vilnius and exploded into a huge fireball early Monday morning, killing a crew member and injuring three others.

Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Italy, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock raised the question of whether the plane crash was a hybrid attack.

Authorities must “seriously” consider whether a cargo plane crash in Lithuania was an act of “hybrid” warfare, Germany’s foreign minister said.

Annalena Baerbock, raised the possibility that the crash had been caused on purpose, telling reporters: “We must now seriously ask ourselves whether this was an accident or whether it was another hybrid incident,” in an allusion to the recent severing of cables in the Baltic Sea that officials have said could have been sabotage.

“The German authorities are working very closely with the Lithuanian authorities to get to the bottom of this,” she added.

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Monday, November 25 2024, a DHL cargo flight has crashed into a neighborhood close to Vilnius Airport.

A DHL cargo flight crashed near Lithuania’s Vilnius airport on Monday at about 0330 GMT, killing one person and injuring two others.

“Two have been taken to hospital, and one has been declared dead. These are the people who were on the plane, according to preliminary information,” Saulius Raševskis from the Lithuanian rescue service told LRT.

The Boeing 737-476F (registration EC-MFE), operated by SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL, was flying from Leipzig Germany. The aircraft fell on a house, a spokesperson for the governmental National Crisis Management Center said.

All of the people in the house survived, he added.

Firefighters were seen at 05:30 GMT pouring water onto smoke from a building some 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport runway in the Lithuanian capital.

A large police and ambulance presence was seen nearby and several nearby major streets were cordoned off.

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The Azimut Airlines flight departed from Sochi at 19:42 MSK.

One of the engines of the Sukhoi SuperJet 100-95LR caught fire as it landed at Antalya Airport in Turkey.

Emergency units quickly responded, containing flames and smoke emerging from the engine.

According to report, flight A45051 landed in adverse weather on runway 36R at 21:30 TRT.

79 passengers were evacuated via emergency slides from the aircraft (registration RA-89085).

In 2020, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft performing Aeroflot Flight 1492 from Moscow–Sheremetyevo Airport caught fire killing 41 of the 78 occupants.

It bounced on landing and touched down hard, causing the landing gear to collapse, fuel to spill out of the wings and a fire to erupt.

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Wizz Air flight #W61305 attempted to land in London Luton Airport after a 3-hour floight from Warsaw.

The Airbus A321-200 (registration A-LTA) circled several for about 20 mins around LTN Airport then decided to divert to Manchester due to wind gusting up to 34 kt.

The crew declared an emergency (squawk 7700) to request priority landing at Manchester Airport.

The A321 aircraft safely landed at 19:54 GMT on runway 23R.

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After two landing attempts on runway 27L at London Heathrow, flight #EK1 is diverting to Birmingham Airport.

The Airbus A380-800 (registration A6-EVC) is expected to land in few mins at BHX.

A strong crosswind up to 38 kt is challenging pilots of flights landing at London Heathrow today.

The Airport earlier announced to out of our planned alternation programme today: landing on the southern runway (27L) and taking off from the northern runway (27R) due to Storm Bert resulting in strong wind conditions exceeding those parameters deemed safe in planned alternation.

Saudia flight #SV119 to London Heathrow just diverted to London Gatwick.

Eurocontrol is expecting “high delays for arrivals due to Wind of storm Bert.”

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British Airways flight #BA65 departed London Heathrow today at 09:58 GMT for a 8-hour flight to Nairobi.

The flight is operated by an Airbus 350-1000 (registration G-XWBN) which is only 1 year old.

The airline is confirming the flight has been re-routed to Saudi Arabia. The flight is scheduled to depart Jeddah King Abdul Aziz International at 19:20 local time.

The crew decided to divert due to operational reason.

UPDATE 15:28 GMT
Flight #BA65 landed on runway 34R at Jeddah King Abdul Aziz International Airport.

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