Nearly 300 people onboard a Saudi Airlines flight from Riyadh to the Pakistani city of Peshawar had a lucky escape when the landing gear of the aircraft caught fire while landing at the Peshawar airport on July 11, airport officials said. The plane caught fire upon landing at Peshawar’s Bacha Khan International Airport, the Civil Aviation Authority was quoted as …
MELBOURNE, Australia — A light plane with three people aboard landed safely without landing gear Monday after circling an Australian airport for almost three hours to burn off fuel. The pilot, Peter Schott, and his passengers, a 60-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, walked unaided from the twin-turboprop Beechcraft Super King Air after landing at Newcastle Airport north of Sydney, …
Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport without its front landing gear, says a transport ministry official. A Boeing 767 cargo plane has landed at Istanbul Airport without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official said. A video on social media showed the Boeing 767 belonging to FedEx Express using the back landing gear and then dipping …
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