Categoria: Incidents
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AUDIO: President of the angolan Union of Pilots speaks on the incident aboard TAAG’S DT 652 flight to Lisbon (ocurred on the 23rd of March)
On the 24th of March, Angola woke up to the news of a severe turbulence event that passengers aboard TAAG’s Flight DT 652 went through! An event that has caused 10 injuries, a broken leg by a member of the crew and left 11 people feeling unwell. Today, the President of the angolan Union of…
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OPINION: The breakdown of TAAG Flight DT 651 [occurred on March 19th, in Lisbon]
By: Evaristo D’Abreu* TAAG is a public company in the field of provision of air services. So what is service delivery? Based on article 1154 of the ANGOLAN CIVIL CODE, the contract for the provision of services is one in which one of the parties undertakes to provide the other with a certain result of…
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TAAG clarifies reasons for lighting blackout on flight DT650
AngoAviação was informed that “as a customer, TAAG immediately requested a report from the Hi Fly service provider, and an investigation was opened that included interviews with the crew and engineers, as well as a thorough verification of the equipment” and that “ the root cause of this situation is linked to a fault on…
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Lufthansa plane makes emergency landing at 4 de Fevereiro airport
A Lufthansa plane landed on Saturday, in an emergency, at 4 de Fevereiro International Airport, in Luanda, with 286 people on board, after the crew detected fire in one of the engines of the aircraft making the CapeTown/Munich connection. It is the Airbus A359, which carried out flight LH575, of the German airline Lufthansa, departing…
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Woman claims to have been arrested and prevented from traveling for being too beautiful
A 28-year-old American woman claims she was arrested and prevented from traveling for being too pretty. This happened at the Las Vegas airport. The 28-year-old was arrested last week after she was accused of skipping a restaurant bill, according to a police report obtained by local media. Her name is Hend Bustami, she would have…
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Airport employee steals plane and threatens to crash into store
In the United States, an airport employee who knew how to take off but not land, stole a small plane on Saturday and threatened to crash into a Walmart, circling for five hours over nervous Mississippians before ending the flight in security in a soy field where the police arrested him. Cory Wayne Patterson, 29,…
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TAP aircraft collides with a motorcycle in Guinea Conakry
A TAP plane collided with a motorcycle during landing at Guinea Conakry airport, causing the death of the vehicle’s occupant, the airline said, guaranteeing that “all safety procedures were complied with”. In a statement released this morning, TAP states that “flight TP1492 had an accident on landing at Guinea Conakry airport, when a motorcycle tried…
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Crocodile invades airport
It happened in the United States, when passengers on a flight bound for the city of Atlanta, in the state of South Carolina, had a somewhat curious unforeseen event after the aircraft landed at Charleston International Airport. They had to wait for a crocodile to cross the runway before they could disembark from the aircraft.…
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Porn prompts pilot to threaten to land the aircraft (Watch the video!)
It happened in the United States of America. In what could likely be classified as a single, mass form of sexual harassment, a passenger on a Southwest flight used the iPhone’s Airdrop feature to share nude photos with others on the plane. And the pilot was not happy about it. If you’re not familiar with…