Jetstar flight forced to make emergency landing after bomb threat

JETSTAR ASIA AIRBUS A320-232 9V-JSJ (MSN 4515)

A Jetstar flight travelling from Tokyo (NRT/RJAA) to Fukuoka (FUK/RJFF) has been forced to make an emergency landing in central Japan after receiving a bomb threat.

According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, the plane, which was carrying 136 passengers and 6 crew members was forced to divert to 
Nagoya Chubu Centrair international airport (NGO/RJGG)

Video posted on Twitter appeared to show passengers disembarking via emergency slides and walking across the tarmac.

Japan Times reported that five passengers sustained minor injuries while evacuating via the aeroplane’s inflatable slide following its arrival at around 7:40am. No one was hospitalised.

According to NHK, Narita Airport received a call from a man who said in English: “I planted a bomb on Jetstar flight 501.”

The caller then reportedly asked for the manager. A source told the publication the call seems to have come from Germany.

The broadcaster also reported that Chubu Airport to temporarily suspend takeoffs and landings while authorities investigate.

So far, no explosive items have been discovered, the network reported.

Jetstar Japan confirmed the aircraft had been diverted due to a “potential security incident”.

“Out of an abundance of caution, passengers disembarked via emergency slides,” a spokesperson said.

“We know this would have been distressing for passengers and thank them for their co-operation.

“Our teams are supporting them and working to get them on their way as quickly as possible. “Jetstar Japan is also working closely with Chubu Airport and local authorities to investigate the situation.”

Aircraft Information

Airline: Jetstar Japan

Code: GK/JJP 

Aircraft: Airbus A321-232

Registration: JA14JJ

Serial Number: 5695 

Engine: 2 x IAE V2527-A5

First Flew: 11th July 2013

Age: 9 Yrs

Please don’t be like Australia’s Jetstar, Indonesian minister tells airlines

JETSTAR BOEING 787-8 VH-VKA (MSN 36227)

Indonesia’s Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno has warned airlines to comply with flight regulations after a fiasco last week that saw a Bali-bound Jetstar Airways flight forced to return to Melbourne.

“Currently Jetstar is completely reviewing the incident and will apply procedures to prevent it from happening again. My department has also reminded all airlines to be more diligent in complying with the rules and regulations – for the safety of all of us,” the minister said today.

On the 28th of December Jetstar flight JQ1035 was told to return to its base by Ngurah Rai International Airport authorities after the Boeing-787 Dreamliner reportedly did not meet the requirements to land on Indonesian soil.

Some of the passengers were later moved to flights operated by Virgin Australia and Qantas while others stayed overnight at a hotel as part of Jetstar’s compensation.

A spokesman for Jetstar later explained that it was all a “miscommunication” because the airline switched the scheduled flight in with a bigger airline to bring more tourists to Bali during the school holidays in Australia.

“However, we have not communicated this to the authorities in Indonesia, so that was an internal mistake on our part,” said Ingrid Just, the airline’s head of Communications and Corporate Affairs.

Jetstar originally scheduled an Airbus A320-232 aircraft for the gate in Denpasar (Bali) but forgot to tell authorities there when demand necessitated a switch to a much bigger aircraft, a Boeing 787-8.
After learning of the news of the bigger aircraft Indonesian authorities revoked permission to land ruining holiday plans for everyone on board.

Qatar Airways flight made emergency landing in Brisbane

QATAR BOEING 777-3DZER A7-BAI (MSN 36095)

A Qatar Airways flight had to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff after a passenger noted “something hanging from the wing” of the aircraft.

Qatar Airways flight QR899 departed Brisbane International Airport en route to Dohar, Qatar, just after 11 p.m. on the 31st of December. The plane climbed to 10,000 on its expected 14-hour flight when a passenger reported they saw something handing off the wing of the 777-300.

Passengers noticed something white hanging/coming off the right wing.” one passenger wrote in a since-deleted comment. “The Pilot came and took a look through the passenger windows, shining a torch on the wing.”

After shining a flashlight on the wing, the pilot returned to the cockpit and made the decision to return to Brisbane for an emergency landing. The planed leveled off at 10,000 feet and circled the airport, dropping fuel into the ocean prior to landing safely.

A spokesperson for Qatar Airways said in a message that a “technical issue” forced the plane to return to Brisbane.

“Passengers were assisted by ground services which include providing hotel accommodation before resuming their journey at the earliest opportunity and we apologised for any inconvenience caused,” Qatar Airways said in a statement.

The 777 departed runway 19L at 11.11 pm local, climbed to 10,000 feet, circled for one hour and twenty-one minutes before landing back on runway 19L at 12.32am New Year's Day. 


Aircraft Information
Airline: Qatar Airways 
Code: QR/QTR
Aircraft: Boeing 777-3DZER
Registration: A7-BAI
Serial Number: 36095
Engines: 2 x GE GE90-115B
First Flew: 15/5/2008
Age: 14 Yrs. 8 Mts

The aircraft was on the ground in Brisbane for two days and departed on the 2nd of January at 2.25am as QR3165

737 cleared for take-off from occupied runway

Portuguese investigators have found that a Boeing 737 was given take-off clearance on an occupied runway by a controller who had worked alone and uninterrupted, in a unified approach and tower position, for 4 hours before the incident.

An ASL Airlines 737-400 was departing Porto (OPO/LPPR) on the 27th of April 2021, its crew unaware of a runway inspection vehicle which had started its work on runway 35 some 12min earlier.

Only after the driver of the vehicle – which had started heading south from the northern end of 35 – noticed a bright light, and contacted the tower, was he told that the aircraft was approaching and to vacate the runway.

There had been no other contact between the controller and the vehicle driver since the controller’s authorisation of the inspection, says Portuguese investigation authority GPIAAF. 

(GPIAAF is Portuguese Safety Investigation Authority)
It adds that the two were in contact over a terrestrial radio system, and the driver was not listening – and was not required to listen – to the aeronautical frequency.

The driver took evasive action after seeing the aircraft’s lights, vacating the paved surface of the runway.

GPIAAF says the vehicle was only seen by the 737’s crew at lift-off, when the pilots saw headlights near the left-hand edge of the runway. It estimates the aircraft became airborne 300m from the vehicle and was separated by 150m vertically as it passed its position.

Investigators found the controller had been working in a “tedious and low-activity environment” for an extended time, and the presence of the vehicle on the runway had “completely slipped his mind”.

“Regular and frequent contact between the vehicle and the tower would probably have minimised the possibility of the controller to forget the occupied status of the runway,” the inquiry adds.

The driver had not received formal training in operating the radio scanners in the vehicle, it says, and the radios installed were “notoriously unreliable” and “no user-friendly”.

GPIAAF states that the vehicle was equipped with lights, but these would have blended into the runway lights at a distance from the 737, making its detection difficult for the aircraft’s crew.

While Porto tower was equipped with a runway incursion alert system, it had been inhibited at an unknown point in time, apparently for producing several false alarms.

“This inhibition did not allow the system to generate the alert for the simultaneous presence of two targets in the critical area,” the inquiry says. Neither of the occupants of the aircraft (OE-IAJ) or the driver was injured.

Passenger dies on board KLM flight

KLM BOEING 77-406 PH-BFH (MSN 24518)

A passenger has died on board a KLM flight which was travelling from Paramaribo (PBM/SMJP) in Suriname on the northeastern coast of South America, to Amsterdam (AMS/EHAM) in The Netherlands. The KLM flight diverted to Shannon Airport (SNN/EINN) in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The Boeing 777-300(ER) aircraft was about two hours southwest of Ireland when the pilots contacted air traffic control to advise them of their situation. The crew confirmed they had a male passenger on board who had fallen ill.

Two doctors travelling on the flight are believed to have rendered assistance however the man, believed to be in his late 50s, subsequently passed away.

The flight crew sought clearance to divert to Shannon and asked that the relevant authorities there be advised. The flight landed at 4.22am and was met at the terminal by airport authorities, a local doctor and members of An Garda Síochána.

The man was pronounced dead on board the aircraft and his body later removed to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick where a post-mortem examination will be carried out. It’s understood the man was travelling with his family at the time.

A Garda spokesman confirmed that members attended the airport this morning after receiving a report of a ‘sudden death’ on board a flight. Gardaí confirmed that a post-mortem examination will be carried out while arrangements to repatriate the man’s body will also be made.

The flight departed Shannon at 5.57am and landed in Amsterdam at 8.00am.

Airport worker died after being sucked into a jet engine

A ground support worker at the Montgomery Regional Airport Alabama (MGM/KMGM) died after they were “ingested into the engine” of a regional jet on Saturday, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The Envoy Air Embraer 170 jet was “parked at the gate with the parking brake set when a ground support personnel was ingested,” the NTSB said in a statement.

Envoy Air is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines, which said in a statement that it was devastated by the accident involving a team member, who has yet to be named.

While injury or death from jet engine ingestion is very uncommon, it isn’t unprecedented. In 2008, Boeing highlighted the dangers of ingestion in a company magazine, saying that in about 40 years of operating Boeing 737 model 100 and 200 airplanes, there had been 33 reports of ingestions, with one of those causing death.

“When a jet engine operates, it creates a low air pressure area in the inlet. This low-pressure area causes a large quantity of air form the area forward of the inlet cowl to go into the engine. The air that is near the inlet cowl moves at a much higher velocity than air that is farther from the inlet. As a result, the amount of engine suction is small until ones nears the inlet, where the suction increases significantly.”

Airplane models with low ground clearance, typically seen in smaller regional jets, pose a greater hazard because the engine is potentially closer to workers.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the jet engine ingestion accident in Montgomery and expects a report within a few weeks.



THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND STAFF AT AMERICAN AIRLINES.

Four dead, three fighting for life after two helicopters collide

BREAKING NEWS

Four people have reportedly died, and several others have been injured after two helicopters collided near Sea World theme park on the Gold Coast as horrified holidaymakers watched on.

A Queensland Ambulance spokesman said 13 patients were being assessed after the collision, which occurred at about 2pm, local time.

Media images show both of the helicopters involved lying on the sand, having suffered serious damage, with emergency workers swarming around them. At least one aircraft bears the words “Sea World Helicopters”.

The collision left a pilot and three passengers from one of the helicopters dead. Three more passengers from the aircraft, a woman and two young boys, are in a ctirical condition and have been taken to Gold Coast University Hospital.

The pilot of the other helicopter, who was carrying five passengers, reportedly managed to land on a sand bank in the middle of the Broadwater, preventing any further deaths.

Debris showered down over the Broadwater on the Gold Coast before the crippled aircraft spiraled into a sandbank about 2pm local time on Monday.

Queensland Ambulance confirmed four people were dead, three fighting for life, and another four rushed to hospital.

Witnesses say one of the helicopters was coming into land when it clipped the rotor of the other aircraft that was taking off.


Aircraft Information: NO:1 (Written off - damaged beyond repair)

Owner/Operator: Sea World Helicopters Pty Ltd:

Aircraft: Eurocopter EC 130B4

Registration: VH-XKQ

Serial Number: 4693

Built: 2008

Aircraft History
05/03/2009 ZK-IJV Advanced Flight Aviation - New Zealand

2019 PK-URR National Utility Helicopters - Indonesia

02/11/2022 VH-XKQ Sea World - Australia

Aircraft Information: NO:2

Owner/Operator:  Sea World Helicopters Pty Ltd

Aircraft: Eurocopter EC 130B4

Registration: VH-XH9

Serial Number: 3845

Built 2004

Aircraft History

2004 N325MP American Eurocopter - 

2004 N702LV Las Vegas Helicopters

2018 ZK-IVP Air Work New Zealand

11/03/2022 VH-XH9 Sea World - Australia



This is absolutely horrific news, and our thoughts go out to the families and friends involved and of course the staff at Sea World.