16 h. ago Virgin Atlantic Flight from New Delhi to London Forced to Make Emergency Landing in Istanbul

Virgin Atlantic Flight from New Delhi to London Forced to Make Emergency Landing in Istanbul  Travel And Tour World

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48 h. ago United Airlines flight evacuated after passengers smell smoke after takeoff

A United Airlines flight was evacuated after passengers smelled smoke after takeoff.

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4 d. ago EasyJet horror flight as passenger 'urinates in aisle' and forces emergency landing

An EasyJet flight from Birmingham to Tenerife was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger reportedly urinated in the aisle and became abusive

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4 d. ago EasyJet holidaymaker 'urinates in the aisle' sparking emergency landing

Police in Tenerife were alerted when the passenger showed ‘aggressive and disruptive’ behaviour

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4 d. ago Devastation in Crete as mass evacuations ordered for hotels and homes amid huge wildfire

Forest land was scorched while a major emergency response scrambled

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5 d. ago Oxygen masks deploy as Japan Airlines flight plunges 26,000ft before emergency landing

Passengers reportedly panic as oxygen masks drop from ceiling

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5 d. ago Japan Airlines flight makes violent plunge before emergency landing

Passengers reportedly panic as oxygen masks drop from ceiling

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9 d. ago Conor Coady to Rangers transfer timeline emerges as Ibrox side in talks for 2 more deals after landing defender

Talks have been ongoing with the Foxes and there is a willingness on the 32-year-old’s part to move to Ibrox

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1 week ago Bantock: The Seal Woman album review – Celtic folk opera that never quite gets its head above water

Howard/Carby/Scottish Opera/Andrews(Retrospect Opera, two CDs)Granville Bantock’s story of a Selkie emerging from the sea is a century-old curio whose beauty has faded over the yearsExcept perhaps in Birmingham, where his memory is still cherished for what he did for the city’s music, including co-founding the CBSO, Granville Bantock (1868-1946) has slipped quietly into the margins of 20th-century British music. But as well as being an academic and conductor, Bantock was a prolific composer, with a work list including four symphonies, five concertos and nine operas, of which the last, the “Celtic folk opera” The Seal Woman, is easily the best remembered now.The premiere of The Seal Woman in 1924 was the Birmingham Repertory theatre’s first production; librettist Marjory Kennedy-Fraser took the main role of the Cailleach, whose dreams and visions tell the story of the Selkie, seal-people who emerge from the sea every seven years to live on land, shedding their skins to take human for...

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1 week ago American Airlines plane forced into emergency landing after catching fire mid

Flight 1665 took off from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for Charlotte, North Carolina at 8.11am local time on Wednesday

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1 week ago Plane forced to make emergency landing at major airport as engine 'catches fire'

Grim booming sounds were reportedly heard in Las Vegas where a plane is understood to have been forced into an emergency landing

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2 w. ago Air India flight from Birmingham diverted after 'bomb threat' on board

After the bomb threat was discovered, the flight made an emergency landing at Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia where security agencies conducted a full search of the aircraft

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2 w. ago Jet met by fire engines after making emergency landing at Manchester Airport

The Icelandair flight from Paris to Keflavik was diverted after declaring an emergency while in UK airspace

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2 w. ago TUI flight from Cardiff Airport escorted by fighter jets after 'bomb threat note' found in toilet

Fighter jets were scrambled to escort the plane travelling from Cardiff to the Canary Islands after the bomb threat, before it made an emergency landing

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2 w. ago Flight from UK to Canary Islands forced to make emergency landing after bomb threat

A threatening note was found by one of the crew members in the bathroom of the aircraft as it flew over Portugal on Thursday morning.

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2 w. ago Lottie Tomlinson rushed to hospital for emergency surgery in Abu Dhabi after falling ill on the plane

The influencer, 26, who is one of One Direction star Louis Tomlinson's sisters, had flown to the country with her fiance Lewis Burton and their children.

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2 w. ago Loganair plane forced to make emergency landing after engine burst into flames

An investigation into the fire has since been carried out.

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2 w. ago EasyJet passengers 'thought they were going to die' as plane filled with smoke

The easyJet flight from Cyprus to Bristol was forced to land in Turkey due to the smell of smoke on the aircraft, with one passenger revealing the 'mayhem' it caused on board

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2 w. ago Passenger on easyJet flight thought plane 'would crash into the sea' in emergency landing terror

An easyJet flight from Cyprus was forced to make an emergency landing in Turkey after a passenger smelt smoke

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2 w. ago Identical Air India Dreamliner to one in devastating crash had mid air engine failure and was forced to make emergency landing in 2023

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was forced to turn back an hour into its 14-hour flight between Mumbai and London in 2023.

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