A person has died after a flight from Heathrow Airport to Singapore “encountered severe turbulence”. Singapore Airlines said several other people were injured in the incident involving Flight SQ321. The flight, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER jet, was diverted to Bangkok, landing at 3.45pm local time on Tuesday. There were 211 passengers and 18 […]
An investigation has been launched after a passenger plane hit another aircraft while it was being towed at Heathrow Airport. Footage posted on social media shows a Virgin Atlantic plane’s wing touching a British Airways aircraft, surrounded by emergency services. The Virgin Boeing 787-9 plane had completed a flight and had no passengers on board […]
A murder suspect has been arrested at Heathrow Airport hours after a man was hit by a car and killed in east London, police said. The Metropolitan Police was called at 5.11am on Sunday to reports of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian in Barking Road, Newham. Police officers provided first aid to […]
Heathrow Airport’s passenger numbers in January were narrowly below pre-pandemic levels. The west London airport said it was used by 6 million passengers last month. That compares with 6.1 million in January 2020. The weight of cargo handled by the airport rose from 116,000 tonnes to 122,000 tonnes over the same period. The airport claimed […]