Keflavik, Iceland: At 14:44 local and GMT time (2:44pm) at Iceland’s largest international airport and gateway airport to the country, Keflavik, a United Airlines Boeing 767-300 made an emergency landing. The United Airlines Flight Number 949 flying en route London Heathrow to Chicago O’hare (ORD) when the flight crew and pilots witnessed smoke coming from the cockpit. As per standard procedures, the pilots declared an emergency and diverted to the closest airfield from the present location which was Keflavik, Iceland. Read the full story
Around 10 pm last night, a small private airplane with foreign registrations declared an emergency. The airplane’s nose gear was not working as it should and did not come down all the way. The pilot declared emergency and headed for Reykjavik City Airport (ICAO: BIRK, IATA: RVK) located in downtown Reykjavik. 
