An Air Canada Express flight “experienced a suspected landing gear issue” after arriving at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia on Saturday night, though no injuries were reported, according to the airline. Flight AC2259 – which took off from St. John’s, Newfoundland – was subsequently “unable to reach the terminal and customers were offloaded using a bus,” Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick said in a statement to CNN. The flight, operated by partner PAL Airlines, was carrying 73 passengers, the statement said. The plane – a De Havilland DHC-8-402, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada – skidded down the runway for a “decent” distance, and passengers saw flames on the aircraft’s left side, passenger Nikki Valentine told CNN newsgathering partner CBC. “The plane shook quite a bit and we started seeing fire on the left side of the plane and smoke started coming in the windows,” Valentine said. The Halifax incident echoed a far more severe – and deadly – incident in South Korea on Sunday morning local time, when a Jeju Air flight crash-landed at Muan International Airport, killing 179 people. While no one was hurt in Halifax, “we appreciated this incident was unsettling for customers and we remain available to assist them,” Air Canada’s statement said. The airfield was closed for about 90 minutes before one of its two runways was cleared for flight operations, Tiffany Chase, a spokesperson for the Halifax International Airport Authority, said in a statement. “Four flights were diverted and there were a handful of cancellations and delays while the airfield was closed,” she added.<br/>
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Brussels Airlines is intending to introduce three more Airbus A320neos by summer 2026, as part of a fleet-renewal programme. The decision will take the A320neo fleet of the Lufthansa Group carrier to eight. Brussels Airlines received its first A320neo in November last year, the first time it had taken delivery of a brand-new aircraft. It has since expanded the fleet to five, all fitted with CFM International Leap-1A engines and configured with 180 seats. Brussels Airlines will use the additional three aircraft to replace a pair of older A319s and increase its capacity. “By replacing older aircraft by the most fuel-efficient aircraft on the market, we reduce our impact on the environment,” says CE Dorothea von Boxberg. “We are also growing our fleet, which creates extra jobs and improves connectivity for Belgium.” Brussels Airlines expects to receive the three A320neos in the first half of 2026, although it cautions that this schedule “can move” given the current aerospace supply-chain issues.<br/>