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What: Angara Airlines Antonov 24RV en route from Tomsk-Bogashevo Airport to Surgut Airport, Russia
Where: near Strezhevoy, Russia
When: July 11, 2011, 11:55
Who: 4 crew, 33 passengers, 6 fatalities
Why: The plane took off from Tomsk at 10:10, and developed an engine fire around 11:48. The pilot attempted to divert to divert to Nizhnevartovsk Airport and had to make an emergency landing, crashing into the Ob river. The tail and port engine detached on impact.

Twenty passengers were hospitalized, and seven passengers died in the crash.

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Hot Boeing Returns to Mumbai


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What: British Airways Boeing 747-400 en route from Mumbai to London
Where: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
When: Thursday Oct 1 2009
Who: 207 passengers
Why: Half an hour after takeoff, the fire alarm went off in the cockpit. The plane immediately returned to the airport, landing an hour after takeoff. Passengers debarked safely.

The only heat maintenance found was hot brakes.

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Skywest AC Emergency Aspen


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What: Skywest Airlines Canadair CRJ-700 en route from Aspen to Denver
Where: Aspen
When: Mar 7 2010, 1 pm
Who: 66 passengers and 4 crew
Why: While en route, smoke was observed in the cockpit. The flight returned to Aspen within thirty minutes of takeoff, and passengers debarked without problem. The smoke was attributed to a faulty air conditioning system. After an article about this plane’s rapid repair and return to service, reports conflict whether this flight went on after repairs or whether it was ferried elsewhere empty by a skeleton crew for repairs.

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Valve Issues on Airbus Delay amid Transatlantic Flight


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What: Air France Airbus A340-300 en route from Paris to Bogota
Where: Guadeloupe
When: Mar 11th 2012
Who: 224
Why: While en route, a valve of the anti-ice system failed. Pilots diverted to Guadeloupe, where they stayed long enough to make repairs, before continuing on to Bogota less than four hours late.

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Russian Rocket Crashes

A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites crashed in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The rocket flew straight up for ten seconds, then started to wobble.

Seventeen seconds into the flight, a booster shut down.

The rocket impacted the earth a mile from the launch pad. The rocket was unmanned. No one was injured but there were 600 tons of highly toxic fuel aboard. Communities close to the point of impact had to be evacuated. It remains to be seen how this will affect the Russian space program.

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Airbus A400M Atlas Cargo Plane Crashes in Spain; 4 Dead

An Airbus A400M Atlas Cargo plane crashed near San Pablo airport in Seville, Spain on May 9.

The military aircraft was attempting an emergency landing when it crashed into a pylon.

There were 6 people aboard the aircraft at the time; 4 of them were killed while the others were injured.

Authorities said the aircraft was on a test flight and was scheduled to be delivered to Turkey in June.

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2 Killed after Single-Engine Plane Crashed in Switzerland

A small plane crashed in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, shortly before 3 p.m. on February 23.

The single engine plane, carrying 2 people, went down shortly after it took off from an airstrip in Yverdon-les-Bains.

Both people aboard the plane were killed in the crash. The deceased include the 59-year-old pilot from Geneva and his 48-year-old passenger from canton of Vaud,

The Swiss accident investigation is looking into the cause of accident.

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