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What: FREEDOM AIR FLIGHT 274 EMBRAER 145LR en route from Norfolk to Covington KY
Where: Covington KY
When: 6/30/2009
Who: 50 passengers 3 crew
Why: FREEDOM AIR FLIGHT 274 EMBRAER 145LR AIRCRAFT LANDED AND BLEW A TIRE, DAMAGE REPORTED TO BE MINOR, NO INJURIES, COVINGTON, Ky
Pictured: An Air North Boeing 737-2X6C/Adv
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Contact photographer Todd Martin
What: Air North Boeing 737-200 en route from from Vancouver to Whitehorse
Where: over Canada
When: Jul 12th 2010
Why: About 200 miles N of Vancouver, the plane lost electrical power, although maintaining radio contact. The pilot returned to Vancouver where the plane made a safe landing after burning off fuel.
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What: JAL Japan Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from Sapporo to Kobe
Where: Sapporo
When: Jan 3rd 2010
Who: 231 on board
Why: After takeoff, the jet ingested a bird in its left engine. The engine sputtered, and pilots shut it down, then made a safe landing back the airport shortly afterwards. A replacement jet was provided.
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Contact photographer William Verguet
What: Tunis Air Airbus A300-600 en route from Tunis to Paris
Where: French Airspace
When: Aug 19 2010
Why: Over France, the Tunisian flight was met and escorted to Orly by French Fighters. Then there’s a discrepancy: Tunis Air says they were in contact with Air Traffic Control the entire time, but the airport, apparently did not get a response on the radio, which brought in the “big guns.” Or to be exact, “There was a concern for communication, the aircraft was flying a little low and not responding to radio, the alert was triggered.” The incident was called a “miscommunication.” Air Tunis was taken completely by surprise.
It will be interesting to see what the BEA makes of all this.
Pictured: A United Airlines Airbus A319-131
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Contact photographer David J Transier
What: United Airlines Airbus 319 en route from Chicago to Newark
Where: Newark NJ
When: Jan 10, 2010, 9:30 a.m.
Who: 48 passengers 5 crew
Why: On landing, the plane’s right gear failed to properly deploy. After maintaining a holding pattern attempting to extend the landing gear (etc), the pilot landed. It was, apparently a safe landing, causing airport delays but no reported injuries, not even during the slide evacuation.
On landing, the plane lurched to one side; and the airport was closed down for safety concerns.
We have emergency landings all the time all over the world. This website attests to that. But after the year Airbus has had, whenever I hear there’s an Airbus incident, even if it is only a small one, my hair—what little I have—stands on end. I can’t help believing that they should take this plane back to the drawing board and start over.
Pictured: Another Texas-owned Beechcraft B100 King
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Contact photographer Andrew Compolo
What: Texland Great Plains Water LLC./RJ Schumacher Oil ‘s Beechcraft King Air twin-engine airplane en route from Okalahoma City to Fort Worth’s Meacham International Airport
Where: north of Fort Worth in Wise County
When: Tuesday October 6 2009
Who: 4 injured
Why: When the pilot told Air Traffic Control that both engines had failed, the plane disappeared from radar, six miles from Kenneth Copeland Airport. The wreckage was found in a field near County Road 4227 and Currie Road.
The plane lost a wing and sustained nose damage.
The two severely injured passengers were airlifted to John Peter Smith Hospital and Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital.
George’s Point of View
Odds are against a twin engine plane losing both its engines at one time. The pilot here must have done some kind of fancy flying (by fancy I mean seriously good flying by the seat of his pants) to have gotten everyone out of this (so far) alive. We hope the two severely injured men in the hospital recover completely (and the other two men as well.)
Southwest Airlines flight WN-1224 had to return and make an emergency landing in Orlando, Florida, on May 24th.
The Boeing 737-700 plane took off for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but had to turn back after the crew suspected a tire had blown during departure.
The plane landed back safely. All 149 people aboard remained unharmed.
