Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact Photographer Carl Hendriks
What: Miniliner Fokker 27-500 (Dutch Air Cargo) en route from Madrid to Liege
Where: near Troyes France
When: Aug 13th 2009
Who: 2 crew
Why: While en route, the flight lost radio and transponder. The French Air Force provided two two Mirage F1 jets and a patrol reconnaissance to escort the plane to land safely in Chalons France.
What: Air India Flight 680 en route from Delhi to Kolkata
Where: IGI Airport, Delhi
When: Jan 5 2011
Who: 152 passengers including Union Ministers Mamata Banerjee and Mukul Roy
Why: The plane was en route but returned to Delhi after 45 minutes due to an undisclosed technical problem. The plane made a safe landing under emergency conditions at 9:10 pm. Passengers waited an hour, and an alternative plane took off with them aboard to Kolkata at 10:45 pm
Air Berlin flight AB-6048 had to divert and make a safe emergency landing at Cologne Bonn Airport, Cologne, Germany, on July 15th.
The Airbus A330-200 flying from Munich to Dusseldorf, Germany was mid-air when the crew announced an unreliable fuel quantity indication.
The plane landed successfully.
All people onboard remained unharmed.
EgyptAir flight 564 had to make an emergency landing at Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport, Medina, Saudi Arabia, on June 5.
The plane, heading from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Cairo, Egypt, was diverted after the pilot reported cracks on its windshield.
The plane landed safely and everyone aboard remained safe.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH-724 made an emergency landing in Jambi, Indonesia, on February 25th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was diverted due to a low fuel indication.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and twenty passengers and seven crew members remained unharmed.
A small plane made an emergency landing at Crystal River Airport, Florida, on September 15th.
Authorities said the plane experienced power loss and landing gear problems before making a belly landing at the airport.
There were four people aboard at the time, including the pilot and three passengers. All of them remained unharmed.
Delta Airlines flight DL-2135 made an emergency landing at Raleigh–Durham International Airport, North Carolina, on July 25th.
The plane en-route from Tampa, Florida, to New York, had to be diverted after the crew received an engine fire indication.
The plane landed safely. There were 96 passengers and 5 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.