What: Frontier Airlines Airbus A319-10 en route from Denver to Mexico
Where: Denver
When: Sep 5th 2009
Why: When the plane indicated a hydraulics system warning, the crew returned to the Denver airport for an emergency landing where they landed about 40 minutes after takeoff.
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Gear Door Message over Kuwait City
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Contact photographerWhat: Kuwait Airways Airbus 340-300 en route from Kuwait City (Kuwait) to London Heathrow
Where: Kuwait
When: Dec 6th 2010
Why: On takeoff from Kuwait City, the plane could not retract the landing gear. According to Al Abdulkarim, the procedure was routine, not an emergency. The crew returned to the airport, made a safe landing, and the problem was promptly repaired. The problem was apparently in the indicator, not the plane. After the warning light was repaired, the flight took off again within hours.This is the third time in two months that Kuwait Airways made an emergency landing after take-off.
Airbus Engine Shut Down over Pacific
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Contact photographer G.Luca D’UrbanoWhat: Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340-200 en route from Auckland to Buenos Aires
Where: Pacific Ocean
When: Jan 21, 2010
Who: 229 passengers
Why: An hour into the flight, the left engine had to be shut down. The Airbus returned to Auckland to make a safe landing. After undergoing maintenance, repairs and essential services, the plane will optimistically be resumed eventually. It is not known if passengers have hotel accommodations or if they will be waiting at the airport.Any time an engine must be shut down, especially when it is an airbus over a body of water, we all breathe a sigh of relief at a safe landing.
Medivac Emergency Landing
What: Baptist Hospital Medivac helicopter en route from Memphis to Little Rock
Where: St. Francis County at an intersection near Widener six miles east of Forrest City Arkansas
When: 6:15 p.m. Saturday evening.
Who: pilot and 2 nurses
Why: The pilot indicated that a bird strike precipitated the emergency landingUnited Airlines Flight Returns to Heathrow Airport
United Airlines flight UA5 had to return and make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport, UK, at around 3 p.m. on October 10.The Boeing 787, en-route to Houston, Texas, was returned after it got struck by lightning midair.
The plane landed uneventfully and none of the 130 passengers was hurt.
United Airlines said that the aircraft was taken for examination.