What: Air India flight IC 509 en route from Kochi to Bangalore-Chennai
Where: Kochi Airport
When: June 30, 2010
Who: 42 passengers, 7 crew.
Why: After takeoff, one engine failed. The pilot returned to Kochi and made a safe landing with emergency vehicles on standby.
A dozen passengers were rerouted to a Kingfisher flight at 8.30 am; the rest were provided hotel accommodations and a later Jetlite flight.
SriLankan Airlines flight UL-168 had to return and make an emergency landing at Cochin International Airport, Kochi, Kerala, India, on May 18th.
The Airbus A321-200, flying to Colombo, Sri Lanka, had to return due to engine failure.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
ATA Airlines made an emergency landing in Sari, Iran, on December 24th.
The plane heading from Tabriz to Mashhad, Iran, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Laser Airlines flight QL-905 had to return and make an emergency landing at Santiago Marino Caribbean International Airport, Porlamar, Isla Margarita, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, on April 14th.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-81, en-route to Caracas, Venezuela, had just climbed out of Santiago’s runway when the crew reported a right hand engine failure, prompting the plane to return.
The plane landed uneventfully.
All passengers onboard remained safe.
A British Airways Airbus A319-100 was en route from London to Oslo when it developed an engine problem.
Passengers heard a loud explosion, and saw smoke from the right engine. Apparently the engine doors blew off.
During takeoff, the casing of the left engine ‘came away’ and the right engine exploded when the plane made a quick return, landing in London.
Good thing that Emergency services were on standby to extinguish the engine fire.
Passengers and crew made an emergency evacuation via emergency slides.
None of the 5 crew and 75 passengers were injured.
The ABC News video below suggests a birdstrike that is purely speculative
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What: Air India Boeing 777 en route from Frankfurt to Chicago
Where: Bucharest
When: May 12, 2012 10:25
Who: 303 passengers and 17 crew
Why: The flight was en route over Romania when a door warning went off, alerting the pilot of a potential problem.
One source reported the problem as a door alarm; another source said there was a cargo smoke indication.
Passengers deplaned via stairs as on examination, no indication of fire or heat was found. Passengers were then provided hotel accommodations.
The pilot informed ATC in Bucharest and shortly later made a safe landing. The cargo door was examined but no problems were found. The issue was chalked up to being a false alarm.
The plane awaited takeoff pending an allocated scheduled landing-time in Chicago.
