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Contact photographer Billy Wilt
What: Iran Air Airbus A300-600 en route from Tehran to Stockholm
Where: Istanbul
When: Aug 26th 2010
Who: 236 aboard
Why: While en route, the plane developed engine trouble. The crew had to shut down an engine, and divert to Istanbul. The flight made a safe landing.
No indication is made of passenger accommodations or if another plane was flown in.
Pictured: A United Nations (Transafrik) L-100-20 Hercules
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Contact photographer Serge Bailleul
What: National Air Cargo/Transafrik International Hercules L-100 en route from Bagram Air Base to Kabul
Where: 25-30km east of Kabul
When: Oct 12th 2010, around 19:30
Who: 7 crew (six Philipinos, an Indian, a Kenyan—all fatalities)
Why: While en route, the airplane disappeared from radar about 6nm northeast of the airfield. The flight impacted a mountain in the Pol-e Charkhi area .
Rescue teams are en route to the high altitude location.
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Contact photographer A. Kwanten
What: United/Colgan de Havilland Dash 8-400 en route from Little Rock,AR to Houston
Where: Houston
When: Apr 7th 2012
Who: 31 passengers, 4 crew
Why: While on approach to Houston, the gear did not come down. The crew performed a fly by, and ATC confirmed that the main gear were down but not the front (nose) landing gear.
The pilots made a second approach which concluded landing on the main gear. The pilots kept the nose up as long as possible.
On June 24 a Beaver float plane took off from Powell River, B.C. and made an emergency landing in Halfmoon Bay when its propeller fell off.
There was minor damage to the pontoons but otherwise the plane was intact.
June 24 at approximately 1:40 p.m., Sunshine Coast RCMP and Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCMSAR) were dispatched. The downed plane was towed to a dock with the respondents and a local boater.
The pilot and three passengers were uninjured.
The incident may have been the result of an engineering malfunction.
UPS flight 5X-275 made an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, on July 24th.
The Boeing 767-200 freighter plane flying from Vienna, Austria, was on approach to Cologne when the crew received an unsafe gear indication.
The crew went around to work the related checklists and subsequently landed safely.
Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
A small plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 84, near Boise Airport, Idaho, on October 13.
The plane was preparing to land at the airport when the pilot reported engine failure and decided to land on the motorway.
The plane landed on its belly. The pilot, identified as Jon M. Brinkerhoff, 30, of Boise, remained uninjured.
According to the owner of Boise-based charter business SP Aircraft, Andy Patrick, the plane was transporting cargo from Seattle, Washington.
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Contact photographer DJ Reed – OPShots Photo Team
What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 en route from Albuquerque,NM to Oakland,CA
Where: Oakland
When: Dec 1st 2011
Who: 95 passengers and 5 crew
Why: On approach to Oakland, the plane flew through ten seconds of turbulence that injured the cabin crew.
The pilots made a safe landing half an hour later, after which two members of the crew were hospitalized.
