What: Air Nelson Ltd Bombardier Dash 8-300 en route from Wellington to Nelson
Where: Blenheim Airport NZ
When: Sept 30, 2010, 5.05pm
Who: 46 passengers, 3 crew
Why: The flight diverted to Blenheim because of weather conditions in Nelson. However, on landing, the nose wheel collapsed.
Another Bombardier collapsed wheel?
Air New Zealand flight NZ-605 made an emergency landing in Christchurch, New Zealand, on May 20th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Wellington to Queenstown, New Zealand, was diverted due to a lightning strike.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
On April 16, 2013, an Air Europa Airbus A330-202 #EC-JPF was en route from Madrid-Barajas Airport to Caracas-Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela.
However, the flight took off after an Aéromexico tail strike, and ran over fuselage debris which punctured a nose gear tire.
Pilots circled the airport, and returned to Barajas where they made a safe landing at 19:30 with emergency services on standby.
What: Air New Zealand Boeing 767 en route from Honolulu to Auckland
Where: Auckland
When: August 5, 2012
Who: 230 passengers
Why: When the landing gear light (which should indicate landing gear are in place) did not come on during approach, the pilot told Auckland ATC, and performed a flyby confirming the gear were down. The pilot went on to make a safe landing.
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What: Delta Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-88 en route from Atlanta,GA to Baltimore
Where: Atlanta
When: Sep 24th 2010
Who: 112
Why: After takeoff, when the plane’s nose gear could not be retracted, the crew returned to Atlanta and made a safe landing. A replacement jet was provided for the passengers.
Flybe flight BE-331 crash-landed at Belfast International Airport, Northern Ireland, on November 10th.
The plane was heading from George Best Belfast City Airport, Northern Ireland, to Inverness, Scotland, when the crew diverted to Belfast International Airport due to a gear problem.
The plane landed without nose gear.
One passenger was injured and was taken to a hospital.
A light aircraft crashed in a paddock around 3.5 km east of the aerodrome at the Ardmore Airport, Auckland, New Zealand, on June 29.
The incident happened just before 1:45 p.m., after the engine of the Airline Flying Club Cessna 152 failed. The aircraft was severely damaged after it skidded 200 meters across the paddock into a drain, and ended up on its roof.
The female pilot, who was just in her 20s, and her female student suffered minor injuries. Both of them were taken to Middlemore Hospital by ambulance.
Phil Welcome, the chief flying instructor at Airline Flying Club, appreciated the skill of the newly recruited pilot and said “It looks like she’s done an excellent job, and the only problem is at the end of her take-off run she’s encountered a drainage ditch.”
Welcome said a team of engineers would check the aircraft to find out the cause of the engine failure. He said “In these airplanes, engine failure is actually very, very rare.”
Senior Sergeant Ian Brenchley responded at the scene and started investigation on behalf of the Civil Aviation Authority.
