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What: Aeroflot Airbus A319-100 en route from Nizhniy Novgorod to Moscow Sheremetyevo
Where: Moscow
When: Dec 28th 2011
Who: 76 aboard
Why: While en route, the right engine developed problems, and pilots had to shut it down.
The flight landed safely at Sheremetyevo less than a quarter hour after the engine was shut down.
Rolls-Royce claims the Trent 900 problem is confined to a specific part in the turbine area. 21 of 38 A380s operated by Singapore Air, Qantas and Lufthansa use Rolls-Royce Trent 900 series engines. Singapore Air may have to replace 24 engines. Qantas is inspecting 14 engines which may shared among six planes—which may explain some of the strain evident in so many recent Qantas incidents. Six grounded super jumbos are costing Qantas a million dollars a day.
On the Airbus A380, bound for Sydney from Singapore, which was carrying 433 passengers and 26 crew members, an engine exploded over Batam, sending turbine shrapnel flying out of the plane’s engine, severing cables in the wing, taking out flight control systems and narrowly missing the fuel tank. With fuel gushing out of the fuel tank there and hot components, passengers are lucky the wing did not ignite.
ASL Airlines Ireland flight QY-135 had to return and make an emergency landing at Orio al Serio International Airport, Italy, on August 23rd.
The Airbus A300-600 plane took off for Leipzig, Germany, but had to turn back after the crew failed to retract the landing gear.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Rossiya Airlines flight FV-6483 made an emergency landing at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, on July 18th.
The Boeing 777-300 plane took off for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, but had to turn back due to an issue with landing gear.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Southwest Airlines flight WN-362 made an emergency landing in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 10th.
The Boeing 737-700 plane was flying from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the crew requested emergency assistance due to an engine problem.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
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What: Air Canada Embraer ERJ-190, registration C-FNAW en route from Montreal Calgary
Where: Montreal
When: Mar 29th 2009
Who: 98 passengers people aboard
Why: The pilot reported slat problems and returned to the airport for a safe landing
On Jan 25, 2013, a Scandinavian Airlines SAS Airbus A320-232 with 150 aboard was at Gardermoen airport Norway loaded with passengers to Copenhagen when the SAS plane rolled backwards while it still was parked at gate 44. The door to the plane was ripped from its hinges.
Both the street and the plane were damaged.
Passengers were provided alternative flights. The crew and airport hope, optimistically, that the damaged can be handled expeditiously.
An investigation of how this could happen is underway.
