A TAME Airlines plane skidded off runway at Cuenca Airport, Ecuador, on April 28th.
The plane, performing flight EQ-173 from Quito, Ecuador, landed amid heavy rain and slided off the tarmac onto the grass.
There were 87 passengers and 6 crew members aboard at the time; none of them were injured.
The aircraft was substantially damaged.
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A banner-towing plane crashed and caught fire at Compton/Woodley Airport, located in Los Angeles County, California, on August 9th.
The single-engine Aviat A1 plane crashed while attempting to pick up an advertising banner.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash while another person on the ground sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
According to Los Angeles County Aviation Commission official Dennis Lord, “For some reason, he turned loose of the banner. He was down at a very slow speed. The aircraft stalled and impacted the ground. Why is yet to be determined.
Pegas Fly Airlines flight IK-2561 had to divert for an emergency landing in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on January 18th.
The Boeing 767-300 plane heading from Perm, Russia, to Nha Trang, Vietnam, was diverted after all the toilets became inoperative.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
The government sent a rescue crew 8 hours after the crash. The rescue plane was found 17 kilometers from land. A child–either a 5 year old boy or a 15 year old girl–was apparently found alive. Two french ships and a french airplane were already engaged in searching before Yemen sent a ship and military plane.
VietJet Air flight VJ-885 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Hong Kong, China, on August 30th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was diverted due to a cargo smoke indication.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and three passengers and seven crew members remained unharmed.
A helicopter carrying Uttarakhand Forest Minister Dinesh Agarwal had to make an emergency landing in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, on September 13.
Authorities said the chopper was forced to land in the Glocal University campus due to bad weather. Mr. Agarwal was en-route to Dehradun at the time.
The aircraft landed uneventfully
Mr. Agarwal continued his journey in a car.
Iberia Express flight I2-3857 had to reject take off from Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, on January 16th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane was accelerating to take off for Madrid, Spain, when the crew decided to reject take off to check some aircraft systems.
The plane safely returned to the apron. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
