KLM flight KL-1801 returned and made a safe emergency landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on May 22nd.
The Boeing 736-800, en-route to Munich, Germany, had to return shortly after the crew reported a cabin pressurisation problem.
The plane landed safely. All people onboard remained unharmed.
The passengers were accommodated in a replacement plane.
Twitter photo by Hilary Handtmann
What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 en route from Los Angeles to Denver
Where: Denver
When: Jan 30, 2012, 9:45 a.m
Who: 89 passengers and 5 crew
Why: After landing from the LA flight, the jet knocked over an airport ramp lightpole around the C concourse.
The plane was taxiing to the Southwest gate on Concourse C. No one was injured in SW Flight 792 and no flights were disrupted.
Passengers disembarked on to the tarmac and were bused to the terminal. The NTSB is investigating.
Air Madagascar flight MD-530 made a safe landing at Toamasina Airport, Madagascar, on April 1st.
The Avions de Transport Regional ATR- 72- 212A, flying from Sainte Marie, Martinique, was about to land when one of its engines started emitting black smoke.
The plane landed uneventfully.
No injuries were reported.
KLM flight KL-602 had to return and make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on July 13th.
The Boeing 747-400 flying to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, was mid-air when the crew decided to return due to an indication of low oil pressure in one of its engines. The engine had to be shut down.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Capt. Lee Collins of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association said pilots are prepared for emergencies in the air. The pilot of a transatlantic flight died over the Atlantic Ocean, but the jet landed safely.
What: Continental Airlines Boeing 777-200 en route from Brussels Belgium to Newark, NJ
Where: en route
When: June 18th 2009
Who: 247 passengers and 3 flight crew
Why: Four hours into the flight, while over the Atlantic, the captain died. The two first officers took over and landed the plane safely in Newark.
A doctor on board was called to the cockpit, and the on board defibrillator failed to revive the captain who apparently had died of a heart attack.
George’s Point of View
It’s a small world.
Recently I’d been in a conversation with someone about the Colgan flight.
Remember the Colgan flight? The one that crashed in Buffalo? The wings iced over, the captain was ill-trained, and the co-pilot was too inexperienced and too exhausted to know how to respond to the particular emergency. The combination resulted in disaster for everyone on board.
So, I was in this conversation with someone about the Colgan flight, and the question came up about the value of the co-pilot’s experience. The rate of the co-pilot’s pay was released, ($11.00/hr) and that provoked me to write about co-pilots needing “professional” pay. What would happen, we speculated (in this conversation) if the pilot died? The copilot becomes the de facto pilot.
Then, lo and behold, today a pilot dies of a heart attack. Luckily for Continental and everyone on board, there were two co-pilots on hand, and both of them apparently qualified enough to handle the flight. (Apparently so, since they did manage to finish the flight.)
I just wasn’t expecting that speculative question to manifest itself in a headline today.
What: Kingfisher Airbus A320-200 en route from Hyderabad to Mumbai
Where: Mumbai, India
When: Oct 21 2010
Who: 136 aboard
Why: On final approach to Mumbai, the plane incurred a bird strike which struck the landing gear. The plane made a safe landing at Mumbai, although there was some damage to the plane. Everyone made it safely off the plane.
Newspapers reported “bird was trapped inside the wheels of the plane.”
United Parcel Service flight 213 had to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, on September 25.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 plane, heading from Louisville, Kentucky to Cologne, Germany, was diverted after the pilots noticed issues with one of its three engines and had to shut it down.
The plane landed safely. There were 6 crew members aboard at the time; none of them was hurt.
The plane was taken for inspection.
