American Airlines flight AA-169 made an emergency landing in San Jose, California, on June 17th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane, heading from San Francisco, California, to Los Angeles, California, had to be diverted after it developed cabin pressure issue.
The plane landed safely. All 159 passengers and 6 crew members remained unharmed.
Update on the fatal crash of US-Bangla Airlines Flight BS211, a de Havilland Dash 8-400 #S2-AGU that performed flight BS-211 from Dhaka to Kathmandu.
There appear to be 22 survivors of 71 aboard. US-Bangla Airlines flight BS211 crashed on approach to Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport, Nepal with 67 passengers and 4 crew aboard: 33 were Nepalis, 32 Bangladeshis, one Chinese and one Maldivian.
AviationHerald posted that the Ministry of Tourism reported 39 people died in the accident, 31 were rescued alive. (These numbers will change.)
The pilots aborted their first approach and the flight was cleared to land on runway 20.
The airport reported flight BS211 veered right off the runway and slid for about 300 meters until coming to a rest on a field in flames. The bodies of thirty-one deceased were recovered at the crash site. Eighteen were pronounced dead upon arrival at various hospitals.The General Manager at TIA (airport) Chhetri said “…the plane took a missed approach touching down the fencing area next to the parked planes at the airport.”
Air Traffic Control said “… pilot of Bangladeshi plane repeatedly informed the tower that he was on the right move and proper direction…Then, the plane suddenly took a wrong direction to the west of the Runway 02 threshold and crashed.”
See also: US- Bangla Plane Crashes in Nepal; 39 Killed, others Injured
Monday, March 12, 2018
Pictured: Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-84P
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Contact photographer Kevin Scott
What: Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-300, HU7871 en route from Xi’an, Shaanxi Province to Shenzhen in Guangdong Province
Where: landing at an airport in the island province of Hainan (extreme south of China)
When: 2009-03-05 19:21:09
Who: 112 passengers and a crew of six
Why: The crew reported a mechanical problem and requested an emergency landing. They turned off one engine, and landed. Reportedly, there were “problems with the throttle that might have led to an excessively fast landing.”
No injuries were reported.
Brussels Airlines flight SN-3169 had to return and make an emergency landing at Brussels Airport, Belgium, on May 13th.
The Airbus A319-100 flying to Naples, Italy, had to return due to bird strike.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
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Contact photographer Marco Wolf
What: Malev Hungarian Airlines de Havilland Dash 8-400 en route from Budapest to Zurich
Where: Budapest
When: Jan 12th 2010
Who: 62 passengers and 4 crew
Why: After takeoff from Budapest, the plane developed pressurization issues. The plane returned to Budapest and after circling to burn off fuel to avoid an overweight landing, made a safe landing.
A Cessna 172SP plane made an emergency landing in a field along 41st Street and Lynn Lane in east Tulsa, Oklahoma, on January 11.
The pilot decided to make an emergency landing after the plane, that took off from Jones Riverside Airport, developed an engine problem. According to Terry Maurer with the Tulsa Police Department, the pilot first thought of landing at Harvey Young Airport but it is surrounded by a residential area and “he didn’t want to try and land a disabled plane around a residential area.”
The plane landed safely. The pilot Zach Prewitt, who is a flight instructor at the Christiansen Flight School, Jones Airport, remained uninjured.
The FAA is investigating.
Japan Airlines flight JL-21 made an emergency landing in Tokyo, Japan, on March 6th.
The Boeing 787-800 plane took off for Beijing, China, but had to turn back after the crew noticed a crack in captain’s windshield.
The plane landed safely. There were 169 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
