Air China flight CA-941 made a safe emergency landing at Dubai International Airport, Dubai, UAE, on July 5th.
The Airbus A330-200, en-route from Beijing, China, was on approach to Dubai when the crew reported they would not be able to employ its nose wheel steering.
The plane landed successfully. It was towed off the runway.
All people onboard remained unharmed.
Scandinavian Airlines flight SK1530 had to make an emergency landing at Göteborg Landvetter Airport in Sweden, on January 22.
Authorities said the plane, en-route from London Heathrow to Stockholm, Sweden, was diverted due to a bomb threat.
The plane landed safely. All 72 people aboard remained unharmed.
The investigation is underway.
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What: Spirit Airlines Airbus A319-100 en route from Cartagena, Colombia to Fort Lauderdale
Where: Palm Beach International Airport
When: Oct 25, 2012
Who: 54 aboard
Why: As pilots were flying from Cartagena, Colombia to Fort Lauderdale, the plane developed problems and the pilots had to divert the flight. According to one source, one of the engines developed problems and was shut down. (Reports vary on the exact nature of the issue behind the diversion.)
Pilots diverted to Palm Beach International Airport where they made a safe landing.
SkyWest Airlines flight 3167 made an emergency landing in St. Louis. Missouri, on August 22nd.
The plane heading from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chicago, Illinois, was diverted after it encountered severe turbulence.
The plane landed safely. Three people, including a flight attendant and two passengers, were taken to a hospital.
The flight was operating as American Eagle.
A Border Security Force (BSF) plane crashed near Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Dehli, India, on December 22.
The Beech SuperKing B200 aircraft, carrying 10 BSF personnel, went down just after taking off from the Delhi airport. Authorities believe the plane’s left engine stopped working, causing it to crash into the wall of airport’s sewage treatment plant and ending up in the water.
All ten personnel aboard the plane were killed in the crash.
The accident is being investigated.
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BRAZIL’S WORST-EVER AIR DISASTER
200 Feared Dead in Sao Paulo Crash
At least 195 people were killed in Brazil’s worst plane crash, a product of a country with an inadequate air travel network that has been plagued by havoc.
Witness Paulo Carol imagined he was at the set of a Hollywood disaster film when right in front of his taxi, an airplane crossed six lanes of the Avenida Washington Luis. He and his passengers fled on foot.
Airbus A-320 operated by the Brazilian airline TAM, skidded off the runway after touching down and collided with cars and through a gas station before slamming into a TAM maintenance building. 180 deaths were passengers on the Airbus jet. Fifteen more deaths included Tam employees in the building.
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Luiz Santos who barely escaped the explosion, said “The airplane was coming right at me. I could hear the sound of the engines and then it exploded.” His windows and the back end of his truck were shattered, but Santos and his passenger escaped.
Flight JJ 3054 left Porto Alegre at 5:16 p.m. and landed at Congonhas two hours later. The plane apparently touched down too far down the runway.
Accidents have made flying in South America dangerous to contemplate. Flight controllers are overworked, underpaid and untrained, and rely on aging and defective radar technology in the Amazon.
In September, a Gol airlines Boeing 737 collided with a private jet over the Amazon, killing 154. That investigation is ongoing.
The country’s air travel infrastructure has been unable to keep up with Brazil’s fast economic growth.
Oman Air flight WY-116 had to make an emergency landing in Munich, Germany, on October 17th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane heading from Frankfurt, Germany, to Muscat, Oman, was diverted after the crew received a low engine oil quantity indication.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
