Star Air flight S6-6565 had to make an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, on December 20th.
The Boeing 767-300 cargo plane flying from East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, was descending toward Cologne when the crew declared an emergency due to an engine failure.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
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What: Flair Airlines Boeing 737-400 en route from Stephenville to St. John’s
Where: St. Johns
When: Dec 15th 2009
Who: not available
Why: While on approach, the flight developed a flaps problem and performed a go around. The crew landed the plane safely a quarter of an hour later with no complications.
An Ethiopian Airlines’ Queen of Sheba, a Boeing 787 #ET-AOP which had been sitting empty for eight hours caught fire and shut down Heathrow Airport for an hour Friday. The fire seems to have started in the upper fuselage, far from the 787’s lithium-ion batteries. A battery fire would have been “contained by the new casing and…smoke would have been vented outside of the airplane.” Nearly a dozen fire trucks responded to the scene. The plane was parked on the apron taxiway E at Stand 592 next to a fire station.
#ET-AOP had arrived from Addis Ababa as flight ET700 at 06:30a.m. Departure was scheduled as ET701 to Addis Ababa at 21:10.
In photos, damage appears on the outside top of the upper fuselage near the vertical stabilizer, on the left side of the top of the airplane just in front of the tail. The fire was not caused by lithium-ion batteries, which are in in the cargo-bay.
Potential causes of the fire:
NTSB Sends Investigator to Participate in Investigation of London Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fire
The National Transportation Safety Board has sent an investigator to assist in the investigation of a fire that occurred yesterday aboard a parked Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow Airport, London, England.
NTSB Senior Air Safety Investigator Lorenda Ward has been appointed as the traveling U.S. accredited representative. Ms. Ward will be accompanied by NTSB airplane systems investigators and representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
The investigation is being conducted by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the United Kingdom, which will release all information.
China Eastern Airlines flight MU587 made an emergency landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 23rd.
The plane heading from Shanghai, China, to New York, was diverted after an elderly passenger suffered a medical emergency.
The plane dumped 30 tons of fuel before landing safely in Anchorage.
The patient was taken to a hospital.
China Southern Airlines flight CZ-6976 made an emergency landing in Lanzhou, China, on December 1st.
The plane flying from Shanghai to Urumqi, China, was diverted after a passenger’s cell phone started emitting smoke.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
Jet Airways flight 2828 made an emergency landing at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, India, on April 27th.
Authorities said the plane, flying from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, had reached its scheduled destination in New Delhi on time but the ATC advised the pilots to divert to Lucknow due to poor weather conditions. Shortly before reaching the airport in Lucknow, the pilots received low fuel indication and declared an emergency.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
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What: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Boeing 737-300 en route from Sarong to Manokwari West Papua. (Sorong-Dominique Edward Osok Airport to Rendani Airport)
Where: Rendani Airport, Indonesia
When: 12 April 2010
Who: 97 passengers ( 76 men, 21 women, three children and three infants) 6 crew
Why: While landing at Rendani in heavy fog and rain, the flight overshot the runway and/or hydroplaned on the wet runway, lost a wing in a forest at the end of the runway and partially ended up with the tail suspended in river shallows. The fuselage split in two. No one was trapped; everyone got out alive. Reports of injury vary, from 80 minor injuries to 20 individuals who sustained varying degrees of injury (broken bones and head injury), one who had facial injury and trouble breathing.
Merpati is on the banned list. Nevertheless, Merpati spokesmen say this was entirely due to weather and not pilot error.
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