What: Northwest Airlines flight 2271 en route from Baton Rouge to Memphis
Where: Baton Rouge Metro Airport Monday
When: Monday May 4, 2009
Who: 49 people on board
Why: When an access door to avionics maintenance on the bottom of the jet opened, the flight returned to Baton Rouge and circled to use fuel before landing.
George’s Point of View
Better safe than sorry.
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.
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What: Delta Boeing 767-300 en route from Salt Lake City to Paris
Where: Salt Lake International Airport
When: June 16, 2012. 7 pm
Who: 198 aboard
Why: On takeoff from salt Lake City, a left tire on the Delta flight blew. Pilots circled, performed a flyby and dumped fuel before they made a safe landing.
The plane was examined in the hanger, and passengers returned home when the flight was cancelled.
Qantas flight QF-7 had to return and make an emergency landing in Sydney, Australia, on August 28th.
The Airbus A380-800 plane took off for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, but had to turn back after one of the doors began emitting whistling sounds.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
United Airways flight 4H-585 had to make an emergency landing at Swami Vivekananda Airport, Raipur, India, on August 7th.
The Bangladeshi carrier’s McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft, en-route from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Muscat, Oman, was forced to make an emergency landing due to engine failure.
The plane with 173 people aboard landed uneventfully.
No injuries were reported.
All Nippon Airways flight NH950 had to return and make an emergency landing at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines, at around 10:19 a.m. on November 21.
The incident happened after the pilot reported smoke coming out of the Boeing B767’s cockpit. The flight was heading to Narita, Japan at the time.
The plane landed uneventfully and none of the 174 passengers and 10 crew members aboard was harmed.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines is investigating.
