IndiGo flight 6E-287 had to reject takeoff from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, on August 30th.
The plane was accelerating to takeoff for Bangalore, India, when the crew rejected takeoff due to bird strikes.
The plane safely returned to the apron. All one hundred and seventy-eight people aboard remained safe.
The first responders to the Sunday crash in India’s Naneghat Hills compromised the investigation of a crash by moving the wreckage before investigators arrived. The United Helicharters flight from Juhu to Aurangabad to Nagpur crashed in the Naneghat Hills at an altitude of 2,000 feet.
The bodies of the deceased and the flight data recorders were also removed before the DGCA arrived.
Two pilots and three passengers died in the twin-engine Bell 212 crash during a foggy flight. The crash occurred on Sept 29, 2013 at 8:15 a.m..
Protocol demands that except for rescue of survivors, the wreckage not be touched until the DGCA has arrived.
Police and fire teams removed the bodies of captain Anshu Kumar Matta, captain Surendra Singh Bhadauria, co captain Allen Martin, technician Dean D’Souza and engineer Yatin Wakde, whose bodies were burned in the crash. The recovery team also failed to record the recovery process which is a violation of protocol, just as in the Mangalore crash.
An aircraft technician was killed after he was pulled into the engine of an Air India plane that was getting ready to taxi at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, India, on December 16.
Authorities said the plane, performing flight AI 619 between Mumbai and Hyderabad, had just began its pushback when the technician Ravi Subramanian got sucked into the engine.
Ravi was killed instantly. His body was severely mutilated.
The incident is under investigation.
China Eastern Airlines flight MU-774 encountered severe turbulence on the way to Kunming, China, on June 18th.
The Airbus A330-200 plane was flying from Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, when it hit severe turbulence that injured twenty-six passengers.
The plane continued for a safe landing.
Authorities said four passengers suffered serious injuries while twenty-two others received minor injuries. They were taken to hospitals.
TuiFly flight X3-2985 made a safe landing at Stuttgart Airport, Filderstadt, Germany, on July 19th.
The Boeing 737-800 flying from Mallorca, Spain, was about to reach when two of the crew members started feeling unwell.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Air Canada flight 549 made an emergency landing in Toronto, Canada, on January 29.
The plane, en-route from Newark, New Jersey, to Vancouver, Canada, was diverted after it lost cabin pressure due to a fault in an air conditioning unit.
The Airbus A319 plane landed safely. All 107 passengers aboard remained unhurt.
Loong Air flight GJ-8823 had to return and make an emergency landing at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Zhejiang, China, on February 26th.
The Airbus A320-200, en-route to Bijie Feixiong Airport, Guizhou, China, had to return after a mouse was spotted aboard.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
