Arik Air flight W3-304 made an emergency landing in Accra, Ghana, on March 6th.
The plane was flying from Lagos, Nigeria, when the crew reported smoke in the cabin and declared an emergency.
The plane landed safely. All eighty-one people aboard remained unharmed.
Iran Air flight IR-712 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Vienna, Austria, on July 13th.
The plane heading from Stockholm, Sweden, to Tehran, Iran was diverted after one of the integrated drive electrical generators (IDG) stopped working.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Azur Air flight ZF-555 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on January 31st.
The Boeing 767-300 plane heading from Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Russia, to Varadero Airport, Cuba, was diverted due to an engine issue.
The plane landed safely. All two hundred and ninety-four passengers and fourteen crew members remained unharmed.
S7 Airlines flight S7-3269 made an emergency landing in Blagoveshchensk, Russia, on December 18th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Novosibirsk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, was diverted after the crew received low oil pressure indication for one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty-six passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.
Frontier Airlines flight F9-1839 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 20th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to San Diego, California, was diverted after an unidentified odor was noticed in the aft cabin.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and twenty-nine passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.
What: Chart Air flight en route from Ngukurr to Katherine
Where: Katherine, Australia
When: March 29, 2011
Why: When the plane’s landing gear did not work properly, the plane circled the airport for 45 minutes. Passengers were “advised to call their loved ones.
Maybe the pilot was young or inexperienced. I don’t know. I do know that it is not all that rare for planes to have landing gear problems. Usually it is something that is handled fairly easily. Usually they foam the runway to prevent a fire, and the plane lands on its belly, usually after flying by the control tower to get visual confirmation on the status of the landing gear.
I’m not sure what I think about telling passengers to make that phone call. That pilot might have caused some unnecessary panic. There will probably be some negative consequences for some of these people who experienced flying on the plane and having the pilot practically promise them their goose was cooked and they were going to die.
Is this Chart Air protocol I wonder? In my opinion, however well-meant it is, it is not particularly a good thing for a pilot to induce panic and terror into one’s passengers.
Mahan Air flight W5-1085 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Zahedan, Iran, on March 17th.
The plane heading from Tehran to Zabol, Iran, was diverted due to an engine issue.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
