Blue Panorama Airlines flight BV-471 made an emergency landing in Warsaw, Poland, on October 12th.
The Boeing 767-300 plane took off for Bologna, Italy, but had to turn back due to an engine fire indication.
The plane landed back safely. All one hundred and twenty passengers and eight crew members remained unharmed.
What: Singapore Airlines B773 en route from Moscow to Singapore
Where: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport
When: Oct 3 2010, midnight
Who: 262 passengers
Why: The flight was en route when Moscow police contacted the pilots and told them there was a possible bomb on board.
Delhi, the nearest airport, refused to allow them to land due to the Commonwealth Games, but they were permitted to divert to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport where they made a safe landing around midnight.
Passengers disembarked, and the plane was isolated and the baggage searched.
A helicopter, working for the UN-AN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, made an emergency landing in Saraf Omra, North Darfur, Sudan, on August 16.
The incident happened when the helicopter was flying from El Fasher, North Darfur. According to a spokesperson “A UNAMID helicopter, an Mi-8, carrying 18 passengers and three crew on board made an emergency landing approximately 100 metres” (yards) from the helipad at a base belonging to the mission at Saraf Omra in North Darfur.”
Eight people sustained serious injuries in the incident while others sustained minor injuries. They were shifted to Saraf Omra base for medical aid.
The cause of emergency landing is not clear at the moment.
BoraJet flight YB-9907 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Budapest, Hungary, on October 19th.
The Embraer ERJ-195 plane heading from Istanbul, Turkey, to Manchester, England, was diverted after a bird hit it, causing a crack in the windshield.
The plane, that was carrying the members of Turkish football club Fenerbahce, landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
The airline arranged a replacement plane that safely transported the team to Manchester.
American Airlines flight AA-2282 made an emergency landing in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on May 29th.
The plane took off for Miami, Florida, but had to turn back after the crew heard some unusual noise from the cargo hold and suspected somebody might be stuck inside.
The plane landed back safely.
The airline said a mechanical issue was the cause of the noise in cargo hold.
What: Delta Boeing 737 London to Detroit
Where: London
When: Nov 1
Who: 213 passengers plus pilot George LaPerle
Why: Scotland Yard took Delta pilot George LaPerle from his plane.
He was so drunk…(how drunk was he? Five times the pilots legal limit, that’s how drunk.) He was so drunk, he thought his Detroit flight was bound for New York. With him at the controls, he wouldn’t have gotten out of Heathrow much less across the Atlantic.
LaPerle is suspended by Delta and will be going to court in the UK on Nov 16. Let’s hope for his sake he shows up sober, and already on his ten step plan.
Filing this one under “pilot error.”
Thai Airways flight TG-349 made an emergency landing in Islamabad, Pakistan, on October 3rd.
The Airbus A330-300 plane flying from Bangkok, Thailand, was on approach to Islamabad, when it suffered a bird strike that caused a windshield to crack.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
