American Airlines flight AA-4672 made an emergency landing in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1st.
The plane heading from Charlotte, North Carolina, to New Orleans, Louisiana, was diverted due to the loss of cabin pressure.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a passenger jet and a cargo plane had a ‘near miss’, after they were recorded to be less than a quarter mile apart over Fire Island, New York, on May 27.
The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 was about to land at the runway #15 of the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport at about 3:08 p.m. when the air traffic controllers asked the pilot to ‘go-around’. The instruction was given to avoid a Sand Point-bound Ace Air Cargo Beechcraft 1900, which was taking off from the airport.
The passenger jet swerved off towards right; the cargo plane also took off and turned in the same direction. Above Fire Island, the aircrafts crossed each other at the same elevation within a quarter mile distance.
The Alaska airlines flight 135 landed without incident and all 143 passengers and 5 crew members remained unharmed.
NTSB has launched an investigation, led by a senior air traffic control specialist, based in Washington D.C. According to NTSB spokesperson Clint Johnson, “He’s going to be reviewing radar data, he’s going to be reviewing the conversations between the two pilots, the two flight crews and air traffic control and also looking at policies and procedures to look and document the circumstances that led up to this incident.”
Virgin Atlantic flight VS-34 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, on August 15th.
The Airbus A330-200 plane heading from Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, to Gatwick Airport, England, was diverted after the crew received a cargo smoke indication.
The plane landed safely. All two hundred and eighty passengers and twelve crew members remained unharmed.
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What: Tarom Romanian Air Transport Airbus A310-300 en route from Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) to Tenerife Sur Reina,CI (Spain)
Where: Madrid
When: Jun 18th 200p
Who: 201 passengers and 10 crew members
Why: En route the windshield cracked, and the flight was diverted safely to Madrid. No injuries were reported though the cockpit depressurized.
On January 30, 2013, a Hawking ventures LLC Learjet 45 was landing at Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport when it overran the runway. Emergency services were on standby and responded to the runway overrun.
The plane came to rest in soft ground.
The plane sustained damage. The three people aboard did not.
What: Inter-Iles Air Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia en route from Moroni, Comoros to Anjouan
Where: Indian Ocean
When: Nov 27, 2012
Who: 29 aboard-25 passengers, 4 crew
Why: According to passengers accounts, the plane took off and was leaking. Another reports that an engine failed. The pilot intended to return to the airport but instead managed to ditch safely in the Ocean within five minutes of take-off. Both pilot and copilot had over 5000 hours of flight experience.
The pilot suffered head trauma but no one else was reported as injured.
The leaking plane had passed DGAC inspection one week before the accident.
The rescue/recovery of the crew and passengers was performed by local fishermen.
What: Delta flight 5800 was en route from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Greenville Spartanburg International
Where: Greenville Spartanburg International airport
When: May 3, 2009 1:23 Sunday afternoon
Who: 19 passengers
Why: Pilot declared an emergency due to a stuck flap on the left wing.
