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Contact Photographer Tommy Desmet
What: Thomas Cook Airlines Airbus A320-200 en route from Brussels Belgium to Tenerife
Where: over Bay of Biscay
When: Aug 14th 2009
Why: While on the way to Tenerife, the windshield of the airbus cracked. The crew declared an emergency and returned to Brussels for repairs that delayed takeoff for about 7 hours.
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Contact photographer Erik Lofgren Bengtson
What: Czech Airlines Boeing 737-500 en route from Sofia to Prague
Where: Sofia
When: Jan 18th 2011
Who: 30 passengers
Why: While en route, the pilots encountered mechanical problems with the plane.
They diverted to Hungary where they made a safe landing. Mechanics in Hungary made repairs.
TAP Portugal flight TP-1534 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Amílcar Cabral International Airport, Cape Verde, Africa, on July 28th.
The Airbus A320-200 flying from Praia to Lisbon, Portugal, had to divert due to bird ingestion by one of its engines.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
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Contact photographer Stefan Sonnenberg
What: Delta Airlines Douglas DC-9-50 en route from Atlanta to Pittsburgh
Where: Atlanta o
When: Aug 6th 2011
Why: On takeoff approach, the right engine made a banging noise, leading the pilots to reject takeoff, and stop on the runway, with locked up brakes and an uncontained engine failure (holes in the casing) and a disengaged fan blade. Passengers disembarked on to the runway and were ported to the terminal.
A privately owned Cessna 421C Golden Eagle en route from Lyon Bron Airport to Aix-Les-Milles/Aix En Provence Airport took off then crashed near Lyon, France. The four passengers, one of whom ejected) died in the crash.
The names of the passengers have not been released.
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Contact Photographer Frank Robitaille
What: Air Canada Airbus A319-100 en route from Toronto to Bridgetown
Where: Over the Atlantic Ocean…
When: Jul 15th 2009
Who:
Why: En route to Barbados, a fuel leak was discovered; the flight returned to Toronto where passengers debarked safely and were eventually provided another Airbus.
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Contact photographer Iam Lim
What: Yemenia Air Airbus 310 flight 626 en route from Yemen’s capital Sanaa to Moroni
Where: Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago
When: Monday June 29, 2009
Who: 142 passengers, 11 crew.
Why: The exact location of the crash was unknown, but investigators began looking five to 10 kilometres from the coast along the “landing approach.” Rough weather is hampering the search.
An unidentified boat found the plane which did go down in the Indian Ocean, so close to the coast that villagers saw the crash occur. Wreckage was found about six minutes from the airport where it was due to land. (The nationality of the boat is not known; apparently Comoros does not have the resources.)
And a ship has already found the wreckage.
Yemin call center: for more info contact the call center at 00967 1250800 or the emergency No 00967 1 250833 or call center 00967 1 250800 #IY626
George’s Point of View
Another Airbus!
