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Contact photographer Terry Wade
What: Mexicana Airbus A318-100 en route from Cancun to Mexico City
Where: Cancun
When: Jan 19th 2010
Who: 45 passengers
Why: On takeoff, the left engine cowling separated, impacting the engine, wing and the rear fuselage. The flight crew returned the plane to the airport for a safe landing.
No injuries were reported.
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What: Bell 206 registered to Hillcrest Aircraft Company en route from Ogallala, Nebraska to Wichita. to Virginia for the U.S. Forest Service.
Where: Buckskin Road between 19th and 20th Avenues in McPherson County, 40 miles north of Wichita.
When: 2:45 p.m. Sunday March 8, 2009
Who: Pilot Roger Hershner was the only one aboard.
Why: The helicopter crashed after being in route for 2 hours; the crash is under investigation.
A Sriwijaya Air Boeing on the runway in Indonesia
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Contact photographer Peter de Jong
What: Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-200 en route from Tanjungpinang airport on Bintan island to the capital, Jakarta.
Where: unscheduled landing at the nearest airstrip
When: Mar 23rd 2009
Who: 116 passengers and 6 crew
Why: Eight minutes after takeoff, the left hand engine failed with a loud bang. The whole flight took about 27 minutes.
What: Airbus A320 maintenance flight leased by Germany charter airline XL Airways and was due to return to service for Air New Zealand next month; flying from Perpignan airport
Where: off France’s southern coast in the Mediterranean as it was approaching the Perpignan airport
When:
Who: 7 on board: Two German pilots, Another pilot and three engineers from Air New Zealand were also on board, as well as an aircraft inspector from the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority. 2 bodies were recovered at sea
Why: 150-passenger plane, which was delivered to Air New Zealand in July 2005, had accumulated approximately 7,000 flight hours. The plane is in several pieces. A witness told a radio station that “he saw the Airbus dive abruptly and plunge into the sea.” Six French and two German aviation accident investigators have been sent to investigate. Search teams on Friday found the flight recorders.
The search is being hampered by 30 knot winds and rain and a sea temperature of about 13C.
Two German Pilots were aboard.
5 Australians are listed below:
Captain Brian Horrell, 52, from Auckland
Engineer Murray White, 37,from Auckland
Engineer Michael Gyles, 49, from Christchurch.
Civil Aviation Authority airworthiness inspector Jeremy Cook
Air New Zealand Engineer Noel Marsh, 35
Status: Preliminary – official
Date: 27 NOV 2008
Time: 16:46
Type: Airbus A320-232
Operating for: XL Airways Germany
Leased from: Air New Zealand
Registration: D-AXLA
C/n / msn: 2500
First flight: 2005-06-30
Total airframe hrs: 7000
Cycles: 2800
Engines: 2 IAE V2500-A1
Total: Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 crewmembers
Airplane fate/damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 7 km (4.4 mls) off Saint-Cyprien (France)
Phase: Approach (APR)
Nature: Test
Departure/Destination airport: Perpignan Airport (PGF/LFMP), France
Narrative:
Airbus A320 D-AXLA had been leased by XL Airways Germany since May 2006. The airplane was due to be returned to its owner, Air New Zealand, on December 1, 2008. The Airbus was ferried to Perpignan (PGF) where it underwent maintenance at EAS Industries. It was also repainted in full Air New Zealand livery, but retained the registration D-AXLA. French newspaper Midi Libre reported that the airplane carried out a test flight on the morning of November 27. D-AXLA departed Perpignan in the afternoon for a second test flight. On board were two XL Airways pilots, a senior Air New Zealand pilot, three Air New Zealand engineers, and a N.Z. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) inspector.
On approach back to Perpignan radio contact was lost while the A320 was at 3500 feet. A radar controller reportedly saw the airplane descending fast in a left hand turn. It struck the sea and broke up.
Germanwings flight 4U-24 had to return and make an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, on December 20th.
The Airbus A319-100 plane took off for Berlin, Germany, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a landing gear issue.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Cathay Dragon flight KA-169 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Mandalay, Myanmar, on August 31st.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Kolkata, India, to Hong Kong, China, was diverted due to a hydraulic issue.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and thirty passengers and seven crew members remained safe.
Pictured: An Air India Airbus A320-214
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Contact photographer Olivier Mouhot
What: Air India Airbus A320-200 en route from Kozhikode to Dubai (or from Calicut to Sharjah depending on who you ask.)
Where: Mumbai
When: May 28th 2010
Who: 84 passengers and 8 crew
Why: While en route, the flight developed hydraulic failure and had to divert to Mumbai where they made a safe landing. A replacement jet was provided, for which passengers waited for three and a half hours. The diversion is considered cautionary and not “emergency.”
