What: Aeroflot Airbus A320 en route from Moscow to Krasnodar
Where: Krasnodar International Airport, Russia
When: Oct 29. 2012
Who: 110 aboard
Why: After there was smoke in the cabin, the crew decided to land because there was smoke in the cockpit. The cause of the smoke was due to an electrical short circuit.
The pilots made an emergency landing at Krasnodar International Airport. There were no injuries.
Airbus wants to do the impossible. Always pushing aviation physics to be bigger than we thought it was possible to be.
There’s a whole lot of buzz about Airbus’s superjumbo elephantine double-decker, wide-body, four-engine jets with seating for up to 853 people. The families who have lost loved ones at sea–especially those in the recent Airbus flight 447 and the Comoros crash–must feel crushed when they hear about expensive Airbus efforts to make their already huge aircraft series break more size records.
Maybe Airbus should stop trying to be the biggest plane on the block, and work a little harder on safety. If they were as safe as they are big, there would be 380 families not in mourning today. Yes, 380. Here’s the biggest irony.
There were 152 fatalities in the Airbus crash in the Comoros. There were 228 fatalities in AF 477. Does anyone else find it macabre and frightening that that adds up to 380? I’m not a numerologist, but that’s awfully disturbing–
Airbus needs to rethink their entire aviation philosopy, stop making these monstrous death traps, go back to the drawing board, and correct the defects of the planes they already have in service.
If they had done so already, there would be at least 380 mothers, fathers, and children still alive.
Or they should be responsible, and ask that their planes be grounded until they are made safe.
Airbus needs to stop throwing money at air shows, and start compensating the families of those that have died or been injured due to design flaws of Airbus planes.
Yes, even the much vaunted new jet has niggling problems surfacing all of the time, but the flaws in the Airbus 380 skywhale behemoth are being downplayed by the powers that be.
Issues have been found with all of these systems:
This is just what has come to light so far.
Please, let’s go back to the drawing board Airbus, for the sake of your human family. There is nothing, nothing, nothing you can do to bring joy back to 380 families who remain wounded, broken, with holes in their lives that can never be filled, lives that have been deformed by damage that can not be undone. Airbus, you want to do the impossible, be ever bigger. How about doing something in the realm of the possible? Let your heart be big. Step up to the plate, and compensate the grieving, who are suffering from lives lost in Airbus planes. This is beyond the physics of aviation and above the laws of man. It’s the right thing to do.
What: UNITED Airlines Airbus A320 en route FROM Washington DC to Cancun
Where: Tampa International Airport
When: May 21, 2012, 11:25 AM
Who: 127 passengers
Why: The DC-Cancun flight was over the Atlantic when it diverted to Tampa. Pilots informed ATC when smoke appeared in the cabin. They made a save landing.
Emergency services were on standby on arrival in Tampa. Passengers were evacuated on landing. No injuries were reported.
Mechanics took on examining the plane. Passengers were provided an alternative flight.
After encountering low visibility in Kushma Bazaar, a Shree Airlines helicopter en route from Dolpa to Pokhara made an emergency landing at around 10:00 am when it diverted to the Chandika Armed Police Battalion in Kushma Bazaar.
Shree Airlines wants to emphasize that a diversion during rainy season is not an emergency.
General Manager of the Airlines Anil Manandha said that “…such landing during rainy season is normal. This is not an emergency landing.”
The chopper had intended to refuel in Pokhara.
The helicopter landed in Kathmandu at 1:00 p.m.
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Contact photographer Royal S King
What: United Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Washington to Seattle
Where: Sioux Falls
When: Apr 14, 2010
Who: 166 passengers
Why: While en route, the crew smelled smoke in the cabin.
Passengers complained of burning eyes. The crew elected to divert to Sioux Falls where they made a safe cautionary landing.
A replacement flight was provided, with passengers reaching their destination with only a four hour delay.
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Contact Photographer Normando Carvalho Jr
What: TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A330-200 en route from Miami, FL to Sao Paulo Brazil
Where: en route to Sao Paulo
When: May 21st 2009
Who: not listed
Why: While in flight, the flight crew observed a drop of the outside temperature and recorded seeing St. Elmo’s Fire. They lost the air data reference system. Autopilot and autothrust system disconnected, and fly by wire switched to alternate law (and remained in alternate law for the remainder of the flight.)
Rudder travel limiter was deactived and airspeed and altitude indication was lost.
Standby instrumentation allowed data restoration in under ten minutes.
George’s Point of View
Austrian Airlines flight OS-509 made an emergency landing at Milan Malpensa Airport, Italy, on February 25th.
The Airbus A319-100 plane flying from Vienna, Austria, was descending toward Milan Malpensa Airport when the crew reported an unusual smell in the cabin.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
