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Air Canada Boeing Diverts to Russia


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What: Air Canada’s Boeing-767 en route from Vancouver to Shanghai
Where: Yelizovo airport
When: Sept 5 2010 5:32 Moscow time
Who: 152 passengers and 10 crew
Why: While en route, flight attendants smelled a burning odor coming from the lavatory. The crew decided to divert and make an emergency landing at the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport. The plane was investigated by maintenance and no fire was found, and after a four hour delay, the flight resumed.

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    Air India Flight Diverts to Kolkata due to Smoke in Cabin

    Air India flight AI-380 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on July 16th.

    The Boeing 787-800 plane heading from Delhi, India, to Singapore, was diverted after smoke was noticed in the cabin.

    The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.

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    Delta Engine Leak Prefaces Cautionary Landing in Nova Scotia


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    What: Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from New York NY to Amsterdam Netherlands
    Where: 150nm north of Halifax,NS
    When: May 13th 2010
    Why: While en route, the plane developed oil pressure problems and had to shut down an engine. They diverted to Halifax and made a cautionary landing.

    Delta provided a replacement plane for the passengers within a few hours.

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    KLM Flight Returns to Amsterdam due to Flight Control Problem

    KLM flight KL-1793 returned to Amsterdam, Netherlands, on June 13th.

    The Boeing 737-700 plane took off for Munich, Germany, but had to turn back after the crew noticed an issue with the flight controls.

    The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.

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    Fake Cigarette Leads to On Board Assault


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    What: United Boeing 737-800 en route from Portland to Houston
    Where: Portland
    When: Feb 21st 2012
    Who: 1 unruly passenger
    Why: Twenty minutes after departing, the flight was back in Portland dropping off Yazeed Mohammed Abunayyan, after he had taken a swing at a flight attendant, and hit several passengers prior to being subdued and handcuffed. The Saudi Arabian passenger was yelling profanities, and chanting about Osama bin Laden and his hatred of women.

    A relative says Abunayyan suffers from schizophrenia. The cousin, Fahad Alsubaie who was accompanying Yazeed said he was escorted off the plane too, and that the disruption began after a flight attendant confronted the two for sitting together.

    Last Sunday Abunayyan led police on a slow-speed chase in the Southern Oregon town Sunday, ramming two police cars and nearly hitting a pedestrian, charged with drunken driving and assaulting an officer and was released on bail Monday. The cousin was there too, trying to stop the car by taking the keys.
    Abunayyan said that the “other person inside me” was driving.

    Continental bans the use of electronic, simulated smoking materials

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    Spanair Airbus Engine Shut down over Madrid


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    What: Spanair Airbus A321-200 en route from Las Palmas to Madrid
    Where: Las Palmas
    When: Aug 19 2010
    Who: 194 people on board
    Why: After take off, the flight was underway when the engine made a big bang, and an engine began sparking. The pilot shut down the engine and returned to Las Palmas where they made a safe landing. A replacement jet was provided.

    George’s Point of View

    It was good to hear the Spanair jet made it back to Las Palmas safely. I could not help but be reminded of Spanair flight JK 5022, which crashed with 172 aboard.

    Although the CIAIAC, the Civil Aviation Accidents and Incidents Investigation Commission, published their opinion on 6 October 2010, the final conclusion did not discuss why the alarm did not go off for its abnormal takeoff configuration, why one thrust reverser was deployed and other abnormal and/or pre-existing abnormalities. A cause of that incident may have been Trojans in Spanair’s central computer. La computadora no operaba correctamente por unos programas ‘troyanos’.

    For the 194 aboard the Las Palmas flight, they at least had a safe landing. Not so for the 172 victims of Spanair flight JK 5022.

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    Delta Flight Diverts to Kansas City


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    What: Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Atlanta,GA to Seattle,WA
    Where: Kansas City
    When: Dec 15th 2011
    Who: 163 aboard
    Why: The flight was well underway when passengers and crew smelled smoke in the cabin.

    Pilots diverted to Kansas City Missouri, where they made a safe landing.

    A KING 5 News employee was a passenger aboard the flight and posted on twitter that everyone was ok.

    The problem was repaired, and the plane was re-boarded, continuing on to its destination.

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