Air Europa flight UX-1040 made a safe landing at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain, on April 30th.
The Boeing 737-800 flying from Fiumicino, Italy, was about to land when it suffered multiple bird strikes.
The aircraft sustained minor damage.
All people aboard remained unhurt.
A Royal Air Maroc Boeing 767-36NER, Flight 206 from Casablanca, Morocco, had touched down at 4:30 p.m.. While the plane was being loaded, the belt loader caught fire.
Two hundred fifty passengers evacuated by slide. Several were injured in the evacuation, and seven suffered smoke inhalation, five of whom were hospitalized. The plane is out of service.
The fire in the belt located by the jet’s cargo door was reported at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at 4:47 pm on Nov 4, 2013.
An investigation is underway.
Thomas Cook Airlines flight MT-2652 had to return and make an emergency landing in Manchester, England, on June 26th.
According to the airline, the airbus A330-200 plane heading to Holguin, Cuba, had to turn back due to a low oil indication.
The plane landed back safely, however, the tip of its left wing was missing.
All passengers and crew members remained safe.
AirAsia Flight Z2 763 had to make an emergency landing at Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Cebu, Philippines, on December 15.
It s believed that the pilots of the plane, flying from Manila, declared emergency due to a hydraulic problem in its landing gear.
According to Philippines Air Asia, “The plane had technical issue on its way to the ramp and had to be towed. Safety and engineering teams are currently checking the cause.”
There were 166 passengers aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
A medical rescue crew boarded a plane and left Bucharest for Oradea to pick up transplant organs from a patient who just passed away. But they became victims themselves.
We have seen intensive searches for missing planes all over the globe; but here’s a medical rescue team aboard a BN-2A Islander who suffered tragedy in the accident when an inadequate search for their missing plane failed to reach the plane in time. Pilot Adrian Iovan and student Aurelia Ion died from severe injuries and cold. Authorities failed to find the site in the first six hours. The fallout from that failure has led to the resignation of political officials including Minister of Interior, Radu Stroe, Director General of Romatsa, Aleodor Frâncu and Chief of General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU), Ion Burlui. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta dismissed state secretary Constantin Chiper, who was in charge of the rescue mission, and who should have coordinated the teams better.
A doctor who survived Radu Zamfir said that he gave the emergency service his exact GPS location provided by a smartphone.
Pilot Adrian Iovan died of internal bleeding and cold. AURELIA ION was an officer-student in the fifth year at the UMF Carol Davila, Military Medicine Institute in Bucharest and was also doing an internship at Fundeni Hospital.
A ranger found the wreckage and initiated the rescue. Initially all aboard—four doctors, a nurse and two flight crew—were alive.
Near Petreasa, Romania the airplane sustained substantial damage but the seven aboard initially survived. Near Poiana Horea, the plane had engine trouble. Pilot ADRIAN IOVAN tried to make an emergency landing, came down on a hillside in deep snow near Fântânele village near a lake.
Carpatair flight 2N-4856 overran the runway after failing to stop before the end of the runway at Gallivare Airport, Gallivare, Sweden, on April 6th.
The Fokker 100, flying from Arvidsjaur, Sweden, had landed on Gallivare’s runway when it could not stop and ended up with its nose gear on soft ground.
The plane received minor damage.
All 55 passengers onboard remained unharmed.
KLM flight KL-566 had to return and make an emergency landing in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 20th.
The Boeing 747-400 plane took off for Amsterdam, Netherlands, but had to turn back due to an engine failure.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
