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What: Singapore Airlines Airbus A340-500 en route from Singapore to Newark,NJ
Where: Singapore
When: Oct 4 2010
Who: 81 passengers
Why: On taking off from Singapore, the plane lost a wheel.
The plane’s sensors indicated the loss. The flight, however, continued to Newark and made a successful landing.
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What: Jetblue Airbus A320-200 en route from Sacramento CA to New York
Where: New York
When: May 17th 2010
Why: After landing at JFK, while taxiing on the runway, the plane encountered a bird (or flock of birds) sustaining minor damage.
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Contact photographer Tamas Vekony
What: Ural Airlines Airbus A321-200 en route from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to Ekaterinburg (Russia)
Where: Ekaterinburg
When: Nov 6 2010 at 4:25
Who: 143 passengers and 8 crew
Why: While landing at Ekaterinburg while the runway was covered in ice, and although ATC informed the “that the runway condition was good and permitted a safe landing,” the plane did not respond to proper braking and overran the runway.
Russian investigators are investigating.
Apparently Russian airport crews don’t bother to salt, plow or otherwise make their runways more safe. Or maybe this was just a particularly lazy crew.
What: single-engine Cessna en route from North Carolina to Long Island NY
Where: Heckscher State Park in East Islip, Long Island NY
When: April 15, 2012, 4 pm
Who: pilot and student
Why: Pilot David J. Jensen and a student were in the single-engine Cessna when it developed engine problems. The pilots made a safe landing on a Heckscher State Park runway normally dedicated to model planes.
The plane was not allowed to take off from that runway, and was dismantled for removal.
The incident is under investigation.
A small plane made an emergency landing in Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama, on April 7th.
The pilot of the small seaplane said he was doing some survey work for a proposed water pipeline when the aircraft’s battery failed, forcing him to make an emergency landing.
Both occupants of the plane, including the pilot Peter Serodino, of Chattanooga, and his only passenger, remained unharmed.
The plane was towed to a nearby marina.
Emirates flight EK-652 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Mumbai, India, on July 26th.
The Boeing 777-300 plane en-route from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Male, Maldives, had to be diverted after smoke was noticed in the cockpit.
The plane landed safely. All 309 people aboard remained uninjured.
Vias aéreas de Chipre aterradas em Londres
Que: Vias aéreas Airbus 330 de Chipre de Chipre
Onde: Aeroporto de Heathrow
Quando: Segunda-feira, fevereiro 2, 2009
Quem: 104 passageiros
Porque: O vôo de Airbus era uma de muitas vítimas da tempestade de neve a mais má em 18 anos– Centenas causadas tempo de cancelamentos do vôo e de transporte público virtualmente interrompido.
