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What: American Airlines Boeing 737-800 en route from Seattle to Chicago
Where: Yakima
When: Oct 04 2010
Who: 149 passengers and 6 crew, 1 ill passenger
Why: When a passenger on the flight became ill, the flight diverted to Yakima, where the passenger was taken to Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital after a safe landing. The landing was uneventful except for brakes overheating.

After a 7.5 hour delay, passengers were back en route.

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London-bound Boeing Suffers Lightning Strike


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What: United Boeing 777-200 en route from San Francisco to London
Where: San Francisco
When: Apr 12th 2012
Who: 195 passengers aboard
Why: After taking off from San Francisco, the left side of the United Boeing 777 was struck by lightning. Passengers described the flash of light and the big bank. Oxygen masks deployed. No one was injured. Weather suspended other flights taking off from that airport until the storm blew through.

Pilots informed ATC, and dumped fuel before returning to land safely. The plane remained on the runway as officials inspected the aircraft. Passengers were put up in local hotels and scheduled to take an alternate flight Friday afternoon.

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Delta Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Raleigh–Durham International Airport

250px-Delta_logo.svgDelta Airlines flight DL-2135 made an emergency landing at Raleigh–Durham International Airport, North Carolina, on July 25th.

The plane en-route from Tampa, Florida, to New York, had to be diverted after the crew received an engine fire indication.

The plane landed safely. There were 96 passengers and 5 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.

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American Airlines Plane Continues for Safe Landing in Dominican Republic

american airlinesAmerican Airlines flight AA-987 continued for a safe landing at Las Americas International Airport, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on March 21.

The Boeing 757-200, flying from Miami, Florida to Santo Domingo, was on approach to the runway when the crew detected a hydraulic leak.

The plane landed safely.

All 200 people onboard remained unharmed.

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S7 Airlines Flight Returns to Novosibirsk After Bird Strike

S7 Airlines flight S7-3515 made an emergency landing in Novosibirsk, Russia, on June 19th.

The Boeing 737-800 plane took off for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, but had to turn back due to a bird strike.

The plane landed safely. All one hundred and forty-seven people aboard remained unharmed.

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Unstable Passenger Claims Bomb Implant


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What: US Airways B767 from Paris to Charlotte
Where: Bangor Maine
When: May 22, 2012
Who: 179 passengers, 9 crew
Why: Around noon, Two F-15 fighter jets scrambled to intercept a US Airways plane where a French woman from Cameroon had handed a note to a flight attendant claiming that she had a surgically implanted bomb. She was traveling alone and had no baggage.

The flight which made a safe landing in Maine.

The flight was interrupted for three hours when passengers were evacuated, and federal customs agents escorted the woman off the plane in handcuffs. The plane was examined and reboarded.

A passenger said the crew initially blamed the unexpected landing on fuel and weather issues.

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Emergency aboard Expressjet

After suffering smoke in the cabin, an Embraer ERJ-145 ExpressJet en route from O’Hare to Ottowa returned to O’Hare.

Pilots made a safe landing at 6:15 pm.

Thirty-eight passengers disembarked safely in Chicago. One was hospitalized at Resurrection Medical Center for breathing problems. The rest of the passengers were provided an alternative flight to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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