American Airlines flight AA-1897 made an emergency landing in El Paso, Texas, on June 3rd.
The Airbus A319-100 plane heading from San Antonio, Texas, to Phoenix, Arizona, was diverted after it sustained damage to the windscreen and nose cone due to a severe hail storm.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and thirty passengers and five crew members remained uninjured.
American Airlines flight 2398 made an emergency landing in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 14th.
The plane, heading from Nashville, Tennessee, to Dallas, Texas, was diverted due to smell of smoke in the cabin.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 141 passengers and 5 crew members remained safe.
What: Malaysian Airlines Boeing 737-400 en route from Sabah (Kota Kinabalu) to Kaohsiung International Airport
Where: Manila
When: April 16, 2011 5:30 p.m.
Who: 128 passengers
Why: While over Philippine airspace, a member of the crew found a cracked cockpit window that caused pressurization problems.
The plane diverted to Manila and made a safe landing. The passengers, mostly from Taiwan, had to overnight in Manila but were provided hotel accommodations. Intervention from the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was apparently required.
On the company website, the airline has a press release about its new A330-300 but does not make reference to its plane down in Manila.
ATA Airlines flight I3-6600 made an emergency landing at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran, on April 5th.
The plane heading from Tabriz, Iran, to Najaf, Iraq, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Oman Air flight WY-105 made an emergency landing in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 10th.
The Boeing 787-8 plane heading from Muscat, Oman, to Manchester, England, was diverted due to a cracked windshield.
The plane landed uneventfully. All one hundred and twenty-four passengers aboard remained safe.
KLM flight KL-765 made an emergency landing in Aruba on May 16.
The plane was heading from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Aruba when the crew reported a suspected fuel leak on the left side.
The Airbus A330-200 plane landed safely and emergency services confirmed a fuel leakage from its left engine. The engine was then shut down before it taxied to apron.
All 203 people aboard remained unharmed.
Southwest Airlines flight WN-1694 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, on May 12th.
The Boeing 737-300 flying from Tampa, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee, had to divert due to water dripping off its ceiling, smoke, and unusual smell aboard.
The plane landed safely.
All 129 passengers aboard remained safe.
