What: American Eagle Embraer ERJ-145 en route from Greensboro,NC to Dallas Ft. Worth,TX
Where: Longview
When: Jun 28th 2010
Who: 36 passengers, 3 crew
Why: While en route, the flight encountered severe turbulence, resulting in injury. (Around 7 p m, the plane flew through a storm.) Two passengers and a flight attendant were hospitalized; three other passengers incurred lesser injuries not requiring hospitalization.
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LAX Wake Turbulence
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What: American Eagle Embraer ERJ-140 en route from Lindbergh Field San Diego to Los Angeles
What: LAN Airlines Boeing 767-300 from from Lima Peru to Los Angeles, CA
Where: LAX
When: Jan 19th 2010
Why: At the time of the American Eagle’s arrival to LAX, both jets were flying at the same altitude. The danger was not collision. The danger was wake turbulence. Required separation behind the Boeing is 5 nautical miles.George’s Point of View
Trailing behind an aircraft, wake turbulence is made up of multiple force drafts including wingtip vortices and jetwash. Jetwash is jet engine gas output which is turbulent but of short term but wingtip vortices can remain for up to three minutes.
Picture, if you will, invisible speed bumps made of wind that could knock your car off the road trailing the car in front of you. If this were a factor with cars, tailgating would be a completely different thing.
A cockpit voice recorder of the pilots responses will clearly indicate if the plane in the rear of the situation runs into the leading aircraft’s wake. What officials are questioning here are the actions and responses of LAX Air Traffic Control, which placed these two jets close enough to be endangered.
On January 19, maybe Air Traffic Control error put the Eagle jet less than three miles from the 767, but the pilot managed to stay out of the other jet’s wake. LAX denies this is a case of inexperience and maybe they are correct, because the worst case scenario crash did not happen. Maybe it would have happened if the jet following were flying at lower altitude.
What matters is that the flight landed safely and whether it was ATC or the pilot, someone did something right because both flights made it to the ground safely.
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JetBlue Flight Lands without Landing Gear in Bahamas
JetBlue flight B6-29 had to make an emergency landing at Lynden Pindling International Airport, Nassau, Bahamas on March 25.The Embraer ERJ, en-route from Washington, DC to Nassau, Bahamas was on approach to runway when the crew reported that the nose gear was inoperable, went around for a while and upon failing to retract the gear, attempted for a landing.
The plane landed successfully.
All 95 people aboard remained unharmed.
Austral Embraer Returns to Puerto Rico after Issue with Ailerons
Austral Líneas Aéreas flight AR-2431, operating on behalf of Aerolineas Argentinas, returned to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, on September 28.The Embraer ERJ-190, heading towards Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, had to return due to some issue with its ailerons.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
The passengers were accommodated in a replacement plane.
9 Minute Turbo-Prop Emergency Over Big Sur
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Contact photographerWhat: Skywest Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia turbo-prop en route from Santa Barbara to San Francisco
Where: Big Sur
When: Feb 11, 2011
Who: 29 passengers
Why: After losing pressure over Big Sur at around 1 pm, the Skywest flight diverted to Monterey Peninsula Airport and made an emergency landing at 1:09 pm. The landing was made under emergency conditions with crews on standby, but there were no injuries. Some passengers complained to paramedics of ear problems and were examined. After passengers disembarked and were transported to their destinations, the flight crew flew on to San Francisco alone.Birdstrike at Salt Lake City
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Contact photographer Hongyin HuoWhat: Expressjet Embraer ERJ-145/Continental Airlines en route from Houston,TX to Salt Lake City,UT
Where: Salt Lake City,UT
When: Aug 10th 2010
Who: 46 passengers and 4 crew
Why: On approach to Salt Lake City, the plane flew through a flock of seagulls. The flight made a safe landing, although there was evidence of at least one bird strike that damaged the skin of the plane which was apparently not a seagull but a pelican.