Austrian Airlines flight OS-26 made an emergency landing in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 6th.
The Boeing 777-200 plane heading from Bangkok, Thailand, to Vienna, Austria, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
A Vensecar Airline’s cargo plane had to return and make an emergency landing in Trinidad at about 8:45 p.m. on May 26, due to hydraulic problems.
The decision for emergency landing was made shortly after the Boeing 727 cargo aircraft took off from Piarco International Airport and was on its way to Venezuela.
According to the officials, the pilot declared full emergency at about 8:26 p.m. after he discovered trouble with the plane’s hydraulic system. The Venezuelan-registered plane was then turned back towards Piarco International Airport where it made an uneventful emergency landing.
Full emergency protocol was deployed at the airport with all the supporting agencies on stand-by.
The aircraft is being examined by the CAA and the Vensecar Airline crews.
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Currently there are 51 hospitalized, 8 in critical condition, one child. Five fire attendants are being treated for burns.
Federal investigators talked to the pilots why they shut down the autopilot 82 seconds before landing. This was the first time the pilot had landed a 777 at this airport. When the fire started in the middle of the plane, there were passengers still in the back that had to walk through the smoke to exit, passing people trapped in their seats. Flight attendants heroically got passengers out of the plane, and tried to put out the fire.
One passenger Eugene Ra describes the instants before the crash, looking out the window knowing they were too low. THe plane’s impact was powerful enough that it snapped the plane, and the spines of at least two of the passengers. The cabin filled with smoke and fear. After the plane stopped, there was silence.
The plane flew in too low and too slow, initiating a stick shaker (stall) warning, and struck the sea wall, severing art of the tail.
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* A cautionary note: The official investigation of the cause of the crash will take a year or more. No matter what news releases or speculations come about before the official investigation is just speculation. We do not know, for example, if some part or software in the plane malfunctioned, leading the pilots to respond as they did.
British Airways flight BA-232 made an emergency landing at Berlin Tegel Airport, Germany, on November 16th.
The Airbus A321-200 plane heading from Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Russia, to Heathrow Airport, England, was diverted due to the loss of cabin pressure.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
GoAir flight G8-101 had to return and make an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on June 7th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Port Blair, India, but had to turn back after a bird strike.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and sixty-seven people aboard remained unharmed.
TAROM flight RO-363 returned to Henri Coanda International Airport, Romania, on October 3rd.
The Boeing 737-300 plane took off for Amsterdam, Netherlands, but had to turn back due to a suspected oil leak.
The plane back landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Qantas Airways Flight 94 had to return and make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport due to a water pipe leak, on July 2.
The Airbus A380 was en route from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia and was cruising at an altitude of about 31,000 feet when it sprung a leak, making the aisles flood with water.
The pilot then decided to return to Los Angeles, where the plane made a safe emergency landing at about 2:40 a.m. No one was injured.
According to a statement released by Qantas, “[The crew] did everything they could to help customers, including moving them to unaffected areas and providing spare blankets so they could stay dry.” The statement further said, “We’re also providing customers with hotel accommodation while the issue is being fixed by our engineers in Los Angeles. We apologise to customers for the inconvenience. There were no safety of flight concerns with the water leak, however the Captain decided to return to LA in the interests of passenger comfort. We are liaising with Airbus to understand what caused this fault.”