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What: Avianca Fokker 100 en route from Cucuta to Bogota Colombia
Where: Bucaramanga
When: Dec 14th
Who: 70 passengers
Why: While en route, the interior of the plane began to smell of a strange chemical odor. The flight diverted to Bucaramanga, where a couple of gallons of a chemical brought by a passenger was discovered. The chemical was removed. No one was injured.
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What: United Boeing 757-200 en route from Newark to Berlin
Where: Newark
When: Aug 18 2012
Who: 173 aboard
Why: On takeoff, the plane blew a tire. Simultaneously, the plane gave feedback of problems with both engines, with witnesses seeing fire coming from the left engine. That engine was shut down. The plane managed to circle for two hours to burn off fuel before returning to make a safe landing in Newark.
–commenting from London
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What: Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 en route from Orlando,FL (USA) to Manchester
Where: Gander
When: Oct 21 2010
Who: 451 passengers and 17 crew
Why: While underway, a drunken passenger got into a brawl with his wife and father in law. The pilot diverted to Gander where the disruptive passenger, UK citizen Roy Anthony Heaps, was escorted out of the airport by Mounties.
The court ordered Heaps to pay a fine of $15,000 for charges of assault, uttering threats, mischief and interfering with an air crew; and restitution to the airline along the lines of 13,000 Canadian Dollars.
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What: Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 en route from Coolangatta/Gold Coast,QL to Melbourne,VI
Where: Coolangatta
When: Apr 15th 2012
Who: Essendon Football Team
Why: The flight was en route when a problem developed with the fuel. Pilots diverted to Brisbane and made a safe landing. Emergency services met the plane on the tarmac. Virgin’s public statement said the problem was a minor maintenance issue.
The football team won against the Gold Coast Suns on Saturday night but ended up stranded in Brisbane. The spokesman for Essedon said “There was definitely no emergency. It’s probably been overplayed a bit.”
The flight was cancelled.
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What: United Airlines Boeing 747-400 Tokyo to Washington
Where: Alaska
When: Feb 19 3:45
Who: 245 passengers, Eighteen people injured (227 passengers 18 crew)
Why: While en route, the plane encountered turbulence. Several people were injured. The figure was originally released as 20 injuries and later rounded down to 18. One person suffered a broken leg.
A passenger was quoted saying that the plane…” jolted vehemently over Alaska twice or so about seven hours before its arrival. Many passengers were tossed from their seats, bumping into the ceiling.”
After encountering turbulence over Alaska, the flight continued on to land at Narita.
EuroAtlantic Airways flight CD-417 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Frankfurt, Germany, on August 11th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Rhodes, Greece, had to be diverted after a fire in an oven caused smoke in the cabin.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
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What: Montenegro Airlines Fokker 100 en route from Podgorica Montenegro to Rome
Where: emergency landing in Podgorica Montenegro
When: Friday Feb 27
Who: 33 people on board (28 passengers 5 crew)
Why: The plane took off for Rome at 8:55 a.m but when a wheel on the left side of the main undercarriage fell off, the crew dumped fuel in the Adriatic sea (or Skadarsko Lake), and returned to Podgorica thirty minutes later for a safe landing.