What: Mauritania Airways Boeing 737-700 en route from Nouakchott to Dakar Senegal to Conakry
Where: Conakry
When: Jul 28th 2010, 1:30 am
Who: 91 passengers and 6 crew, ten injuries.
Why: While landing in Conakry Guinea in heavy rain, the pilot landed halfway down the runway, resulting in an overran; they came to a dead stop off the tarmac in scrub land.

Passengers evacuated via emergency services. Reports vary, but between 2 and 12 had minor injuries.

Mauritania Airways is 51% owned by Tunisair; 49% by investors and the Mauritanian government.

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LOT Brake Fire in Chicago


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Contact photographer Nigel Harris

What: LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from Warsaw to Chicago
Where: Chicago
When: Jul 17th 2010
Why: The flight made a safe landing in Chicago. However, after landing, the left brakes and tires were smoking and on fire. The captain told passengers that the brakes had fractured and caused damage to the hydraulic lines leading to the fire.

Emergency services put out the fire while on the runway–it is not mentioned if passengers disembarked, before, during or after emergency services were deployed.

Although the left tire and brake were replaced, on return to Warsaw on the 18th, the same plane suffered another brake fire on landing.

George’s Point of View

I know I’m being a back seat driver again, because it’s impossible to know from my armchair in California what’s happening on the ground in Chicago and Warsaw, but it seems to me that there is obviously something going on.

Either the wrong brakes were replaced, or the brakes were not replaced, or the pilot consistently lands too fast, or the wrong (i.e. flammable) grease lubricating the brakes caught fire, or the thrust reverser is flawed or something else is going on that caused the brake fire to repeat on the return flight. Let’s hope LOT’s home base in Warsaw will get to the bottom of it before the plane has to land on a tabletop runway like Mangalore, or an unsurfaced runway like TAM Airlines Flight 3054 at Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport.

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Delta Airlines Flight Returns to Atlanta due to Fuel Leak Indication

Delta Airlines flight DL-130 made an emergency landing in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 3rd.

The Boeing 767-400 plane took off for Munich, Germany, but had to turn back after the crew received a fuel leak indication.

The plane landed safely. All two hundred and fifty-three people aboard remained unharmed.

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Four die in Red Wings Ferry Flight Crash in Russia


On December 29, 2012, at 16:33, a Red Wings Tupelev 204-100V was on a ferry flight from Pardubice Airport Czech Republic to Moscow-Vnukova Airport, Russia when it crashed-landed in snow, overrunnning the runway. Weather conditions showed heavy gusts accompanying a light snowfall. The Federal Air Transport Agency said that the plane touched down in the proper landing area but for some reason was unable to stop on the runway.

Initially traffic controllers refused to authorise landing, and the plane had to circle the airport. Fire trucks were not on standby; they were undergoing maintenance and were nearly an hour late.

The captain, copilot, flight engineer and one flight attendant were killed. Two died on the scene, one died en route in the ambulance, and one died at the hospital. Four crew survived with serious injuries. Pieces of the plane caught fire.

The plane overran the runway and struck the M3 highway embankment, breaking into three parts. The fuselage landed on the highway 320 meters from the end of the runway. A BBC report said the aircraft was in several pieces, with the cockpit on the highway. Kiev Highway and Vnukovo Airport were both shut down temporarily.

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TUI Airways Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Finland

TUI Airways flight BY-638 made an emergency landing in Vaasa, Finland, on February 27th.

The Boeing 767-300 plane took off for Sal, Cape Verde, but had to return shortly afterwards after one of the engines started emitting streaks of flame and loud bangs.

The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.

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Turbulence Rocks Air France Boeing over Narita Japan


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Contact photographer Walter Pietsch

George’s Point of View
There is wisdom in keeping your seats belts fastened even when the seat belt sign is off —

What: Air France passenger plane Boeing 777-200 flight 276 en route from Paris to Narita airport
Where: Narita airport
Who: 261 passengers and 16 crewmembers. Passsengers had no injuries, but 2 crew members suffered hip and thoracic fractures.
Why: The plane was hit by turbulence while circling above waters off Chiba Prefecture while waiting to land at Narita airport. The plane landed safely and was sent back to France after examination.

See Air France’s Corporate statement

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Flight Attendant Injured in Clear Air Turbulence.

What: Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from Guam to Tokyo
Where: Tokyo
When: Jul 15th 2010
Who: 192 passengers and 10 crew
Why: While en route, the plane encountered turbulence over the Atlantic.
A flight attendant was injured between Guam and Tokyo, about 100 minutes before landing in Tokyo. The plane made a safe landing in Tokyo


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