Cape Air flight 1815 made an emergency landing at Adirondack Regional Airport in Franklin County, New York, on August 25th.
The Cessna 402 plane heading from Albany International Airport to Ogdensburg Regional Airport, New York, was diverted after the crew noticed an engine issue and a whiff of smoke in the cabin.
The plane landed safely. All five passengers aboard remained unharmed.
What: American Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Dallas to Sao Paolo, Brazil
Where: Dallas
When: July 31, 2011
Who: 264 passengers, 14 crew
Why: Indicators convinced the pilots of Flight 963 that an engine caught on fire. The pilots returned to Dallas and landed the 777 safely. The brakes locked up and a tire blew out, but that kind of thing is not unusual for an overweight landing.
Onlookers saw the flight dumping fuel, described as fuel streaming from its jets. If they were alarmed, just think how the passengers felt.
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Contact photographer Markus Buttinger
What: Flugring Salzburg Cessna F150L en route from Gmunden to Salzburg.
Where: Straßwalchen, Salzburg
When: June 21, 2012
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: After disappearing from radar at 2:30, while on a training flight, a 71 year old flight instructor and 44 year old student pilot were in a fatal crash in Salzburg near Voglhub village. The flight was from Gmunden to Salzburg. After the crash, the plane’s beacon helped rescuers find the wreckage.
Rescuers attempted to cut the victims out until 4:30 pm. They did not long survive the collision. The area was foamed to prevent fire. The crash site was a field near the Western Railway.
Qantas flight QF61 made an emergency landing in Brisbane, Australia, on April 9th.
The plane took off for Tokyo, Japan, but had to return shortly afterwards due to vibrations in one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
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Contact photographer Joachim Eichner
What: Air Europa Boeing 737-800 en route from Trondheim Norway to Las Palmas Spain
Where: Trondheim
When: Dec 2nd 2009
Who: 170 passengers,
Why: While en route, an engine developed problems and the crew had to shut it down. The plane returned to the airport where passengers debarked safely.
Never take for granted or underestimate the value of having more than one engine.
A Cessna 150 crashed into woods in Camden County, New Jersey, on September 12.
Authorities said the plane, that took off from Camden County Airport, went down behind the homes on Jackson Road, Atco section.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. He was identified as 65-year-old David Sees, of Marlton.
The FAA is investigating the cause of crash.
Two Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets almost crashed into a Ryanair passenger plane near Ovda Airport, Israel, on March 1st.
The passenger plane was en-route from Krakow, Poland, to Ovda airport, Israel, when two fighter planes, engaged in the training exercises, came “dangerously close”. The Ryanair pilots changed the course at the last minute to avert the crash.
The flight FR-2616 was carrying 162 passengers at the time.
The airline confirmed the incident but said that “These military aircraft were at all times over 3 miles away from the Ryanair aircraft, so the reports of a ‘nearly crash’ or ‘evasive manoeuvres’ are all false and invented. All passengers on board the Ryanair aircraft noticed nothing, since our aircraft never diverted from its cleared flight path to Ovda.”
