Cargojet flight W8-1894 made an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, on December 12th.
The Boeing 767-300 plane took off for Hamilton, Canada, but had to turn back due to an engine problem.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
On the flight prior the LionAir accident flight on the Boeing Max registered as PK-LQP, an off-duty fully-qualified Boeing 737-MAX 8 pilot was traveling home on flight JT-43. The plane encountered problems similar to the next flight that crashed it (i.e. the LionAir accident flight from Denpasar to Jakarta.) The crew aboard the earlier flight managed to land the aircraft at the destination. Based on the crew’s entry in the AFML, the engineer at Jakarta flushed the left Pitot Air Data Module (ADM) and static ADM to rectify the reported IAS and ALT disagree and cleaned the electrical connector plug of the elevator feel computer. The aircraft was subsequently released to carry out flight JT610.(A different crew manned the fatal flight.) The pilot was interviewed by the Kantor Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi–Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia (KNKT). The KNKT committee is responsible for investigating and reporting air transportation system accidents, serious incidents and safety deficiencies involving air transportation system operations in Indonesia.
The KNKT estimates that the release of the final report for Lion B38M in August or September 2019.
The KNKT is cooperating with Ethiopian Authorities but will make no official comment. News media reports suggest that on the earlier LionAir flight, a third pilot had occupied the observer’s seat in the cockpit of flight JT-43 and that this pilot identified the automatic trim runaway issue at hand and initiated that the trim cut out switches be used.
The preliminary report on the LionAir crash is located HERE.
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What: Saha Airlines Boeing 707-300 en route from Ahvaz to Tehran
Where: Ahvaz
When: Aug 3rd 2009
Who: 174 passenger
Why: On take off, engines one and two caught on fire. The crew declared emergency and landed safely where the plane landed and a fuel leak was discovered in the plane. Passengers debarked without injury.
United Airlines flight UA-657 made an emergency landing in Newark, New Jersey, on October 23rd.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from LaGuardia Airport, New York, to George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Texas, was diverted due to an engine issue.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Tassili Airlines flight SF-2210 made an emergency landing in Oran, Algeria, on October 14th.
The plane heading from Algiers to Tlemcen, Algeria, was diverted after it lost communication with the ATC.
However, while trying to send a transponder signal for loss of communication, the crew mistakenly set the code that indicates unlawful interference.
The plane landed safely and was surrounded by security forces.
On Sept 19, 2013, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 757-231 was en route from Rome to Addis Ababa when one engine developed problems.
The flight was diverted to Malta, where they made a safe landing with one engine.
None of the 135 aboard were injured.
The flight took off again later, for Addis Ababa.
A small plane crashed near Port Allen Airport on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, on May 23rd.
The single engine Cessna 182H plane, belonging to Skydive Kauai, was conducting a skydive tour when it went down.
Five people, including the pilot, two skydive instructors, and two tandem jumpers, were killed in the crash. Their identities are not known at the moment.
The NTSB and the FAA will investigate.
