The Boeing 777-300 plane took off for Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, but had to turn back due to the loss of cabin pressure.

The plane landed safely. All two hundred and thirty-four passengers and seventeen crew members remained unharmed.

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The Airbus A350-900 plane took off for Singapore but had to turn back due to an issue with engine oil indications.

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

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The Airbus A330-200 flying from Singapore was about to land when the crew noticed hydraulic leakage and declared an emergency.

The plane landed safely.

No one was injured.

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Singapore Airlines flight SQ-449 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Mandalay, Myanmar, on February 7th.

The Airbus A330-300 plane heading from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Singapore was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.

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

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The Airbus A380-800 plane took off for Singapore but had to turn back after the crew received an indication of a problem with the crew oxygen masks.

The plane landed safely. There were three hundred and forty-two passengers and twenty-seven crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.

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The Boeing 747-400 freighter plane took off for Singapore but had to return shortly afterwards after the crew reported engine issues.

The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.

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The Airbus A380-800 plane was preparing to take off for Singapore when the crew rejected take off due to issues with nose gear.

The plane safely returned to the apron. All 300 people aboard remained safe.

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The Boeing 747-400 freighter plane took off for Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, but had to turn back after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.

The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.

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The Airbus A380-800 flying from Singapore to Paris, France, had to divert due to some issue with one of its engines.

The plane landed safely.

No injuries were reported.

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The Airbus A380-800 plane took off for New Delhi, India, but had to turn back after the passenger oxygen masks deployed.

The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained safe.

The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.

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The plane took off for Milan–Malpensa Airport, Italy, but had to return shortly afterwards due to fuel leak from one of the engines.

The plane’s right engine caught fire after it landed at Changi Airport.

There were 222 passengers and 19 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.

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The Airbus A350-900, en-route from Amsterdam, Netherlands, was about to land when the crew requested authorities to keep a tow ready advising they would not be able to vacate the runway in time.

The plane landed safely.

No one was injured.

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The plane, heading to Jakarta, Indonesia, had to return after the passenger oxygen masks deployed without any obvious reason.

The plane landed safely. There were 113 passengers and 12 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained unhurt.

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The Airbus A330-300, en-route from Kuala Lampur, Malaysia to Singapore, was struck by lightning shortly before landing.

The plane landed safely.

All passengers aboard remained unharmed.

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The Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft was transporting 2,186 sheep from Sydney, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when the crew received smoke indication in a cargo bay and declared emergency.

The plane landed safely. All four crew members aboard remained unhurt.

It is believed that the exhaust gasses and sheep manure was the cause of smoke indication.

The plane resumed its journey after 2.5 hours.

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The Airbus A380-800 plane was turned back after the crew had to shut down one of the engines due to vibrations. The flight was en-route to Los Angeles, California at the time.

The plane landed uneventfully

The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.

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The Boeing 777-200 was heading from Istanbul to Singapore when several storks hit it, forcing the pilot to declare emergency.

The plane landed safely and all 255 passengers and 14 crew members remained unharmed.

The plane was taken for repair while the airline arranged a replacement aircraft for the passengers.

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The plane, en-route from Mumbai, India to Singapore, declared emergency after fire broke out in the cargo hold.

The plane landed uneventfully. According to Selangor Bomba operations Chief Mohd Sani Harul, “The fire had already been put out by the plane’s fire-fighting mechanism when it landed.”

The cause of fire is being investigated.

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Jeremy Gutsche was on his way from London to Singapore on November 12 when he decided to use in-flight Wi-Fi to check emails.

“So what does it take to rack up $1200 of internet use? In my case, just 155 page views, mostly to my email… At one point, I spent about an hour uploading one 4mb powerpoint doc. That doc probably cost me $100 to upload, so I hope my team liked it. I actually even emailed them a warning that my upload was taking a while. That email probably cost me $10. And yes, the pricing per mb was disclosed on sign-up, but I bought the $30 package, slept through most the flight, and really didn’t think I’d end up a thousand bucks past the limit,” he wrote on Trend Hunter.

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The incident happened at about 9:20am on May 21 when the flight SQ998, carrying 265 people was making a landing attempt during heavy rain in Yangon. None of the passengers or crew members were hurt.

The plane was later steered back and towed to the gate. The airline sent another plane to Yangon for the return flight.

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Four hundred sixty seven passengers were aboard the flight, and twenty-seven crew, none of whom were injured. Passengers were provided hotel accommodations pending a replacement aircraft from Singapore.

A faulty door seal was reported to be the cause of the incident. The sound of the leaking air was audible and the flow of air was cold, an beyond the plane’s ability to manage. A replacement door was fitted before the plane flew out. Airbus is participating in the investigation by sending a team to Baku.

Singapore airlines operates 19 A380’s.

A photo tweeted by passenger Steve Murphy showed the oxygen masks deployed during the flight, after it began losing cabin pressure on January 6, 2013.

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In spite of the cargo fire suppression system, there was a burning smell and a fire.

The plane made a safe landing in Bangkok. The plane taxied to the gate, and passengers disembarked and were provided hotel accommodations, meals and transferred to another airline.

An investigation is underway.

Singapore Airlines’ spokesman, Nicholas Ionides said that “Flight SQ446 operating between Singapore and Dhaka diverted to Bangkok as a result of indications of smoke from the aircraft’s rear cargo hold.”

When Thai authorities clear the Airbus, it will be flown back to Singapore.

But still, it is one of my least favorite things to read (especially while I’m halfway to Singapore) that there has been yet another cargo fire at all, regardless of what kind of plane it is on.

At least I had time to jot down some thoughts.

I hope that the media shines as bright a light on this airbus cargo fire as it has recently on the Dreamliner battery situation. Sure, the Dreamliner is developing new technology and Boeing is responsible for going the distance to keep new developments safe. The Dreamliner battery issue is new. But the fact that Boeing is developing new technologies and new solutions does not provide Airbus and an established plane like a A330-300 a free ticket when it comes to combustion.

Hopefully Airbus is paying attention to all problems and not getting too cocky. It should remember and respect that a plane is still an air-filled bubble hundreds of feet in the air. Until people develop their own wings, random combustion situations like cargo fires on an Airbus A330 are just as potentially hazardous situation–if not more so–than any battery incident that actually occurred on the ground.

Let us please see a fix for this problem.

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The cracks occurred on the wing ribs of their Airbus A380s. Qantas discovered the problem while repairing a Royce Trent 900 engines blowout in 2010.

Airbus says they know the origin and have developed an inspection and repair procedure for scheduled four-year maintenance checks.

The problem has been found on at least five planes.

The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association says Airbus A380s should be grounded, that flying with them is gambling with people’s lives, that it is risky to wait for a 4 year maintenance check. Airbus counters that the cracks are “on non-critical wing attachments” and pose no threat.

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What: Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter en route from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, to Singapore
Where: Singapore
When: Dec 2nd 2011
Why: The freighter flight was landing on runway two, but drove off the runway.

The excursion caused the runway closure for more than an hour, although the plane did not require towing. There were no injuries.

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What: Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-312ER en route from Manchester to München-Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Germany
Where: Germany
When: Nov 3, 2011 at 12:14
Who: 158 passengers
Why: Although there were problems presented to ATC in advance, on landing in Munich, the Singapore Airlines Boeing suffered a runway excursion, when it veered right on landing. Landing occurred with reduced visibility and low cloud cover. All three gear were off the runway when the plane stopped. Passengers evacuated with no injuries via stairs brought to the jet.

The three year old jet has General Electric GE90 engines and appears to have suffered no obvious damage.

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