United Airlines flight UA-710 had to make an emergency landing in Denver, Colorado, on February 20th.
The plane was flying from San Francisco, California, when the crew reported an issue with the flaps and requested an emergency landing.
The plane landed safely. No injuries were reported.
ExpressJet flight EV-4121/UA-4121 had to make an emergency landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia, Canada, on January 19.
The Embraer ERJ-145, en-route from Newark, New Jersey, had to be landed in emergency due to flaps failure.
The plane landed safely.
Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
Austrian Airlines flight LX-1193 had to make an emergency landing in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 17.
The plane was flying from Nuremberg, Germany, when the pilots noticed stuck flaps and declared an emergency.
The plane landed safely. No injuries were reported.
Air Berlin flight AB-7346 had to return and make an emergency landing at Munich Airport, Munich, Germany, on December 31.
The Airbus A330-200, flying towards Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, had to return due to some issue with its flaps.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
WestJet flight WS-211 made a safe landing at Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on December 3.
The Boeing 737-800 was en-route from Calgary, Alberta, when the crew noticed some problems with its flaps.
The plane landed safely.
All 121 passengers onboard remained unhurt.
Flybe flight BE-403 made a safe landing at Birmingham Airport, England, on December 1.
The de Havilland Dash 8-400, en-route from Belfast, Northern Ireland, when the crew noticed some problems with its flaps.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
American Airlines flight AA-2472 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, on November 16.
The Boeing, en-route from San Diego, California, to Dallas, Texas, had to divert due to a problem with its flaps.
The plane landed safely.
All 182 passengers and 6 crew members remained unhurt.
Safair flight FA-244 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa, on November 14.
The Boeing 737-400, heading to George, South Africa, to Johannesburg, had to divert due to an issue with its flaps.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
Jetblue flight B6-2020 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 18.
The Embraer ERJ-190, travelling from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Worcester, Massachusetts, was diverted after the crew reported a flaps problem.
The plane landed uneventfully.
All 90 people aboard remained unhurt.
Aer Lingus flight 110 had to return and make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, on September 28.
The Boeing 757 that took off for Shannon airport, Ireland, was diverted after the pilot reported landing gear door problems, hydraulic failure, and no flaps.
Fire was sparked in the left rear brakes as the plane touched the runway. Emergency responders immediately extinguished the fire and all 104 passengers were transported back to the terminal safely.
Thomson Airways flight TOM6555 had to make an emergency landing at Cardiff Airport, United Kingdom, on September 19.
The plane was preparing to land at the airport when its landing flaps failed, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency. The flight was en-route from Tenerife, Spain at the time.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were around 200 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
An airline spokesperson said, “The safety of our customers and crew is of paramount importance and we would like to reassure customers that this type of situation is extremely rare.”
American Airlines flight AA-2271 made an emergency landing at Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, on the afternoon of July 6.
The Boeing 737-800, heading towards West Palm Beach in Florida, from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, had to be diverted due to a problem with one of its flaps.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 141 people aboard remained safe.
US Airways flight 723 had to return and make an emergency landing at Dublin Airport, Ireland, on February 26.
The plane took off for Philadelphia at 11:15 a.m. but had to return shortly afterwards due to an issue with its flaps.
The Boeing 757 landed back uneventfully.
There were 132 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
Southwest Airlines flight 1429 en route from Sacramento to Bob Hope Airport, Burbank, made an unscheduled landing at Los Angeles International Airport in the afternoon of October 5.
The pilot of the Boeing 737 decided to divert after he noticed a warning light indicating a potential issue with the aircraft’s flaps. The airline later released a statement saying that the decision to land at LAX was made “out of an abundance of caution.”
The flight landed safely and all 123 passengers onboard were transported to Burbank with a delay of few hours from the schedule. The pilot informed that the situation did not require any emergency protocols, therefore, no emergency vehicles were called on the scene at the time of landing.
A Southwest spokesperson confirmed that aircraft is being examined by the mechanics.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1704 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport on September 20.
The plane, en-route from Sacramento to Bob Hope Airport, Burbank, was diverted after its flaps malfunctioned during the flight.
The plane landed safely and no one was injured.
The airline said the plane “has been taken out of service for inspection and repairs”.
A Delta Airlines Boeing 747 en route from Tel Aviv to New York with 370 passengers and 17 crew could not retract the flaps on takeoff.
The plane went into a holding pattern, dumped fuel and returned to land in Tel Aviv at 2:00 a.m. after circling for two hours.
US Airways flight 4090 made a safe emergency landing at Portland Jetport, Maine, on the night of June 27.
The incident happened when the plane was heading to Portland from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with 54 people aboard.
According to the Portland Fire Department spokesman Tim Nangle, the pilot of the CRJ 200 aircraft radioed the Portland tower at 8:35 p.m., and communicated that the flaps of the aircraft were not working properly.
The plane landed without incident and after inspection was later declared safe to make a return flight to Philadelphia.
I know I’ve said before how cases take a long time. Sometimes they drag on in unexpected ways. Take for example the LAPA case. On August 31 1999 Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas scheduled Flight 3142 (LV-WRZ) to fly Buenos Aires–Córdoba with a hundred and one persons aboard. The twenty-nine year old Boeing 737-204C failed to get in the air because the flight crew forgot to put the flaps in the appropriate position for flight. Instead of shooting into the air, the plane sped through the perimeter fence, across a street, struck a car and collided with a median and machinery on the road.
The accident took sixty-five lives, two of them not even on the plane. Forty aboard were injured, seventeen of them seriously. NTSB records say there were 80 fatalities and 21 minor injuries.
That’s what is widely known. What many do not know is that after the accident, nine families were given the wrong bodies. Those bodies were exhumed, checked, delivered to the correct families, and reburied at the cost of Argentina’s First Chamber of the House. The financial cost associated with all of this was covered. Not the emotional cost.
Three of those families affected will be compensated 100 thousand dollars plus interest.
In my heart of hearts, I do believe no amount of money can ever compensate for the wear and tear on the families due to the mix-up, even if at the time, the hasty mistake was well-meaning (or expedited due to politics.) Can you imagine what the families went through, seeing the resting places disturbed, then having to endure new funerals? It must have been like losing them more than once—refreshing the whole misery of loss a multiple of times. I cannot help but wonder about the families who were not compensated. I wonder if it has been so long that there is no one left to pay.
This can be of no assurance to the families of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. It is further proof that aviation crash cases do take a long time. Tragedy is tragedy. There is no best case scenario in a tragedy.
A mechanical fault in a CRJ-200 aircraft, forced it to make emergency landing at Montgomery Regional Airport.
According to the airport spokesperson, the Delta flight connecting through Express Jet was carrying 47 passengers and was travelling from Atlanta to Montgomery. He further said that some mechanical issue was detected in one of the flaps and hence it was decided to request an emergency landing at Montgomery Regional Airport.
The plane landed at around 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014. All passengers and crew members exited safely.
Delta flight 5104 carrying 47 people from Atlanta to Allentown made an emergency landing at Lehigh Valley International Airport after the Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200 developed problems with its flaps.
Lehigh Valley International Airport is a regular stop on 5106.
Air traffic control was notified at 6:35 p.m. and within twenty minutes the flight had made a fast landing without flaps—a fast landing because flaps help the plane slow down.
No injuries were reported.
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A Transaero Airlines Boeing en route from Khaborovsk to Moscow with 234 passengers and 13 crew was en route when it developed problems with its flaps.
Pilots diverted to Khabarovsk where they made a safe landing with emergency services on standby.
On July 23, 2013, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 en route from Kansas City to Indianapolis developed a problem with the flaps.
Pilots diverted back to Kansas City and made an emergency landing. (See flight path below)
None of the 54 aboard suffered injury.
The flight eventually took off and arrived in Indianapolis at 1 a.m. with no indication if this was the same or a different jet.
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On Feb 16, 2013, a Scandinavian Airlines System Boeing 737-883 was en route from Las Palmas to Bergen – Norway when the flight developed problems with the flaps.
Pilots diverted to Stavanger airport where SAS has mechanics. Ten minutes before landing, passengers were told to keep their heads down.
Pilots successfully made a fast landing at high speed with no flaps, and though none of the 108 passengers was injured, plenty of them were nervous after ten minutes with their heads down. Then the captain came out and explained what had happened.
Four buses took passengers to Bergen by bus, but some opted to stay in hotels and fly the rest of the way.
What: Nordwind Airlines Boeing 767 en route from Krasnoyarsk to Phuket
Where: Krasnoyarsk Airport
When: Dec 9 2012
Who: 279 passengers
Why: While en route, the Boeing flight from Krasnoyarsk to Phuket developed flaps problem. After an alarm indicated the problem, the pilot returned to Krasnoyarsk and made a safe landing at 15:35. The plane was examined, and passengers were “sent to the Phucket reserve board.” (We take this to mean they were pointed to alternative flights to their destination.)
There were no reported injuries. The incident is under investigation by the Yenisei transport office.
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What: Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340-200 en route from Madrid to Buenos Aires
Where: Madrid
When: Nov 5th 2012
Why: On takeoff, the flight developed problems with the flaps.
Pilots had to dump fuel, and return to the airport where they made a safe landing an hour and a half later.
In Ezeiza due to a trade union dispute, 38 flights were cancelled, nearly half of which were Aerolíneas flights.
