Virgin Atlantic flight VS-3 made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport, England, on January 17th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane took off for John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, but had to turn back due to an oil quantity indication for one of the engines.
The plane landed back safely. All two hundred and forty-five passengers aboard remained safe.
Royal Brunei Airlines flight BI-3 made an emergency landing in Vienna, Austria, on November 7th.
The Boeing 787-800 plane heading from Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, to Heathrow Airport, England, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines due to an oil leak.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Singapore Airlines flight SQ-37 had to return and make an emergency landing in Los Angeles, California, on November 3rd.
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.
Lufthansa flight LH-401 made an emergency landing in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 26th.
The Airbus A380-800 plane heading from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted due to oil fumes on board.
The plane landed safely. Several passengers and crew members needed medical attention after landing.
Oman Air flight WY-116 had to make an emergency landing in Munich, Germany, on October 17th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane heading from Frankfurt, Germany, to Muscat, Oman, was diverted after the crew received a low engine oil quantity indication.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
TAROM flight RO-363 returned to Henri Coanda International Airport, Romania, on October 3rd.
The Boeing 737-300 plane took off for Amsterdam, Netherlands, but had to turn back due to a suspected oil leak.
The plane back landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Air Canada flight AC-1 made an emergency landing in Tokyo, Japan, on August 24th.
The Boeing 777-300 plane was flying from Toronto, Canada, when the crew noticed an engine oil leak and declared an emergency.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All three hundred and sixty-five passengers and fifteen crew members remained unharmed.
Myanmar National Airlines flight UB-313 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Dawei, Myanmar, on April 14th.
The plane heading from Yangon to Myeik, Myanmar, was diverted after the crew noticed an engine oil leak.
The plane landed safely. All sixty-nine passengers aboard remained unharmed.
Virgin Atlantic flight VS-3 made an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, on January 12th.
The Airbus A340-600 plane flying from Heathrow Airport, England, was descending toward New York when the crew reported an engine oil leak and declared an emergency.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Lufthansa flight LH-440 had to return and make an emergency landing in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 1st,
The Airbus A380-800 plane took off for Houston, Texas, but had to turn back after the crew noticed loss of engine oil.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Virgin Atlantic flight VS-7 made an emergency landing in Los Angeles, California, on July 30th.
The Boeing 787-900 plane was flying from Heathrow Airport, England, when the crew needed to shut down one of the engines due to an engine oil leak.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Norwegian Air Shuttle flight DY-7064 had to return and make an emergency landing at Oakland International Airport, Alameda County, California, on July 22nd.
The Boeing 787-800 en-route to Oslo, Norway, had to return due to engine oil leakage.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
LOT Polish Airlines flight LO-4 had to return and make an emergency landing at O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, on May 10th.
The Boeing 787-800 flying yo Warsaw, Poland, had to return due to engine oil leakage.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Thai Airways flight TG-473 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Denpasar, Indonesia, on October 10th.
The Boeing 787-800 plane heading from Bangkok, Thailand, to Brisbane, Australia, was diverted after the crew received indication of oil leakage from the right hand engine.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 264 people aboard remained safe.
KLM flight KL-723 returned and made a safe emergency landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on June 6th.
The Airbus A330-300, en-route to Havana, Cuba, was mid-air when the crew reported an abnormal decrease in its oil quantity.
The plane diverted to Ireland but then continued for Amsterdam, and landed successfully.
All people onboard remained unharmed.
The passengers were accommodated in a replacement plane.
Air France flight AF-990 made an emergency landing at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, on May 28th.
The Airbus A380-800 plane, en-route to Johannesburg, South Africa, had to turn back after the crew reported a possible engine oil leak.
The plane landed safely. No injuries were reported.
UPS flight 5X-63 made a safe emergency landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska, on May 16th.
The Boeing 747-400, flying from Hong Kong, China, was flying above the Pacific Ocean when the crew notice a slow oil leakage from one of its engines. The crew had to shut the engine down before landing.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
A helicopter made an emergency landing in a parking lot in Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on October 14.
The aircraft was heading from O’Hare International Airport to Peoria, Illinois, when the pilot noticed oil leak and decided to land in parking lot of a Menard’s.
The helicopter landed safely. The pilot, who was the only one aboard, remained unhurt.
The aircraft is registered to Rotor Holdings LLC, of Hampton, New Hampshire.
Germanwings Flight 4U 814 had to divert and make an unscheduled landing at Stuttgart Airport, Germany, on April 4.
The airline said the Airbus A319, en-route from Cologne, Germany, to Venice, Italy, had to be diverted after the pilot reported suspected oil leakage and shut down one of the engines. “This is a standard safety procedure. It was not an emergency landing,” the statement said.
The plane landed safely and all 123 passengers and 5 crew members remained safe.
The aircraft was taken for inspection while an alternate plane was arranged for the passengers.
Air India flight 126 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Toronto Pearson Airport, Canada, at around 0700 hours IST on September 7.
The Chicago-Delhi-Hyderabad flight was diverted after the pilot suspected oil leakage in one of the 2 engines of the Boeing 777 ER aircraft.
The plane landed safely after shedding extra fuel and none of the 342 passengers aboard was hurt.
Ground engineers at Toronto Pearson Airport were inspecting the aircraft for determining source of leakage.
An Aerolineas Estelar flight, on its way from Cuba to Venezuela, had to make an emergency landing at the Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, Jamaica, in the afternoon of September 6.
According to the authorities, the reason of emergency landing was an oil leak in the aircraft.
The plane landed uneventfully and no one was hurt.
Director General of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority, Leroy Lindsay said the aircraft will remain in Jamaica until the cause of the leak is determined. “They’ll be doing their investigations into what may have caused this oil leak and when they discover it, they will have to fix it and make sure it’s working before it is released. Our people from the flight safety division of the JCAA will have to be convinced that the aircraft is in air worthiness condition to depart,” he said.
The passengers were booked in alternate flights to Venezuela.
On Oct 23, an American Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) to Miami reported a fire in the cockpit, a smoking engine and a loss of fuel. With smoke in the cockpit, and a hot engine, pilots made a safe landing when they diverted to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
None of the 169 passengers and 6 crew reported injury.
Some sources reported “There was no fire anywhere” but other sources say there was an engine fire. American Airlines sent a replacement flight which made it to Miami Tuesday.
On July 9, 2013 at 9 a.m., a Southwest Airlines flight en route from Baltimore’s BWI Marshall Airport to Las Vegas with 174 passengers, and 6 crew aboard developed engine trouble. The right engine developed a leak.
Pilots diverted to Kansas City International Airport where they made a safe landing.
Good job pilots. Safe landing. No injuries.
I’ve said it before and likely will say it again. Maintenance, Maintenance, Maintenance.
Commercial planes are up and down all day long. It’s constant.
Problems with these planes are just a matter of time. There must be absolute iron-clad maintenance and inspection that is equally as aggressive as the operator that wants their entire fleet in the air all the time.
You know the old adage:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Think of how easily this applies to a plane.
For want of a maintenance check a washer was lost
For want of a washer the oil was lost.
For want of the oil, an engine was lost.
For want of an engine, the pilot was lost.
For want of the pilot, the plane was lost.
For want of the plane, the passengers were lost.
And all for want of a maintenance check.
So…I wasn’t really expecting to say it again so soon:
Maintenance, Maintenance, Maintenance.
On Sunday, pilot, John Klatt was performing at the QC Airshow at the Davenport Municipal Airport in Davenport, Iowa on the Air Guard demonstration team when he had to make an emergency landing.
A piece broken off of the plane punctured his engine, spraying oil over his windshield. He jettisoned the canopy. Klatt told spectators that he had cut himself worse while shaving.
Here’s a case that did not rush to court.
Six passengers of the October 2011 crash listed below have filed suit against Northern Thunderbird Air. The pilot and co-pilot, Luc Fortin and Matt Robic died shortly after the crash. Seven passengers were rescued six of whom are listed in the suit. Prior to takeoff, passengers informed the crew they saw oil under the wing. After takeoff, the pilot told the passengers he would be returning because oil was pouring from the wing.
The helicopter hit a lamp post, a car and smashed up on the road. An additional part of the suit is that the plane lacked an electrical cutoff switch to reduce fire threat.
NTSB Report:
On October 27, 2011, about 1600 pacific daylight time, a Beechcraft King Air 100, C-GXRX, operated by Northern Thunderbird Air, Inc. collided with terrain while attempting to land at the Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight rules flight plan was in effect. The airplane sustained substantial damage, and a postcrash fire ensued. The pilot was killed. The copilot, seven passengers, and two people on the ground were seriously injured. The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Canadian government.
