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    Southwest Airlines Diverts due to Flaps Flops

    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.

    * Flight Path:

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    Southwest Airlines Boeing Nosegear Collapses in NY


    On July 22, 2013, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 en route from Nashville,TN to La Guardia was making a landing when the nose gear collapsed.

    Five passengers and 3 crew were injured on the slides and hospitalized.

    There were 144 passengers and 6 crew aboard.

    A passenger described landing as “a bang and a bounce and then just a slam on the brakes and then it was a skidding”

    The airline confirmed a nose gear collapse, 5 passengers and 3 cabin crew reported injuries and were taken care of by local responders.

    Video Below

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    Indigo Flight Loses Baby


    An IndiGo flight covering the 1329 miles from Mumbai to Chennai had 150 passengers aboard when one of them, an infant, suffered a medical episode.

    The seven month old was flying to Chennai for medical treatment for three holes in his heart, but an hour into the flight, suffered distress.

    Efforts to sustain the baby were made, including defibrillation and CPR.

    Pilots returned to Mumbai and made a safe landing, but on return to Mumbai, the infant was declared dead by a doctor on the ground.

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    Replica Vintage Crash in Trier-Fonren


    A privately operated Murphy Renegade Spirit, a single engine biplane, was en route from Trier-Fonren Airport Rhineland when it crashed, seriously injuring the pilot.

    The pilot apparently had difficulty in the air and attempted to return to the airport. He made a precautionary landing en route back to the airport.

    A Luxembourg Air Rescue medevac helicopter flew him to a hospital.

    The plane was written off as a total loss.

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    Japan Airlines Flight Returns to Boston


    A Japan Airlines 787 was en route from Boston to Tokyo when a maintenance indicator flashed early in the flight.

    Pilots returned to Boston where they made a safe landing at 6:15 p.m. The problem is being reported as a maintenance issue.

    Flightradar24 website shows that Japan Airlines flight 7 was over Hudson Bay in Canada when it turned around.

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    Apuí Taxi Aéreo Beechcraft Crashes on Takeoff

    On July 16, 2013 around 6:20 a.m, an Apuí Taxi Aéreo Beechcraft 58 Baron with six aboard scheduled from Manaus-Eduardo Gomes International Airport to Apui crashed in Brazil. Five passengers and a pilot were on board.

    Seconds after takeoff, the plane lost power and crashed.

    The plane caught fire by Terminal 2. Three victims (two men and a woman) are hospitalized with burns in Hospital 28 Julio Hospital in Manaus in the South Central Zone of Manaus.

    Aurélio Simonetti, 68 and two others died in the crash. Adonay Campos, Edson Oliveira Parron, 36, and Vanessa Guedes were injured.

    INFRAERO Fire brigade teams responded to the scene. The Regional Service Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents is investigating

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    Rans Crash in Leicestershire

    On July 14, 2013, a privately owned Rans S-6 en route from an airfield near Tywcross Zoo to Stoke Golding airfield crashed in Fenn Lane, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire with two aboard.

    The Rans plane crashed in a field in Leicestershire. Witnesses heard a bang from the aircraft, the engine quit. The plane glided along, banked right and left, then crashed.

    The plane was located at Fenny Drayton at about 18:45 BST on Sunday. The man and woman aboard were confirmed dead at the scene, found by emergency responders.

    The Air Accident Investigations Branch is investigating.

    The fatalities were informally identified as Bob and Olive.

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    Utair Boeing Skids off Runway


    On July 15, 2013, a UTair Boeing 737-524 en route from Moscow to Kiev ran off the runway on landing. It was misting at the time, leading to a slippery runway but was described as coming to a quick stop at 30-40 meters on level ground.

    Firefighters took five minutes to arrive and ambulances five minutes after that but there was no fire and no injury reported.

    None of the 77 passengers or crew sustained any injury. Passengers disembarked evacuated from the plane with fixed ladders rather than inflatable emergency ladders on to the soft ground, and were transported to the gate.

    Raw Video

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    Alaska Airlines Flight Diverted


    On July 12, 2013, an Alaska Airlines BOEING 738 on flight 769 developed an odor in the cabin.

    Pilots diverted to Chicago where they made a safe landing.

    Three flight attendants were affected.

    The flight made a safe landing with no additional injuries. The incident is under investigation.

    * http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA769/history/20130712/2255Z/KBOS/KSAN

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    Thomson Airways Boeing Diverts to Heathrow

    A Thomson Airways Boeing 787-800 en route from Manchester to Orlando on July 12 was enroute when technical problems–an electronic issue– developed.

    Pilots diverted back to Manchester, circling Wales where they dumped fuel prior to securing a safe landing with emergency services on standby. Passengers were provided an alternative flight. A dedicated team of engineers inspected # G-TUIC.

    The problem was reported to be a flushing issue.

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    Emergency landing in McAllen

    A United Airlines/SkyWest Flight 5229 Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200 ( Brownsville-Houston flight diverted to McAllen on July 12, 2013 when the pilots discovered pressurization problems.

    Pilots received a cabin door indicator light in the flight deck.

    Passengers disembarked without any problems.

    None of the 43 aboard suffered injury.

    Video Interview of Passengers


    Flight Aware Flight Path

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    Ethiopian Airlines Fire at Heathrow


    photographer Josh May

    An Ethiopian Airlines’ Queen of Sheba, a Boeing 787 #ET-AOP which had been sitting empty for eight hours caught fire and shut down Heathrow Airport for an hour Friday. The fire seems to have started in the upper fuselage, far from the 787’s lithium-ion batteries. A battery fire would have been “contained by the new casing and…smoke would have been vented outside of the airplane.” Nearly a dozen fire trucks responded to the scene. The plane was parked on the apron taxiway E at Stand 592 next to a fire station.

    #ET-AOP had arrived from Addis Ababa as flight ET700 at 06:30a.m. Departure was scheduled as ET701 to Addis Ababa at 21:10.

    In photos, damage appears on the outside top of the upper fuselage near the vertical stabilizer, on the left side of the top of the airplane just in front of the tail. The fire was not caused by lithium-ion batteries, which are in in the cargo-bay.

    Potential causes of the fire:

    • a gadget such as the coffeemaker
    • a manufacturing or installation defect in his jet;
    • a different systemic defect in the 787 model

    NTSB Sends Investigator to Participate in Investigation of London Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fire

    The National Transportation Safety Board has sent an investigator to assist in the investigation of a fire that occurred yesterday aboard a parked Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow Airport, London, England.
    NTSB Senior Air Safety Investigator Lorenda Ward has been appointed as the traveling U.S. accredited representative. Ms. Ward will be accompanied by NTSB airplane systems investigators and representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
    The investigation is being conducted by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the United Kingdom, which will release all information.

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    Peru training crash


    A Peruvian National Police Bell UH-1H with three aboard was en route from Tangier Island airport 8:05 p.m. when it crashed over an area of coca cultivation during night training.

    The wreckage was located near Tingo Maria Peru on La Moyuna Mountain.

    Base control indicated that before communication broke off at 8:00 pm, the helicopter was in distress.

    The helicopter worked the area of ??Leoncio Prado and Alto Huallaga (Tingo María) under drug control in cooperation with the United States.

    The three crew, two officers and a sergeant of the Peruvian police members were retrieved and taken to the air base in Tingo Maria. Search teams located the helicopter five minutes from a local police base.

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    Southwest Airlines Emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport

    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.

    In George’s Point of View

    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.

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    Asiana Interviews

    Some stories of the Asiana Crash in San Francisco

    Currently there are 51 hospitalized, 8 in critical condition, one child. Five fire attendants are being treated for burns.

    Federal investigators talked to the pilots why they shut down the autopilot 82 seconds before landing. This was the first time the pilot had landed a 777 at this airport. When the fire started in the middle of the plane, there were passengers still in the back that had to walk through the smoke to exit, passing people trapped in their seats. Flight attendants heroically got passengers out of the plane, and tried to put out the fire.

    One passenger Eugene Ra describes the instants before the crash, looking out the window knowing they were too low. THe plane’s impact was powerful enough that it snapped the plane, and the spines of at least two of the passengers. The cabin filled with smoke and fear. After the plane stopped, there was silence.

    The plane flew in too low and too slow, initiating a stick shaker (stall) warning, and struck the sea wall, severing art of the tail.

    Plane Crash San Francisco Asiana Airlines Crash Survivor Interview

    * A cautionary note: The official investigation of the cause of the crash will take a year or more. No matter what news releases or speculations come about before the official investigation is just speculation. We do not know, for example, if some part or software in the plane malfunctioned, leading the pilots to respond as they did.

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    Two survive ROBINSON Crash in Utah

    On July 8, 2013 on 8:30 a.m, a 28-year-old pilot and his 24-year-old student were performing a training exercise in a ROBINSON R22 #N712U when it crashed and rolled downhill in the Tibble Fork Reservoir area of the American Fork Canyon.

    Both the pilot and student exited the plane on their own feet after just missing slamming into the mountain.

    The emergency response team responded to the pilot’s 911 call, searched the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and found the wreckage in under an hour after hiking half a mile uphill.

    The pilot told 911 that the helicopter was knocked from the sky by a gust of wind.

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    Lufthansa Emergency Landing


    Photographer Frederico Cavalcante

    A Lufthansa Airbus A321-131 #D-AIRE en route from Barcelona to Frankfurt Airport had taken off when the left engine developed problems.

    The flight returned make a safe landing in Barcelona.

    The problem may have been a bird strike.

    Emergency services were on standby as the plane landed. An alternative flight was arranged. None of the 200 aboard were injured.

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    Float Plane Down with Three Aboard in Georgian Bay


    On July 4, a North-Way Chrysler Motors Ltd. Cessna 182 Skylane with three aboard was near Griffith Island in Georgian bay and flipped as the pilot was trying to land at an island airstrip but came to rest 220 meters short of the runway. All three aboard succumbed to fatal injuries.

    The float plane crash occurred off the south end of the Griffith Island. The fatalities were family members 45, 52 and 72.

    A Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre out of Trenton, On circled the downed plane. Three ambulances were on standby at Big Bay dock.

    When assistance arrived, the plane was upside down and partially submerged. The Grey County OPP, Bruce Peninsula OPP and Cape Croker police marine units attended, along with Grey and Bruce County paramedics, Inter Township firefighters, Owen Sound firefighters and the Ministry of Natural Resources were dispatched to the scene. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s air division arrived Friday.

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    Turkish Airlines Bird Strike

    A Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Athens Boeing 737-800 made an emergency landing on July 5 after a bid strike.

    After takeoff from Ataturk International Airport at 7:40, the plane hit a flock of birds.

    The pilot returned to the airport and made a safe landing with damaged engine baffles.

    Passengers disembarked and were provided an alternative flight.

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    273 Korean Air Passengers Wait in Plane when Diverted to Russia

    July 2, 2013, a Korean Air Boeing 777 with 273 passengers aboard was en route from Chicago to Seoul when it had a drop in pressure as jet fuel was being pumped into the engine. The left engine broke down. After the malfunction, the pilots dumped fuel and diverted to Anadyr airport in Russia, where they made an emergency landing.

    Passengers had to wait inside the plane until the replacement jet arrived, so that with ten hours on the ground made a 13 hour flight almost 24 hours long for passengers.

    The malfunctioning jet was grounded in Russia pending inspection.

    In George’s Point of View

    I’d like to consider two additional points for those passengers stuck on their plane:

    As Anadyr airport is not one we have visited, we wonder if there is no Customs facility at Anadyr airport for individuals without visas to get some relief from the plane, which had to be exceedingly uncomfortable. Certainly there must be some humane way to abide by international law.

    This excessive time stretches some IATA standards of passenger accommodation from both airline and airport. The question isn’t whether passengers are entitled to some kind of compensation for their time and trouble, but rather how the airline and airport are going to recompense the passengers.

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    Shree Airlines Diversion

    After encountering low visibility in Kushma Bazaar, a Shree Airlines helicopter en route from Dolpa to Pokhara made an emergency landing at around 10:00 am when it diverted to the Chandika Armed Police Battalion in Kushma Bazaar.

    Shree Airlines wants to emphasize that a diversion during rainy season is not an emergency.

    General Manager of the Airlines Anil Manandha said that “…such landing during rainy season is normal. This is not an emergency landing.”

    The chopper had intended to refuel in Pokhara.

    The helicopter landed in Kathmandu at 1:00 p.m.

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    Disruptive and Unruly

    The disruptive passenger of Monday ( US Airways flight from Vegas to Charlotte) repeats “disruptive and unruly” behavior Tuesday on Albuquerque to Chicago.

    The Chicago flight had to divert to Kansas City to unload Mr. “disruptive and unruly” after he tried to exit the plane when it was still flying.

    Around 11:30, Kansas City airport police escorted the passenger from the flight after he had been aggressive, shouting, and refusing to stay seated.

    The American Eagle Flight 3172 continued to land safely at O’Hare.

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    More about the Helicopter Crash in Yakutia


    photographer Ivandalavia

    Currently, there are five reported survivors: the flight crew of three, and a woman with a child.

    The flight manifest lists 28 aboard, including 9 children plus 2 infants.

    A dense fog and heavy rains hampered search crews that included Mi-8 helicopters, an AN-26 plane and an An-74.

    Deputy of parliament of Yakutia Alexander Morozkin and the head of Republican investment company Victor Yefimov may be aboard. The pilot’s name is Mikhail Nikolaevich. The extent of his injuries have not been released.

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