Tunisair flight TU-668 made an emergency landing in Djerba, Tunisia, on January 12th.
The Boeing 737-600 plane took off for Brussels, Belgium, but had to turn back due to failure of the weather radar.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Scoot flight TR-24 had to return and make an emergency landing in Singapore, on January 8th.
The plane took off for Melbourne, Australia, but had to turn back due to an issue with the weather radar.
The plane landed back safely. All two hundred and sixty-eight people aboard remained unharmed.
Air Malta flight KM-186 had to return and make an emergency landing in Malta, on June 6th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Cagliari, Italy, but had to turn back due to an issue with the weather radar.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
JetBlue flight B6-517 had to return and make an emergency landing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 13th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Mexico City, Mexico, but had to turn back due to the failure of weather radar.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Qeshm Air flight QB-1227 had to return and make an emergency landing in Bandar Abbas, Iran, on May 12th.
The plane took off for Dasht-e Naz Airport, Iran, but had to turn back due to the failure of weather radar.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Swiss International Air Lines flight LX-289 made an emergency landing in Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 1st.
The Airbus A340-300 plane took off for Zurich, Switzerland, but had to turn back due to issues with the weather radar.
The plane landed safely. There were two hundred and nineteen passengers aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
Qantas flight QF-76 made an emergency landing in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 31st.
The Boeing 747-400 plane heading from Vancouver, Canada, to Sydney, Australia, was diverted due to failure of a weather radar.
The plane landed safely. All three hundred and eighty-four people aboard remained unharmed.
Qantas flight QF-16 had to return and make an emergency landing in Los Angeles, California, on December 27th.
The Boeing 747-400 plane took off for Brisbane, Australia, but had to turn back due to failure of a weather radar.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Hawaiian Airlines flight HA-43 had to return and make an emergency landing in San Jose, California, on December 19th.
The Boeing 767-300 plane took off for Honolulu, Hawaii, but had to turn back due to failure of weather radar.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia flight DK-2562 had to return and make an emergency landing in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 13th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane took off for Phuket City, Thailand, but had to turn back after the crew noticed issues with the weather radar.
The plane landed safely. All three hundred and ninety-nine passengers aboard remained unharmed.
Asiana Airlines flight OZ-271 had to return and make an emergency landing in Seattle, Washington, on October 29th.
The Boeing 777-200 plane took off for Seoul, South Korea, but had to return due to an issue with the weather radar.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Brussels Airlines flight SN-357 made an emergency landing in Brussels, Belgium, on June 12th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane took off for Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, but had to turn back due to issues with the weather radar.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Air France flight AF-443 had to return and make an emergency landing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 14th.
The Boeing 777-300 plane took off for Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, but had to turn back after the crew reported issues with the weather radar.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
Airlinair flight A5-4078 had to return and make an emergency landing at Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, France, on June 24th.
The Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A, en-route to Pau, France, had to return due to a malfunction of its weather radar.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
British Airways flight BA-277 had to return and make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom, on June 12th.
The plane took off for Hyderabad, India, but had to return shortly afterwards due to an issue with weather radar.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
Air Busan plane had to divert and make an emergency landing at Jeju International Airport, Jeju, South Korea, on April 2nd.
The Airbus A321-200, en-route from Busan, South Korea to Cambodia, was mid air when the crew detected some problem with the weather radar, prompting the plane to divert.
The plane landed uneventfully.
All 180 passengers onboard remained unharmed.
Funded from NASA’s Applied Sciences Program, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and several partners developed an 8-hour convective weather forecast based on fuzzy logic and cloud top and moisture level input from the two Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) that cover a large portion of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Storms and turbulence, are noted in deep magenta (closest to the value of 1.0). Visitors to the site can then click on any of the eight hourly forecasts that follow, or play all of the pictures together in movie mode.
The NCAR beta site is live here:
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/projects/ocn/realtime_sys/global_extrap/
Sandy:
Thousands of flights cancelled due to Tropical Storm Sandy
National Weather Service
..HURRICANE FORCE WINDS GUSTS REPORTED OVER LONG ISLAND AND THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREAS…
Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
000
ABNT20 KNHC 292329
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT MON OCT 29 2012
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC…CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO…
POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SANDY IS ABOUT TO MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE
SOUTH NEW JERSEY COAST. AT 1100 PM EDT…THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER WILL ISSUE ITS LAST ADVISORY ON SANDY. THE
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER…HPC…WILL BEGIN ISSUING
PUBLIC ADVISORIES ON SANDY AT 500 AM EDT TUESDAY. HPC PUBLIC
ADVISORIES WILL BE ISSUED UNDER THE SAME WMO AND AWIPS HEADERS AS
THE NHC PUBLIC ADVISORIES…AND WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE VIA THE NHC
WEBSITE.
9:00 PM EDT Mon Oct 29
Location: 39.6°N 74.6°W
Moving: WNW at 21 mph
Min pressure: 947 mb
Max sustained: 80 mph
AVSEC World 2012 Postponed
Due to Hurricane Sandy and impending severe weather that has the potential to inflict enormous and unprecedented damage on the East Coast, and specifically the New York metropolitan region, the decision has been made to postpone AVSEC World 2012 and associated meetings and events. This decision was not made lightly but in the interest of the safety and security of our attendees.
Any reservations made at the below hotels through the conference registration system will be considered cancelled for arrival dates beginning on Sunday, 28 October unless we are otherwise notified.
The New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
The Sheraton Brooklyn New York
The NU Hotel
Any reservations made outside of the conference registration site will need to be attended to on your own accord.
Thank you for your understanding and we will continue to provide updates to you in a timely manner.
The FAA’s FLIGHT DELAY INFORMATION website at http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp indicates the airports which have shut down due to Hurricane Isaac weather conditions.
At the time of this posting, selecting the Southeastern region indicates the following closures:
Gulfport Biloxi
Mobile Regional
Mobile Downtown
Pensacola Regional
Louis Armstrong Airport (Scheduled to reopen at 6:59 pm)
From the National Weather Service:
Tropical Storm Isaac is currently just off the coast of northeastern Cuba, moving toward the northwest at 20 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph and strengthening is forecast over the next 48 hours, with Isaac expected to be at or near hurricane strength as it reaches the Florida Keys late Sunday. Hurricane & Tropical Storm Watches and Warnings are in effect for much of the Florida coast.
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Contact photographer Darren Wilson
What: Thomas Cook Boeing 757-300 en route from Glasgow to Antalya
Where: London
When: Feb 15th 2012
Why: The flight had taken off normally from Glasgow, but while en route, the weather radar system failed.
The crew of flight MT-3614 notified London and were able to divert to Gatwick where they made a safe landing.
One might say it was an overabundance of caution because weather radar might not be considered essential–but considering the distance covered and potential conditions en route and on landing in Antalya, it seems their caution was, in my opinion at least, justified.
What: Air Charter Services Pvt. Ltd Pilatus PC-12/45 en route from Jagdish Memorial Hospital to Apollo Hospital.
Where: Faridabad
When: May 25, 2011 10:45 pm
Who: 7 aboard, 3 on the ground, 10 fatalities
Why: After the pilot reported flying into bad weather, the plane transporting a patient from a Patna hospital to Apollo Hospital (Delhi) and carrying two doctors, two attendants, the pilot and the co-pilot crashed onto the rooftop of two houses in Parvatiya Colony. The plane’s nose broke off and fell to the street below. It appears that local residents may have taken the propellor and other parts of the plane. It did not carry a cockpit voice recorder or a data recorder.
After the crash, the plane and scattered medical equipment remained on the roof. The 22-year-old patient, was Rahul Raj and the plane’s crew was Dr Rajesh, Dr Arshad, Captain Harpreet, co-pilot Manpreet Kataria, Ratnesh Kumar and male nurse Cyril. Rahul and Ratnesh were cousins, and both residents of Bettiah in West Champaran. Raj, who was in a coma and on a ventilator was being transported to treat jaundice and complications of hepatitis.
In the Sehrawats house, fifty five-year-old Vedvati, her daughter Sarita (19) and daughter-in-law Rani (20) died in their house in Gali, 3 Mukesh Kunj at 10.35 pm. Because of the heat, they were on the roof at the time of the crash.
Sobharam Sehrawats, his son Deepak, and nephew Yash were injured.
The other house that was damaged (but no fatalities) was owned by 37-year-old Chittaranjan Singh.
Both the 3 residents of the house(s) and the 7 aboard the plane were burned beyond recognition.
An Indian Airlines flight to Delhi which was due to leave at the same time stayed on the tarmac at Patna instead of flying into the strong winds.
The plane disappeared from radar at 10:45 pm. It was reported that at the time of crash, strong winds were affecting planes landing at IGI airport. The DCGA is not carrying out the investigation, but it will be carried out independently.
Pictured: Alitalia McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (DC-9-82)
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Contact photographer Spotnap
What: Alitalia McDonnell Douglas MD-82 en route from Rome to Palermo Italy
Where: Midway between Rome and Palermo
When: Oct 24th 2009
Who: n/a
Why: While en route, the weather radar failed. The crew decided to return to Rome where they made a safe landing. Passengers were provided another plane 3 hours later.