China

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    Shandong Airlines Emergency Landing


    Pictured: A Shandong Airlines – SDA Boeing 737-8AL in Kunming – Wujiaba (KMG / ZPPP) China, June 30, 2010
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    What: Shandong Airlines flight SC4981 en route from Xiamen in Fujian Province to Jinan in Shandong Province
    Where: Linyi Airport
    When: July 19 2010
    Who: 163 passengers and 10 crew
    Why: During a violent thunder and lightening storm, pilots noticed cracks in the outer pane of the cockpit windshield and diverted to Linyi airport. Passengers disembarked safely, and the airport provided hot water and VIP waiting room services until they were able to transfer to another plane at 10.

    A passenger claimed the plane’s window was damaged by a lightning strike, which is denied by airport officials. The cockpit window was replaced although the cause of breakage was unclear. Cabin pressure was not affected.

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    China Southern 737 Loses Air Pressure

    What: China Southern Boeing 737-300 en route from Kunming to Zhengzhou
    Where: en route
    When: Jul 17th 2010
    Who: 130 passengers
    Why: After takeoff and reaching cruise level, cabin pressure was lost. Oxygen masks were deployed, and the flight returned to Kunming where it made a safe landing. Twenty passengers were hospitalized with ear pain.

    A replacement flight was provided six hours later.

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    China Flight Bomb Scare

    What: China Southern Airlines en route from Urumqi to Guangzhou
    Where: Zhongchuan Airport
    When: July 14, 2010
    Who: 93 passengers and 18 crew
    Why: While en route, the crew received a warning that there was a bomb aboard. The flight diverted to Zhongchuan Airport where the passengers disembarked. No bomb was found.

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    China Airlines:Bomb Joke bombs.


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    Contact photographer Jing-Kai Chiou

    What: China Airlines Boeing 747-400 en route from Taipei Taiwan to Shanghai
    Where: Hangzhou
    When: May 1 2010
    Who: Lin, 58 yr old male passenger
    Why: While en route, the passenger told someone he had explosives in his luggage. Consequently, the flight diverted to Hangzhou where it made a safe landing–without blowing up. The passenger denied there were explosives (it was a joke.) He was taken into custody, and the flight continued to Shanghai without him, arriving nearly 6 hours late.

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    Cathay Pacific Airbus Loses Both Engines


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    Contact photographer Yunjin Lee – Korea

    What: Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300 en route from from Surabaya Indonesia to Hong Kong
    Where: Hong Kong
    When: April 13 2010
    Who: 309 passengers and 14 crew
    Why: On approach to Hong Kong, the flight developed engine failure in one engine which was shut down, and the other engine failed on landing. On the runway, brakes overheated, caught fire, and the tires went flat.

    Passengers evacuated the plane via emergency chutes; seven were injured though only five hospitalized. (Other reports indicate 8 admitted to hospital.)

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    Hong Kong Ferry Flight Goes Awry


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    Contact photographer Mark Tang

    What: Continental owned 757 being delivered to Hong Kong for maintenance
    Where: Guam International Airport
    When: Jan 17, 2010
    Who: 4 crew
    Why: Shortly after takeoff, the plane made a noise like a backfire and the left engine failed. The plane was witnessed to fly over Barrigada, bank north over Tumon, fly out over the Philippine Sea before returning to the airport to make a safe landing.

    Continental seems to be planning to use the 757 in an upcoming regular route to Hong Kong.

    One wonders if the 757 is not a Hong Kong regular, why 757 maintenance is being ferried there.

    Airport firefighters responded at 7 am.

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    On Board Smoke Diverts Cathay Pacific to Fukuoka Japan


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    Contact Photographer Ruud Brinks

    What: Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 en route from Hong Kong China to Sapporo Japan
    Where: Fukuoka
    When: Jul 19th 2009
    Who: 398 on board
    Why: After smoke filled the cabin, the flight diverted to Fukuoka Japan. The smoke was attributed to an air conditioning leak which was repaired so that the flight was continued less than four hours later.

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    Another Airbus Emergency


    pictured: Airbus similar to the one in the incident
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    Contact photographer Simpsonmeng
    What: China Southern Airlines Airbus A320-200
    Where: en route from Dayong to Shenzhen
    When: Mar 27th 2009
    Who: 100 passengers
    Why: The right engine failed. After circling the airport for forty minutes, the plain landed without further incident in Dayong.

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    Emergency Landing in China

    What: Qatar Airway flight QR821 en route from Osaka, Japan to Doha, Qatar
    Where: emergency landing at an airport in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at the Kashi City Airport.
    When: Thursday 6:30 am–landing at 7:22
    Who: 20 crew members and 174 passengers from 22 countries and regions including Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States and Qatar.
    Why: When the flight encountered mechanical problems and descended 11,000 meters to 2,000 meters in 5 min, the crew prepped for an emergency landing.,The cause is under investigation

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    Emergency Landing at Meilan International Airport


    What: Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737 flight FM833, en route to from Shanghai to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
    Where: Meilan International Airport in Haikou in south Hainan province
    When: late Wednesday night Nov. 19, 2008
    Who: 149 passengers
    Why: After an alarm light came on indicating a mechanical problem with a fuel pump, the plane diverted to Meilan International Airport. Mechanics found that one of the plane’s two hydraulic pressure pumps was damaged, causing hydraulic oil to leak. The hydraulic oil caused a large amount of smoke. Passengers were provided water and instant noodles.

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    Tokyo: China Airlines Typhoon Crash


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    Contact photographer J.Laporte

    What: China Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 en route from Bangkok to Hong Kong
    Where: Hong Kong
    When: August 23, 1999
    Who: 3 fatalities, 208 uninjured; 44 serious, 164 minor
    Why: Summary: On August 23, 1999 at approximately 1840 local time (+12 hours), a China Airlines flight 642 # B-150 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 crashed during a landing approach to the Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok airport. The plane, which was landing during a typhoon, touched down hard, flipped over and caught fire. The right wing struck the ground first, and the landing gear and wing separated as the aircraft rolled inverted. 200 of the 317 passengers were injured and the aircraft was destroyed by impact.

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    Korean Air Crashes in Pohang


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    Contact photographer Gerard Helmer

    What: Korean Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 en route from Seoul to Pohang
    Where: Pohang
    When: March 15, 1999
    Who: 6 crew and 150 passengers
    Why: On March 15, a Korean Air Flight 1533 (McDonnell Douglas MD-83 #HL7570) from Seoul to Pohang departed for Pohang. Weather at Pohang was poor with degraded visibility and gusty 25 knot winds. The pilot failed at the first attempt to land. After the second approach the plane touched down, but overran the runway. The aircraft skidded through 10 antennas, a reinforced barbed wire fence and came to rest against an embankment. The landing snapped the fuselage in half. Damage– Complete destruction of air frame, Injuries– multiple. 6 crew and 150 passengers, no deaths.

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    Silk Air: Accidental or Homicide?


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    Contact photographer Vernon

    What: SilkAir Boeing 737-36N en route from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore
    Where: Musi River
    When: Dec 19, 1997
    Who: 97 passengers, 7 crew
    Why: SilkAir Flight 185, a Boeing 737-36N, was en route from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore, and crashed on 19 December 1997 after abruptly plunging into the Musi River from its 35,000 feet cruise altitude, killing all 97 passengers and 7 crew on board. For no apparent reason, minutes before the crash, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder stopped recording, at different times, then the aircraft departed level flight and entered a steep vertical dive. All 104 people on board died in the crash. The pilot was deep in debt and had taken out an insurance policy on himself.