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Contact photographer James Mellon
What: Comair Canadair CRJ-200 en route from Montreal to New York
Where: Montreal
When: Dec 28th 2009
Who: 39 on board
Why: Just after takeoff, the pilot received an unsafe door warning. On returning to Montreal, maintenance repaired the door, and the plane returned to service.
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Contact Photographer Daniel Alaerts
What: Air France Airbus A340-300 en route from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airportto Bangkok Thailand
Where: Amritsar
When: Aug 27th 2009,
Who: not available
Why: While entering Indian airspace, the flight crew sent the wrong transponder code so that the airplane showed up as “unidentified” on both civilian and military radar screens. Communication was lost; and Indian Air Force MiG 29s were sent to intercept the flight; then the interception was aborted when the flight crew corrected the code. The flight continued to land normally at its scheduled destination.
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Contact photographer Tom.Alfano
What: American Airlines Boeing 767-200 en route from San Francisco to New York
Where: Chicago
When: Apr 29 2010
Who: 3 flight attendants
Why: While en route to NY, the flight encountered turbulence. Several flight attendants received bumps and bruises from the encounter. The flight diverted to Chicago, landing there half an hour after the incident, and remained In Chicago for an hour and a half prior to taking off again for New York.
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What: Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Kiev (Ukraine)
Where: returned to New York
When: May 3rd 2009
Who: 212 on board
Why: The crew listed “operational reasons” but listed no details. They turned back over Moncton,NB and returned flying at lower altitude.
Contact photographer Wim Callaert
What: Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300 En route from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Rome Fiumicino
Where: Bangor,ME
When: May 4th 2009
Why: En route, the plane lost all air data computers and had lost most of the flight instruments, and requested to return to the airport of origin. Instead, they diverted to Bangor Maine. A replacement plane completed the flight. Fortunately, all that was suffered was a delay of nine hours.
George’s Point of View
This caught my eye mostly because two Boeings flying out of NY’s JFK were both listed as having “technical difficulties.” I wanted to doublecheck and see if they were the same plane.
Not the same plane.
The first incident with the undisclosed technical difficulty involved plane registration registration N182DN.
The second incident, the one with the data computer problem, involved plane registration N196DN.I find myself curious to discover what is coincidence and what is not. It may not be the same plane; but it is the same airline, the same model plane. Is it the same flight crew? Same procedures? What about the equipment? Is there something here to discover?
Pictured: an Air India Boeing 777-337/ER
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Contact photographer Rick Schlamp
What: Air India en route from Delhi to Chennai
Where: Visakhapatnam airport, Delhi
When: Thu, 15 Oct 2009
Who: 162 passengers
Why: Twenty minutes after take-off, the Air India flight experienced an undefined technical problem and returned safely to the airport, where passengers debarked and were re-routed on another Air India flight, and technicians worked on the plane.
What: Air Canada Boeing 767-300 en route from Toronto to London
Where: Toronto
When: Mar 24 2010
Why: After takeoff, the crew detected smoke in the rear galley. The flight returned to Toronto and made a safe landing.
An Air Inuit plane had to return and make an emergency landing at Kuujjuaq Airport, Quebec, Canada, on March 9.
The de Havilland Dash 8, flying from Quebec to Nuuk, Greenland, was halfway when the crew detected some problem with its hydraulic system, prompting it to return.
The plane landed uneventfully.
All passengers and crew members on board remained safe.
