Condor Airlines flight DE-2114 had to divert and make an emergency landing in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 15th.
The Boeing 767-300 plane heading from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cancun, Mexico, was diverted after the crew suspected a fuel leak.
The plane landed safely. All 182 passengers and 10 crew members remained unharmed.
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What: Aer Lingus Airbus A321-200 en route from Dublin to Budapest
Where: Vienna
When: Jan 16th 2010
Who: not available
Why: While en route, the flight developed cabin pressure problems. The crew decided to divert to Vienna where they made a safe landing. After passengers debarked in Vienna, they were provided a bus to Budapest.
Air Koryo flight J5-151 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Shenyang Taoxian International Airport, Shenyang, China, on July 22nd.
The Tupolev TU-204 flying from Pyogyang, North Korea, to Beijing, China, had to divert due to smoke in its cabin.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
A US Airways flight returned to Bluegrass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky, immediately after taking off at around 12:40 p.m. on June 14 and made a safe emergency landing.
The small plane was scheduled to go to Philadelphia with 33 people on-board.
Airport officials said that the decision for emergency landing was made after the thrust reverser of the plane, which is used to slow the plane down during a landing, got overheated.
Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV-1734 had to make an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 1st.
The plane, flying from Bisha, was on approach to Riyadh when the captain suffered a heart attack. The co-pilot Rami Ghazi Batabara took over the controls and requested an emergency landing.
The Airbus A321-200 landed uneventfully.
The medical crew examined captain Walid bin Mohammed Al Mohammed and pronounced him dead.
A small plane had to make an emergency landing in a field near Henstridge Airfield in Marnhull, Dorset County, England, on August 27th.
The TB10 Tobago carrying 4 people including the pilot had to be landed after its engine caught fire.
All 4 people onboard escaped safely.
A P-51 Mustang aircraft crashed just north of the runway at the La Plata County Airport in Durango, Colorado, at about 9:30 a.m. on July 4.
The incident happened when the plane reached about ¼ mile up in the air after taking off.
The Durango Fire and Rescue Authority confirmed that there were only two people aboard and both of them lost their lives in the crash. They were later identified as John Earley, the owner of the plane and the CEO of Saddle Butte Pipeline LLC in Durango, and Mike Schlarb, his flight instructor; both were in their 50s.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.
