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What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 en route from Albuquerque,NM to Oakland,CA
Where: Oakland
When: Dec 1st 2011
Who: 95 passengers and 5 crew
Why: On approach to Oakland, the plane flew through ten seconds of turbulence that injured the cabin crew.
The pilots made a safe landing half an hour later, after which two members of the crew were hospitalized.
In George’s Point of View
Given the time and place, we might be able to chalk this one up to the Santa Ana Winds.
Air China flight CA-1661 rejected take off from Beijing Airport in China, on July 31st.
Air India flight AI-347 suffered a bird strike near Chennai International Airport, India, on July 23rd.
Porter Airlines flight PD-720 made an emergency landing at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport in Toronto, Canada, on July 15th.