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What: Flugfelag Air Iceland de Havilland Dash 8-100 en route from Reykjavik Iceland to Nuuk Greenland
Where: Nuuk
When: Mar 4th 2011
Who: 31 passengers and 3 crew
Why: After weather conditions had already delayed the flight for more than a day, passengers were finally able to make the journey. However, on landing, the plane veered off the runway in gusty conditions. The de Havilland Dash received nose, propellers and engines damage, but no one aboard was injured.

Perhaps they should have delayed the flight for another day.

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Burbank: Close call


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What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 en route from Oakland to Burbank,CA
Where: Burbank on Apr 19th 201
When: Apr 19 2010
Who: 119 passengers and 5 crew
Why: Approaching the runway prior to takeoff, a a Cessna 172 passed over the passed over the 737, with a clearance of 200 feet (vertical) and 10 feet (lateral).

The NTSB is investigating.

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Small Plane Crashed in Barrow County, GA; Two Killed

A small plane crashed at Barrow County Airport in Winder, Georgia, on February 16th.

Barrow County Emergency Services Captain Scott Dakin said the airport employees spotted the wreckage while coming back after the lunch break. “When they came down the road they did see the plane in the wood line just along the road here… They called it in, upon our arrival we did have a small fire that was handled by our guys,” he said.

Two people were killed in the crash. They were identified as Shannon Ewing, and his nephew, Henry Ewing.

The accident is being investigated.

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Air France Bird Strike in Madrid


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What: Air France Airbus A319-100 en route from Paris to Madrid
Where: Madrid
When: Feb 17th 2012
Why: On landing in Madrid, the Airbus incurred a bird strike.

Although the pilots made a safe landing, the return flight for that plane was cancelled due to damage to the plane.

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Planes Collide at Toronto Pearson International Airport

Two planes collided at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada, on January 5th.

Authorities said a WestJet plane, inbound from Cancun, Mexico, was waiting to go to a gate when a Sunwing Airlines plane, moving back from a gate, struck it.

The Sunwing plane caught fire after the accident.

There were one hundred and sixty-eight passengers and six crew members aboard the WestJet plane at the time; all of them were safely evacuated via emergency slides.

Authorities said the Sunwing aircraft was empty at the time of accident; it was being towed by the ground handlers.

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Early Stowaway Gets Free Ride to Hospital


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What: Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 en route from Frankfurt/Main to Denver
Where: Winnipeg
When: Jul 5 2010
Who: 1 baby 7 weeks early
Why: While en route from Frankfurt to Denver, one of the passengers decided to arrive ahead of schedule. The flight diverted to Winnipeg, but not before Denver resident Heather Randle of Denver delivered on board. Thankfully three doctors and a nurse were also aboard and able to attend. Mother and child were taken to Winnipeg hospital. The infant, Trudence Sophia Randle, is being held in a neonatal intensive care. The father was traveling separately.

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Valley View Airport Crash update


What: 1964 Cessna P206 en route to Valley View Airport in Estacada
Where: a field near the 30700 block of Northeast Lawrence Road
When: Found at 7:50 pm
Who: 54-year-old Mark Greenup, a Christmas tree farmer believed to have been flying the 1964 Cessna
registered to him, and 50-year-old George Smetana, both killed in the crash
Why: The pilot called the airport’s owner of the airport to report all of the electrical equipment on the plane had become inoperable.

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