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Contact photographer Jerome Zbinden
What: Eurofly Airbus A-330 en route from the Seychelles to Milan Italy
Where: Cairo airport
When: 9-27-2009
Who: 235 people on board
Why: While en route, the plane experienced an engine problem and had to shut down one of its engines. On landing, passengers were provided accommodations and an alternative flight on a Neos Boeing to continue to their destination.
Singapore Airlines flight SQ-958 made an emergency landing in Singapore, on April 21st.
The plane, heading to Jakarta, Indonesia, had to return after the passenger oxygen masks deployed without any obvious reason.
The plane landed safely. There were 113 passengers and 12 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained unhurt.
A UPS cargo plane, en-route from Ontario, California to Louisville, Kentucky, had to make an emergency landing at the Chicago Rockford International Airport, Illinois, at about 11 p.m. on September 10.
The pilot decided to land in emergency after a hydraulic fault was discovered in the aircraft.
The plane landed uneventfully and all 4 people aboard remained unhurt. The cargo packages were transferred to another plane for timely delivery.
The plane was taken for inspection.
The FAA is investigating.
Pictured:IndiGo Airbus A320-232 over Ahmedabad – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International
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Contact photographer Sunandan Subramaniam
What: IndiGo Airbus A320-200 en route from Kolkata to Chennai
Where: Kolkata
When: Jan 20th 2010
Why: After takeoff, flaps were locked in position. The plane returned to Kolkata and made a safe landing. No indication is made if the flight was cancelled, replaced, or continued after repairs.
KLM flight KL-1387 had to return and make an emergency landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the Netherlands, on July 5th.
The Boeing 737-800 flying to Kiev, Ukraine, had to return because of wrong indication of its main gear.
The plane landed uneventfully.
No one was injured.
The 30th A380 to be delivered was handed over today to Emirates Airline, one of the launch customers of the Airbus double-decker aircraft. This is the tenth A380 Emirates has received out of its total firm order for 58 aircraft.
This aircraft will be on display at the ILA Berlin Air Show which is taking place from June 8th to 13th. Lufthansa will also bring their recently delivered, first A380 to the show and from June 11th an Airbus flight test A380 will be on static and flying display.
Airbus has already delivered seven A380s so far in 2010, three to Emirates Airline, two to Air France, one to Lufthansa and one to Qantas. Airbus is on track to deliver a total of at least 20 A380s in 2010.
Today five major airlines, Singapore Airlines, Emirates Airline, Qantas, Air France and Lufthansa, operate 30 A380s on 20 routes linking 18 major international destinations. Together they have carried nearly five and a half million passengers on 15,000 revenue flights and have clocked up almost 140,000 revenue flight hours. These A380 flights have saved 640,000t of CO2 emissions by replacing journeys that would otherwise have been made with less fuel-efficient large aircraft. The A380 has the lowest fuel burn of any wide body aircraft, needing less than three litres of fuel per passenger per 100km.
The A380 is also a proven profit generator. Delivering an impressive double-digit percentage reduction in cash operating costs, it allows airlines to either increase the number of seats offered at little or no extra cost or keep the same capacity at a much lower total cost. This is one of the reasons why seven of the 17 A380 customers have already placed repeat orders and over half the world’s top international carriers have ordered it.
Airbus has received 202 firm orders for the A380 from 17 customers.
Pictured: A Jet Airways ATR ATR-72-500 (ATR-72-212A) filmed in Mumbai
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Contact photographer Petr Popelar
What: Jet Airways Aerospatiale ATR-72-500 en route from Bhopal to Indore
Where: Bhopal
When: Feb 11th 2010
Who: 60 passengers 4 crew
Why: After takeoff, the right engine failed. The flight returned to Bhopal, and landed hard causing a flat. Otherwise there were no problems recorded and no one was injured, although the closed runway disrupted scheduling for a while.
