ExpressJet flight 5071 made an emergency landing at Montgomery Regional Airport, Alabama, on September 18.
It is believed that the flight, en-route from Lafayette, Louisiana, to Atlanta, Georgia was diverted after the crew reported smell of smoke in the cabin.
The plane landed safely and no injuries were reported.
The flight was operating as Delta Connection.
Air New Zealand flight NZ-443 made an emergency landing in Auckland, New Zealand, on September 10th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Wellington, New Zealand, but had to turn back due to a lightning strike.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
On January 16, 2013, an American Eagle Canadair CRJ-700 en route from New Orleans to Chicago encountered turbulence which injured flight attendants and a passenger. The pilots made a safe landing in Chicago.
If you’re buckled in, turbulence feels more dangerous than it is. Unfortunately, flight attendants, who are required to be up and about doing their jobs, are not infrequently injured by turbulence, whether it is clear-air (hard to predict changeable jet stream-rivers of air), wind shear, microbursts, mountain waves, thermal or wake turbulence left by another plane.
The physical consequences of being unbuckled when turbulence strikes means the unsecured person can be hurled about the plane, jolted in the air, struck by food carts or anything else loose in the plane. I’ve been on some white-knuckled flights where the flight attendants were champs and in spite of getting bounced around managed to calm the passengers. It’s only afterwards coming across either a cool and calm (or white-knuckled) pilot that I was able to determine just how dangerous the turbulence was.
In this case, great. A safe landing trumps everything. Too bad about the two injured flight attendants and passenger though.
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What: Air Transat Airbus A330-300 en route from Toronto to Dublin
Where: Toronto
When: Jul 15th 2011
Who: 314 passengers
Why: During takeoff, a tire was damaged. The tire caused damage to several parts of the plane, which initially had been attributed to a bird strike. Tire debris (tread) was found on the runway.
The flight continued to Dublin, where the plane made a safe landing on a tire which had lost tread. On inspection, it was found that a wing panel and a landing gear door needed repair, having been damaged on takeoff by tread.
A replacement flight was sent to Dublin to make the return flight.
Kenya Airways flight KQ-704 had to return and make an emergency landing in Harare, Zimbabwe, on May 7th.
The plane heading to Lusaka, Zambia, had to turn back after it suffered a bird strike during departure.
The plane landed back safely. All ninety-six passengers remained safe.
United Airlines flight UA-2160 made an emergency landing at Newark-Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, on May 22nd.
Emergency services were requested after the tower noticed smoke emanating from one of the engines of the Boeing 757-200 plane coming from San Francisco, California.
The passengers disembarked onto the taxiway. No injuries were reported.
EasyJet flight U2-6931 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Newcastle, United Kingdom, on November 28th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Edinburgh, United Kingdom, to Hamburg, Germany, was diverted after the crew reported fumes in the cabin.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 161 passengers and 6 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
