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What: Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-900 en route from Boston to Kansas City
Where: JFK
When: Aug 13th 2012
Who: 73 passengers, 4 crew
Why: On takeoff, both right main landing gears blew. Pilots diverted to JFK and made an emergency landing.
After landing, the plane was stopped on the runway. A replacement jet was provided.
LATAM Airlines flight LA-841 had to return and make an emergency landing in Santiago, Chile, on January 19th.
The Boeing 787-900 plane took off for Easter Island, Chile, but had to turn back due to issues with the cabin pressure.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
Frontier Airlines flight F9-1286 had to return and make an emergency landing in Denver, Colorado, on May 14th.
The Airbus A319-100 plane took off for Chicago, Illinois, but had to turn back due to an unidentified odor on-board.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Condor Flugdienst flight DE-1479 made a safe emergency landing at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, on May 13th.
The Boeing 757-300, flying from Tenerife South, Spain, was about to reach its destination when the crew noticed problem with its flaps.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Southwest Airlines flight 3348 made an emergency landing in Newark, New Jersey, on April 29th.
The plane, heading from Long Island MacArthur Airport, New York, to Baltimore, Maryland, was diverted due to an issue with one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All 131 passengers and 5 crew members remained unharmed.
A replacement plane was arranged for the passengers.
A small plane crashed off of County Road K and Church St. in Waukechon, Shawano County, Wisconsin, on the morning of November 15.
Authorities said the plane, carrying a pilot instructor and a student, went down in a farm field.
Both occupants of the plane were injured and were shifted to ThedaCare Health Center, Shawano.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
