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What: Frontier Airlines Airbus A319-100 en route from Denver,CO to Phoenix,AZ
Where: Denver
When: Aug 29th 2010
Who: 62 passengers
Why: While en route, the plane got an alert that the left engine was low on oil. The pilots shut down the engine and returned to Denver where they made a safe landing.
Maintenance handled the problem, and the flight took off again an hour late.
Delta Airlines flight DL-2845 made a safe landing at Rapid City’s Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, on July 7th.
The Airbus A320-200, flying from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Rapid City Regional Airport, South Dakota, accidentally landed on the airport’s air force base.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
SpiceJet flight SG-136 made an emergency landing in Delhi, India, on January 6th.
The Boeing 737-900 plane was flying from Bangalore, India, when the crew declared an emergency due to indications of a hydraulic leak.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
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What: American Airlines Airbus A300-600 en route from Miami to Port Au Prince
Where: Miami
When: Jun 6th 2009
Why: Minutes after take-off, the plane developed hydraulics problems and returned to the airport to deal with a leak in the hydraulics.
George’s Point of View
I have said it before. Old planes should be retired to the desert.
Serial Number 466
Manufacturer Name AIRBUS INDUSTRIE
Model A300B4-605R
MFR Year 1988
Certificate Issue Date 09/09/1988The Most Current Airworthiness Certificate:
Engine Manufacturer GE Classification Standard
Engine Model CF6-80 SERIES Category TransportA/W Date 11/30/198
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What: All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 767-300 en route from Matsuyama to Tokyo
Where: Tokyo’s Haneda airport
When: Thursday August 27
Who: 262 passengers and 8 crew
Why: The left hand air conditioning system failed shortly after takeoff. Then, while en route, cabin pressure dropped. At that point, oxygen masks deployed; the pilot descended 10,000 feet to normalize pressure and flew the last 45 minutes of the flight. Though some passengers felt ill, there were no injuries, and the plane landed normally.
George’s Point of View
That must have been a fun, white-knuckled flight, leaving terror-induced claw marks etched into the armrests.
A Lion Air flight had to make an emergency landing at Juanda International Airport in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, on August 12th.
The plane was en-route to Ujung Pandang, South Sulawesi from Jakarta when an engine failure prompted the pilots to declare emergency.
The plane landed uneventfully and all 210 passengers remained unharmed.
The passengers were transferred to another aircraft.
Air Canada flight AC-7618 made an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia, on March 25th.
The plane coming from Toronto, Canada, was descending toward Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Virginia, when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport.
The plane landed safely and was evacuated.
All sixty-three passengers and four crew members remained unharmed.
