GoAir flight G8-140 had to return and make an emergency landing in Delhi, India, on November 18th.
The Airbus A320-200N plane took off for Patna, India, but had to turn back due to a bird strike.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and seventy-four people aboard remained unharmed.
Aeroflot flight SU-5436 had to return and make an emergency landing in Vladivostok, Russia, on February 22nd.
The plane took off for Seoul, South Korea, but had to turn back after the crew received an engine oil indication.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Air France flight AF-830 had to return and make an emergency landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, on April 6th.
The Airbus A340-300 plane took off for Pointe-Noire, Congo, but had to turn back after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
United Airlines flight UA-5387 made an emergency landing at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, Pennsylvania, on November 15th.
The plane flying from Chicago, Illinois, was on final approach to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport when the crew received an unsafe gear indication and went around.
The plane subsequently landed safely on second approach. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Envoy Air Flight 3530 had to return and make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York on April 30.
The plane took off for Detroit but had to turn back shortly afterwards after one or more birds hit its left wing flap.
The plane landed safely. All 62 passengers aboard remained unhurt.
Ground crew and engineers of Air Corporation Employees union are on strike over the gag order issued by Air India, leading to over 40 cancelled flights. The Union had sent 75 members to assist with the critical Mangalore crash. Air India responded to the crash with a gag order to the staff over a Bangalore-Delhi Airbus 320 which had diverted to Mangalore the day of the crash when there was no engineer to certify it except a non-qualified Kingfisher engineer.
On arrival in Delhi, the Air India engineers would not re-certify the Airbus. The rule violation prompted the gag order.
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What: Air Canada Airbus A320-200 en route from Montreal Trudeau Canada to Fort Lauderdale, FL
Where: Montreal
When: Apr 14th 2009
Why: After reporting problems to air traffic control and returning to Montreal, on final approach to runway 06L the crew experienced “severe mechanical turbulence” and momentarily lost control of the plane. However, the plane landed safely; and shortly afterwards, the passengers were off to their destination–on board another Airbus.
*Mechanical turbulence is turbulence around buildings, wind eddies not caused by thermal means.