Gol Airlines flight G3-5472 made an emergency landing at Sao Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 23rd.
The plane en-route from Belo Horizonte to Sao Paulo–Congonhas Airport, Brazil, was diverted after the crew reported issues with the slats.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 125 people aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
The passengers were taken to Sao Paulo–Congonhas Airport via buses.
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What: stolen plane
Where: Shopping mall parking lot in Goiania, near the centre of Brazil
When: 18:30 local time
Who: Kleber Barbosa da Silva and his 5 year old daughter Penelope Barbosa Correia were killed in the crash.
Why: The crash occurred after the husband and wife had an altercation, and da Silva threw his wife out of the car. She was hospitalized in Brasilia; da Silva went on to take his 5 yr old and steal the plane, which crashed in a parking lot.
A Russian transport plane had to make an emergency landing in Ulyanovsk, Russia, on October 28.
The An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft, owned by Volga-Dnieper Airlines, was transporting a European communications satellite Astra 2G from Moscow, Russia, to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, when the crew noticed an increase in temperature of its 4th engine. The engine was then shut off and the plane was diverted for emergency landing, after consultation with the client.
The plane landed uneventfully and was taken for maintenance. The company confirmed that many parts of the engine were replaced.
The Astra 2G satellite is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur space center by a Proton-M carrier rocket, in the end of November. The satellite will provide communication services to various countries in Asia, Europe and Central Africa.
Endeavor Air flight 9E-4058/DL-4058 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th.
The Canadair CRJ-900, en-route from Charleston, South Carolina to New York, was mid-air when the crew reported the loss of cabin pressure, prompting the plane to divert.
The plane landed uneventfully.
All 62 passengers and 4 crew members onboard remained unharmed.
The passengers were rebooked onto other flights.
Qatar Airways flight QR-932 made an emergency landing in Manila, Philippines, on September 5.
The Boeing 777-300 was en-route to Manila from Doha, Qatar, when it faced clear air turbulence causing emergency landing.
Five people aboard including 3 children and 2 flight attendants sustained injures as they were not wearing seat-belts.
Flybe flight BE321 had to make an emergency landing in Newcastle, UK, on November 11.
The pilot declared emergency after a passenger became sick midair. The flight was on its way from Birmingham to Aberdeen at the time.
The plane landed uneventfully and the patient was given immediate medical assistance.
The plane again departed for Aberdeen after some time.
It is again mid July. Inevitably, in mid July, my thoughts turn toward Tam 3054. On July 17 2007, five years ago, a Tam Airbus failed its landing at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport and stole a hundred and ninety-nine lives. The casualties always number greater than those who died. Each of the 199 touched had families; and each family exponentially touches countless others. I came to know each of the families, and I loved them. I learned from them, especially from their strength in the face of adversity. What I think of too, is how that accident changed me, how I learned from the families left behind to pick up the pieces and move on.
On this day, I want to remember these families, their grace, and their lost loved ones. We cannot forget that in their passing, a hole was left in the world.
I hope that the families—my well remembered friends—have overflowed the holes in their lives with something else. Five years of life. I hope they have taken the opportunity to fill to capacity these last five years with a life well lived. What does that mean? A life lived to the fullest. It’s the good and bad and everything in between. I hope that this well-lived life has lit their dark spaces with light, and packed the emptiness with new memories, each to be revisited, like the pages of a beloved book.
We are all each a harp of many strings, each string struck by memories that play one and many notes. The threads of our lives stretch from the past to future, distant anchors never seen and never known. Each day brings us a chorus of new, and distinct notes. Let us lose all regret, and only joy in the harmony of our histories and our tomorrows. It is the wholeness of these notes that is the music of our lives.
I hope that in filling the hole with new life, that my friends can now painlessly cast the net into their past. I hope they have learned to embrace the roses in December. Memories are for us to cherish, each one a forever jewel in itself. Memories are a constant gift of joy that is never lost; and as we can remember with poignant joy the roses of summer in December, we can remember our lost loved ones in July. I do not smile because I have forgotten. I smile because I remember.
