Horizon Air flight QX-2489/AS-2489 had to return and make an emergency landing at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, Gallatin County, Montana, on July 2nd.
The de Havilland Dash 8-400 flying to Seattle, Washington, had to return due to bird strike, damaging its pitot tube.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
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What: Continental Airlines Boeing 767-200 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Houston
Where: turbulence occurred southeast of Puerto Rico; diversion to Miami.
When: Aug 3rd 2009
Who: 168 passengers and 11 crew members
Why: About an hour out of Miami, the flight encountered turbulence. Four received severe injuries and there were multiple lesser injuries. 28 individuals were treated at the airport on site; 9 were taken to hospitals. (Alternate reports say 13 were taken to hospitals.) The flight landed at Miami, an hour and fifteen minutes after the turbulence.
Uninjured passengers were routed to Houston; in fact, they remained on the plane nearly three hours after landing because it was an International flight and had to be cleared by customs to arrive.
The Southwest Airlines flight 424, from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport, had to divert and land in emergency at Port Columbus International Airport, Ohio, at 2 a.m. Central Time on July 23.
The pilot decided to make an emergency landing after there was an indication of smoke in the forward cargo hold.
The plane landed safely and slides were used to evacuate the 49 passengers on board. No one was hurt.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. Southwest Airlines has declared the plane out of service for inspection.
An alternate was flight arranged for taking the passengers to their destination.
Cathay Dragon flight KA-215 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 5th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane heading from Phuket, Thailand, to Hong Kong, China, was diverted due to a cabin pressure issue.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
A small Cessna 150 lost power and crash landed in Littleton, Massachusetts, on August 19th.
According to sources the plane was at 2000 feet when it was seen coming down and crashing into a wooded area.
The pilot was successfully pulled out of the plane and received no injuries.
PenAir flight KS-2921 had to make an emergency landing in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on December 9th.
The plane flying from Portland, Oregon, was descending toward Klamath Falls when the crew declared an emergency due to a cargo smoke indication.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 20 people aboard remained safe.
What: Beechcraft 55 Baron en route from Baytown TX to Sarasota FL
Where: 28 miles east of South Pass in the Gulf of Mexico
When: Sept. 20, 2012
Who: 2 aboard
Why: After the International Emergency Response Coordination Center notified 8th Coast Guard District command center of a beacon alert, the search began.
Two men whose flight ditched were rescued after the Border Patrol spotted them adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin helicopter was launched.
The pilot hit the water at an estimated 100 knots after the plane caught fire and the cockpit filled with smoke. The two men aboard survived the crash and three hours in the water.
Coast Guard helicopter pilot Lt. Becki Fosha said that “They had a limited time to bring the aircraft to the water and then they had about two minutes to get all of their survival gear together and get ready for a survival situation before the aircraft submerged…They had a GPS sport beacon. They had their current EPERB 406 beacon. They had floatation and survival equipment for just this kind of scenario…the men did a great job ditching the plane.”
Theodore Wright and Raymond Fosdick were pulled out of the Gulf and flown to Belle Chasse Naval Base. Fosdick was hospitalized at Ochsner Medical Center.