An Indigo flight had to divert and make an emergency landing at Chaudhury Charan Singh airport, Lucknow, India, on June 14.
According to airport director SC Hota, “Indigo flight from Bhubaneswar to Delhi had to make emergency landing at the airport here at 8:17 PM yesterday as a passenger Shivkumar Panigrahi (52) had cardiac arrest.”
The plane landed uneventfully.
The sick passenger was rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
United Airlines flight UA-1048 made an emergency landing in Newark, New Jersey, on December 8th.
The Boeing 737-900 plane took off for Cancun, Mexico, but had to turn back due to smoke in the cockpit.
The plane landed safely. There were one hundred and eighty-five people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
Delta Airlines flight DL-2135 made an emergency landing at Raleigh–Durham International Airport, North Carolina, on July 25th.
The plane en-route from Tampa, Florida, to New York, had to be diverted after the crew received an engine fire indication.
The plane landed safely. There were 96 passengers and 5 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
What: SAR Aviation Bell 407 helicopter en route from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, to Sahastradhara India
Where: Ladpur Jungle near Raipur, India
When: June 19, 2011
Who: 2 aboard, 0 fatalities
Why: One of the choppers hired for porting Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari and his family to Sahastradhara crashed, injuring a pilot and an engineer.
The weather was clear at the time of the crash, and a technical problem is presumed. Two of the three choppers in the party landed safely. The BJP chief and family were not aboard the Bell helicopter at the time of the crash.
The chopper broke in to pieces on impact and just missed Vigyan Vihar, a residential area. There were no casualties on the ground.
SAR is Swajas Aviation Company based in Chennai.
A U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing at Chofu Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on February 29th.
Authorities said the pilot of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois aircraft, belonging to the 459th Airlift Squadron at Yokota Air Base, declared emergency due to an engine warning light. The helicopter was on a routine local flight at the time.
The aircraft landed safely. All nine people aboard remained unhurt.
Turkish Airlines flight TK-748 made an emergency landing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 28th.
The Airbus A330-300 plane heading from Istanbul, Turkey, to Mahe, Seychelles, was diverted due to an engine oil problem.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
What: Air Canada Embraer 180 en route from Halifax
Where: Trudeau Airport, Montreal Canada
When: October 24, 2011, 9:00 am
Why: While en route from Halifax, the pilots received an indication that the flaps were not performing.
The flight diverted to Trudeau airport where the plane made a safe if high-speed landing with emergency vehicles on standby.