Japan Airlines flight JL-414 had to return and make an emergency landing in Helsinki, Finland, on January 21st.
The Boeing 787-900 plane took off for Narita International Airport, Japan, but had to return shortly afterwards due to an engine problem.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
Delta Airlines flight DL-878 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York, on November 5th.
The Boeing 717-200 plane heading from Hartford, Connecticut, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, was diverted due to loss of cabin pressure.
The plane landed safely. All ninety-five people aboard remained unharmed.
EgyptAir flight MS-786 made an emergency landing in Frankfurt, Germany, on November 13th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane took off for Cairo, Egypt, but had to turn back due to a cracked windshield.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
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What: Qantas Boeing 747-400 en route from Bangkok (Thailand) to London Heathrow,EN
Where: Bangkok
When: May 20th 2011
Who: 308 passengers
Why: After takeoff from Bangkok, the engine vibration and temperature increased beyond the norm in one engine and the engine is reported to have salled. That (Rolls Royce) engine was shut down, and the pilots returned to Bangkik to make a safe landing with the remaining three engines. It has not yet been announced if the problem is due to the internal pipe irregularities which were indicated in an airworthiness directive just released, but with problems that go back several years.
By the look of cursory evidence, it appears this could be the same manufacturing defect in an oil pipe, which led to an internal oil leak in the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine that failed in a Qantas A380 in 2010 causing a midair explosion, but investigators will have to reveal the details.
Rusline flight 7R-424 had to return and make an emergency landing at Lipetsk Airport, Russia, on July 28th.
The Canadair CRJ-200 en-route to Sochi, Russia, had to return due to engine failure. The crew had to shut its engine down mid-air.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Alaska Airlines flight AS-792 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Spokane International Airport, Spokane County, Washington, on July 24th.
The Boeing 737-800 flying from Seattle, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, had to divert due to burning odor on board.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
CommutAir flight C5-4979 had to return and make an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia, on July 26th.
The plane took off for Norfolk, Virginia, but had to return shortly afterwards after one of the engines stopped working mid-air.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained uninjured.