LATAM Brasil flight JJ-4559 encountered hail on the way to Brasilia, Brazil, on February 5th.
The Airbus A321-200 plane was flying from Aracaju, Brazil, when it encountered hail that caused damage to windshields.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Avianca Brazil flight O6-6376 had to return and make an emergency landing in Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil, on May 15th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Fortaleza, Brazil, but had to turn back after it suffered a bird strike.
The plane landed safely. All ninety-one passengers remained unharmed.
Radar failure over the Amazon forced Brazil to turn back and ground international flights yesterday.
Authorities mistook a piece of the fuselage from the accident for the flight recorder.
The loss of radar from 11:15 p.m. Friday to 2:30 a.m. yesterday caused planes s to return to their points of origin or make unscheduled landings.
A short circuit turned off electricity during routine maintenance. When power went out, 17 flights were within the coverage area. Nine planes continued to their destinations, and eight were rerouted. None were in danger.
“This is total chaos. I have never seen anything like it, and it makes me feel very unsafe,”
The radar problem prompted American Airlines to divert 13 Brazil-bound planes.
Delta Airlines said six of its flights were also diverted.
Jose dos Santos, a 43-year-old cafe owner, was aboard a cancelled flight when the crew announced Brazil was not letting airplanes enter its airspace because of the radar failure. “I was saying, ‘Oh, my God, my life is over!’ I was in a panic, all I could think about was the Gol jet that crashed in the Amazon last year,” Santos said,
Four United Airlines flights were also canceled.
The flight cancellations and diversions followed a nationally televised speech by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Authorities plan to build a new airport in Sao Paulo, where an Airbus A320 operated by TAM Airlines crashed Tuesday, killing 191 people.
LATAM Cargo Chile flight UC-1507 suffered a bird strike near Amsterdam, Netherlands, on January 24th.
The incident happened when the Boeing 777-200 freighter plane, flying from Miami, Florida, was on final approach to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
What: Starflight Fox V6 Super #PU-ANG
Where: Araranguá, southern Santa Catarina Brazil
When: April 8 2012
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: The ultralight was in Araranguá between the towns of Marazion and in Santa Catarina when it crashed in a rice paddy that backs up to highway BR-101. Both the pilot and passenger, Pereira de Souza, 45, and Antonio Carlos Bernardino, 30, died at the scene. Bernardino owned the ultralight and the two regularly flew together. Both victims were residents of Araranguá and in an Araranguá flying club. They were taken to Instituto Médico Legal (Forensic Institute).
Witnesses say the plane just fell from the sky into the rice field. The incident occurred at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday.
The accident is under investigations; preliminary findings are due within thirty days.
Jet2 flight LS-6556 had to return and make an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport, England, on March 8th.
The Boeing 737-300 plane took off for Geneva, Switzerland, but had to turn back due to a cracked windshield.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
TAM Linhas Aereas flight JJ-3517 had to return and make an emergency landing at Deputado Luis Eduardo Magalhaes International Airport, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil on April 1st.
The Airbus A321-200, en-route from Salvador to Brasilia, was climbing out of runway when one of the plane’s engines ingested a bird, prompting the plane to return.
The plane landed safely.
All 108 passengers onboard remained unharmed.
