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What: Lion Air Boeing 737-300, en route from Jakarta to Mongonsidi airport, South East Sulawesi
Where: Sultan Hasanuddin airport in Makassar
When: 5 pm Jul 18th 2009
Who: 132 passengers 6 crew members
Why: The plane made an emergency landing because of a “crack on the glass of its cockpit window,” according to information released by Lion Air.
Volaris Airlines flight Y4-9023 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, United Kingdom, on October 28th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane was heading from Toulouse, France. to Keflavik, Iceland, when it lost communication with the ATC. A fighter jet was dispatched for escort.
The passenger plane, escorted by the fighter jet, then diverted to Glasgow Prestwick Airport where it landed uneventfully.
Everyone aboard remained safe.
What: single-engine Velocity aircraft. en route from Ohio to Kentucky
Where: Otisco, Ind.on the 7200 block of State Road Three
When: 3 p.m. Saturday
Who: Pilot Elizabeth Ferrell and her husband Brett Ferrell weren’t injured
Why: The pilot reported smoke in the cabin before landing along a state highway. She heard a pop and a gauge registered zero oil pressure. On landing (?) the pilot struck a reflector that did minor damage to the right wing . The plane’s oil line appeared to have ruptured.
What: single engine Beechcraft Musketeer on student flight
Where: East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood Open Space Preserve
When: 08/23/2011, 9:30 am
Who: instructor and student pilot
Why: While practicing touch and go maneuvers at Palo Alto Airport, the plane’s engine failed.
When the engine failed, the plane went down in the Ravenswood Open Space Preserve. A plane crashed there in Feb of 2010, which shook the neighborhood, but many locals were unaware of when this incident happened. This was an emergency landing, although the plane went off course after glancing against a tree.
Both Instructor Jassen Todorov and student pilot David Shoemaker survived.
Air France flight AF-1010 made an emergency landing in Nuremberg, Germany, on October 16th.
The plane flying from Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, was descending toward Nuremberg when it suffered a hydraulic failure.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
ANA All Nippon Airways flight NH-209 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Bratsk Airport, Bratsk, Russia, on May 12th.
The Boeing 787-900 flying from Tokyo, Japan, to Dusseldorf, Germany, had to divert due to problems with its left engine.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
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What: Ilyushin Il-76TD-90VD
Where: St. John’s International Airport, Newfoundland
When: Aug 13 2012
Who: 9 crew
Why: On landing at St Johns, the plane overran the end of the runway. The plane sustained some damage as well as runway lighting.
The incident is under investigation. According to the the Canadian TSB, the accident is still in the “Field Phase” during which a team of investigators examine the occurrence site and wreckage, interview witnesses and collect pertinent information.
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