Cathay Pacific flight CX-37 had to return and make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, India, on October 30.
The Boeing 747-400, en-route to Heathrow Airport, London, had to make an emergency landing due to bird strike.
The plane landed uneventfully.
Everyone aboard remained safe.
Vietnam Airlines flight VN-227 had to return and make an emergency landing in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 5th.
The plane took off for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but had to return shortly afterwards due to loss of cabin pressure.
The plane landed safely. All 137 passengers and 7 crew members remained unharmed.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Qantas flight QF904 had to return and make an emergency landing at Perth Airport, Australia, at 2:47 p.m. on December 8.
The flight, heading from Perth to Karratha, had to return after an unusual odor was detected in the aircraft’s cabin.
The Boeing 737, carrying around 85 people, landed uneventfully. St John Ambulance examined more than 75 people for smoke inhalation.
The cause of odor is under investigation.
A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Alabama, on November 22nd.
The plane heading from Boston, Massachusetts, to Houston, Texas, was diverted due to a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely.
Interjet flight 4O-2940 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Guadalajara, Mexico, on December 10th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Mexico City, Mexico, to Las Vegas, Nevada, was diverted due to an indication of low oil pressure in one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Banks are refusing to lend the debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines funding, and they are scrambling to keep afloat. They owe over 1.3 billion.
All international operations will be discontinued by April. Kingfisher submitted a plan of operation twenty planes making 125 daily flights but it remains to be seen if India will let it fly. Kingfisher is be liable for unpaid taxes, so the government may lean toward letting them keep afloat to provide a revenue stream for those overdue taxes. But that means that safety norms and financial viability conditions must meet standards and the greatest consideration is that (citing a January financial surveillance report by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)“reasonable case exists for withdrawal of their (Kingfisher’s) airline operator permit as their financial stress is likely to impinge on safety.”
The State Airports Authority of India is allowing Kingfisher to operate only flights for which the airline has paid from Monday midnight to Tuesday midnight.
LOT Polish Airlines flight LO-3844 made an emergency landing in Warsaw, Poland, on December 15th.
The plane flying from Wroclaw, Poland, was descending toward Warsaw when the crew reported an issue related to the landing gear indication.
The plane landed safely. All seventy people aboard remained safe.
