Lufthansa Cityline flight LH-2316 had to return and make an emergency landing in Munich, Germany, on February 13th.
The plane took off for Luxembourg but had to turn back due to a fuel pressure problem.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Swiss International Airlines flight LX-647 made an emergency landing in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 13th.
The plane flying from Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, was on approach to Zurich when the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
What: SkyWest en route from Houston to Toronto
Where: East Texas Regional Airport in Gregg County
When: March 6, 2012, 10:02 PM,
Who: 58 passengers, 2 pilots, 2 flight attendants
Why: While en route, a small fire in a cockpit printer sent the smell of smoke though the flight deck. The fire was reported to ATC and the plane made an emergency landing at East Texas Regional Airport in Gregg County.
The 58 passengers disembarked without emergency, and were bussed to Dallas where another plane was scheduled to take them the last leg of their journey.
AP reported this as a United Express jet. SkyWest operates the flight as a codeshare with United Airlines and Continental.
Two people were killed after a small plane crashed into a tires warehouse in Bremen, northern Germany, in the early afternoon of August 1.
According to police spokesman Dirk Siemering, the aircraft came down shortly after taking off from Bremen airport.
The rescue workers found two bodies at the tires warehouse, however, their identities have not so far been released.
The cause of the crash is not yet clear.
Lufthansa Cityline flight LH-2373 had to return and make an emergency landing in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 26th.
The plane took off for Munich, Germany, but had to turn back after the crew failed to retract the landing gear.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
All Nippon Airways flight NH-816 had to return and make an emergency landing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on February 22nd.
The Boeing 787-800 took off for Tokyo Narita Airport, Japan, but had to return shortly afterwards due to an indication that the temperature of exhaust gas from its right hand engine was very high.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 203 passengers and 11 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
What: TACA Peru Airbus A320-200 en route from Lima to Cuzco
Where: Cuzco
When: Sep 18th 2011
Who: 90 passengers
Why: While en route, the windshield heating system began smoking.
Pilots continued to Cuzco, stepping up the pace, and made a safe landing, with no injuries. Some passengers erroneously believed the turbine in the right wing was on fire.
“sobrecalentamiento en el sistema eléctrico de los parabrisas en la cabina de los pilotos originó humo y activó el proceso de emergencia preventiva“, the problem was due to overheating of the windshield heating system, according to TACA, a problem that was essentially a short circuit.