What: Sol Lineas Aereas Saab 340A en route from Rosario,SF to Buenos Aires, Argentina
Where: Rosario
When: Nov 2nd 2011
Who: 30 passengers and 3 crew
Why: On takeoff from Rosario, the left engine had to be shut down. The engine had developed an oil leak through a conduit washer which had to be replaced.
The flight returned to the airport and made a safe landing fifteen minutes later.
Air Berlin flight AB-6182 made an emergency landing in Berlin, Germany, on November 7th.
The plane was flying from Munich, Germany, when the crew needed to shut down one of the engines and declared an emergency.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
A WestJet flight, carrying 95 passengers and 6 crew members, had to make an emergency landing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on October 21.
Airline spokesman Robert Palmer confirmed that the flight was on its way from Edmonton to Toronto when the crew reported possible smoke in the cabin. The plane was then diverted to Thunder Bay for an emergency landing.
The Boeing 737 aircraft was taken for examination after it landed uneventfully. No one was hurt.
The passengers were accommodated in other flights.
Contact photographer Kevin Gutt
What: Boeing-777-300 ER passenger jet owned by India’s JetWays en route from Delhi to London
Where: emergency landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku Azerbaijan
When: May 2nd 2009
Who: 262 passengers and 15 crew
Why: A fire alert went off in the hold, indicating smoke some four hours into the flight. The plane diverted to Baku and passengers debarked. Apparently whatever the problem was was solved quickly, (false alarm) because the next day passengers apparently continued on their way on the same plane seven hours later.
What: medical helicopter
Where: Nogales
When: Sept 14, 2010 5 pm
Who: Pilot and 2 crew
Why: After a bird strike, the medical helicopter had to make an emergency landing. The bird involved was a black vulture; and it came right through the windshield and struck the pilot in the chest.
There were no injuries reported.
A Delhi-Hyderabad Indigo flight made an emergency landing at Nagpur, Maharashtra, India when a passenger, Neelratan, had a heart attack.
Pilots made the unscheduled landing at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, where the passenger disembarked and was taken to a cardiac hospital.
After the passenger disembarked, the flight continued to its destination.
TAP Air Portugal flight TP-552 had to reject takeoff from Lisbon, Portugal, on May 9th.
The Airbus A319-100 plane was accelerating to takeoff for Munich, Germany, when the crew received a warning indication and rejected takeoff.
The plane safely returned to the apron. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.