Pictured: A Northwest/Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-200
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Contact Photographer Ben Wang
What: Northwest/Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 en route from La Crosse WI to Detroit.
Where: La Crosse
When: Jul 18th 2009
Why: When the control panel indicated nose gear issues, the pilot opted to return to La Crosse, where they made a safe landing.
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Contact photographer Mu Yun
What: Egypt Air Boeing 777-200 en route from Cairo Egypt to New York
Where: Athens
When: Dec 31st 2009
Who: 293 passengers and 15 crew
Why: While en route, the right engine developed an oil leak, and the crew had to shut it down. The pilot diverted to Athens where the plane landed safely on a long runway. A replacement flight was dispatched.
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Contact photographer Peter Heck
What: American Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Miami to New York
Where: New York
When: Feb 17th 2012
Why: On approach to New York, the plane developed problems with the left engine and pilots shut down the engine.
They made a safe landing with emergency services on stand-by.
Contact photographer Frank Robitaille
What: Air Canada Boeing 767-300 en route from Montreal,QC to Toronto,ON (Canada)
Where: Ottawa- runway 23
When: May 21st 2009
Who: 88 people on board
Why: When the flight experienced engine failure, the pilot diverted to Ottawa and landed safely.
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Contact photographer Walter Pietsch
George’s Point of View
There is wisdom in keeping your seats belts fastened even when the seat belt sign is off —
What: Air France passenger plane Boeing 777-200 flight 276 en route from Paris to Narita airport
Where: Narita airport
Who: 261 passengers and 16 crewmembers. Passsengers had no injuries, but 2 crew members suffered hip and thoracic fractures.
Why: The plane was hit by turbulence while circling above waters off Chiba Prefecture while waiting to land at Narita airport. The plane landed safely and was sent back to France after examination.
A Sikorsky S-92, Bond helicopter had to make emergency landing, when the technical warning alert light for engines started flashing.
Media sources report that on Thursday, the helicopter was set for the ENSCO 100 jack-up rig in the North Sea, when the warning alert began displaying . The pilot then had to return and land back at the Aberdeen’s heliport.
Pictured: An Air India Airbus A320-231
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Contact Photographer Rajesh Changela
What: Air India Airbus A320-200 en route from Singapore Changi Airport to Chennai India
Where: Meenambakkam airport
When: Aug 22nd 2009
Who: 132 passengers
Why: After extending the gear, one main gear tire was observed to be flat–not a surprise because debris was found at the airport of origin.
All precautions were engaged during landing and the flight landed safely with no injuries reported. The plane was towed off the runway to a maintenance bay.
