Privilege Style flight EC-ISY had to divert and make an emergency landing at Brindisi Airport, Italy, on May 5th.
The Boeing 757-200 flying from Corfu, Greece, to Leipzig, Germany, had to divert due to loss of cabin pressure.
The plane landed safely.
All 164 people aboard remained safe.
Ethiopian Airlines flight ET-338 overran the end of the runway after landing in Entebbe, Uganda, on January 3rd.
The incident happened when the Boeing 737-800 plane was coming from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The plane came to stop on soft ground. All one hundred and thirty-nine people aboard remained uninjured.
United Airlines flight 2068 had to return and make an emergency landing in San Francisco due to a mechanical problem.
The Seattle-bound flight took off from San Francisco International Airport at about 1:30 p.m. on May 23. Shortly after it took off, a mechanical problem was discovered in the plane.
The Boeing 757 was then returned to San Francisco where it made an uneventful emergency landing at about 1:57 p.m.. No one was injured in the incident.
Another plane was arranged to take the passengers to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
EasyJet flight U2-4545 made an emergency landing in Nice, France, on September 21st.
The Airbus A319-100 plane flying from Berlin, Germany, was descending toward Nice when three crew members reported having headache due to an unidentified odor on-board.
The plane landed safely. The injured crew members were taken to hospitals.
Aerodynamics Inc. flight 4A-286 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 11th.
The Embraer ERJ-145 plane heading from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, was diverted due to electrical problems.
The plane landed uneventfully.
The flight was carrying NASCAR team members at the time; all of them remained safe.
Envoy Air flight MQ-3526 had to divert for an emergency landing in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29th.
The Embraer ERJ-145 plane was heading from Sioux City, Iowa, to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, when the crew reported that the flaps could not be fully retracted.
The plane was diverted to Kansas City where it landed safely.
All 45 people aboard remained unharmed.
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What: Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 Philadelphia to Paris
Where: Shannon Ireland
When: November 20, 2010, 6:30 am
Who: 152 passengers 7 crew
Why: While over the Atlantic, the right engine developed problems. Pilots shut it down, and diverted to Shannon where they made a safe landing. Passengers were provided an alternative flight.
I usually try just to get the facts. But when people read these alerts, it is not just the plane. Like on this flight. Can you imagine being aboard this flight, over the Atlantic—as on the infamous Air France Flight 447—and losing an engine? Can you picture your feelings at the moment you realize the failure, and every moment thereafter, until you were safely on the ground? Even with a capable functioning plane, and competent crew. Even with the knowledge that the plane could afford to shut down an engine. Having to sit politely in your row, and believing on some level, that you were placidly waiting to die while strapped in like a trapped like a Chilean Miner in a snow globe hurtling through space toward who knows what fate? Even if I do not write it, behind these lines, there is always a human element.
