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What: Delta/ Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 en route from Detroit to Rochester
Where: Rochester
When: Apr 27th 2010
Who: 15 passengers and 3 crew
Why: On approach to Rochester, the crew smelled smoke in the cockpit, and smoke was visibly detected. The flight made a safe landing, ostensibly planning to evacuate on the runway. However, after the safe landing, the plane taxied to the gate.

Maintenance confirmed that the smoke was caused by burning hydraulic fluid.

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Vintage Plane Crashes during Fort Myers Airshow


Pictured: a Curtiss Wright Travel Air 4000
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Contact photographer Paul Robbins

What: Low and Slow Aviation Ventures Curtiss Wright Travel Air 4000 built in 1927
Where: Page Field General Aviation Airport
When: 10:18 a.m.
Who: pilot and 2 passengers
Why: During an event during which rides were sold, the vintage bi-plane crashed. A witness noted the pilot was in trouble before the crash.

Two victims, a small boy and an older gentleman, left the wreckage on their own before being taken to the hospital. The pilot was removed by EMS.

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Qantas Engine Surge; Emergency Landing in Bangkok


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Contact photographer Kris Mogford

What: Qantas Boeing 747-400 en route from Bangkok to London
Where: Bangkok
When: Apr 6th 2010
Who: 335 passengers
Why: After takeoff, engine four had an engine surge. The crew decided to return to Bangkok where they circled, dumped fuel and made a safe landing. Passengers were provided accommodations, and an alternative flight. There were no injuries.

This is the sixth Qantas incident this week.

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4 Lost in Chopper Crash in Austrian Lake

What: Eurocopter EC135P2 Helicopter registration OE-BXF
Where: Lake Achensee, Austria
When: March 31, 2011
Who: 4 crew members, 4 fatalities
Why: During a border inspection flight, the helicopter was flying very low, and tipped the surface lightly, the helicopter shot up, then fell. The helicopter had a crew of 3 Tyroleans and one Swiss. The air rescue and mountain guide, Stephen L. (38) was found floating; Pilot Mark P. (41), Mr Herbert F. (53) from the state police, and a Swiss civil servant (43) were not found until evening. They appeared to have been trapped in the cockpit. The pilot had 2,500 flight hours,and the helicopter was new.

Fire and water emergency personnel responded, and (3 rescue helicopters and 43 divers) dive teams are on site using sonar imaging. They are looking for the black box so they can learn the details of the crash.

In 2009 in Syria, two people died in an EC 135 helicopter.


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Nepal: Stranded Passengers to the Rescue


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Contact photographer Vivek Manvi

What: Agni Air Dornier Do-228 en route from Pokhara to Kathmandu Nepal
Where: Pokhara
When: May 11th 2010
Who: 16 passengers and 2 crew
Why: After takeoff, the crew detected a hydraulic leak and turned around to make an immediate (less than ten minutes later) landing.

Apparently passengers disembarked and helped the crew push the plane off the runway.

George’s Point of View

I’d like to see pictures of that happening in New York. Or LA for that matter.

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Korean Air Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Japan

Korean Air flight KE-783 made an emergency landing in Fukuoka, Japan, on June 9th.

The Boeing 737-900 plane flying from Busan, South Korea, was descending toward Fukuoka when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and requested emergency assistance.

The plane continued for a safe landing.

There were one hundred and fifty-three passengers and nine crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.

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Nosewheel Steering Failure Grounds Airbus


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Contact photographer Florian Kondziela

What: Qantas Airbus A380-800 en route from Singapore to London
Where: London
When: Dec 4th 2009
Who: not available
Why: While landing, the Airbus developed a problem with the nose wheel steering and had to be towed off the runway. The plane was grounded in London waiting for spare parts, anticipating the return flight to be delayed less than half a day.

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