Scandinavian Airlines Flight 0936 had to return and make an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport, California, at around 8 p.m. on June 19.
The plane was diverted after the pilot reported smoke coming out of the cockpit. The flight was heading to Copenhagen, Denmark at the time.
The plane landed uneventfully. Authorities said the smoke had vanished before landing.
Boliviana de Aviacion flight OB-442 made an emergency landing in La Paz, Bolivia, on August 18th.
The Boeing 737-300 aircraft had departed for Cochabamba, Bolivia, when the crew reported that cabin did not pressurize and decided to turn back.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
The two men who died in the accident were 51-year-old Cyril McLavin, of Fresh Meadows in Queens, and 72-year-old Andrew Messana, from Bayside, Queens.
The accident is under investigation.
What: Globe Swift en route from Spadaro Airport
Where: Moriches inlet, Fire Island
When: Oct 20, 2012 3 p.m.
Who: 2 aboard
Why: A Globe Swift plane that took off from Spadaro Airport had two aboard.
Three people en route from Alamosa to Ogden made an emergency landing in a Trans Med LLC Cirrus SR22 #N426TF when they experienced some problems with the plane.
But they came in fast, bounced over a hill, rolled, etc, off the runway to a nearby road in Mack Colorado, around 6 pm September 23, 2013. I guess we could call this a runway excursion. It appears to have been quite an excursion from the runway. I suppose we are writing about it here because of the fast landing. We don’t know the problem that forced the pilot to land in Mack.
The pilot and his two passengers apparently suffered very minor injuries that did not prevent them from renting a car and driving from Grand Junction to Ogden.
The NTSB is investigating. The pilot and passengers were not mentioned by name.
Mack is a small town 10 miles east of the Colorado/Utah border in Mesa County, Colorado. We had never heard of it either.
Delta Airlines flight DL-1157 had to reject takeoff from Los Angeles, California, on July 9th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane was accelerating to takeoff for Kansas City, Missouri, when the crew rejected takeoff due to an engine failure.
The plane stopped safely and was towed to the apron. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
According to the FAA, the faulty engine also left shrapnel on the runway.
A small plane crashed near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in Florida, on April 12.
Authorities said the twin-engine Piper PA-31 was attempting to land at the airport when it went down near Northwest 62nd Street.
All 4 people aboard the plane were killed in the crash. Their identities have not yet been released.
The aircraft took off from Orlando Executive Airport.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
A helicopter crashed near Lituya Bay, Alaska, on September 28th.
The helicopter was transporting four people from Grand Prairie, Texas, to Wasilla, Alaska, when it went down.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a 14-year-old survivor of the crash. Other occupants of the aircraft remain missing.
