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What: Air Mauritius Airbus A340-300 en route from Johannesburg S Africa to Mauritius
Where: Mauritius
When: Jul 28th 2011
Who: 65 passengers, 13 crew
Why: On approach to Mauritius, the flight encountered turbulence that injured 6 crew members and one passenger.
The injured were hospitalized.
Envoy Air Flight 3530 had to return and make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York on April 30.
The plane took off for Detroit but had to turn back shortly afterwards after one or more birds hit its left wing flap.
The plane landed safely. All 62 passengers aboard remained unhurt.
Air Astana flight KC-672 made an emergency landing in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on March 7th.
The Boeing 757-200 plane was flying from Astana, Kazakhstan, when the crew needed to shut down one of the engines due to a technical problem.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All 69 passengers and 8 crew members remained unharmed.
A small plane made an uneventful emergency landing on a residential street in Melrose, Florida, on Tuesday April 1.
The incident was reported to the police by a neighbour who saw the plane going down.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office confirms that the plane landed on Hotel Street at about 13:30 pm. No one, including the pilot, was injured in the incident and the ultralight plane also remained undamaged.
The pilot told the media that he was landing his airplane on his property, but refused to provide further details.
Pictured: A Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee in Arkansas
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What: Oak Ridge Flyers Inc. Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee B
Where: Oliver Springs Airport in Anderson County, TN
When: 18-OCT-2009
Who: 4 on board, 1 fatality
Why: After a hard landing, the plane struck a tree.
The pilot was Doyle R. Chadwick.
The passengers, all of whom survived, were Phillip Byrge, 49, and his 12-year-old son Nathan and 8-year-old daughter Mary.
President of the Oliver Springs Airport board of directors,Steve Hamel, was quoted as saying that he believes “Wind and a wet runway likely played a role in the crash….It’s a grass runway, and it looks like the skid marks of extended distance here, that the brakes may have been locked up on the airplane”
Pictured: AeroSvit Airlines Boeing 737-529 Moscow
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What: Aerosvit Boeing 737-500 en route from Tbilisi Georgia to Kiev Ukraine
Where: Kiev
When: Dec 28th 2009
Who: not available
Why: While landing during heavy snow, the plane ran off the runway and mired in a snow bank. The runway was closed. As snow continued, the other runway also closed.
The current weather in Kiev:
Kyiv, UR (Airport)
Updated: 9 min 23 sec ago
28 °F
Light Snow Blowing Snow
Windchill: 15 °F
Humidity: 80%
Dew Point: 23 °F
Wind: 20 mph from the West
Pressure: 29.56 in (Steady)
Visibility: 3.7 miles
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds:
Overcast 2300 ft
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 551 ft
Dec 20, 2012, 20:38; Air Berlin Airbus A330-223 was en route from Phuket to Abu Dhabi. Not long after takeoff, the plane developed engine problems. Smoke was detected in the cabin.
Witnesses on the ground heard three “explosions” when the flight took off, and saw smoke.
Pilots returned to Phuket where they made a hard (fast/heavy) landing that blew three tires. Of the 249 passengers and ten crew, none were injured. The passengers, mostly German, were provided a hotel, and a flight the next day.
The plane was sprayed to cool it down and sent to be examined by maintenance.