Pictured: Singapore Airlines Airbus A380-800
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Contact photographer Florent Metra
What: Singapore Airlines Airbus A380-800 en route from Paris to Singapore
Where: Paris
When: Sep 27th 2009
Who: 444 passengers
Why: South of Krakow (Poland), an oil leak was detected in the outboard left engine so it was shut down. The flight returned to Paris over five hours after departure and landed safely.
British Airways flight BA-2552 had to return and make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport, England, on July 30th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Heraklion, Greece, but had to turn back due to a hydraulic failure.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
What: Turkish Airbus en route from Istanbul to Johannesburg
Where: Entebbe
When: May 11, 2012
Who: 230 passengers
Why: A Turkish Airlines Airbus developed a technical problem and diverted to Entebbe for an emergency landing.
No injures were reported.
An undisclosed source said the airport received radio calls hurrying them to clear a runway prior to the unscheduled landing of the Turkish Airlines flight.
As you see, few details are available regarding this event. The Turkish Airlines offices in Kampala did not respond. An unofficial and unconfirmed blog post seemed to imply the event was a simulation.
Passengers were provided hotel accommodations.
So our choices for this unconfirmed situation is that this happened, didn’t happen, was pretended to have happened, or someone is pretending it didn’t happen. Your guess is as good as ours, or may be better.
Iraqi Airways flight IA-443 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on July 31st.
The plane heading from Basra, Iraq, to New Delhi, India, was diverted due to an engine malfunction.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
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Contact photographer Jason Whitebird
What: Westjet Airlines Boeing 737-800 en route from Toronto Pearson to Vancouver, BC
Where: Vancouver
When: Oct 4th 2009
Who: 130 on board
Why: While en route, the flight encountered turbulence. The turbulence threw a flight attendant to the floor, who then struck a metal bar protruding from the left jump seat. The plane landed safely with no other injuries reported.
A Royal Flight Airlines Plane, performing flight flight 4R-7772, had to divert and make an emergency landing in Astrakhan, Russia, on March 6th.
The Boeing 757-200 aircraft was en-route from Goa, India, to Moscow, Russia, when the crew reported an electronic issue and requested an emergency landing.
The plane landed safely. There were 224 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unhurt.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
What: homemade single-engine plane attempting to land at Marshalltown airport
Where: Iowa field
When: Wednesday 7 p.m.
Who: 74-year-old Vernon Knott and passenger 77-year-old Clara Erickson from from Rhode Island
Why: The plane crash-landed in the field. Pilot and passenger survived.
