An Airbus A330 plane registered to Singapore Airlines slipped off the runway while it was landing on Yangon International Airport, Myanmar.
The incident happened at about 9:20am on May 21 when the flight SQ998, carrying 265 people was making a landing attempt during heavy rain in Yangon. None of the passengers or crew members were hurt.
The plane was later steered back and towed to the gate. The airline sent another plane to Yangon for the return flight.
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Contact photographer Alastair T. Gardiner
What: Air India Airbus A310-300 en route from Mumbai to Delhi
Where: Mumba
When: Dec 26th 2009
Who: not available
Why: When the Air India Airbus encountered a technical problem, the flight returned to make a safe landing in Mumbai.
However, passengers were held inside the plane for three hours; and the replacement flight did not arrive for those passengers for 7 hours.
Those are going to be some unhappy campers. Hopefully Air India will provide them compensation beyond peanuts and drinking water.
Eurowings flight EW-598 made an emergency landing at Palma de Mallorca Airport, Spain, on September 14th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane flying from Cologne, Germany, was on final approach to Palma de Mallorca Airport when the crew went around due to an issue with the flaps.
The plane subsequently landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
A passenger aboard Singapore Airlines flight SIA317 said he was shocked to receive a $US1171.46 bill for using plane’s Wi-Fi.
Jeremy Gutsche was on his way from London to Singapore on November 12 when he decided to use in-flight Wi-Fi to check emails.
“So what does it take to rack up $1200 of internet use? In my case, just 155 page views, mostly to my email… At one point, I spent about an hour uploading one 4mb powerpoint doc. That doc probably cost me $100 to upload, so I hope my team liked it. I actually even emailed them a warning that my upload was taking a while. That email probably cost me $10. And yes, the pricing per mb was disclosed on sign-up, but I bought the $30 package, slept through most the flight, and really didn’t think I’d end up a thousand bucks past the limit,” he wrote on Trend Hunter.
What: Alitalia Airbus A320-200 en route from Rome to Genoa
Where: Rome
When: Feb 2nd 2011
Why: The flight returned to Rome because it was carrying the luggage of a passenger who was not aboard. The flight returned to Rome, the luggage was removed and the plane departed again an hour later.
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Contact Photographer Karl Nixon
What: Thomas Cook Airlines Airbus A330-200 en route from Belfast to Orlando
Where: Norfolk
When: Jul 10th 2009
Who: 265
Why: En route, an engine started vibrating and had to be shut down. The crew decided to divert to Norfolk,VA
George’s Point of View
Another Airbus.
Shutting down the engine is standard operating procedure, and at the same time, it is a near fatality because the pilot had to shut down that vibrating engine while the plane was still over the Atlantic Ocean, 60 miles from land. Can you imagine what was going through this Airbus pilot’s head as he made the decision to shut down that engine? No doubt he was thinking about last month’s two latest Airbus tragedies: Air France flight 447, or perhaps the Yemenia Airlines Airbus.
I know how overdramatic this sounds. Pilots shut down engines all of the time. it’s the very reason they fly with more than one. Just in case. Pilot training covers how to fly on the remaining engines. But this is just July 2009. Even the most well -trained Airbus pilot has last month’s story of Air France flight 447 in his mind, especially when he’s flying something that fails over the ocean.
This Thomas Cook Flight wasn’t experiencing a subtle problem. It wasn’t some subtle, quiet control panel error that could be handled as passengers flew along blissfully unaware and uninformed. In interviews of passengers, they are quoted as describing the engine as “vibrating” or “clackity.” No doubt there were 530 sweaty palms on that plane.
This was one of at least 5 airbus events we heard about today–and it is not in fact, even a complete listing. Hopefully at least the pilot gets serious credit for getting these people safely on the ground.
Who in the world is going to intercede and demand that Airbuses (every model) get checked from A-Z BEFORE they take off ‘in every part of the globe’? Vero?
