A small plane had to make an emergency landing in a field near DuPage Airport in West Chicago, Illinois, on October 11.
Authorities said the BE36 plane landed in emergency after experiencing engine failure.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, remained safe.
The FAA was investigating.
Air Algerie flight AH-1005 had to return and make an emergency landing at Paris Orly Airport, France, on October 2nd.
The Airbus A330-200 plane took off for Algiers, Algeria, but had to return shortly afterwards due to an engine fire indication.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
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What: Virgin America Airbus en route from San Francisco to New York City
Where: Grand Junction Colorado
When: September 8, 2011, 2:00 a.m.
Who: 111 passengers and 6 crew
Why: While en route, the Virgin America flight experienced problems, described by one passenger as “the engine quit” and by another as “a giant flame from the engine.” While en route, passengers were awakened by a loud noise, and according to one passenger, flight attendants rushed to the cockpit.
Pilots shut the engine down and continued the flight. Individuals with military experience were asked to assist in case of emergency.
(We don’t usually get this much detail, but it is clear that the passengers were terrified. Pilots always say these huge jets with multiple engines are built to fly without one, in case of emergency; but personally I can relate more to the anxiety of the passengers than the confidence of pilots in their machines. Though one has to admit, knowing a pilot confident in his plane is flying is more comforting to a passenger than a pilot who is hysterical.)
Pilots explained the situation to the passengers. Forty minutes later landed safely in Grand Junction.
Passengers were provided hotel accommodation, $150 for another flight, and another flight was provided within ten hours. The incident is under investigation.
What: private Partenavia P.68C Victor plane en route from Caracas to Charallave, Venezuela
Where: Lima Blanco, Western Venezuela
When: Jan 7 2011
Who: 7 passengers: 6 fatalities, 10 year old girl survives
Why: There were 7 passengers aboard when the Maiquetia control tower tracked the plane as heading to Cojedes.
The wreckage was found near Limo Blanco, in Cojedes. 4 adults and either one or two children died on the scene. A ten year old girl survived the crash and was taken to the San Carlos Hospital.
Pilot Said José Saldivia, Luis Oropeza, Edith Araujo, and Martha Araujo were the adults aboard the flight.
On Feb 08 2013, a Centro Universitario de Aviación Cessna 172R Skyhawk #LV-GEU with four aboard took off from La Matanza – Club Universitario de Aviación for a student flight and crashed in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.
The crash site is a property located at 1500 meters from the intersection of Belt Road and Avenue Juan XXIII, former Black Road, in Lomas de Zamora, in a field next to the Lomas de Zamora federal shooting range.Two passengers were expelled from the plane, and two trapped inside.
Ambulances struggling to get to the scene got lost because they had not established exact coordinates.
Two doctors were flying the plane. The 38 year old was piloting, and the 44 year-old was the co-pilot. Two passengers were aboard, one 45 years old, and one 20 years old. The names have not been released.
The cause of the accident is being investigated by ANAC and the police. Buenos Aires police personnel had custody of the outer perimeter of the crash site overnight.
Eyewitnesses say the plane ignited in the air but a pilot who was flying over during the crash say it ignited on impact with the ground.
Firefighters, police officers technicians, and the mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martin Insaurralde were at the scene of the accident.
Brussels Airlines flight SN-357 had to return and make an emergency landing at Brussels Airport, Belgium, on May 13th.
The Airbus A330-300 flying to Kinshasa, Congo, had to return due to hydraulic failure.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
