A small plane made an emergency landing on U.S. Highway 101, south of San Jose, in California, on June 6, 2015.
The single-engine plane was flying from Harris Ranch Airport, Coalinga when it lost engine power and had to land in emergency.
There were 4 people aboard, including the 20-year-old pilot Wyatt Grow; all of them remained unhurt.
The southbound lanes of the highway were temporarily closed due to the incident.
What: AirTran Flight 388 from Orlando to Moline made an unscheduled landing Friday in Atlanta after a handful of passengers
Where: diverted the plane to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
When: Feb 6, 2009
Who: Number of passengers not released. One crew member was hospitalized.
Why: crew and passengers who complained about the dizziness. They were checked out and most continued on a different plane ( flight took off from Atlanta around 12:35pm CST) to continue the trip to Moline.
A United Airways flight had to make an emergency landing at Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on the night of January 12.
The plane had to be landed in emergency minutes after taking off, after the crew noticed “mechanical fault in one of its engines”.
The plane landed safely.
All 170 passengers aboard remained unhurt.
JetBlue flight B6-915 had to divert for an emergency landing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 30th.
The Airbus A321-200 plane heading from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to San Francisco, California, was diverted after a lithium battery inside a passenger’s laptop caught fire.
The plane landed safely. All 158 people aboard remained unharmed.
JetKonnect Airlines flight S2-4364 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Hyderabad, India, on December 3rd.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Kolkata to Bangalore, India, was diverted after the crew reported a hydraulic issue.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 147 passengers and 8 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
When a Bristow S-76 Helicopter with eight passengers and two crew fishtailed as it was flying from from Humberside Airport to a gas platform in the North Sea, the helicopter made a precautionary landing. The crew smelled smoke in the cockpit at the time.
The investigation concluded that an electrical short had occurred in a wiring loom.
The incident occurred on Sept 26, 2012.
The report is below:
Azul Brazilian Airlines flight AD-5200 had to return and make an emergency landing at Viracopos International Airport, Brazil, on November 14th.
The plane took off for Curitiba, Brazil, but had to turn back after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines due to the loss of oil pressure.
The plane landed back safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
