• At Indianapolis International Airport noon on Sept 27 a Boston-Indianapolis plane landed with flap problems
  • At Purdue Airport at 2:25 pm on Sept 27 a Citation jet made a pass before making an emergency landing with a landing gear problem.
  • At JFK a TAM flight 8078 from Rio de Janeiro to NY landed with nose gear failure
  • At Kenosha Municipal Airport a plane taking off failed to gain altitude and crash landed in a Kenosha County Detention Center field. One wing struck a tree. The pilot wasn’t injured. photos
  • In Anchorage Merrill Field, a red Robinson 22 lost power and crashed from a height of 10 feet (possibly while practicing hovering.) The chopper flipped and fell. The two crew fell out, and walked away.
  • An overheated Era Aviation Kodiak to Anchorage flight with 31 aboard plus 3 crew diverted to Homer and made a safe landing on Sept 24.
  • A Cessna 175 failed to land on a Spearfish landing strip, and made an emergency landing in a hay field where the landing gear was torn from the plane. The field caught on fire, burning to acres of grass. Pilot John Widdoss had minor injuries and passenger Justin Bierschwale was unhurt.

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Taftan Airlines Flight Returns to Tehran After Engine Failure

Taftan Airlines flight HH-6245 had to return and make an emergency landing in Tehran, Iran, on December 18th.

The plane took off for Ahvaz, Iran, but had to turn back due to an engine failure.

The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty-nine passengers and ten crew members remained unharmed.

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Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing on U.S. Highway 27

A small plane made an emergency landing on U.S. highway 27, just north of Interstate 75, in Weston, Broward County, Florida, on January 24.

The Cessna 172 was en-route from Palm Beach County to Key West when the pilot Arnaldo Santiago, of Palm Beach Gardens, noticed some issue in the plane and decided to land on the highway.

The plane landed uneventfully. There were three people aboard at the time; none of them were injured.

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Air Canada Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Vancouver International Airport

On August 30th, Air Canada flight AC-7 made an emergency landing at Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, Canada.

The plane took off for Hong Kong, China, but had to turn back due to a hydraulic indication.

The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained safe.

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Lifenet Medical Evacuation Chopper Down in Missouri, Four Fatalities

What: Air Methods Corp Eurocopter AS-350 en route from a hospital in St. Joseph, MO
Where: a field a mile north of Midwest National Air Center. Missouri
When: April 26, 2011, 7 pm
Who: 3 crew and one patient
Why: The St. Joseph Missouri medical chopper was on the way to Liberty Kansas about to refuel at Midwest National Air Center in Mosby when it went down in a Clay County field. There is no indication what went wrong that caused the crash and skies were reported to be clear. The wreckage is reported to be mangled. According to the video below the wreck might have been a failed landing, hitting the skids, then flipping.

There were no survivors. The crew lost in the crash were Randy Bever, Flight Nurse, 47, of Savannah, Mo., Chris Frakes, Flight Paramedic, 36, of Savannah, Mo. and James Freudenberg, Pilot, 34, of Rapid City, Sd.

The name of the 58-year-old female passenger has not yet been released.

The helicopter was certified in 2005, good until 2013. Key Equipment Finance Inc. out of Boulder, CO.holds the lien and it was being operated by LifeNet, a subsidiary of Air Methods Inc. of Englewood, CO.

The NTSB is investigating.

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Hong Kong Ferry Flight Goes Awry


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What: Continental owned 757 being delivered to Hong Kong for maintenance
Where: Guam International Airport
When: Jan 17, 2010
Who: 4 crew
Why: Shortly after takeoff, the plane made a noise like a backfire and the left engine failed. The plane was witnessed to fly over Barrigada, bank north over Tumon, fly out over the Philippine Sea before returning to the airport to make a safe landing.

Continental seems to be planning to use the 757 in an upcoming regular route to Hong Kong.

One wonders if the 757 is not a Hong Kong regular, why 757 maintenance is being ferried there.

Airport firefighters responded at 7 am.

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Plane Makes Emergency Landing at Capital City Airport

A twin-engine Citation aircraft had to return and make an emergency landing at Capital City Airport in Fairview Township, York County, Pennsylvania, on September 19.

Authorities said the plane was near Chambersburg when one of its engines failed, prompting the pilot to turn around.

The plane landed safely.

Both people aboard remained unharmed.

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