A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Alabama, on November 22nd.
The plane heading from Boston, Massachusetts, to Houston, Texas, was diverted due to a medical emergency.
The plane landed safely.
Daallo Airlines flight D3159 had to return and make an emergency landing in Mogadishu, Somalia, on February 2nd.
The Airbus A321 plane took off for Djibouti, but had to return shortly afterwards after an explosion sparked fire and blew a hole in the fuselage.
The plane landed back uneventfully. There were 74 passengers and crew members aboard at the time; two of them sustained minor injuries.
The incident is under investigation.
GoJet Airlines flight DL-6219 made an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine, on July 18th.
The plane heading from Portland, Maine, to Detroit, Michigan, was diverted due to a hydraulic failure.
The plane landed safely. All seventy-two people aboard remained unharmed.
An Ethiopian Airlines flight had to divert and make an emergency landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, Pakistan, on March 18th.
The plane heading from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Beijing, China, was diverted after a mentally disabled patient attacked and injured his medical attendant.
The authorities said both passengers involved in the fight were Chinese nationals.
The plane landed safely.
Aurora flight HZ-5616/SU-5616 had to return and make an emergency landing at Vladivostok International Airport, Vladivostok, Russia, on December 28.
The Airbus A319-100 was en-route from Vladivostok, to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, when the crew noticed some problem with one of its board computers and decided to return.
The plane landed safely.
All 122 passengers onboard remained safe.
A small plane crashed in Imperial County, California, on November 24th.
The plane was carrying two people when it went down near Highway 78 and Ted Kipf Road.
One person was killed in the accident while the other one was injured.
The accident is being investigated.
Emirates flight EK-19 had to divert and land at Heathrow Airport, London, England, UK, on March 26.
The Airbus A380-800, flying from Dubai, UAE to Manchester, England, was on approach to runway when the crew had to divert it to London after receiving a computer warning that the runway was too short.
The plane landed safely.
All passengers onboard remained unharmed.
