Southwest Airlines flight WN-2515 made an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport, Connecticut, on October 23rd.
The Boeing 737-700 plane heading from Manchester, New Hampshire, to Orlando, Florida, was diverted after it received a lightning strike, followed by an abnormal gear indication.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Etihad Airways flight EY-833 had to return and make an emergency landing in Hong Kong, China, on January 11th.
The Airbus A330-200 plane took off for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a flaps control problem.
The plane landed safely after burning off excess fuel.
All passengers and crew members remained safe.
What is significant here is that no report was filed on the United Boeing 787-800 (Washington Dulles,DC-Paris Charles de Gaulle) that received a main battery overheat indication while landing in Paris on
Nov 12th 2017. The battery was venting fluid via from the forward vent relief system. The NTSB reported to Aviation Herald that the occurrence was rated a non-reportable incident. No investigation was opened. 14 other SDR reports were filed).
American Airlines flight AA-5653 made an emergency landing in Watertown, New York, on January 15th.
The plane took off for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but had to turn back due to a configuration problem.
The plane landed back safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
A SpiceJet aircraft was hit by a bird while landing at Srinagar International Airport, India, on April 28.
According to Airport director R N Shinde, “There was a bird hit on a Spice Jet flight SG160 coming from Jammu at the airport at 11:10 am… The aircraft experienced bird hit on the nose while landing.”
The plane landed uneventfully. All 180 people aboard remained safe.
The aircraft was grounded.
What: Ethiopian airplane Boeing 737-800 Flight 407 en route from Addis Ababa to Beirut
Where: Beirut International Airport
When: June 17 2010
Who: 78 passengers
Why: The flight returned to the airport because of an “undisclosed technical problem.” Crew noticed a door was rattling and had been closed improperly. (It is unclear if that was the technical problem.) The flight made a safe landing. The same plane was cleared for takeoff six hours later.
What: Heli-Usa helicopter
Where: Kauai, Hawaii
When: 03 10, 2007, 1:05 pm
Who: four fatalities, 3 injuries
Why: As a tour was ending, after experiencing hydraulic problems, a helicopter crashed at the the northwest end of Princeville airport a hundred yards from the terminal. A description of the wreckage indicated that the front of the helicopter was torn off, the tail was snapped off, and the rotors were broken. First responders attempted to save the four fatalities.
The pilot who had 10,000 hours on that helicopter died in the crash.
Four injured were taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital. One died en route.
Nine miles away….
What: Smokey Mountain Helicopters out of Delaware. It’s the parent company of Inter-Island Helicopter
Where: North shore of Kauai, Hawaii
When: 1:05 pm
Who: five aboard, one fatality, four injuries.
Why: The pilot heard a loud bang, and lost control of the helicopter, which fell down in a spiral formation on to a Hanalei campsite
The debris field is spread from the ocean to the beach. A dive team will be searching the ocean for the tail rotor, gear box and drive shaft which were flung afield. Witnesses extricated survivors out of the wreckage
