What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 en route from Austin,TX to Tampa,FL
Where: Tampa
When: Feb 27th 2012
Why: While on approach, a bird impacted the Southwest Boeing.
Pilots made a safe landing. There was substantial damage to the plane
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What: Boeing-777-300 ER passenger jet owned by India’s JetWays en route from Delhi to London
Where: emergency landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku Azerbaijan
When: May 2nd 2009
Who: 262 passengers and 15 crew
Why: A fire alert went off in the hold, indicating smoke some four hours into the flight. The plane diverted to Baku and passengers debarked. Apparently whatever the problem was was solved quickly, (false alarm) because the next day passengers apparently continued on their way on the same plane seven hours later.
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Pegasus Airlines flight PC-4162 made a safe landing at Erkilet International Airport, Kayseri, Turkey, on August 11.
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The plane was damaged.
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China Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Japan
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The decision for emergency landing was made after the pilots noticed fuel levels rapidly dropping in the Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
The passengers were accommodated in flight CI-123 to Taipei and flight CI-309 to Kaohsiung. China Airlines served dinner to all 154 passengers aboard before they resumed their journey.
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Frontier Airlines Flight Returns to Denver After Bird Strike
Frontier Airlines flight F9-452 returned to Denver, Colorado, on September 10th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia, but had to turn back due to a bird strike.
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back to base | Boeing | Emergency | Korean Air | nose gear | S Korea
Korean Airlines Plane Returns to Seoul Airport
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The Boeing 777-300 took off for Manila, Philippines, but had to return shortly afterwards after its nose gear failed to retract.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 267 people aboard remained safe.
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