THY Turkish Airlines flight TK-1722 had to return and make an emergency landing at Berlin Tegel Airport, Berlin, Germany, on September 12th.
The Airbus A330-300 en-route to Istanbul, Turkey, had to return due to an open cargo door indication.
The plane landed safely.
No injuries were reported.
Air Berlin flight AB-7024 had to return for an emergency landing in Dusseldorf, Germany, on August 27th.
The plane took off for Havana, Cuba, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a hydraulic failure.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Germanwings flight 4U-8990 made an emergency landing at Berlin Tegel Airport, Germany, on July 19th.
The plane took off for Domodedovo International Airport, Russia, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a hydraulic issue.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 131 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Air Berlin flight AB-6048 had to divert and make a safe emergency landing at Cologne Bonn Airport, Cologne, Germany, on July 15th.
The Airbus A330-200 flying from Munich to Dusseldorf, Germany was mid-air when the crew announced an unreliable fuel quantity indication.
The plane landed successfully.
All people onboard remained unharmed.
Lufthansa flight LH-2029 made a safe emergency landing at Munich Airport, Germany, on June 29th.
The Airbus A321-100, flying from Berlin, Germany, was mid-air when the crew noticed an issue with one of its engines.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Lufthansa flight LH-178 had to return and make an emergency landing in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 30th.
The Airbus A321-200 plane took off for Berlin, Germany, but had to return shortly afterwards after it developed an engine problem.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 198 passengers aboard remained unhurt.
Air Berlin flight AB-7495 made an emergency landing in Kuwait, on April 20th.
The plane, heading from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to Berlin, Germany, had to be diverted due to electronic problems.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
A Ryanair flight had to divert and make an emergency landing at Berlin Schonefeld Airport, Germany, on February 26th.
The plane, heading from London Luton Airport in Bedfordshire, England, to Bratislava, Slovakia, was diverted after six drunk passengers became aggressive mid-flight.
The six men were a part of 12-man stag party group from Southampton, led by 26-year-old groom-to-be Joshua Marriner. Some sources reported that the passengers became violent after they were refused more alcohol.
The plane landed uneventfully. The disruptive passengers were taken into custody by German federal police in Berlin.
The flight resumed after a short delay.
A 1960 Piper Comanche single-engine plane made an emergency landing at Millville Municipal Airport, Cumberland County, New Jersey, on December 4.
Authorities said the plane was taking off when it lost power and landed on its belly on the grass near a taxiway.
There were two people aboard at the time, including the pilot Roger Buck of Berlin and his passenger Roland Arthur of Lumberton. Buck sustained minor injuries in the incident while Arthur remained unhurt.
The plane, registered to Buck, was significantly damaged.
The FAA is investigating.
U2 singer Bono had a midair mishap on November 12 when the luggage-compartment door of his private Learjet 60 fell off over Germany.
The incident happened when rockstar was on his way from Dublin to Berlin, to perform at the Bambi Awards.
The plane landed safely at the Berlin Schonefeld Airport at around 12:26 a.m. Besides Bono, there were 4 passengers and 2 pilots in the plane. None of them was harmed.
Germout Freitag, from the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, said, “The ground crew realized the door was gone and two suitcases had fallen out…Officials have not yet located the two suitcases or the hatch door, but they have been able to pinpoint the area where they are likely to have landed by the radar.”
The cause of accident is under investigation.