Qatar Airways flight QR-1428 made an emergency landing in Djibouti, on July 24th.
The Boeing 787-800 plane heading from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Doha, Qatar, was diverted after the crew noticed a technical fault.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Flybe flight BE-480 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on January 16th.
The plane heading from Manchester, England, to Belfast, Northern Ireland, was diverted due to a suspected technical fault.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Finnair flight AY-1072 had to return and make an emergency landing in Riga, Latvia, on January 12th.
The plane took off for Helsinki, Finland, but had to turn back due to a technical fault.
The plane landed back safely. All twenty-eight passengers and four crew members remained unharmed.
A Russian military helicopter made an emergency landing in Hama, Syria, on October 6th.
The Mi-28 helicopter was escorting a Mi-8 transport helicopter when it experienced a technical fault.
The aircraft landed safely. No injuries were reported.
Flybe flight BE-2108 made an emergency landing at Manchester Airport, England, on October 3rd.
The plane heading from Heathrow Airport, England, to Edinburgh, Scotland, was diverted due to a suspected technical fault.
The plane landed safely. All forty-eight passengers aboard remained unharmed.
Jetstar flight JQ7 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Darwin International Airport, Australia, on December 21.
The plane, en-route from Melbourne, Australia, to Singapore, experienced a brief period of turbulence after which, the pilot “identified a technical fault with one of the instruments on the flight deck and opted to divert to Darwin as a precaution,” an airline spokesperson said.
The plane landed uneventfully. No injuries were reported.
The aircraft was taken for examination.
A plane, carrying China’s richest man Wang Jianlin, made an emergency landing at Agartala airport, India, on June 11.
The head of Dalian Wanda group, Wang Jianli and 8 other people were aboard the flight that was en-route from New Delhi, India to Beijing, China. Authorities said the Gulfstream G650 jet had to make an emergency landing due to a technical snag in its engines.
Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
The aircraft was grounded while Jianlin and other passengers were transported to a hotel.
Flybe flight BE384 had to return and make an emergency landing in Southampton, England, on June 5.
According to an airline spokesperson, “Flybe can confirm that flight BE384 travelling to Dublin returned from airborne to Southampton following a suspected technical issue. The aircraft landed without incident and all passengers disembarked as normal… Upon inspection, Flybe engineers did discover that the cause of the issue was a bee that had become lodged in an item of instrumentation on the outside of the aircraft… The safety of its passengers and crew is the airline’s number one priority and Flybe regrets any inconvenience experienced as a result of the delay to this flight.”
Vietnam Airlines flight VN350 had to make an emergency landing in Hong Kong, at around 4:10 a.m. on January 4.
The airline confirmed that the Airbus 321, heading from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to Fukuoka, Japan, was forced to land in emergency due to a technical fault in ventilation system.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 184 passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
The passengers were accommodated in another flight.
Vietnam Airlines flight VN1266 had to make an emergency landing at Noi Bai international airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the afternoon of December 16.
The pilot of the flight, en-route from Ho Chi Minh City to Vinh, sought permission for emergency landing after the cabin began de-pressurizing and oxygen masks deployed. However, instead of sending the ’general emergency’ code 7700, the pilot mistakenly sent code 7500 which means ‘unlawful interference’.
Emergency services were ready at the scene to handle hijacking situation when the Airbus A321-200 landed safely. None of the 140 people aboard was harmed.
The situation later got cleared and the airline released a statement confirming that the emergency landing was due to a technical issue and there was no hijacking incident.
The incident is under investigation.
A Qantas flight had to return and make an emergency landing at Hobart Airport in Tasmania, Australia, on the evening of December 9.
The Melbourne-bound Boeing 717 had to turn back, just 20 minutes after taking off, after a warning system indicated a technical issue with the aircraft.
The plane landed safely and was taken for examination.
The flight was able to depart again at 7:40 p.m.
This is the 4th emergency landing of a Qantas jet within 48 hours. The airline insisted that the incidents were un-related. According to Qantas chief Alan Joyce, “We have really high reliability. We have low levels of turnbacks compared to most of the world fleets.”
Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-607 had to return and make an emergency landing at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad, Pakistan on December 1.
The Gilgit-bound plane was forced to return after it developed a technical fault.
The flight landed uneventfully and everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Malindo Air flight OD206, heading from New Delhi, India to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, had to make an emergency landing in Bangkok, Thailand, at 2:25 a.m. on November 3.
The authorities said the pilot decided to make an emergency landing at the nearest airport after a technical issue was discovered in the Boeing 737-900ER aircraft.
The plane landed uneventfully and all 121 passengers and 8 crew members remained unharmed.
The airline said in a statement, “The passengers are being taken care of by Thai Lion Air and arrangements to put them on another flight to Kuala Lumpur at 3.45pm (4.45pm Malaysian time) are already under way.”
The aircraft was taken for examination.
Air India flight AI 965, heading to Jeddah via Hyderabad, returned to Mumbai airport, India, for emergency landing at 5:50 p.m. on August 15.
Reportedly some technical fault was discovered in the aircraft, due to which the pilots decided to return.
The aircraft, with 300 passengers on board, landed safely at Terminal 2 of the airport, after remaining in the air for 45 minutes.
The passengers were flown to their scheduled destination through an alternate aircraft at 9:22 p.m.
A Turkish Airlines chartered plane, which took off from Sabiha Gokcen Airport on the Asian side of Istanbul for Milan in Italy, made an emergency landing at the Ataturk Airport, Istanbul at noon on August 5.
According to the airport officials, the aircraft with 96 passengers aboard developed some technical fault immediately after taking off.
The officials further added that the passengers will be provided with another THY flight to resume their journey to Milan.