United Airlines flight UA131 en route from Heathrow to Washington made an emergency landing in Dublin.
According to pilots, the Boeing 757-200 developed possible engine trouble. There was also smoke in the cockpit.
Dublin Airport Fire and Rescue Service, dozens of firefighters and Dublin Airport Police responded to the scene.
The flight departed from Heathrow at 1:05pm. None of the 147 passengers or crew of nine were injured.
What: United Airlines/ ExpressJet Embraer ERJ-145 en route from Lincoln,Nebraska to Chicago Illinois
Where: Lincoln
When: Jan 30th 2011
Who: 47 passengers
Why: While en route, the plane indicated a gear problem.
The pilot returned to Lincoln to make a safe landing.
Qantas flight QF-2 had to return and make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport, England on July 8th.
The Airbus A380-800 plane took off for Singapore but had to turn back after the crew noticed low oil quantity for one of the engines.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
An executive jet, registered to New York-based Constellation Leasing, had to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, on February 1.
The Dassault Falcon 900EX jet was en-route to an airport in the United Kingdom when the crew reported issues with its fuel system and declared an emergency.
Emergency services personnel were ready at the scene when the plane safely landed at around 3:45 p.m.
There were 6 passengers and crew members aboard at the time; none of them was harmed.
The aircraft was taken for examination while arrangements were made to transport passengers to London.
An All Nippon Airways flight had to return and make an emergency landing in Osaka, Japan, on August 26.
According to the airline, the Boeing 777-200 had to return after the crew noticed engine problems. The flight was on its way to Tokyo at the time.
The plane landed safely and all 246 passengers and 11 crew members remained unhurt.
The incident is being investigated.
An Ethiopian Airlines’ Queen of Sheba, a Boeing 787 #ET-AOP which had been sitting empty for eight hours caught fire and shut down Heathrow Airport for an hour Friday. The fire seems to have started in the upper fuselage, far from the 787’s lithium-ion batteries. A battery fire would have been “contained by the new casing and…smoke would have been vented outside of the airplane.” Nearly a dozen fire trucks responded to the scene. The plane was parked on the apron taxiway E at Stand 592 next to a fire station.
#ET-AOP had arrived from Addis Ababa as flight ET700 at 06:30a.m. Departure was scheduled as ET701 to Addis Ababa at 21:10.
In photos, damage appears on the outside top of the upper fuselage near the vertical stabilizer, on the left side of the top of the airplane just in front of the tail. The fire was not caused by lithium-ion batteries, which are in in the cargo-bay.
Potential causes of the fire:
NTSB Sends Investigator to Participate in Investigation of London Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fire
The National Transportation Safety Board has sent an investigator to assist in the investigation of a fire that occurred yesterday aboard a parked Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow Airport, London, England.
NTSB Senior Air Safety Investigator Lorenda Ward has been appointed as the traveling U.S. accredited representative. Ms. Ward will be accompanied by NTSB airplane systems investigators and representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
The investigation is being conducted by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the United Kingdom, which will release all information.
Ryanair flight FR-8011 had to abort takeoff at Dublin Airport, Republic of Ireland, on June 3rd.
The Boeing 737-800 was accelerating to takeoff for Warsaw, Poland, when the crew reported they had a flight operations issue.
The plane resumed its flight 20 minutes later.
