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What: United Boeing 777-200 en route from from Taipai to Tokyo
Where: Taipei
When: Jan 3rd 2011
Who: 270 aboard
Why: After the flight took off, the nose gear doors failed to close.
Pilots circled for an hour and returned to make a safe landing.
There were no injuries. The flight was cancelled.
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What: Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 777-268ER en route from Washington to Riyadh
Where: Greece
When: April 14, 2011
Who: 240
Why: While en route, the plane indicated a fire aboard. The pilot diverted to Athens where they made a safe landing.
The plane had “dry ice” aboard, which gave the appearance of fire. Though from the accounts we have heard, we’re not sure if the smoke was visually detected, or if the ions from the offgassing of dry ice fooled a smoke detector.
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What: Ural Airlines Airbus A320-200 en route from Novosibirsk to Moscow Russia
Where: Novosibirsk
When: Nov 6th 2011
Who: 130 passengers and 7 crew
Why: Just after takeoff, the plane’s navigation system indicated a failure issue. Although the system is reported to have recovered after a quarter of an hour, the pilots returned to the Tolmachyovo airport in Novosibirsk where they made a safe landing.
Passengers waited for a replacement jet.
Peach Aviation flight MM-131 made an emergency landing in Sendai, Japan, on June 10th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane flying from Kansai International Airport, Japan, was descending toward Sendai when the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty people aboard remained unharmed.
United Airlines flight 273 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Spokane, Washington, shortly before 7 p.m. on December 21.
The flight, en-route from Seattle to Newark, NJ, was diverted after the Airbus A320 lost power to one of its two engines.
The plane landed uneventfully and no one aboard was injured.
An alternate aircraft was arranged for the passengers.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s Investigative Hearing into the crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 originally scheduled for December 10, has been postponed due the government closing because of inclement weather in the Washington DC area.
The agenda for the previously scheduled two-day hearing has been slightly revised so that the hearing can be completed in one day. It is expected that the hearing will run until 8:00 p.m.
The hearing will be held at the NTSB’s Board Room and Conference Center at 429 L’Enfant Plaza SW in Washington. Directions to the Board Room are available at www.ntsb.gov/about/conference_center.html.
The revised agenda can be found below:
