XL Airways France flight SE-1670 made an emergency landing in Fort-de-France, Martinique, on September 15th.
The Airbus A330-200 plane flying from Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, was on final approach to Fort-de-France when the crew went around due to an unsafe gear indication.
The plane subsequently landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
JetBlue flight B6-915 had to divert for an emergency landing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 30th.
The Airbus A321-200 plane heading from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to San Francisco, California, was diverted after a lithium battery inside a passenger’s laptop caught fire.
The plane landed safely. All 158 people aboard remained unharmed.
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Contact photographer Aleksey Lisitsyn
What: Iran Air Boeing 727-200 en route from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Tehran Imam Khomeini
Where: Tehran
When: Oct 18th 2011
Who: 94 passengers and 19 crew
Why: On approach to Imam Khomeini Airport, the crew aborted the approach due to a landing gear issue. The crew diverted the flight to Mehrabad Airport (also in Tehran).
The fly by at Mehrabad indicated the nose gear issue was actual, and not an indicator problem.
The crew landed without the nose gear on the main gear, and the runway had been foamed. There were no reported injuries.
EasyJet flight U2-7612 made an emergency landing in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 8th.
The Airbus A320-200 aircraft was flying from Madrid, Spain, when the crew needed to shut down one of the engines due to a technical issue.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 182 people aboard remained safe.
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Contact photographer Jason Whitebird
What: British Airways Boeing 747-400 en route from Mumbai to London
Where: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
When: Thursday Oct 1 2009
Who: 207 passengers
Why: Half an hour after takeoff, the fire alarm went off in the cockpit. The plane immediately returned to the airport, landing an hour after takeoff. Passengers debarked safely.
The only heat maintenance found was hot brakes.
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Contact photographer Andreas Fietz
What: Contact Air /Lufthansa Fokker 100 en route from Stuttgart to Berlin
Where: Stuttgart
When: Nov 20th 2009
Who: 75 passengers
Why: While en route, the gear proximity sensor failed, indicating that gear was indicated unsafe after retraction. The flight returned to Stuttgart, and had to be towed as nose gear steering was inoperable.
Pictured: A United Airlines Airbus A319-131
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Contact photographer David J Transier
What: United Airlines Airbus 319 en route from Chicago to Newark
Where: Newark NJ
When: Jan 10, 2010, 9:30 a.m.
Who: 48 passengers 5 crew
Why: On landing, the plane’s right gear failed to properly deploy. After maintaining a holding pattern attempting to extend the landing gear (etc), the pilot landed. It was, apparently a safe landing, causing airport delays but no reported injuries, not even during the slide evacuation.
On landing, the plane lurched to one side; and the airport was closed down for safety concerns.
We have emergency landings all the time all over the world. This website attests to that. But after the year Airbus has had, whenever I hear there’s an Airbus incident, even if it is only a small one, my hair—what little I have—stands on end. I can’t help believing that they should take this plane back to the drawing board and start over.
