Jetstar Airways’ (Melbourne) Airbus A320 was evacuated due to a brief engine fire on Tuesday (October 27) after the Brisbane-Newcastle flight had landed.
News link:
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1014155/1/.html
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Northwest A320 crew overflies MSP destination!
Copyright Photo: Jay Selman. N374NW is pictured arriving at MSP before the incident.
Northwest Airlines-NWA (subsidiary of Delta Air Lines) (Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Delta Air Lines are cooperating with the federal investigation concerning an incident that occurred yesterday evening (October 21). The flight crew of flight NW 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis/St. Paul overflew its MSP destination by approximately 150 miles! The flight was also reportedly out of radio contact for over one hour. The crew finally realized its mistake and requested ATC permission to turnaround and fly back to MSP. The pilots have been suspended pending the results of the investigation. The crew members were reportedly arguing over pilot and company issues. The aircraft involved was Airbus A320-212 N374NW (msn 1646).
News links:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_go_ot/us_northwest_airport_overflown
aircrewbuzz.com/2009/10/northwest-pilots-lose-situational.html
Delta 767-300 lands on taxiway at Atlanta
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta) has suspended the flight crew and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an incident at Atlanta (ATL) on Monday morning (October 19) before 0600 local time. The Boeing 767-300 with 183 passengers and 12 crew operating as flight DL 60 from Rio de Janeiro landed safely on taxiway N (north of the assigned runway 27R) according to published reports. Fortunately there were no other aircraft on the taxiway at the time.
News link:
www.ajc.com/news/delta-flight-lands-on-167519.html
Airport diagram:
204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0911/00026AD.PDF
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Contact Air Fokker 100 makes emergency landing
Contact Air’s (Stuttgart) Fokker F.28 Mk. 0100 (Fokker 100) D-AFKE (msn 11505) made an emergency landing at Stuttgart this morning due to landing gear problems. The passengers and crew escaped using the emergency chutes. The incident made headlines in Germany because one of the passengers on board was the chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party headed to Stuttgart to make a speech.
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Overweight Emirates A340 avoided a March crash
Emirates Airline (Dubai) nearly lost an Airbus A340-500 in Melbourne in March 2009 according to an upcoming ย Australian safety report. Flight EK 407 was taking off from MEL with 257 passengers and 18 crew bound for Dubai. The A340-500 narrowly cleared the perimeter fence and was so low it was lost from the departure radar screen as the crew struggled to gain altitude. The tower air traffic controllers lost visual sight of the aircraft as the aircraft’s lights merged into the city lights due to the low altitude. The crew entered the wrong weight of the aircraft, an error of 100 tones. ย In reality the airliner was 100 tons over gross weight. The Australian Safety Transport Board is expected to formally issue the report at the end of October.
News link:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6832724.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093
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AA’s DC-9-83 N971TW loses parts over Queens
American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth) yesterday (March 11) added its own dramatic incident over the skies of New York City. Flight AA 309 operated by McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 (MD-83) N971TW (msn 53621) departing from La Guardia Airport at 0817 local time was involved in the incident. The crew declared an emergency with an engine failure and diverted the aircraft to JFK and landed safely at 0835. In the transit engine parts fell to the ground in Queens.
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