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CHICAGO - United Airlines says one of its Hong Kong-bound flights departing from Chicago had to make an emergency landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport because of a malfunctioning temperature probe.
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A Transaero jumbo jet and a Delta Air Lines plane were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean last week.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating the incident in which the two passenger jets were heading toward each other Thursday north of Puerto Rico when cockpit alarms went off.
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| //31-08-2008 |
A second Ryanair plane in a week was forced into an emergency landing, a spokesman for the airline confirmed on Saturday.
The low-cost airline reported that a flight to Rome from Milan was diverted when a cockpit warning light indicated that there could be a problem with the aircraft’s landing gear.
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| //27-08-2008 |
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Aviation Administration said late Tuesday that the computer system it uses to process flight plans was back on track, relieving a backlog of hundreds of flights grounded earlier when part of the system failed.
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| //21-08-2008 |
AT LEAST 45 people were killed and dozens injured when a Spanish airliner crashed at Madrid's airport yesterday. The BBC quoted interior ministry sources as saying at least 45 people were killed and 57 injured in the crash of the Spanair flight to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands
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| //21-08-2008 |
Spain has declared three days of mourning after more than 150 people were killed when the aircraft they were in crashed in Madrid during takeoff.
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| //16-08-2008 |
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) ¡ª American Airlines says a Miami-bound passenger jet has been forced to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Trinidad.
Airline spokeswoman Minnette Velez says Flight 1818 turned around Friday after the Boeing 757's pilot detected a hydraulic problem.
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| //07-08-2008 |
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| //06-08-2008 |
American Airlines Flight 31 bound for Honolulu had to make an emergency landing and evacuation at LAX this morning soon after takeoff when the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. The plane returned safely to LAX, where the 150 passengers and seven crew members exited the plane on emergency chutes. [Click the thumbnail above to see a video of the evacuation.]
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| //06-08-2008 |
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ¡ª An American Airlines passenger jet made an emergency landing and was evacuated at Los Angeles International Aiport on Tuesday after a pilot reported smoke in the aircraft, officials said.
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| //04-08-2008 |
Australian aviation authorities have announced a review of the airline Qantas after three safety incidents in the space of two weeks. The investigation will focus on the maintenance of the aircrafts and the safety systems of the Australian airline.
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| //31-07-2008 |
TOKYO (AFP) — A fire broke out Wednesday from the engine of a Vietnam Airlines passenger plane after it landed in Japan, but no one was injured, the transport ministry said.
An air traffic controller detected smoke coming out of the right engine of the Boeing-777 at 7:41 am (Tuesday 2241 GMT) as it landed at Narita airport near Tokyo, transport ministry spokesman Fumio Shishiro said.
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| //31-07-2008 |
Plane with blown tire, 167 aboard circles NY airport, dumps fuel, makes safe emergency landing
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| //31-07-2008 |
A United Arab Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300 made an emergency landing after midnight Wednesday at Budapest's international airport after smoke was detected in the cockpit, local media reported.
The airplane carrying 380 passengers was flying from London to Dubai when sensors in the cockpit gave a warning of smoke, the airport's press and business relations officer Mihaly Hardy said.
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| //30-07-2008 |
OTTAWA, July 29 (Xinhua) -- A Cathay Pacific jetliner landed safely at Vancouver International Airport Tuesday after part of its surface structures were damaged, Canada's Transportation Safety Board said.
An exterior panel that covered the air conditioning unit on the belly of the Boeing 747-400 came away from the fuselage and damaged other panels as the plane was descending into the Vancouver airport, officials said.
The damage did not have any detrimental effect on the flight of the aircraft, they said.
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| //30-07-2008 |
VietNamNet Bridge – This morning, July 30, a Boeing 777 of the national air carrier Vietnam Airlines, which departed from HCM City, was reported as having engine failure after landing at Narita Airport in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan.
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| //29-07-2008 |
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) ¡ª Passengers aboard a Qantas jet that was forced to abort a domestic flight after a landing gear door failed to retract were never in any danger, the airline said Tuesday.
A Boeing 737-800 of the Australian airline was forced back to Adelaide airport shortly after take-off late Monday, in an air safety scare that came just three days after a Qantas jumbo jet was involved in a mid-air drama.
"Qantas flight 692 operating between Adelaide and Melbourne performed a routine 'air turn-back' shortly after take-off, due to an indication of one of the landing gear doors failing to retract," a spokeswoman told AFP.
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| //27-07-2008 |
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas was ordered on Sunday to check all oxygen bottles on its fleet of Boeing 747s after investigators said an exploding oxygen bottle might have ripped a hole in a Qantas 747, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Manila.
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| //26-07-2008 |
The Australian authorities opened an investigation on Friday into what caused a section of the fuselage of a Qantas airliner to burst open en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne, Australia, forcing the Boeing 747-400 to make an emergency landing in Manila.
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| //26-07-2008 |
An Air France Airbus A321, registration F-GTAE performing flight AF1732 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Athens (Greece), returned to Paris Charles de Gaulle, when a cockpit window cracked more than one hour into the flight. The crew decided to return to Paris, where a replacement aircraft, registration F-GTAD, resumed the flight arriving at Athens with a delay of close to 5 hours.
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