| DATE/SITE |
AIRCRAFT & REGN |
CIRCUMSTANCES |
DEATH & INJURY |
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 IMAGERY AT WWW.IASA.COM.AU/090407.HTM |
| 19 Mar Dublin Ireland |
737-800 reg:EI-DHA |
FR296 returned Dublin reporting a tech problem (reportedly a departure tailscrape) |
nil |
Dublin to Stansted flight then left 3.5 hrs later |
| 20 Mar 1036L Ft Lauderdale FL |
P180 Avanti reg:N128SL |
On landing veered right upon right brake applicn and the left main gear collapsed |
nil /2 onboard |
operated by AvantAir Inc. Substantial damage and fuel spillage. |
| 21 Mar day Rome Fiumicino |
737-300 of Air Malta |
Flight KM616 was struck by lightning causing a number of instrument failures |
nil |
Newark Liberty Airport to Tel Aviv Israel |
| 25 Mar 1540Z Belgrade Serbia |
A300-600 of Lufthansa |
Aircraft declared an emergency for a cockpit fire and smoke and diverted in |
nil/213 pax + 11 crew |
Frankfurt to Cairo. Firemen removed a sparking and arcing electronic module from the cockpit |
| 26 Mar 10:52L Ft Lauderdale FL |
757-200 of Skyservice |
Aircraft made an unscheduled landing at Fort Lauderdale after smoke in the cockpit |
nil/ 221 pax and crew |
Flight SSV5088 -Toronto Canada to Costa Rica |
| 27 Mar Hurghada Egypt |
737-500 of FlyLAL |
Pilots landed on the parallel taxiway (which used to be a fighter base runway and has rubber deposits full length) |
nil |
...and piano keys on the threshold. Vilnius Latvia to Hurghada Egypt. See approach view of Hurghada at tinyurl.com/33kczc |
| 28 Mar night Southern Pacific |
A340-300 of Lan Chile |
Crew saw and heard a meteorite or pieces of space junk pass close by them at very high speed |
nil |
Santiago Chile to Auckland New Zealand. Range estimates vary from 5nms to 5kms. Also seen by another Argentine flight-crew |
| 29 Mar Grande Rapids Mi |
A320 of NWA |
Unscheduled stop at Gerald R Ford Intl Airport with smoke in the galley |
nil/8 onboard |
Flight 1263 (Dulles to Minneapolis) |
| 30 Mar morning Khartoum Sudan |
A300 of Sudan Airways |
Hijacker carrying a knife burst into the cockpit about 90 mins before landing |
nil/ 210 pax onboard |
Flt SD11 Hijacker demanded a meeting with British and US ambassadors together with the media |
| 30 Mar ~1100L Tokunoshima Is |
CH47 of GSDF |
Crashed at night on Mt Amagi, Tokunoshima Island in southern Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture |
4 dead/ 4 crew onboard |
after departing Naha Okinawa on an emergency call-out to pick up a patient. GSDF is Japanese Ground Self Defense Force |
| 30 Mar day Denver Colorado |
757-222 of United N9596UA |
Passengers were about to disembark at gate B22 when the aft Doubledocker Jetbridge collapsed onto the port wing |
nil/176 pax + 8 crew |
substantial damage to Flight UA965 wing on arrival from Boston |
| 30 Mar Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam |
ATR-72 of Vietnam Airlines |
Due to a hydraulic braking problem the aircraft overran by a few meters coming to a stop on the grass |
nil/ 65 pax + 5 crew |
minor aircraft damage. Ho chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhut Airport to Phu Quoc Island |
| 30 Mar 1524L Orlando Florida |
MD83 of Allegiant Air |
Flight AAY758 landed without nosegear at Sanford International after extension probs |
nil/147 onboard |
N877GA arriving from Portsmouth New Hampshire circled for an hour trying to extend nose-gear |
| 31 Mar morning Quebec Canada |
Piper Navajo |
Aircraft went down NW of Sept Iles near Labrador, killing the pilot |
1 dead/ 1 onboard |
Enroute to Wabush to pick up passengers. Cormorant SAR helo found wreck around 1300hrs |
| 31 Mar 0915L Gander Newfdld |
AN124 of Volga Dnepr |
VDA2100 overshot runway by 78 meters on landing Gander Newfoundland Canada |
nil/10 crew |
NLG damage. Enroute Greenville to Shannon Ireland Carrying 98 tons of cargo to Tianjin China. |
| 01 Apr ~1330L Cedar Rapids Ia |
ERJ145 of American Eagle |
Aircraft made an emergency landing at this Eastern Iowa airport after declaring "Engine Trouble" |
nil/47 pax +3 crew onboard |
Madison bound from Dallas Texas |
| 01 Apr 0025Z McCall Indiana |
SA-26 Merlin 2 |
On landing N46SA slid 35 ft off the runway until left wing hit a snowbank |
nil/7 pax +2 crew |
Arriving from Everett Washington. Minor damage |
| 01 Apr 2359L Luanda Angola |
A340-300 of TAP |
Returned to 04 Feb International A/P soon after departing due to engine failure |
nil/ 257 pax onboard |
enroute to Lisbon Portugal |
| 01 Apr 1927L Miami Florida |
A300-600 of American Airlines |
Flight AA1190 (Montego Bay Jamaica to JFK) diverted into Miami with rudder problems. Later returned Miami with the same problem after a 14 minute flight |
nil |
Repeat of a 01 Jan Miami-Dulles Flt AA738 incident? Reported by pax who were on flight AA1190's as 2 alarming rides with evident flight control problems for Ship #081. Possibly the yaw damper. |
| 01 Apr night Vienna Austria |
ATR72 of FEDEX |
Two cargo workers became trapped in the cargo hold & flew involuntarily from CDG |
2 kidnapped |
Pilot closed door because of rain. Vienna workers who opened door didn't let them out & called police |
| 02 Apr 0910L Kolkata India |
A319-100 of Druk Air |
Aircraft made an emerg landing at Chandra Bose with a fire warning indication |
107 pax onboard |
Cargo Hold alarm. Bangkok to Paro Bhutan. Druk Air is Bhutan's national airline |
| 02 Apr day Manado Indonesia |
737-400 of Batavia Air |
Returned soon after t/off from Sam Ratulangi A/P with undercarriage problems |
nil |
Headed to Jakarta. Batavia Air now refuses to discuss any air incidents (according to RCTI TV) |
| 02 Apr 0805Z Fukuoka Japan |
777-200 of JAL |
Arrived on the Southern island of Kyushu with #2 shutdown for overtemp |
nil/249 pax +10 crew |
Carrying Japanese Finance Minister Mr Koji Omi |
| 03 Apr day Kaohsiung Tw |
UH-1H of Taiwan Army |
Helicopter flew into TV tower on a mountain peak shrouded in heavy fog and rain |
5+ dead |
Could be as many as eight dead |
| 03 Apr 1418L Oklahoma City |
737-300 of United |
Diverted in to Will Rogers Airport with an hydraulic failure & nose-gear problem |
nil/112 onboard |
Flight 769 from Chicago O'Hare to San Antonio Texas |
| 03 Apr Atlanta Georgia |
CRJ of Delta Connection |
Returned for a reported emergency landing after suffering gear problems after takeoff for Gainesville Florida |
nil |
Delta Connection Flight 4526 |