Emergency landing

A senior Mumbai airport official said, “At around 1.17 am, the pilot declared PAN-PAN (international standard urgency signal) and requested the Mumbai Air Traffic Control (ATC) to return to Mumbai as it’s engine 1 had stalled”. read more

According to flight tracking data, the plane, with 183 people on board, turned around roughly an hour into its flight and landed shortly after 4.30am at Mumbai. read more

The 25-year-old woman, identified as Mohini Mondol, was later arrested. A resident of Salt Lake, Mondol told the police that she works in a press owned by her father. read more

The flight that took off from Bengaluru 50 minutes after its scheduled time of 6.15 pm, was scheduled to land in Mumbai at 8.20 pm. read more

The Asiana Airlines’ Airbus 350 plane took off from Incheon in South Korea with about 310 passengers on board and landed in Manila after one of its engines failed, the spokesman said on Sunday. read more

Gandhi’s chopper had to make an emergency landing at KLP College on Friday evening due to bad weather after he had pitched in at the last minute for his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and addressed an election crowd in Mahendragarh. read more

Although the airline said flight 6E-463 made a “priority landing” — a lower form of emergency in which the pilot contacts the Air Traffic Control (ATC) for early landing as a precautionary step — the Mumbai airport said it was an “emergency landing”. read more

Media reports say the helicopter encountered inclement weather and was forced into landing. read more

The pilot sensed some technical error in the chopper and soon after take off, he was trying to land, when the incident happened at a helipad in Rudraprayag district. read more

With the hot liquid causing a strong electrical burning smell and smoke rising from the panel, the captain decided to divert, the report from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said. read more

The IndiGo Airbus 320 Neo aircraft was flying from Hyderabad to Gorakhpur. read more

Russia’s Ministry of Health said 23 people had suffered injuries, but that nobody had been killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321 came down in a field southeast of Moscow after striking a flock of gulls, disrupting its engines. read more

The Ural Airlines A321 carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven hit the birds as it took off Thursday from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport en route for Simferopol, in Crimea. read more

In a fresh air safety circular on July 5, the aviation regulator also asked air traffic controllers (ATCs) to provide early landing to any aircraft that declares ‘minimum fuel’. read more

Flight WY204, which had taken off around 4.15 pm, was barely airborne for 10 minutes when one of its engines failed, forcing it to return. read more