Emergency Landings

It's alarming to know that Boeing planes are constantly in the news. Here's another five situations, all involving the world's largest aerospace company and leading provider of commercial airplanes:

 

A United Airlines flight bound for San Francisco, USA was forced to return to its place of origin Tuesday due to engine troubles. 

 

Flight UA28, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, climbed to an altitude of approximately 31,000 feet before the 9-year-old aircraft circled back to land at Singapore Changi Airport to address the problem.

 

A Malaga-bound Ryanair flight from Glasgow, UK declared a midair emergency on Monday.

 

The Boeing 737-800 departed from Prestwick airport and was scheduled to land in the Spanish city on the same day. 

 

But flight FR655 issued a "squawk transponder code 7700" and diverted to Dublin, Ireland. The nature of the emergency is not yet known, at least from the news reports I came across.

 

[Note: A plane squawking 7700 indicates a general emergency. 7700 is a squawk code that is reserved for emergency situations and immediately alerts Air Traffic Control and other units that the aircraft squawking 7700 is in distress. It may be assigned by ATC or the pilots may decide to enter it into their transponder themselves].

 

On Friday, a United Airlines 737-800 series passenger jet had to also make an emergency landing about 40 minutes after takeoff. Flight UA166 from Fukuoka, Japan to Guam had reported a “problem with flaps”.

 

A day earlier, an Air France Boeing 777 departing from Los Angeles, USA on a 10-hour flight to Paris, France diverted to Montreal, Canada. 

 

The aircraft was met by fire trucks because there was reportedly smoke in the cabin. According to a passenger who contacted AIRLIVE, the crew ordered passengers to evacuate the plane which caused panic and injuries to multiple passengers.

 

Still another emergency landing. Another Boeing 777 – this time belonging to American Airlines – that was scheduled to land at Tampa International Airport in Florida, USA on May 08 went through the same awkward predicament, possibly due to a mechanical issue. 

 

In a report from AviationSource News, flight AA2321 returned to the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, USA, minutes after departing. The aircraft landed without incident and taxied to the gate under its own power. 

 

The flight re-departed for Tampa in the early afternoon on the same day.