Song Flight to Fort Lauderdale Diverted Due to Mechanical Problems
Miami Herald (subscription), FL - Jun 11, 2004 At 4:15 am a Song airline plane carrying 160 people from Los Angeles landed safely at Little Rock after the crew smelled smoke in the cockpit. Link to Article
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Spirit Jet Makes an Emergency Landing
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL - Jun 11, 2004 ... headed to New York made an emergency landing Thursday afternoon at Palm Beach International Airport after a report of smoke in the cockpit, airport officials ... Link to Article
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RAAF Hercules Makes Emergency Landing
Engineers are expected to begin repairs today to a RAAF Hercules which made an emergency landing at Tamworth airport in the north-west of New South Wales overnight. The plane, with 16 people and eight police dogs aboard, landed safely after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. Link to Article
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Continental Pilot Smells Smoke In Cockpit
Houston To Kansas City Flight Diverted To Oklahoma City POSTED: 1:03 pm CDT June 11, 2004
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A Continental Airlines flight was diverted to Oklahoma City Friday morning after the pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit, according to an airport spokeswoman.
Flight 1084 from Houston to Kansas City, Mo., with 83 passengers on board landed safely at 10:15 a.m., said Will Rogers World Airport spokeswoman Karen Carney. "Airport fire investigators scanned the exterior of the plane and found nothing," Carney said. Link to Article
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'Fight or flight' tramples airlines Passengers aren't waiting for orders from the crew in emergencies - sometimes to their own detriment.
By STEVE HUETTEL, Times Staff Writer Published June 20, 2004 TAMPA - His eyes were closed. Delta's 7 a.m. flight to Atlanta pulled away from Gate 72. The prerecorded safety message aired on video screens. Then, suddenly, the routine shattered when Norris Johnson heard the first passenger yell, "Fire!"
Johnson jumped up, saw a red-orange glow toward the front of the cabin and thought of Richard Reid, the al-Qaida follower who tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jet with explosives hidden in his shoes. His gut reaction: "I've got to get off this plane."
"I thought it was something someone brought on the plane that ignited prematurely," Johnson later recalled. All but 12 of the 169 passengers bailed out of the Boeing 757 jet at Tampa International Airport last June 23 in an evacuation that the crew did not order and that Delta Air Lines says was an overreaction to a harmless engine fire. Within minutes, 33 were injured, most from falling off emergency slides. The National Transportation Safety Board still is investigating. Link to Article
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Emergency Landing at Hancock Airport
Updated: 6/21/2004 7:21 AM By: Adam Chodak, News 10 Now Web Staff A military plane carrying twenty or so members of the 562nd Flying Training Squadron had to make an emergency landing at Hancock International Airport after an electrical problem emitted smoke into the cockpit.
The plane was flying from Westover, Massachusetts to the 562nd air base in San Link to Article
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Top brass on flight grounded by smoke
By MEGAN CONNELLAN A CHARTER flight carrying ION Limited staff, including managing director Mr Graeme Salthouse, from Essendon to Albury was forced to make an emergency landing at Wangaratta airport yesterday after smoke filled the cockpit. Link to Article
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Delta flight stops in Indy after pilot smells smoke
July 10, 2004 A Delta Airlines flight from Chicago to Atlanta made an unscheduled stop in Indianapolis on Friday after the pilot said he smelled smoke in the cockpit. Link to Article
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