Aircraft disasters

1982

• 24 June 1982 - British Airways Flight 009. A British Airways Boeing 747-200? en route from London Heathrow LHR EGLL? to Auckland International Airport AKL NZAA? flies into volcanic ash loosing all engines. The flight crew manages to restart engines and land the plane safely

1989

• 10 March 1989 - Air Ontario Flight 1363 was an Air Ontario flight operated by a Fokker F28 Fellowship? airplane, registered C-FONF? which crashed near the city of Dryden, Ontario during take-off just hundreds of meters from the airport because ice and snow was accumulating on the airplane's wings.

2001

• 24 August 2001 - Air Transat Flight 236? was an Air Transat? flight operated with an Airbus A330 between Toronto? and Lisbon?. Due to a fuel leak the plane ran out of fuel and the crew had to glide the plane to the Azores? where it successfully landed on a military airfield. No casualties were recorded.

2009

• 15 January 2009 - US Airways Flight 1549. The incidents which involves a US Airways? Airbus A320 en route from from New York La Guardia LGA KLGA? to Charlotte Douglas International CLT KCLT?. The aircraft hit a flock of birds and lost both engines in the process. The pilot decided to ditch the plane in the frozen Hudson River. All the passangers and the whole crew survived.

• 1 June 2009 - Air France Flight 447. The accident involved an Air France Airbus A330 en route from (Rio de Janeiro Galeão Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport GIG SBGL)) to Paris-Charles? de Gaulle Airport CDG LFPG?. The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew. The investigation concluded that the aircraft crashed due to an aerodynamic stall. This stall was preceded by inconsistent readings from the pitot tubes? of the aircraft.

2011

• 01 November 2011 - A LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-300ER? registered SP-LPC? was operating as LOT Flight 16 from Newark Liberty Airport EWR KEWR? to Warsaw Chopin Airport WAW EPWA?, during the flight the aircraft experienced a failure in the hydraulic system that rendered some of the flaps and landing gear unusable. After switching to the backup system, only the flaps control was regained. Further attempts by the crew to lower the landing gear failed. After circling Warsaw Airport for more then an hour the Boeing 767-300ER? made a belly landing, a very unusual and rare event for modern jetliners. The crew under the command of captain Tadeusz Wrona? made a historic landing with no fatalities.