Accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A320 family

The Air Asia passenger flight QZ8501 that crashed in bad weather on December 28 during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore was found to have been triggered by a faulty computer that led the crew to accidently turn off the jet’s autopilot system. As a result, the pilots lost control of the aircraft as it plunged into the Java  Sea.

Only an external impact could have caused a Russian plane to dive into the Egyptian desert, killing all 224 people on board, the airline said on Nov. 2, adding to a series of incomplete and confusing statements from investigators that left unclear why the plane broke up in mid-flight.

A Singapore Airlines plane flying to Singapore has made an emergency landing in Istanbul after running into a flock of storks. 

The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-200 took off from Istanbul Atatürk Airport at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 17, with 255 passengers and 14 crew members aboard. 

A Germanwings plane bound for Turkey landed at Sofia Airport on Sunday after suspicions it had been struck by a "bird", the BGNES wire service reports.

A thorough inspection that followed did not establish any damage done to the engines.

The aircraft took off at 11:20, just below an hour after landing.

The co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in the French Alps may have "rehearsed" steering the plane into a rapid descent on an earlier flight, German daily Bild reported May 6.

The operation on recovering the debris of the Germanwings plane, which crashed in the French Alps in March, was completed on Monday.

The fragments of the Airbus A320 have been stored in a hangar near the site of the crash, Deutsche Welle reports.

The second black box from the Germanwings Airbus A320 which crashed in the French Alps last week was found yesterday after a nine-day search and, as it was expected, it confirmed that 27-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz brought down the plane intentionally.

Data from the second black box found in the wreckage of the Germanwings flight that crashed last week in the French Alps confirm the co-pilot acted deliberately, investigators said on April 3.
 

The second black box from the ill-fated Germanwings plane has been found, a French prosecutor said on Thursday.

Following a nine-day search, the flight data recorder has been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps, the prosecutor said, according to AFP news agency.

Investigators of the crash of Germanwings plane said on Sunday they have isolated 78 DNA strands from the remains of the 150 people that died in the worst aviation disaster in French history in the last 15 years.