Emergency landing

A Transavia France plane conducted an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon at Athens' international airport.

The aircraft had departed at 3.20 p.m. headed for Paris but was forced to return when electronic systems indicated an alert.

According to sources, bird strikes caused engine problems, leading the pilot to request an emergency landing from air traffic control.

Staff at the airport in Johannesburg realised that something was wrong and therefore asked the aircraft to make an emergency landing

A 17-year-old has crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a single-engine airplane, becoming the first Turkish person to achieve this feat.

Selim Sulyak has set a record in the history of Turkish Civil Aviation by staying in the air for 36 hours and 30 minutes in a single-engine airplane.

The Bulgarian police arrested a drunk British man on the night of Sunday to Monday at the Sofia airport after an emergency landing of a flight from the Turkish resort of Bodrum to Glasgow, BNR reported, referring to the "Daily Mail".

The tire of a Turkish Airlines plane that took off from Istanbul burst into flames while landing on the runway of the airport in the southern province of Hatay.

Overheating in one of the landing gears of the plane led the tire to explode, said Yahya Üstün, an officer from Turkish Airlines, adding that the firefighters immediately intervened to extinguish the fire.

Kranj – A two-seat aircraft crash-landed on the A2 motorway near Brezje in north Slovenia on Friday afternoon. There were two passengers on board and both survived the emergency landing without injuries, Kranj police said.

A United Airlines plane suffered a fiery engine failure on Feb. 20 shortly after taking off from Denver for Hawaii, dropping massive debris on a residential area before a safe emergency landing, officials said.

A plane flying from Moscow to Burgas has made an emergency landing in Rostov, TASS reports, quoted by "24 Hours". The agency cites an anonymous source from the law enforcement in the city.

According to the source, the reason for the emergency landing is a gas pistol which was left in the luggage of one of the passengers.

An An-12 cargo plane from Vigo, Spain to Lviv was forced to make an emergency landing due to a fuel shortage near an Ukrainian airport. 5 people were killed.

There were 8 people aboard the aircraft - 7 crew and one employee accompanying the cargo. According to preliminary information, the emergency landing was necessary due to lack of fuel.

56 people were injured in an emergency landing of a Boeing plane in the city of Barnaul in Russia, according to BGNES. One of the passengers was admitted to hospital, the rest were released for home treatment.

The Regional Ministry of Health said a woman was diagnosed with kidney damage and lumbar spine damage at the hospital.