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The aircraft landed safely around an hour after take-off
Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 was a regularly scheduled Virgin Atlantic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to London, United Kingdom. On 5 November 1997, the Airbus A340 was forced to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport after the left main landing gear failed to deploy.
Virgin Atlantic Flight 69: A man and a woman began fighting, reportedly after she rebuffed his drunken sexual advances, on a May 2, 2011, Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Kingston, Jamaica; other passengers traveling with them joined in. Before they could be restrained about £25,000 worth of damage was done to the aircraft interior.
5 November – a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-311 G-VSKY suffered a partial undercarriage failure while being prepared for a landing at London Heathrow Airport. After numerous attempts to free the jammed left main undercarriage, an emergency landing was made. The aircraft suffered substantial damage.
Flames could be seen where a military helicopter made an emergency landing at Camp Pendleton on Friday, causing police to warn drivers of potential traffic delays along Interstate 5. All four crew ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
An international United Airlines flight from New Jersey to Brazil ended up circling over the Atlantic Ocean for nearly two hours and making an emergency landing due to a mechanical issue ...
On 31 May 1996, Virgin Atlantic flight 7 from London to Los Angeles made an emergency landing at Iqaluit after a passenger had a heart attack. The landing was executed safely – the first Boeing 747 ever to attempt to land at Iqaluit – but one of the 747's engines hit a fuel pump on the ramp as it was taxiing, causing serious damage to the ...