Saturday, October 11, 2014

Filipino lands Emirates A380-800 operating EK 332 safely in Manila

On October 7, 2014, Captain Franklyn Desideiro became the first Filipino to fly the A380 Superjumbo on Emirates Flight 332/333 on Dubai-Manila-Dubai.

Source: Rappler








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Friday, October 3, 2014

PR438 landing gear failure

On November 23, 2012, Philippine Airlines Flight 438 from Manila to Nagoya, registered RP-C3335 took off from Manila's Runway 06 and while its wheels were retracting, the nose gear wasn't fully retracted. They diverted back to Manila's Runway 06, the same place where they took off and didn't expect to steer back to the terminal but the plane landed with damaged landing gear doors and the nose section suffered minor damage. The plane is now repaired.




Source: Aeroinside.net







   
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LH841 engine failure

On October 2, 2014, Deutsche Lufthansa Flight 841, a Boeing 737-530 registered D-ABIX from Billund, Denmark to Frankfurt diverted safely to Hamburg Airport after an engine failure. Another Lufthansa airplane, an Airbus A319 picked up the passengers and flew to Frankfurt. The delay was 1 hour and 40 minutes.






Sources: Planefinder.net, aeroinside.com.










           
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