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Fire precaution

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A 767, with 220 passengers and 10 crew, was en route at FL340 over the Atlantic, when the crew turned the plane around and diverted to an alternative airport due to smoke in the cockpit, which came from a lavatory fire. The crew had to perform an overweight landing and stopped on a taxiway next to the runway. Emergency services checked the plane’s tyres for damage, and checked the plane for the source of the fire. They found no smoke in the cockpit and only a little in the lavatory. The passengers were transferred to another flight and continued their journey.

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Instrument problem

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An A340 was climbing out of its airport of origin when the crew decided to abort the flight due to a technical problem. Their navigation display wasn’t operating normally and they couldn’t resolve the situation in-flight. However, due to bad weather at their airport of origin, they decided not to return there, but to divert to an alternative airport with better weather conditions. They flew without their navigation display to the alternative and landed there without incident 45 minutes after taking off.

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Excursion

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An A330, with 206 passengers and 11 crew, approached its destination in bad weather. There was fog and visibility was low. They aborted the first approach and went around for a second approach. On the second approach they touched down but skidded off the side of the runway and stopped 40 metres to the left of it The crew started an evacuation of the plane immediately and a few people received minor injuries during the evacuation process.

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Cargo fire

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An MD-11 freighter, with 4 crew members on board was en route to its destination when the crew received an indication of a cargo fire. The fire suppression system was automatically activated and for safety reasons the crew decided to divert. They made a safe landing 21 minutes later and evacuated via the emergency slides. During this evacuation, one member of the crew was injured and was taken to a hospital.

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Laser beam

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A flight was approaching its destination when the pilots were distracted by a laser beam from an unknown source. The pilots tried to continue the landing but one of the pilots was hit in the eye by the laser beam, which caused an eye injury to that pilot. The aircraft was able to land normally, but the injured pilot went to hospital for treatment.

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Undercarriage fire

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The left main gear of a commercial aircraft caught fire after landing on runway 06 at Schipol International Airport, Netherlands. The fire was extinguished and there were no injuries, but the runway was closed for 45 minutes.

An investigation revealed that the automatic anti-skid system was disabled on the left main gear the day before the accident.

The ground staff forgot to put a warning sticker in the flight deck about the problem with the anti-skid system.

After landing the crew applied brakes, which was in violation of the prescribed procedures when landing with a disabled anti-skid system. The tires burst and a fire started.

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