Hey, you guys will be the first to see this. I completed my new summary to update the thread I maintain on Hyatt's technoproblems forum. I just tried to post this there but am having problems posting it, so you guys will get it even before they do. Hope the formatting doesn't get too bad.
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EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!
This is an updated, somewhat revamped AIRLINE EVENTS SUMMARY. I included all the actual reported events of which I am aware and condensed them and organized them again by date. Many of the links will no longer work, I am sure, however, most of the complete articles are posted under the thread entitled AIRLINE EVENTS SUMMARY here on Michael Hyatt's Technoproblems Forum. I am naming this compilation AIRLINE EVENTS SUMMARY II (revised 02-10-00). I will now post new events under this new thread. I would like the old AIRLINE EVENTS SUMMARY thread to be locked but to remain a part of the forum as it is the only place to find and read the complete articles. The old thread will remain a valuable source of information, but this new report should simplify getting the overall picture. Remember, I make no claims that these "events" are due to Y2K. This is a source of compiled information from various sources which I have credited wherever possible. The reader can draw his own conclusions. Some of the events are definitely not related to Y2K, however I have included all events as I become aware in order to make this a useful source of information to those interested. The list of incidents keeps growing so fast it has been difficult for me to keep up with it in the time I have available, however I have done the best I can and hope that this report will be helpful. Here it is!!!!!!!!
09-02-98 229 KILLED IN CRASH OF SWISS MD-11. Swissair Flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia while en route from New York to Geneva. All 229 people aboard the MD-11 are killed. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIY3IET44C.html
12-11-98 101 KILLED IN CRASH OF THAI AIRLINER. Thai Airbus A310-200 crashes during a landing attempt at Surat Thani airport, 330 miles south of Bangkok, Thailand. Of those on board, 101 people are killed .... http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIY3IET44C.html
02-24-99 CHINA SOUTHWEST PASSENGER PLANE CRASHES. China Southwest Airlines passenger plane crashes in a field 250 miles south of Shanghai in China's coastal Zhejiang province. All 61 people aboard the Russian-built TU-154 are killed. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIY3IET44C.html
05-06-99 RADAR SYSTEM PROBLEMS MAY LEAD TO AIR TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS.
The Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday warned that an order slowing traffic at O'Hare International and Midway Airports could lead to serious disruptions in air travel as the agency addresses problems with two radar systems that forced flight cancellations and may have contributed to a near-collision between two planes......
(link expired, from Chicago Tribune)
05-06-99 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL COMPUTER FAILS.
An air traffic control computer on Long Island that is the first of a new generation being installed nationwide
failed early Thursday, creating havoc at La Guardia, Newark and Philadelphia Airports.....
(link expired, from New York Times)
05-08-99 PHILLY AIRPORT HIT BY POWER OUTAGE.
Philly Airport Hit by Power Outage. A power failure knocked out air traffic controllers' radar displays and radio
communications for 23 minutes at Philadelphia International Airport......
AP-NY-05-08-99 1338EDT (no link available)
10-31-99 217 KILLED IN CRASH OF EGYPTAIR FLIGHT 990. EgyptAir Flight 990, on a flight from New York to Cairo, plummets into the ocean 60 miles south of the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. All 217 people on board the Boeing 767 are killed.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIY3IET44C.html
11-12-99 WFP PLANE WITH 24 ABOARD CRASHES.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (CNN) -- A World Food Program (WFP) plane with 24 people aboard crashed Friday
just outside of Pristina, Kosovo, said United Nations and WFP officials......
(no link available)
11-19-99 JET LANDS SAFELY AFTER CABIN LOSES AIR PRESSURE .
(Associated Press)- Passengers gasped and prayed as an American Airlines jetliner lost cabin pressure at 31,000 feet on Thursday, but the Boeing 767 made a safe emergency landing. Six people, including actor Abe Vigoda, were slightly injured......
(no link available)
12-24-99 COMMUTER PLANE TURNS BACK AFTER "POWER SURGE".
An Air Canada Air bus commuter plane from Calgary to Vancouver had to turn back afte 20 minutes in flight as their was a "power surge". Passengers were emergency exited and a fire broke out in one engine after a safe landing......
(from Time Bomb 2000, greenspun: no link)
12-27-99 COMPUTER GLITCH MAY HAVE CAUSE FLIGHT DELAYS.
INDIANAPOLIS) -- A computer glitch at Indianapolis International Airport's Control Center may have caused a
few flight delays for holiday travelers......
(link expired, from excite.com/news)
12-31-99 Y2K GLITCH CAUSES LOSS OF COMMUNICATION AT 2 DOZEN AIRPORTS.
KCCI-TV in Des Moines reports that two dozen airports in SW Iowa lost all communication ability at 0 GMT, this evening. Officials from Iowa's Department of Transportation and the FFA are swiftly investigating the source of the Y2K-related glitch......
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a386d8277152f.htm
12-31-99 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RADAR REMAINS INOPERABLE.
The radar at Palm Springs International Airport remained out-of-order on Friday, causing concerns among some air
traffic controllers who work there....The radar was shut down Dec. 19, and 25 specialists from the FAAs national
technical center were sent to evaluate and repair the system. Air traffic controllers have reported at least six close
calls between planes flying in local airspace, including several that reportedly came within 400 feet of each other......
(link expired, from MSNBC)
01-01-00 UPS PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING-SMOKE IN COCKPIT
Jan 1, 2000 - 12:40 AM ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) - A DC-8 United Parcel Service jet was forced to make an emergency landing Friday in western Nebraska after an instrument screen blanked out and smoke entered the cockpit. Moments before the crew detected the smoke, they had joked about the possible perils of the Y2K computer bug.........Then smoke appeared, and the plane made an emergency landing at the Alliance Municipal Airport.
(no link available)
01-02-00 FAULTY CONTROL PANEL ON QUANTAS FLIGHT UNDER INVESTIGATION.
The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau is investigating an incident on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to
Sydney last Sunday. A Qantas spokeswoman says halfway through flight QF472 the lights in the cabin went out, and the emergency strip lighting in the floor came on. Just over a minute later the lights came back on. Qantas says the fault was in a control panel and a part was replaced when the plane landed in Sydney......
(link expired, from Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
01-03-00 COMPUTER MALFUNCTION DELAYS FLIGHTS.
A computer malfunction at the Federal Aviation Administration's Boston Center here delayed flights at airports in
Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York Monday night......
AP-NY-01-03-00 2322EST (no link available).
01-03-00 TECHNICAL PROBLEMS FORCE TURKISH AIRLINES PLANE TO RETURN TO AIRPORT.
A Turkish Airlines plane was forced to return to Istanbul airport twice Monday because of technical problems......
(link expired, )
01-06-00 COMPUTER CRASH GROUNDS EAST COST PLANES.
A software "patch" that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) installed on its host computers before the
Y2K rollover may have been reponsible for the computer system crash that grounded planes all over the East Coast
today, according to a specialist that supervises work on the FAA's computer systems.....The system
failure at the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center in Leesburg, Va. earlier this morning comes on the
heels of a similar breakdown at an air traffic control center in Boston earlier this week where a crashed
computer hard drive held planes in limbo for hours and delayed flights at nearby airports......
(link expired, from Newsbytes)
01-09-00 COMPUTER FAILURE STRANGS BOEING 777 AT HEATHROW AIRPORT.
Sunday 1-09-99 a computer failure left a Boeing 777 stranded at London's Heathrow airport. "Any suggestion
that it was due to a millennium bug is complete nonsense," said a BA spokeswoman......
http://www.go.com/Content?arn=a1788LBY862reulb-20000109&qt=glitch&sv=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486
01-10-00 BOEING 767 EMERGENCY MANEUVERS RESULT OF MIDAIR COLLISION WARNING.
Monday, January 10, 2000 Collision Warning Alarms Passengers Canadian Airlines flight Rene Pollett National Post"OTTAWA - Passengers on an international Canadian Airlines flight experienced a series of scares when a mid-air collision warning forced the airliner's captain to take evasive action three times. "The 212 passengers and crew on Canadian Flight 41 were about one hour into their nine-hour flight from Rome to Toronto when the pilot suddenly put the Boeing 767 into a series of emergency climbs that forced passengers deep into their seats and buckled flight attendants' knees.".....
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000110/172894.html
01-10-00 TEN DIE IN TWIN ENGINE TURBOPROP CRASH NEAR ZURICH.
Ten die in plane crash near Zurich. Witnesses say they saw the twin engine turboprop plane turn into a fireball
and dive into a field after leaving Zurich Airport......
http://www.foxnews.com/world/011000/swisscrash.sml
01-11-00 BOEING 737-500'S MAKE SIMULTANEOUS EMERGENCY LANDINGS.
OSLO, Norway (AP)--Two Boeing 737-500s made almost simultaneous emergency landings in two countries when their cockpit indicators gave virtual identical faulty readings....A third Braathen's 737-500 experienced the same problem after it had landed and parked......
http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/OREGON_NEWS/o1958_PM_Norway-BraathensLandi
01-11-00 CONTROL TOWER FAILURES AT WASHINGTON DC AIRPORT.
Washington, D.C., airport experiences another breakdown. All of the main frequencies and voice circuits at the control tower of Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan National Airport failed for nearly an hour......
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/web-airport-01-13-00.asp
01-13-00 SWISS PLANE CRASHES NEAR LIBYA, 15 FEARED DEAD.
Thursday January 13 1:16 PM ET Swiss Plane Crashes Off Libya, 15 Feared Dead (41 aboard) Before the crash the plane had tried to land at the Tripoli airport....for unknown reasons it then tried to ditch in the sea.....
http://www.excite.com.au/news/story/aap/20000114/08/international/libya-plane-afr.inp
01-13-00 TWIN ENGINE PLANE CRASHES IN QUEBEC.
A twin engine plane crashed in a remote region of northern Quebec on Thursday, killing the pilot and two french tourists, and injuring another three tourists......
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/21/int-canada-plane-crash
01-14-00 PRESSURIZATION PROBLEM FORCES AMERICA WEST FLIGHT TO LAND IN BOISE.
The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Oxygen masks deployed and a few passengers experienced nausea Friday when an America West Airlines plane lost cabin pressure en route from Seattle to Phoenix and was forced to land in Boise. The Boeing 737-300 with 134 passengers aboard landed about 11 a.m. A crew was trying to determine what caused the decompression as the plane was cruising at 33,000 feet..... Tampa Bay Online Network
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIMK4NIG3C.html
01-16-99 4 DEAD, 17 INJURED IN CRASH OF LET 410 IN COSTA RICA.
Ex-CIA Head, Wife Aboard Plane Crash By ERIC NUNEZ Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Former CIA director Adm. Stansfield Turner was among 17 people injured in a weekend airplane crash that killed his wife, a U.S. couple and a Spaniard, Costa Rican authorities said Sunday......Turner and 16 other people, most of them Spaniards, were injured when the Czech-built LET 410 plowed into a house in an upscale neighborhood near the Tobias Bolanos airport......
01-17-00 ALASKA AIRLINES MD-80 RETURNS TO SEA-TAC DUE TO ENGINE TROUBLES.
SEATAC, Wash. (AP) -- An Alaska Airlines MD-80 jet heading to Los Angeles returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport shortly after takeoff Thursday due to engine problems.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?N76.
O1-21-00 JET MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN NEBRASKA.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An American Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles made an emergency landing here Friday after its right engine lost oil pressure and filled the cabin with smoke..... (PROFILE (CO:AMR Corporation; TS:AMR; IG:AIR;) )
AP-NY-01-22-00 0055EST
http://www.insidechina.com/frames/frames.php3?url=http://www.newsday.com/ap/national.htm
01-21-00 AUSTRALIA: FOUR ESCAPE FROM LIGHT PLANE CRASH.
Four people have had a lucky escape from a light plane crash near Verona Sands in Southern Tasmania.
The Cessna 182 chartered by Tasair is believed to have crashed after its engine failed......A
Tasair had chartered the Cessna 182 for back-up during the fuel contamination crisis. The plane's owner, Rick Gumley says the crash could not have been caused by contaminated fuel because it has not flown outside of Tasmania.....
Link to story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-21jan2000-272.htm
01-22-00 AUSTRALIAN PLANES GROUNDED DUE TO FUEL CONTAMINATION.
by Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press......."This is a contamination crisis of a magnitude that has never been seen before anywhere in the world," said Mick Toller, safety director for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, which ordered the planes grounded.........
from 01-23-00 (sunday) austin american statesman (link only lasts one day)
01-28-00 PLANE SKIDS OFF RUNWAY.
No injuries reported when plane skids off runway
The Morning News Two men escaped injury Friday night when the plane they piloted skidded off the runway at Drake Field in Fayetteville as they attempted to land......
http://www.nwamorningnews.com/2000/january/31/news/0131drakeplanecrash.shtml
01-30-00 TWO CONCORDE JETS MAKE EMERGENCY LANDINGS.
Two British Airways Concorde jets have been forced to make emergency landings at Heathrow airport in the space of 24 hours.On Sunday a Concorde which had just taken off from Heathrow turned back and landed at about 1330 GMT after a warning light came on in the cockpit......Yesterday there was an engine shut down - today there was nothing wrong, it was just a precautionary measure. It is just a coincidence......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid 624000/624372.stm
01-30-00 KENYA AIRWAYS JET CRASHES INTO SEA.
By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- A Kenya Airways jet en route to Lagos, Nigeria, with 180 people aboard crashed Sunday night into the sea, shortly after taking off from Abidjan, airport and aviation officials said......
http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpinOZ.htm
01-30-00 PASSENGERS COMPLAIN ABOUT RAPID LOSS OF ALTITUDE AND HOWLING SOUND. Airline Suspends Pilot after passengers complain about unreported incident on yet another MD80.....The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) - Spirit Airlines has suspended a pilot after several passengers complained about an in-flight incident that didn't match the pilot's description of the flight, airline officials said........Several passengers on the flight called the airline to complain about a rapid loss in altitude and a howling sound from one of the MD-80's engines. At least one of the passengers also believed one of the plane's engines shut down during the flight,..... http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGI8WPJKG4C.html
01-31-00 ALASKA AIRLINES JET CRASHES OFF COAST NEAR L.A. Associated Press Monday, Jan. 31, 2000; 8:52 p.m. EST OXNARD, Calif. -- An Alaska Airlines jet carrying 65 passengers and five crew members from Mexico to San Francisco crashed Monday in the Pacific Ocean after reporting mechanical difficulties.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000131/aponline205215 000.htm
01-31-00 SINGLE ENGINE AIRPLANE CRASHES.
Fiery Plane Crash In Snohomish County January 31, 2000 SNOHOMISH COUNTY - A fiery scene in Snohomish County after a single engine airplane crashed into an unoccupied house near Harvey Field at Snohomish.....
http://www.komotv.com/news/
01-31-00 AIRLINES (SIA) AIRBUS 310 MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING..
FEB 1 2000 SIA plane fire alert. A SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) Airbus 310 made an emergency landing at Beijing airport yesterday when an alarm signalled that one of its engines was on fire.....
no link available
02-02-00 MD-80 RETURNS TO AIRPORT WITH POSSIBLE STABILIZER PROBLEM.
12:29 p.m. ET (1729 GMT) February 2, 2000 Two days after a possible stabilizer failure sent an Alaska Airlines jet crashing into the Pacific Ocean, an American Airlines MD-80 made an emergency landing in Phoenix, also after reporting a possible stabilizer problem. Airport spokeswoman Suzanne Luber said the pilot reported the problem about 20 minutes after taking off for Dallas....
http://www.foxnews.com/national/020200/md80.sml
02-02-00 PASSENGER AIRLINER AND MILITARY TRANSPORT PLANE COLLIDE.
TEHRAN, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A passenger airliner and a military transport plane collided at Tehran airport on Wednesday and at least 10 people were killed,......
http://www.reuters.com/news/
02-02-00 BOEING 737 HAS CABIN PRESSURE TROUBLE.
The Associated Press Friday, Feb. 4, 2000; 1:26 a.m. EST SAN FRANCISCO -- A flight from Los Angeles to San Jose had trouble controlling cabin pressure Thursday, forcing a drop in altitude and the deployment of passenger oxygen masks.
02-02-00 AIRLINER HEADED FOR TOKYO LANDS AFTER COCKPIT ALERT.
A Delta Airlines flight bound for Tokyo made an unscheduled landing yesterday at Portland International Airport after a cockpit warning system indicated a problem with hydraulic system.......
02-04-00 BOEING 737 NEARLY COLLIDES WITH JET FIGHTER.
An Air Nippon jetliner and an unidentified fighter jet passed within close proximity of each other Friday over the sea around 65 km northwest of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, the Transport Ministry said Tuesday.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/news2-2000/news.html#story3
02-05-00 ALASKA JET LANDS AFTER STABILIZER PROBLEM.
The Associated Press Sunday, Feb. 6, 2000; 2:48 a.m. EST RENO, Nev. -- An Alaska Airlines MD-80 jet returned to Reno's airport shortly after takeoff on Saturday night after its pilot reported problems similar to those under investigation in Monday's crash off the California coast, officials said.......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000206/aponline024813 000.htm
DATE ????? This story was filed 02-10-00, however the incident mentioned took place the preceding week so I am placing it here at the end of the preceding week. At this time I do not have a link to a report of the original incident or the date of the incident. SWEDISH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE AMBULANCE AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY LANDING. Story Filed: Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:16 AM EST FEB 10, 2000, M2 Communications - Doctors at the Umea University Hospital refused to accompany patients in ambulance aircraft after an aircraft had to make an emergency landing last week..... The engines of the aircraft stopped due to water in the fuel tanks, according to the carrier........ ttp://library.northernlight.com/FB20000210700000086.html?cb=0&dx=2006&sc=1#doc
02-05-00 ANGOLA HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS 30. LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- An overloaded military helicopter crashed and burst into flames shortly after taking off from southern Angola over the weekend, killing 30 people, officials said Monday...... http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpne1e.htm
02-05-00 6 KILLED ON SOUTHWEST ALASKA COMMERCIAL AIR-TAXI FLIGHT.
By MAUREEN CLARK The Associated Press Six people were found dead Sunday in the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the rugged terrain of Southwest Alaska.....
http://www.adn.com/stories/T00020777.html
02-06-00 SMOKE ON PLANE CONNECTED TO ENGINE PROBLEM.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Smoke that entered the cockpit and cabin of a US Airways Express plane during the final minutes of a flight appeared connected to an engine problem, authorities said today......
http://www.starnews.com/wire/indiana/k16crse1.html
02-06-00 2 THAI PLANES MAKE EMERGENCY LANDINGS.
THAI PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING . A Paris-bound THAI airliner made a safe emergency landing in Budapest on Sunday following minor technical problems, said the officials of the national airline......On the same day a THAI flight from Karachi also made an emergency landing at Don Muang airport in response to malfunction warning lights....
http://www.bangkokpost.net/today/080200_News10.html
02-07-00 ALASKA AIRLINES JET FORCED TO LAND
The Associated Press, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2000; 1:35 a.m. EST SAN FRANCISCO -- Sparks were seen flying from an engine on an Alaska Airlines jetliner, moments after taking off from San Francisco International Airport, according to airline and airport officials.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000208/aponline013549 >000.htm
02-07-00 AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING
Feb 7, 2000 - 11:57 AM American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Caracas--engine problems cited . The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) - An American Airlines flight on its way to Miami from Brazil turned back and made an emergency landing in Venezuela Monday because of engine problems.....
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGIKANBBE$C.html
02-08-00 MOZAMBICAN AIR CRASH KILLS ONE.
Story Filed: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:55 AM EST MAPUTO (Feb. 8) XINHUA - A small plane of the Mozambican Trans Airways crashed Tuesday morning soon after taking off from the Maputo International Airport, killing one woman.....
http://library.northernlight.com/FB20000208140000043.html?cb=200&dx=2006&sc=1#doc
02-08-00 NORTHWEST AIRLINES DC-9 MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING.
Alberta Tue Feb 8, 6:38 pm Emergency Landing. A Northwest Airlines DC-9 jet was forced to make an emergency landing today at the Calgary international airport. The plane, with 70 people on board, ran into mechanical problems shortly after takeoff this morning,......
http://store.cadvision.com/accounts/news/h a 4.asp
02-08-99 TWO PLANES FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDINGS AT CALGARY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON SAME DAY. (I have already posted an article in this report regarding the Northwest Airlines jet, however the Falcon 100-engine failure is new to this list.) Wednesday, February 9, 2000 Planes make emergency landings at Calgary airport. By CAMERON MAXWELL, CALGARY SUN Two planes were forced to make emergency landings at Calgary International Airport yesterday. One was a Falcon-100 jet that lost one of its two engines, while the other was a Northwest Airlines DC-9 that had mechanical problems.......
02-08-00 TWO SMALL PLANES COLLIDE OVER SUBURBAN CHICAGO. New regulations debated after plane collisions. From The Chicago Tribune February 9, 2000 8:23 p.m. CST CHICAGO -- Two recent collisions involving small airplanes have some urging improved air traffic control.......On Tuesday, two small planes collided over suburban Chicago, killing three and sending smoldering wreckage into a densely populated area. Only a day before, four people died in Los Angeles after their planes collided over a golf course. http://www.wgntv.com/
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