haha yeah saw that on NGC, not the cabin door le
China Airlines incidents
and accidents from 2006
* On 2006 July 19, Flight 1682 traveling from Ho Chi Minh City to
Taipei, had to make an emergency landing at Kaohsiung International
Airport after a Vietnamese-American couple, who were reportedly
drunk, attacked flight attendants. The husband broke the inner
windowpane in the plane's cabin with his elbow. The noise caused a
commotion on the plane, and two Taiwanese attendants who were
fluent in Vietnamese tried to calm him down. However, he took a
swing at one of the attendants. A male flight attendant was
summoned to restrain the heavily built man, while the pilots asked
for permission to make an emergency landing, claiming that the
plane had been hijacked. The plane landed successfully without
incident, and continued to Taipei.
* On 2007 June 27, China Airlines Flight AE845 bound from Kaoshiung
to Hong Kong experienced a 'flameout' in both aircraft (Airbus
A330-300) engines. The plane landed safely after avionics restarted
the engines automatically. Neither the captain in command nor the
crew were fully aware of the flameout [7].
* On 2007 August 20, China Airlines Flight 120, a Boeing 737-800
inbound from Taipei caught fire shortly after landing at Naha
Airport in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. After stopping on the tarmac,
the engine started smoking and burning, and later exploded causing
the plane to catch fire.[8] A statement from the airline confirmed
that all passengers and crew members were safely evacuated, and a
ground engineer knocked off his feet by the blast was unhurt.[9]
The cause of the explosion has been attributed to a fuel leak
caused by a bolt from the right wing slat puncturing the fuel
tank.[10]
* On October 5, 2007, a Boeing 737-800 overran a runway at Saga
Airport, Japan. The aircraft, registered B-16805, had a 77 cm crack
on the fuselage and was undergoing repairs. The airplane returned
to Saga Airport due to speed indicator problems and due to
impending bad weather in Taipei due to a typhoon. No passengers
were on the flight. [11]
* On December 8, 2007, a door on Flight 008 to Los Angeles suddenly
snapped open in mid-air, prompting a return to Taipei. The matter
is still under investigation and was not reported on until December
20, 2007. [12]
