Chicago Emergency Landing

What: Private plane
Where: Maple Park, Chicago IL
When: 4:40 p.m. Sunday
Who: Not released
Why: The plane experienced engine trouble resulting in an emergency landing. Apparently the FAA is not investigating as there were no FAA violations involved.

Emergency Landing in Jackson Mississippi

What: Continental 50-seat regional jet 3021 en route from Birmingham to Houston
Where: Emergency landing in Jackson Evers International Airport, Jackson Mississippi
When: 4:00 pm Monday
Who: Forty-nine passengers and three crew members
Why: Engine trouble. Passengers were deplaned into the terminal while engineers worked on the plane.

Experimental Plane Fatality in Broward County

What: Single-engine experimental Lancair aircraft using a 400-horsepower high-performance Corvette engine, taken from a car.
Where: North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines. Landed on a fence separating North Perry Airport from nearby tennis courts.
When: 6 pm
Who: pilot Douglas A. Pohl
Why: There was engine trouble immediately after takeoff, then the plane crashed and burned. The plane has a history of a fuel delivery problem (c. about a month ago)

*Update Authorities believe the pilot was trying to return to the runway when the plane clipped a fence surrounding a nearby tennis court. A witness said "He was at 50 feet, wing stalled, started coming over to the left hand, the left side and after that he just kept coming on around. He was upside down and came straight down.""

Emergency Landing, no injuries

What: Beechcraft F35
Where: Canadian County between Richland and Okarche.
When: 11 a.m. Thursday
Who: pilot and co pilot.
Why: Engine trouble

Emergency Landing: Memphis International Airport

What: Delta Flight 4230
Where: Memphis International Airport
When: April 8 2008
Who: 75 passengers
Why: Engine trouble. (Witness reports flames from left engine)

Emergency Landing: Luray

What: Piper Saratoga single engine
Where: Near Luray Caverns Airport
When: May 6 around 6:30 p.m
Who: Pilot, Carroll Sanders, Jr., from West Point, and passenger Myrna Titus, of Harrisonburg, were not injured in the landing.
Why: Engine trouble