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Medical Organ Delivery Accident, Santiago de Compostela Airport, Spain
What: Airnor Cessna Citation 500 Porto – Asturias – Santiago de Compostela Where: Santiago de Compostela Airport, Spain When: August 2, 2012 Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities Why: Alexander Well, 37 year-old from Barcelona and Daniel Fernandez, a 35-year-old from Bilbao were thrown from the Cessna Citation when it crashed. ATC lost contact with... »
Chopper down in Malaysia, 3 missing
What: Eurocopter EC120 helicopter en route to Nanga Merit Kapit Division Where: Sarawak, Malaysia When: July 20, 2012 Who: 4 aboard Why: A privately owned helicopter with four people aboard went down Sungai Teriso estuary near Sebuyau near a small coastal town in Sarawak Borneo. The German pilot, Rko Steger swam for hours to... »
Australians Killed in Alaska Crash
What: LNP Saratoga Inc. Piper Saratoga was en route from Fort Yukon to Fairbanks Where: Alaska When: July 18, 2012 5 PM Who: 2 aboard Why: A plane owned by LNP Saratoga Inc and eased to the West Valley Flying Club of Palo Alto. disappeared from radar in Alaska on July 18. The Air... »
Scary Diversion to Peoria: weather, smoke, jumping from plane
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Agustin Anaya What: American Eagle Canadair CRJ-700 en route from Denver to Chicago Where: Peoria When: July 18, 2012 Who: 53 passengers, 4 crew Why: The flight was en route when bad weather in Chicago made the pilot divert to Peoria. On approach, when... »
Family Piper Lost in Miss. Storm
What: Rgd. Flt Away LLC Piper PA-32R-300 Cherokee Lance en route from Andrews, N.C. to Oxford, Miss Where: Mississippi When: July 8 2012 Who: 3 aboard Why: James Bartley Jr.; his wife, Terry Bartley; and their youngest daughter, Caroline Bartley died when their plane broke apart in the air over Mississippi. They were flying... »
Bavaria: Four Germans Crash in Foggy Forest
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer András Mihalik What: Schulter Planungs- und Ausführungs- GmbH Robinson R44 Raven I en route from Augsburg to Salzburg Airport Where: Teisendorf, southeast Bavaria, Germany When: June 9, 2012 Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities Why: 15 km away from his destination the pilot of a... »
HeliCusco Sikorsky Missing in Andes, 14 aboard
What: HeliCusco Sikorsky S-58ET en route from Mazuco to Cusco Where: Hualla Hualla Peru When: June 6 2012 Who: 14 aboard Why: Two Peruvian crew members and 12 passengers (mostly Korean) went missing in a high Andes region of cloudy mountaintops in Hualla Hualla. The tourists included two Austrians and the rest were South... »
Emirates A380 Diverts to Ottowa
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Kris Mogford What: Emirates Airlines Airbus A380-800 en route from Dubai to Toronto Where: Ottowa When: Jun 1st 2012 Who: 530 aboard Why: On approach to Toronto, the pilot entered a holding pattern due to bad weather, but on approach, was alerted to windshear,... »
Cargo Flight Crashes Van
What: Allied Air Boeing 727 en route from Lagos Nigeria to Accra Where: Kotoka Airport, Hajj Village, Ghana When: June 2, 2012 7 pm Who: 10 fatalities, 4 survivors Why: Flight DHV 111 was flying from Lagos when it touched down halfway down the runway in Accra and failed to stop at the end.... »
Canadian Helicopter Wrecks at Sleeping Beauty
What: Bailey Helicopters Ltd.Eurocopter AS 350B2 AStar flying out of CYXJ/Fort St John General Airport Where: Sleeping Beauty Mountain. Terrace BC, Canada When: June 1, 2012 Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities Why: At nine oclock, ATC lost contact with a training flight flown by 45-year-old Peter Bryant. Two other Bailey Helicopter employees were also... »























