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Five Dead in Aeronaves Metro II Accident

An Aeronaves turboprop took off from Querétaro Airport, and impacted beside Highway 57 (Querétaro-Mexico City) then burst into flame.

The Aeronaves TSM plane was on a post-maintenance test flight, with four (or five) aboard. The accident occurred about 11 km southwest of the airport. Firefighters, federal police and a Mexican army team rushed to the scene. The accident had no survivors.

It is not known what went wrong on the Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II that caused the crash.

Flight registration number was XA-UKP.
*The number of people reported aboard varies.

Bolivian Plane Crashes, Killing , Passenger Manifest


Updated
An Aerocon Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner en route from the Teniente Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport developed a problem as it caught fire upon landing at 4 p.m. at Riberalta Airport.

Three officials of the Governorate of Beni were aboard.

The Bolivian aircraft came to rest wheels up and was consumed by the fire.

Of the sixteen passengers and two crew, eight aboard sustained fatal injuries. The pilot and copilot survived but are in grave condition. Riberalta Hospital had previously reported eight dead and six wounded. The dead were significantly burned and will have to be identified through DNA.

The rainfall was heavy as the plane landed, and may have exacerbated the pilot’s difficulty.

Eight of the injured were taken to the hospital Riberalta while two took him to the clinic December 4. While the pilots were evacuated to the city of Guayaramerín and then transferred to Santa Cruz.

Weather about the time of the accident (16:00 LT / 20:00 Z):
SLRI 032100Z 19005KT 3000 -RA BKN004 FEW020CB OVC070 24/24 Q1009
SLRI 031900Z 15008KT 5000 VCSH BKN015 FEW020CB BKN200 28/23 Q1010

Injured

1.- Oscar Adrés Tacata Sossa
2.- Alejandra Azad Lazo
3.- Leslie Pérez Gil
4.- Zenón Peréz Ramírez
5.- Jenny Gutiérrez Farah
6.- Cecilia Tapia Salinas ( copiloto)
7.- Kevin Roca Alpire ( Piloto)
8.- Jorge Ernesto Morán Cruz
9.- Jackeline Ruiz Suárez
10.- Luis Alberto Suárez Velarde

Deceased
1.- Fernando Chacón
2.- Daniel Ishita Guarena
3.- Herlan Rodríguez
4.- Rober Suárez Vargas
5.- Shirley Ojopi Carrillo
6.- Maria Georgia Saucedo
7.- Rosio Álvarez Azad (menor de seis años)
8.- Rodrigo Molina Peñaloza


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Crash Kills Six Month Old Baby

December 22, 2012, at 18:13 a Perimeter Aviation/ Kivalliq Air Swearingen SA227-AC Metro III en route from Winnipeg to Sanikiluaq airport crashed during its second approach.

The flight had two crew and seven passengers. One of the passengers died when the plane crashed at the end of the runway. The plane was landing during blowing snow and overran the western end of the runway by about about 600 feet.

The fatality on charter flight 671 was a six month old boy. The pilot was treated for injuries on the scene. The co-pilot was flown to a Winnipeg hospital.

RCMP and the Chief Coroner of Nunavut are investigating.


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Bemidji Aviation Flight Gear Collapse

What: Bemidji Aviation/UPS Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
Where: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
When: Nov 9 2012 8 p.m.
Who: pilot
Why: The Bemidji Aviation plane was on a UPS flight attempting to land when the left rear wheel collapsed. The plane veered off the runway and came to a stop.

There were no injuries and the plane remained upright.


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Missing Plane found

Missing Cargo Plane update
What: Air Class Lineas Aereas Swearingen SA227-C Metro en route from Montevideo to Ezeiza Argentina
Where: Carrasco Airport
When: Jun 6th 2012
Who: 2 crew
Why: The missing plane was located just south of Flores Island and parts of the plane have been recovered.

The two pilots are still missing.

The plane has been idenfied as registration CX-LAS or CX-CLA


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Search ongoing for Missing Air Class Cargo plane


The plane pictured is not #CX-LAS, the missing plane.
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Contact photographer Alberto U

What: Air Class Líneas Aéreas Swearingen SA227AC Metro III en route from Montevideo to Buenos Aires
Where: Rio Plata Uruguay
When: June 6 2012
Who: 2 aboard
Why: Ten minutes into the flight, ATC lost contact with a Swearingen SA227AC Metro III cargo plane over Rio Plata Uruguay near the island of Flores.

The last contact with the pilot was at 19:45. There was no Mayday from the pilots. Emergency search measures (el Centro de Rehabilitación de Rescate) have been deployed, including engagement of a C-212 Aviocar and AS-365 Dauphin helicopter.

Sergio Piqué, captain of a Uruguayan Navy vessel involved in the search said “Estamos obviamente trabajando desde que se produjo la alerta. No hemos tenido suerte en encontrarlo. Hemos agotado las instancias de comunicación radial con otras plataformas que han estado navegando la zona y también con el faro; los resultados fueron negativos hasta el momento”

Uruguayan Pilot Walter Rigo is a retired Air Force pilot, 63 years old, and highly experienced with over 16,000 flight hours. Co-pilot is Martin Rivas has over 500 hours of flying experience.


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Update: Aerocon Found in Bolivian Amazon Jungle, One Survivor


One of the SA-227’s in the Aerocon fleet.
CP-2548 is missing. (CP-2527 is pictured )

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Contact photographer Robert Domandl

Minor Vidal, the sole survivor was found in the Amazon jungle. Minor said “I did not eat anything, nothing, just drank my urine when I was thirsty. The first night I slept on the plane and two nights in the jungle. I did not understand why the plane was flying so low. Then there was a heavy blow. I do not remember more. When I awoke, I saw the airplane game, could not move. I stayed in my seat, I was in the back of the plane. The next day [Wednesday], I went and did my blood with an arrow on a shirt to get me. They were all dead. I walked day and night to be found by the patrol.”

Colombian Oscar Valencia, the William Lara Ecuador and Bolivian indigenous leader Eddy Martinez died in the crash.
What: Aerocon Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner en route from Santa Cruz to Trinidad Bolivia
Where: Trinidad
When: Sep 6th 2011
Who: 7 passengers, 2 crew
Why: On final approach to Trinidad, the pilots lost contact with ATC.
The instrument approach to the airport requires overflying North and then turning back. (See the airport chart below.)

The last contact was reporting the flight was “in the procedure turn” but the flight did not land on the runway, and went missing in a mountainous area.

Rescuers reached the crash site in the afternoon of Sept 8 and confirmed that there were survivors.

The wreckage of the plane was located 30km north-east of the city of Trinidad, in the Amazon jungle province of Beni. Chacon reported on thursday that a helicopter crew had seen the plane “completely destroyed” in a difficult-to-reach jungle region.

Six bodies were recoverable immediately when the wreckage was found. Two bodies trapped in the wreckage required rescue teams and equipment.


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Bolivia Flight Missing, 9 aboard


One of the SA-227’s in the Aerocon fleet. CP-2548 is missing. (CP-2527 is pictured
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Contact photographer Robert Domandl

What: Aerocon Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner en route from Santa Cruz to Trinidad Bolivia
Where: Trinidad
When: Sep 6th 2011
Who: 7 passengers, 2 crew
Why: On final approach to Trinidad, the pilots lost contact with ATC.

The instrument approach to the airport requires overflying North and then turning back.
The last contact was reporting the flight was “in the procedure turn” but the flight did not land on the runway, and is currently considered to be missing in a mountainous area.


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Boeing Field: Wind Shear Knocks Propeller Prop for a loop


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Contact photographer Erick Lopez Collection

What: Ameriflight Fairchild SA-227-AC Metro III en route from Lewiston to Seattle Boeing Airfield Where: Seattle
When: Mar 10th 2011,
Who: pilot
Why: On landing in wind shear conditions, the pilot came in with late clearance to land, and veered off the runway. The fire department sprayed with foam. There were no injuries but the plane incurred gear collapse and propeller damage. The accident tied up the runway and led to diversions.


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Survivors Have Rights Too


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Contact photographer Andrei Visan

What is a life worth?

It appears that Manx2 Airlines doesn’t think a life is worth very much. Manx2 denied an advance payment of more than £15,000 to cover the costs of a crash survivor (Cork Airport) to fly by aircraft from Cork University Hospital to the U.K. They are trying to shift responsibility to BCN.

On the second approach to runway 17 the right wing-tip of the Swearingen SA-227BC Metro III hit the runway, flipping the aircraft upside down. The plane slid 190 metres along the runway and came to rest in the grass adjacent to Taxiway C when fuel tanks leaking fuel in the right wing caught fire.The leased plane crashed on Feb 10, 2011, killing 2 crew members, and 4 passengers. There were 6 survivors.

After a horrific accident like that, you’d expect Manx to step up to the plate.

When someone dies in a crash the question is asked: what is this life worth? You may not hear it in that many words, but it is there. The value of a human being, translated into dollars and cents. When someone survives a crash as 6 did in this instance, it is difficult not to see Manx’s petty delay tactic as a slap in the face.


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Crash in Cork; 6 Fatalities


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Contact photographer A. Muñiz Zaragüeta

What: Manx2 leased from Flightline Swearingen SA-227BC Metro III en route from Belfast to Cork
Where: Cork Airport, Ireland
When: Feb 10, 2011
Who: 6 fatalities, 6 hospitalized (12 aboard) 10 passengers, 2 crew
Why: The plane was on approach to Runway 17 in fog and low visability. The plane made a go-around. The pilot attempted a second landing on Runway 35. The flight made a second go-around; on the second approach to Runway 17 the aircraft crashed and flipped.

The plane is an 18-seater Fairchild Metroliner leased by Manx 2 with the flight number BPS 7100.

The Spanish pilot and his British co-pilot are among the fatalities; also, Pat Cullinan, a partner in KPMG from Omagh and worked in the Belfast office of the accountancy firm; businessman Brendan McAleese from Co Tyrone, who is is a first cousin of Dr Martin McAleese, husband of President Mary McAleese.

A public announcement said “three men from the North, two men resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, and a male Spanish national” were killed.

The six survivors (5 men and 1 woman) have been hospitalized at Cork University Hospital.

Irish Authority Statement
1015hrs 10 February 2011: Flight Avia No FLT400C a metroliner SW4 with ten passengers and two crew has crashed at Cork Airport. No details of injuries or fatalities are available. The aircraft made an approach to Runway 17 in low vis conditions (Category 2) and went around and did not land and attempted a second landing on Runway 35. The aircraft then went around a second time and came back for an approach to Runway 17. On the second approach to Runway 17 the aircraft crashed adjacent to Taxiway C. Rescue and Fire crew are in attendance. There is a fire and debris has been scattered onto the runway and over a wide area. The accident will be investigated by the Air Accident Unit of the Dept. of Transport. This is correct at this time and may be amended as more detail becomes available.

Ireland is conducting the investigation.


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November Peru Crash under Investigation


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Contact photographer Gary Chambers

What: C Busre Swearingen SA-227 Metro III, en route from Jorge Chavez International Airport Lima to Andahuaylas
Where: Andahuaylas Peru
When: Nov 13 2010
Who: 17 passengers, 2 crew
Why: The plane overran the runway while landing at Andahuaylas. The plane incurred significant damage while landing with an apparent left hand brake failure that skewed toward the downslope, but no one was reported injured.

The US statement of jurisdiction of the event posted on December 2, 2010, says that the investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Peruvian government.
http://www.mtcgob.pe/portal/transportes/aereo/claa/ciaa.htm


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Safe Belly Landing in Canada


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Contact photographer Gary C. Orlando
What: Perimeter Swearingen SA-226TC Metro, registration C-FSLZ en route from from Sainte Therese Point to Winnipeg Canada
Where: James Richardson International Airport
When: 3 March 2009 12:15 p.m.
Who: 2 crew members, 8 passengers
Why: The landing gear would not go down, so the crew had to take a belly landing. There were no injuries.


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Propair Flight 420

Propair Flight 420, chartered by General Electric to transport their workers to their facility in Lachine, Quebec and Peterborough, Ontario, took off from Dorval. The left brakes overheated during take-off leading to a fire in the left wing which ruptured pipelines. The crew made an emergency landing. All 11 passengers and crew on board were killed. As a result of this accident, an overheat warning system inside the wheel-wells of every Metroliner was required. The pilot was Captain Jean Provencher. The co-pilot was Walter Stricker.

The official summary:

The aircraft, a Fairchild-Swearingen Metro II (SA226-TC), registration C-GQAL, serial number TC 233, took off as Propair 420 from Dorval / Montréal International Airport, Quebec, around 0701 eastern daylight time bound for Peterborough Airport, Ontario. On board were nine passengers and two pilots. About 12 minutes after take-off, at an altitude of 12 500 feet above sea level (asl), the crew advised air traffic control (ATC) that they had a hydraulic problem and requested clearance to return to Dorval. ATC granted this request. Around 0719, at 8600 feet asl, the crew advised ATC that the left engine had been shut down because it was on fire. Around 0720, the crew decided to proceed to Mirabel / Montréal International Airport, Quebec. At 0723, the crew advised ATC that the engine fire was out. On final for Runway 24, the crew advised ATC that the left engine was again on fire. The landing gear was extended on short final, and when the aircraft was over the runway, the left wing broke upwards. The fuselage pivoted more than 90? to the left around the longitudinal axis of the aircraft and struck the ground. All 11 occupants were fatally injured.

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