What: Heliservicios Campeche Bell 212 helicopter en route from Cd del Carmen en route to Minatitlan in Veracruz
Where: Las Choapas, Minatitlan Mexico
When: Oct 15 2010
Who: 8 aboard
Why: Witnesses say the helicopter caught fire while still in the air.
The Heliservicios Campeche helicopter was transporting Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) employees at the time of the crash. Two pilots and six Pemex technicians were killed. Their bodies have been recovered.
What: Aero Med LLC AMD CH2000 Alarus
Where: Nephi Utah
When: August 30, 2012, 4 p.m.
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: Returning to Nephi Municipal Airport, the plan crashed on approach at 4 p.m.. The two aboard died on impact. The impact area was in the area of highway 132. Weather may have been involved, as it was storming at the time. After impact, there was a fire.
The fatalities were identified as Robert Marion Lamb, 45, of Utah County and Peter John Mrowiec, 58, of Ontario, Canada. Either one could have been flying.
Robert Lamb, a flight instructor, had been aboard while Peter Morwiec was trying to earn five hours of flight training to fly the plane home. Mrowiec was intending to purchase the plane.
According to Lamb’s wife who asked why he was going, since he wasn’t getting paid and didn’t know [Mrowiec]. he said, “If I was stranded and couldn’t get home, I would hope someone would help me.”
A small plane crashed into a marshy area near Orlando Apopka Airport, Orange County, Florida, on the night of December 30th.
The Cessna 400 had to abort its landing after spotting a deer on the runway. The plane faced mechanical issue after turning around.
The plane sustained significant damage.
The 61-year old pilot was taken to a nearby hospital for first aid.
On July 5, 2013 around 4 pm, a Heartland Transmission Project helicopter transporting equipment to a tower crashed near Fort Saskatchewan. When the helicopter grazed the 64 metre tower, the pilot lost control.
One report says a worker fell from the helicopter but this has not been confirmed.
Two men were aboard; they were both taken to University of Alberta hospital in serious condition. The lineman was airlifted.
Transportation Safety Board and Alberta Occupational Health and Safety will be investigating, as well as the Heartland Transmission.Project.
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Contact photographer Phil VabreWhat: Wingaway Air Piper PA-31P-350 Mojave en route from Bankstown Aerodrome to Brisbane Australia
Where: Canley Vale Road, Australia
When: June 15 2010 08:05 am
Who: 2 aboard, 28-year-old pilot Andrew Wilson and a female nurse on board, both fatalities
Why: After takeoff, the flight developed engine failure. Unable to gain altitude, the pilot reported he would be returning to Bankstown, but plane crashed on Canley Vale Road near Sydney just outside of the ATC three mile boundary. The pilot had been engaged in several minutes of conversation with ATC.
After the crash, the pilot and nurse were fatally injured. A car transporting one adult and three children was hit with crash debris; and the home belonging to Kevin Huynh caught on fire. 5 on the ground were hospitalized.
The family of the victims (Arturo Rivera, makeup artist Jacob Yebale, attorney Mario Macias Pacheco and hair dresser Jorge “Gigi” Armando Sanchez Vasquez) of a 43-year-old Learjet that crashed in Mexico on December 9 have filed a negligence suit against Starwood Management LLC, Rodatz Financial Group Inc., McOco Inc. and Jenni Rivera Enterprises Inc.
Jenni Rivera was killed in the crash along with the 78 year old pilot and 20 year old co-pilot, neither of whom appeared to be licensed to operate the flight under the conditions (time and altitude) they were flying.
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What: Kolavia (Kogalymavia) Tupolev TU-154B2 from Surgut to Moscow Domodedovo (Russia)
Where: Surgut
When: Jan 1st 2011
Who: 116 passengers and 8 crew
Why: While preparing for takeoff, an engine caught fire; it started burning while taxiing on the runway, and the fire spread to the fuselage.
Passengers were evacuated in a cloud of thick black smoke, while panic ensued.
The plane completely burned on the runway. After the evacuation, there was an explosion. Emergency services could not put out the fire. One burned passenger’s body was found.
Initially reports were that one passenger was killed, two were burned, 32 were injured. 34 were hospitalized, 4 of whom in critical condition. On the latest update, the number of fatalities was increased to 3.
27 were hospitalized with problems due to poisoning due to combustion products. Two men had moderate leg injuries, and a child with carbon monoxide poisoning is in intensive care. The Russian pop group Na-Na was aboard and lost their possessions in the fire.
A criminal probe had been opened into a possible violation of air transport security rules.
