What: Cirruss S-R 22 single-engine plane in Phoenix
Where: Deer Valley Commerce Park, near 19th Avenue and Deer Valley Road
When: August 4 2010 6:00 a m
Who: pilot
Why: The pilot of the plane was in contact with Deer Valley air controllers prior to the accident but did not radio for help. Apparently the engine had caught fire, and the plane lost altitude. On impact, the plane was engulfed in flame.
The plane with only the pilot aboard crashed not long after takeoff.
The plane was registered to Magneto Investments of Phoenix.
A small Cirrus SR20 crash landed at Malcolm McKinnon Airport, St. Simons Island, Georgia, on August 22nd.
The pilot onboard came out of the aircraft unharmed.
The cause of the crash landing has not been reported.
A small private plane crashed into a house in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on December 8.
Authorities said the plane took off from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and was scheduled to land at the nearby Montgomery County Airpark when it crashed. One of the aircraft’s wings, having fuel inside, caught fire after catapulting into the house.
Three residents of the house, including 36-year-old of Marie Gemmell, her infant baby boy and a 3-year-old son, were killed in the crash. Their bodies were found in the bathroom at second floor. The other 2 residents, including Gemmell’s husband Ken Gemmell and their 5-year-old daughter, were not home at the time of crash.
All 3 occupants of the plane were are also killed. They were identified as Dr. Michael Rosenberg, 66, David Hartman, 52 and Chijioke Ogbuka, 31. All of them hailed from Raleigh, North Carolina.
The crash also caused damage to 2 other houses.
The NTSB is investigating.
At 2:30 pm on Feb 3, 2013, a Beechcraft C90B King Air en route from Maringá to Congonhas was over Cândido Mota, São Paulo when it crashed in Água do Macuco, the Water Macuco, traditional producer of soybeans and cassava.. Residents heard a loud bang as the plane flew close to a neighborhood, circling, then fell into a soybean field. Three women and two men died, including the 58 year old pilot. Fuel outside the tank seemed to indicate to investigators that the pilot had dumped fuel. Just before the crash, the pilot had informed the tower of Curitiba (PR) that would make a forced landing at Assisi State Airport.
The fatalities included Elizete Piveta and her daughter, Leticia Piveta Assumption, Leticia’s fiance José Eduardo Ermírio de Moraes, pilot Luis Henrique Marcondes, 58 and co-pilot, his wife Luciana Souza Aguiar da Costa.
Rescue teams from Assisi and Marília assisted at the scene.
What: Cessna 172H
Where: Staunton, Virginia
When: Dec 31, 2010, 2 pm
Who: 2 fatalities, 2 aboard.
Why: AirCare 5, a medical-evacuation Eurocopter EC135 bumped off the Cessna’s left wing, after which the Cessna crashed, killing the two aboard.
The registered owner of the plane is Michael W. Price of Elkton, Va. The victims were Jason Allen Long, 32, of Edinburg, and Jacob Houston Kiser, 19, of Grottoes.
Three people, pilot Paul Weve, co-pilot and flight nurse Joseph Root and flight nurse Carolyn Booke were aboard the Eurocopter, which landed safely. They had just dropped off a patient at the University of Virginia Medical Center. PHI Inc. of Lafayette, Louisiana owns the helicopter which is based at Weyers Cave Airport. The helicopter pilot has been praised in the media for making an amazing landing.
Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport is 30 miles northwest of Charlottesville. SHD is an “uncontrolled airport” with no air traffic control tower.
FAA:DESCRIPTION N385PH PHI INC AIRCARE FLIGHT 5 EUROCOPTER EC135 ROTORCRAFT COLLIDED MIDAIR WITH N2876L CESSNA C172 AIRCRAFT UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE 2 PERSONS IN N2876L CESSNA C172 AIRCRAFT WERE FATALLY INJURED WHEN IT CRASHED IN A FIELD, THE N385PH ROTORCRAFT LANDED WITH NO INJURIES, SHENANDOAH VALLEY REGIONAL AIRPORT, WEYERS CAVE, VA
On 12-JAN-2013, at 9:00 a Celtic Bank LLC Piper PA-46-500TP Malibu Meridian en route from Fox field in Paris Texas to Austin, but crashed minutes after takeoff, in Glory Texas.
There was fog in the area at the time of the crash.
The three people aboard the plane, pilot Rob Thompson, passenger Michael Endo who was Senior Vice-President of Celtic Bank and the bank’s commercial loan officer, and Michael Dale Bradley who was owner and Real Estate Broker with MBA Realty and who was consulting on a property sale.
All three men were from Salt Lake City Utah.
