What: single-engine Piper Cherokee registered to Offshore Flight School Inc Where: near White Plains Beach, near Kalaeloa, the former Barbers Point the former Barbers Point, Hawaii When: 11:46 a.m. Who: two women and a man were injured in the crash. The official opinion of the pilot is that she did a good job in not stalling the plane. Why: The pilot reported steering problems shortly after takeoff. The plane was flying practice routes around Kalaeloa and lost power on departure. On attempting an emergency landing, the plane flew through power lines, plunged through trees that broke off the aircraft’s wings and crashed just outside the runway area.
Offshore Flight School gives flight lessons to Japanese tourists.
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What: Roadside Ventures LLC Pilatus PC-12/47 en route to Kansas Where: Tiger Creek Swamp area, Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida When: June 7, 2012, 12:36 Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities Why: After taking off from Fort Pierce, the plane returning the Bramlage family from Bermuda began having trouble at 28,000 feet, and crashed in a remote area in Florida in an area of the Tiger Creek Preserve reachable by helicopters and all-terrain vehicles. The remains of the pilot 45-year-old Ronald,his wife Rebecca, 15-year-old Brandon, 11-year-old Bo, and 8-yea- old Roxanne have been recovered. Thirteen year old Boston is missing. There is a gaping hole in the plane, and the NTSB and FAA is speculating that Boston may have been sucked from the plane while in the air.
Witnesses in the Babson Park area heard a loud noise and apparently witnessed mechanical issues. Some witnesses saw the plane “twirling” before it crashed; other witnesses saw the plane flip and fly upside down.
The recovery party says the debris field covers hundreds of acres and that the plane came apart in the air. The investigation is being conducted by the NTSB and the FAA, and the search for Boston continues.
Aircraft Pilatus PC-12 (single-turboprop) (PC12/G – track or photos) Origin St Lucie County Intl (KFPR – track or info) Destination Freeman Field (3JC – track or info) Route LAL SZW (Decode) Date Thursday, June 7, 2012 Duration 4 hours 36 minutes Status result unknown (?) (track log & graph) Distance Direct: 1,239 sm Planned: 1,253 sm
Scheduled Actual/Estimated Departed 11:30AM EDT 12:05PM EDT Arrival 03:10PM CDT 03:41PM CDT (?) Speed 233 kts Altitude 26,000 feet
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A Dornier Do 228 aircraft landed on its belly and skidded some 700 feet before coming to halt at Taitung Airport in Taiwan, on December 21.
The accident happened after the co-pilot forgot to deploy the landing gear while approaching the runway. The Daily Air pilots were simulating left-engine failure and emergency landings at the time, however, failure to lower the landing gear was not pre-planned.
The plane was carrying only the pilot and the co-pilot at the time; both of them remained unharmed.
Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council is investigating.
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Two Southwest Airlines Jets collided at Oakland International Airport, California, on August 30.
Authorities said the Orange County-bound flight 2674 was pushing back from the gate when its wing tip came in contact with another jet that had just arrived from Phoenix.
No injuries were reported.
Both aircrafts were grounded after the incident.
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A seaplane crash near Lake Idamere Park, outside of Tavares city in Florida injured the pilot and the only passenger on board.
The incident took place just before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 10. According to the Tavares city officials, the pilot was attempting to land the plane on Lake Idamere but miscalculated the distance and landed it in a wooded region near the lake park’s parking lot located on County road 448.
The pilot suffered from a back injury while the passenger was shifted to Florida Hospital Waterman with minor injuries.
According to the official website of the Federal Aviation Administration, the crashed plane was registered to Coastal Alliance Inc. of Ventura, CA and was manufactured by Progressive Aerod.
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A small plane crashed near Clark Field Municipal Airport in Stephenville, Texas, on March 26th.
The 1974 Grumman Lynx plane was flying from Dallas when it ran out of fuel and landed nose down, around 1 mile from the airport.
The plane was carrying two people at the time, including the pilot Richard Abila, 40, and his son Aaron Abila, 17. Both of them were injured and were taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
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What: TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320 Flight JJ3054 Where: Sao Paulo Brazil Congonhas airport When: July 17, 2007 Who: 199 fatalities Why: Sao Paulo Institute of Criminology 16-month investigation places blame on government agencies for failing to ensure runway safety. Government failure to set rainy-day landing rules for the short runway whose new surface had not yet been grooved to drain rainwater.
