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
What: a four-seat commercial Robinson R-44 in Maryland
Where: west of the Washington County-Frederick County line, on the western slope of a ridge known as South Mountain, in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70.
When: Thursday night
Who: 4 on board
Why: After a night of storms and fog, Washington County emergency services got a call around 10:30 pm regarding the crash.
A Metro Aviation / Life Air Rescue Eurocopter EC-135P-1 was on a test flight with the pilot and two mechanic aboard when it crashed in a field behind Metro Aviation. All three aboard were injured, and hospitalized at Willis-Knighton Hospital.
There was fuel on the ground, so emergency responders followed hazmat protocol. The accident was close to Shreveport Downtown Airport in a field at Hawn and North Thomas Avenue.
The leased EC135 experienced mechanical problems and was in for maintenance..
The affected helicopter has no history of problems, and has current certification. The cause of the incident has not yet been determined or released.
As activists chanted anti-government slogans, on April 10, 2012, Poland remembered the crash that wiped out 96 Russians. Memorials were placed in Warsaw at the Presidential Palace and in Smolensk, Russia, where the crash wiped out dozens of top Polish civilian and military leaders.
Investigations concluded the crash was due to bad weather, inadequate crew training and poor guidance from Russian air traffic controllers. Some say that the disaster was not properly investigated and others say it was a deliberate assassination.
The wreckage remains in Smolensk, and according to reports was only recently covered by a tarp to protect it from the elements.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president and leader of Poland’s Law and Justice party, boycotted the state ceremonies. He believes the disaster was inadequately investigated and that the state findings were in error.
A crop dusting aircraft crashed in a wooded area near Hancock, Waushara County, Wisconsin, on August 26.
The Weatherly 620B single-engine aircraft was spraying a potato farm when it crashed.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed the spot. His identity has not yet been released.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a house near near Abdul Rahman Saleh air force base in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on February 10.
Authorities said the plane went down during a routine testing flight after undergoing maintenance.
There were two people aboard the plane, including the pilot Major Ivy Safatillah, and a technician; both of them were killed in the crash.
Authorities confirmed that two people, including a 47-year-old woman and 27-year-old man, who were present in the house at the time of crash were also killed.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
A small plane crashed near Meriden Markham Municipal Airport in Wallingford, Connecticut, on April 24th.
Authorities said that Joseph Tomanelli, 56, and his son Daniel Tomanelli, 21, were practicing takeoffs and landings when the plane went down.
Joseph Tomanelli was killed in the crash while his son was injured.
The incident is being investigated.
