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August 13 Incident Overview

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    NTSB ISSUES FIVE NEW GENERAL AVIATION SAFETY ALERTS


    The National Transportation Safety Board issued five new Safety Alerts last week that provide general aviation (GA) pilots with mitigating strategies for preventing accidents. These Safety Alerts follow five that were issued in March at a Board Meeting that focused on the most frequent types of general aviation accidents.

    “Knowing these accidents, which sometimes include entire families, can be prevented is why ‘General Aviation Safety’ is on our Most Wanted List of transportation safety improvements,” said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. “At a time when many people are putting together their list of resolutions for the coming year, these five Safety Alerts remind pilots, mechanics and passengers of basic safety precautions to add to their checklists to ensure a safe flight for all on board.”

    A Safety Alert is a brief information sheet that pinpoints a particular safety hazard and offers practical remedies to address the issue.

    The five Safety Alerts issued last week are:

    • Check Your Restraints
    • Engine Power Loss Due to Carburetor Icing
    • “Armed” for Safety: Emergency Locator Transmitters
    • All Secure, All Clear (securing items in the aircraft cabin)
    • Proper Use of Fiber or Nylon Self-Locking Nuts

    The NTSB is charged with investigating about 1,500 aviation accidents annually. Each year, about 475 pilots and passengers are killed and hundreds more are seriously injured in GA accidents in the United States.

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    Ecuador Crash Kills 7, Maybe More


    What: twin-engine Beechcraft 200 propeller plane en route from Manta to Quito’s airport
    Where: 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) from the airport near Hotel Quito
    When: 5:20 pm (2220 GMT)
    Who: seven people were killed: 5 aboard; 2 on the ground
    Why: small military plane on a training flight clipped some tree tops and crashed into an apartment building. The reports list two buildings.
    Initial reports said the deaths included the wife and son of the pilot, Major Julio Zaldumbide but we have not verified that information.

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    SkyWest Airlines Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Palm Springs

    SkyWestSkyWest Airlines flight OO-3046 had to return and make an emergency landing in Palm Springs, California, on September 8th.

    The plane was heading to Phoenix, Arizona, when the crew decided to turn back due to an engine anti ice light indication suggesting that the system had overheated.

    The plane landed safely. All 42 people aboard remained unhurt.

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    Comair Flight Resurrects Spector of Tragedy


    Pictured: The team lost in the 1970 crash

    What: Comair flight en route from Atlanta to Charleston
    Where: Lexington Bluegrass Airport
    When: Mar 10, 2011
    Who: passengers include 9 Marshall assistant football coaches
    Why: After visiting Texas Christian University and Mississippi state, Marshall coaches reunited in Atlanta with the intent of returning to Atlanta on the same plane.

    Prior to takeoff, that plane developed unknown issues and the flight was delayed as a replacement plane had to be brought in.

    Then, while en route, the replacement plane developed a problem with the landing gear. The pilot diverted to Lexington Bluegrass Airport and made a safe landing.

    While they apparently endured the flight with aplomb and some extra prayers, there was no outward panic, but one can only guess how the coaches felt. With two problems on two separate planes, they were no doubt remembering the fatal 1970 plane crash that took Marshall’s football team. Is Marshall University cursed or what? If I went to Marshall, or especially played football for Marshall, I’dt be thinking about alternative transportation.

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    Delta Flight Dumps Thousands of Gallons of Fuel before Landing in Emergency at Atlanta Airport

    DeltaA Delta Airlines flight had to return and make an emergency landing at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 21.

    The plane was on its way to Narita, Japan, with 316 people aboard when one of its 4 engines failed. The pilots then turned the faulty engine off and decided to return to Atlanta for emergency landing.

    The aircraft dumped thousands of gallons of fuel in the air over Lake Allatoona to shed off extra weight, before it safely landed at the airport. No one was injured.

    The passengers were transferred to another plane which took them to their destination.

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    Michigan Float Plane Crash

    At 5:10 pm Tuesday, Gerard Dale Pearson, 71, was piloting a float plane that crashed on Shoal Lake, in Michigan.

    Emergency services, including Itasca County Search and Rescue, Cohasset Fire and Minnesota DNR and Itasca County Sheriff Department retrieved the pilot from the submerged plane.

    Pearson was airlifted to Grand Itasca Hospital, then Miller Dwan in Duluth Michigan.

    The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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