Two Cessna planes collided mid-air east of Fort McMurray in north-eastern Alberta, Canada, at around 8 p.m. on June 21.
One of the planes, a Cessna 185, landed safely at the Fort McMurray airport after the collision. The pilot, who was the only one aboard, remained uninjured.
The other plane, a Cessna 172, crashed in bushes. Both people aboard were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not yet been released.
The Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident.
A small plane crashed southeast of Vienna, Illinois, on December 31st.
The Piper PA28 plane was carrying four people when it went down in a wooded area.
All four people, including two adult men and two adult women, were killed in the crash. Their identities have not yet been released.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
A helicopter crashed into a mountainside near Roldal, Norway, on February 17th.
The incident happened when the Robinson 44 helicopter was heading from a ski centre at Roldal to Karmoy.
There were two people aboard at the time, including a man and a woman; both were killed in the crash.
Cezar Britto, president of The Order of Lawyers of Brazil said it was “a tragedy waiting to happen,” echoing public opinion. “What exploded in Cagonhas was not just the TAM airbus and almost 200 victims but the credibility of the Brazilian aviation system.”
Cagonhas is notorious for its short, dangerous runway.
“The runway was as slippery as soap,” a pilot confessed.
Rescuers pulled 181 bodies from the twisted metal wreckage and rubble. Five people are listed as missing. 11 are hospitalized. No passengers survived.
Relatives gathered to identify the remains amid calls for authorities to improve airport safety.
The crash is the latest of a series of airline disasters. The main runway had been resurfaced last month, but more work was scheduled to allow for better water drainage.
“Control tower operators had warned the runway should be closed,” said Sergio Olivera, who heads the Federation of Air Controllers.
Footage of landing showed the aircraft travelling at high speed–the Airbus took only three seconds as opposed to the usual 11 to traverse the runway then disappeared after skidding off the left side of the runway. Then a ball of flame filled the sky.
An investigation has been ordered. One of the black boxes has been recovered.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared three days of national mourning. Pope Benedict XVI expressed his sorrow.
In February a judge banned Fokker 100, Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737/700 jetliners from the airport but the ruling was overturned in appeals.
A Serbian military aircraft crashed near Kovacica, Serbia, on April 11th.
The Super-Galeb G-4 plane was carrying two people when it went down.
One pilot was killed in the crash while his co-pilot sustained serious injuries.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
A Cessna 206 Stationair #XB-MSN or XB-MSI en route from Aeropuerto Internacional de Tapachula MMTP to Hermanos Serdán International Airport in Puebla crashed thirty minutes after takeoff near Nuevo Porvenir, Guatemala.
The plane was not authorized to fly in Guatemala, and crashed near the border of Mexico. No homes, buildings or outbuildings were damaged. The plane crashed in a field.
Neither the pilot nor any of the five passengers survived. Everyone aboard was apparently Mexican. Identification of the bodies will be by DNA. One description says all the young men aboard were corpulent.
Locals heard the plane crash, but access to the scene is difficult, surrounded by trees ad crops in rural San Marcos, NW Guatemala. A radio broadcast by the mayor of Ixchiguán, Augusto Merida, said the small plane fell in Nuevo Porvenir. The plane is a total loss. One wallet was found with the name Eduardo Castillo Perez. Some luggage was also found. According to flight records:
Rubén Villeda Sáinz, de 66 años;
Pilot Eduardo Castillo Pérez;
Antonio de Jesús Sánchez, 30;
Jesús Enrique Borge Luna
José Luis Camarena Rodríguez, 39;
Elio Brito Lari Cechia, 46. Venezuela
Volunteer Firefighters told local radio that the identification was based on documentation from Nuevo Porvenir.
Authorities seized $2 million aboard the plane. The luggage contained a gun, jewelry and money in pesos and dollars.
The investigation is underway.
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A Beech 76 Duchess in Naples Florida
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Contact photographer Erick Stamm
What: Beechcraft model 76, twin engine, four-seater
Where: George T. Lewis Airport
When: 1:45 p. m. Saturday Oct 17
Who: Pilot Mathias H. Ejegaard, 24, of Sweden; passenger (also a pilot) Ezekiel G. Andrews, 24, of Alabama
Why: Ejegaard is a new pilot and has only had his license since March. On approach, the front landing gear indicator light was off so he made two more passes. He and his passenger (also a pilot) tried manually to lock the gear into place. When he made the landing, the pilot realized he was coming in too fast, but it was too late to stop and too late to take off again. The plane skidded off the runway into a marsh. A crane retrieved the plane, which was totaled.
Maybe all runways should end in marshes.
