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Training on Trial

A federal hearing into a fatal plane crash last February in Buffalo, N.Y., is focusing on the training of the pilot. A top concern is the training the flight’s captain, Marvin Renslow, received from Colgan Air. (May 12

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  • March 31-April 1 was a Busy Day

    George’s Point of View

    Let me know if you want the details here, I barely know what to choose. No deaths were reported with any of these incidents. (Altogether, it does look like our aviation has been taken over by the keystone cops)

    I think my favorite is the plane that stuck a deer, in Kill Devil Hills. Though I do have some regrets for the deer. Do you think he had his pilot’s license or was officially a “Devil”? For the deer’s sake, I am hoping this was an April Fools Day joke.

    Seriously folks. Maintain the planes.

    • AIRCRAFT ENGINE FAILED AND CRASHED, NEAR GRIFFIN, GA;
    • AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, GEAR COLLAPSED, AND PROP STRUCK THE RUNWAY, LANCASTER, TX
    • AIRCRAFT DURING HIGH SPEED TAXI RUN, BRAKES CAUGHT FIRE, AURORA AIRPORT, SUGAR GROVE, IL
    • AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, RAN OFF THE END OF THE RUNWAY INTO A WOODED AREA, LINCOLN PARK, NJ
    • AIRCRAFT ON TAKEOFF, STRUCK A BIRD, RETURNED AND LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT, PHILADELPHIA, PA
    • AIRCRAFT ON LANDING ON A ROAD, GROUND LOOPED AND WING STRUCK A TREE, 40 MILES FROM BEAVER, UT
    • N901DA, DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT 1220 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD 90 AIRCRAFT, ON PUSHBACK FROM GATE, DOOR STRUCK THE JETWAY, NO INJURIES REPORTED, DAMAGE IS UNKNOWN, SALT LAKE CITY, UT

    April 1

    • AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP AT A GRASS AIRSTRIP, BATAVIA, NY
    • AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, STRUCK A DEER, KILL DEVIL HILLS, NC
    • AIRCRAFT SHORTLY AFTER DEPARTURE, CRASHED INTO A FIELD, TAYLOR, TX
    • AIRCRAFT FORCE LANDED IN A FIELD, NEAR FRANKLINVILLE, NJ
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    Update on Learjet Crash


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    Contact photographer Enrique C. Rivera

    What: Learjet 45 flown by the Mexican government
    Where: Mexico City
    When: 04 NOV 2008
    Who: Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino, Deputy Attorney General Josi Luis Santiago Vasconcelos and Miguel Monterubio Cubas, the director of social communication.
    Why: At 18:45, although the aircraft was instructed to switch to the Tower frequency which the pilot acknowledged but never contacter Mexico Tower. The Learjet then crashed on the Avenida Reforma and caught fire. Several cars were destroyed and at least five people on the ground were killed.

    United States investigators have been called in to help quell the rumors that the flight was sabotaged by drug cartels. Two investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration began working at the crash site on Tuesday night and the NTSB sent a team to investigate. Due to a history of government cover-ups, Mexicans don’t believe the Mexican government will tell the truth about the cause of the crash.

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    Louisville- Vision Airlines Copes With Hydraulic Emergency


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    What: Vision Airlines Dornier Do-328-100 en route from Atlanta to Louisville
    Where: Louisville
    When: May 11th 2011, 8 pm
    Who: 21 aboard
    Why: After takeoff from Atlanta, the pilots experienced hydraulic problems, which they attempted to amend while en route. They announced the issue to passengers who were somewhat anxious on the way, but apparently did not panic. On approach to Louisville, a flyby revealed the landing gear was down. They continued to make a safe landing, leaving skidmarks on the runway, although without nose gear steering, they veered off the runway. After the landing, one passenger was hospitalized due to a medical condition. The runway is closed pending the investigation.

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    Mooney Missing


    A Mooney en route from Palm Springs to San Diego Gillespie Field went missing on Wednesday October 9. The sheriff’s deputies helicopter search was suspended Wednesday due to gusty winds, and was found on Thursday at 1:00 a.m.

    The search for the plane registered to Andrew Thulin, of San Diego was centered four miles northeast of Julian, near the Volcan Mountain Wilderness. Emergency responders and searchers included US Border Patrol, deputies from Julian, and sheriff’s search and rescue.

    Rescuers pinged the pilot’s phone to locate the wreckage and the bodies of a man and woman.

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    Two Rescued by Coast Guard After Beechcraft Ditched in Gulf Of Mexico

    What: Beechcraft 55 Baron en route from Baytown TX to Sarasota FL
    Where: 28 miles east of South Pass in the Gulf of Mexico
    When: Sept. 20, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: After the International Emergency Response Coordination Center notified 8th Coast Guard District command center of a beacon alert, the search began.

    Two men whose flight ditched were rescued after the Border Patrol spotted them adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin helicopter was launched.

    The pilot hit the water at an estimated 100 knots after the plane caught fire and the cockpit filled with smoke. The two men aboard survived the crash and three hours in the water.

    Coast Guard helicopter pilot Lt. Becki Fosha said that “They had a limited time to bring the aircraft to the water and then they had about two minutes to get all of their survival gear together and get ready for a survival situation before the aircraft submerged…They had a GPS sport beacon. They had their current EPERB 406 beacon. They had floatation and survival equipment for just this kind of scenario…the men did a great job ditching the plane.”

    Theodore Wright and Raymond Fosdick were pulled out of the Gulf and flown to Belle Chasse Naval Base. Fosdick was hospitalized at Ochsner Medical Center.

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    Azza Air Plane Goes down in Sudan


    What: Azza Air Transport Antonov An-12BP en route from Khartoum to El Fasher
    Where: 25 miles SW of Omdurman Khartoum,Sudan
    When: Oct 7 2012
    Who: 22 aboard, 15 fatalities
    Why: The pilot of a Sudanese military plane informed the airport that he had a problem with one of his engines before the plane crashed in a rural area west of the capital Khartoum. Twenty armed forces personnel were on board. The Antonov military transport plane was carrying military equipment from Khartoum to the capital of North Darfur.

    Initially thirteen people died on the Azza Air jet, and nine were injured.

    The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are investigating.

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