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    Firefighters Tanker Goes Down Fighting Wildfire


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    Contact photographer Mike Freer

    What: Neptune Aviation Services Inc.Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune
    Where: Iron County, Utah
    When: June 3, 2012, 1 pm
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: While fighting a fire east of the Utah/Nevada border, two fire fighting pilots working with the Ely division of the Bureau of Land Management lost their lives.

    The plane was carrying 2000 gallons of water and 1,600 gallons of fuel, and was approaching the fire when it crashed in rocky terrain.

    Pilot 48-year-old Todd Tompkins, and co- pilot, Ronnie Chambless, 40 were on their second run dropping retardant on the fire when the plane went down.

    No probable cause of the accident has been released.

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    Canadair CRJ Belly Landing at LAX

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    A SkyWest/United Express Canadair CRJ made a belly landing at Los Angeles International Airport with the left main gear not fully extended. None of the 43 aboard reported injury. The video below shows sparks on landing, with the commentators realizing on air there were not 4 aboard but a full plane. The video has been cut so that you do not see the landing initially, but eventually they show the friction of the landing. News of the incident was released without the flight number, origin or destination.


    The incident occurred at 8:23 a.m.

    The CRJ is a regional commuter. Passengers were able to disembark normally, without slides, and were bussed to the terminal. Emergency services were standing by.

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    Saudi Arabian Airlines Lands On Nose


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    Contact photographer Ian Clarke

    What: Saudi Arabian Airlines/Onur Air Airbus A300-600 en route from Madinah to Jeddah
    Where: Jeddah
    When: May 1 2012
    Who: 10 crew
    Why: Pilots had an indication of unsafe nose gear and landed without nose gear at Jeddah at 12:55. Emergency crew (reported as “civil defense but that could have been a translation error” sprayed the runway. The crew disembarked via slides. There were no injuries reported.

    The flight was “a special flight from the western town,” with ten crew and no passengers. We assume a ferry flight.

    The video shows mobile stairs that are up for the post flight check-up, but notice the steep angle of the slide at the rear of the plane.

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    Brazil Tam Air Crash: Still Under Investigation after 7 months

    Here is where the disaster stands:

    On July 17, 2007 the pilot of TAM Airlines Flight JJ3054, tried to land at Congonhas, but realizing he wouldn’t be able to stop in time on the rain-slicked tarmac, tried to take off again.

    He failed.

    The Airbus A320 skidded across a road and smashed into a building owned by the airline. The ensuing fireball killed all 186 people on the plane and 13 more on the ground, making this the worst air disaster in Brazilian history.

    The thrust reverser had been deactivated during maintenance checks, the airline confessed. The reverser is used to help jets slow down on landing. Tam Airlines insists the deactivation was in accordance with proper procedures. However, nearly 200 people–passengers and crew–are dead.

    Brazil’s Globo TV televised that a problem with the right thrust reverser had emerged four days prior to the crash.

    The Airbus’s manual stipulates that ten days can lapse after a problem is first detected in an inspection and the plane can continue to operate in the meantime.

    Aviators call São Paolo’s Congonhas Airport “the aircraft carrier,” because landing on its short runway, surrounded by densely populated residential areas, is like landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Though a Brazilian court had banned large jets from the airport in February, citing safety concerns, the ban was later overturned.

    Masry and Vititoe is participating in the litigation.

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    Emergency Landing in Hollywood


    What: KTLA EUROCOPTER AS350 helicopter
    Where: Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue.
    When: August 28, 2012 1:00 pm
    Who: pilot and passenger
    Why: When the helicopter started giving off blue and white smoke, the first to see it was the pilot of another helicopter.

    KTLA pilot Tim Lynn declared an emergency, then made a forced landing in a parking lot of the senior center at Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue.

    The incident was witnessed by SKY2 pilot Dan Catalano (who taught Lynn to fly heicopters.)

    The smoke came from an oil leak. Some newspapers report two aboard the helicopter but the FAA entry only reports the presence of the pilot.

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    Organ Transplant Flight Crashes; 4000-5000 affected


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    What: Frandley Aviation Partnership Cessna 501 Citation I/SP en route from Belfast to Birmingham
    Where: Birmingham International Airport, UK
    When: Nov 19, 2010
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: On a mercy mission carrying a liver for transplant, the Cessna 501 Citation corporate jet was damaged while landing at Birmingham International Airport in heavy fog, striking the landing system glide path antennae and ending up 426 feet to the right hand side of the runway, while on fire. The plane was damaged beyond repair.

    The crash closed the airport. 80 cancelled flights have affected up to 5000 passengers.

    However, the liver was undamaged, and transplanted into the patient on Friday in a 4 hour operation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The transplant patient is reported to be in stable condition.

    The pilot and passenger were injured; the 58 year old pilot suffered injuries to the chest, abdomen and pelvis. The passenger in his thirties suffered a back injury and flash burns. The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance pilot entered the burning plane to cut the fuel supply so the fire service could extract the pilot. The airport is closed.

    Police provided an escort to the ambulance carrying the transplant to QE.

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