A chartered plane crashed in Mumbai, India, on June 28th.
The 12-seater plane was carrying four people when it crashed into a construction site in Ghatkopar area.
Five people were killed in the crash, including four occupants of the plane and one pedestrian.
Authorities said one other person was injured.
The Mexican Attorney General’s Beechcraft 300 Super King Air took off from MMZC Aeropuerto Internacional de Zacatecas (Calera) to serve an arrest warrant on members of a drug cartel but this party never achieved their objective.
Presumably due to a mechanical failure, the plane lost altitude–for no apparent reason–and crashed five minutes after takeoff and fifteen kilometers from the airport in farmland.
The plane had been scheduled to take off the night before, but mechanical problems delayed the flight.
The six aboard–including a federal prosecutor and two federal ministerial police–died on impact at Noria de los Gringos, Zacatecas. The plane smashed up, and caught fire in the grassy field.
Law enforcement arrived quickly to secure the scene but it was too late for the passengers.
List of casualties
The cause of the crash in Zacatecas is under investigation.
What: London-bound Air India Boeing 777-300 flight AI-111 en route from Delhi
Where: Delhi
When: Saturday. The flight took off at 6:50 am. Emergency was declared at the airport at 7:50 am and it was withdrawn at 8:25 am after a safe landing.
Who: 115 passengers and 15 crew members, all safe
Why: After flying for 30 minutes, the alarm sounded, the pilot detected smoke in the cabin. and returned to the airport under Emergency conditions.
Air Cargo Carriers flight 2Q-1260 crashed into the trees left to the runway of Yeager Airport, Charleston, West Virginia, on May 5th.
The Short SD-330 flying on behalf of UPS went down the hill after hitting the trees.
All 2 crew members aboard lost their lives in the crash.
The incident is under investigation.
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General Civil Aviation Authority released a report that the black boxes indicated smoke or fire on the main deck and “lower aft cargo compartment” towards the back of the doomed aircraft. The GCAA says investigators are still uncertain of the causes of the crash. Capt Doug Lampe and First Officer Matthew Bell, reported smoke in the cockpit 28 minutes after taking off. UPS Flight 6 was unable to change radio frequency and could not communicate with ATC. During their descent, pilots had difficulty seeing the flight instruments because of thick smoke.
What: United Parcel Service Boeing 747-400 cargo plane en route from Dubai to Cologne
Where: Dubai inside an Emirati air base between Dubai’s Emirates Highway and nearby Al-Ain Road 10 miles southeast of Dubai’s international airport
When: September 3 2010, noon New York time
Who: Two pilots
Why: Read More
There are two accounts of the Pilot Alexander Glusicia’s situation prior to the Mangalore-Dubai-Mangalore flight. We wonder which of these versions is true.
1. Alexander (Zlatko) Glusica was initially not rostered by Air India to fly on the day of the crash— not scheduled to fly till May 23.. His schedule had last minute changes, when Glusica was asked to fly though he was fatigued, having just returned from a Serbian vacation.
2. Capt Glusica had landed in Mangalore two days in advance, and was plenty rested prior to flying.
Officials claim the family had opportunity to appear before the Court of Inquiry but they never came.
PILOT NOT ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO FLY
What: Air India Express Boeing 737-800 en route from Dubai to Mangalore
Where: Mangalore airport
When: 6:00 a.m May 22 2010
Who: Passengers include 23 children, 6 crew, 158 fatalities and 8 survivors
What: IrAero Antonov An-24RV en route from Chita to Blagoveshchensk
Where: Blagoveshchensk Airport, Russia
When: August 08, 2011
Who: 35 passengers, 5 crew, 10+ injuries
Why: On approach to Blagoveshchensk airport, the plane encountered rough weather and overshot the runway.
The plane encountered wind shear on approach, injuring ten passengers. The plane lost a wing in the landing, and the fuselage was damaged, coming to rest 200 meters from the runway. Three children were aboard.
A passenger said (loosely quoted) “We were sitting closer to the wing. As soon as the plane touched the ground, it started to shake. Panic among the passengers, nobody knew what was happening. I heard children crying. When the plane finally stopped, I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank God, still alive!”
