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Contact Photographer Frank Kuehne
What: Air Astana Airbus A319-100 en route from Almaty to Pavlodar Kasakhstan
Where: Astana Kasakhstan
When: Aug 1st 2009
Who: 72 passengers and 7 crew
Why: The Air Astana Airbus declared an emergency when they discovered an (unspecified) brake problem. The flight diverted to Astana and made a safe landing.
Air Astana flight KC-151 had to return and make an emergency landing in Astana, Kazakhstan, on June 16th.
The Embraer ERJ-190 plane took off for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, but had to return shortly afterwards due to failure of the cabin air conditioning system.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
What: FedEx Airbus A306 en route from Memphis to Denver
Where: Will Rogers World Airport.
When: Sept 7 2010, 5 p.m.
Who: crew
Why: While en route, the plane indicated smoke in the cargo hold. The pilot diverted to Oklahoma City, where they made a safe landing. No fire was found.
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Contact photographer Juan Carlos Porcella
What: Dominican Consul Eurocopter EC120 Colibri en route from Santo Domingo to San Jose de Ocoa
Where: San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic
When: 15-OCT-2009 at 14:55
Who: 3 aboard, all fatalities
Why: The Colibri light helicopter took off for Ocoa from the Hotel Santo Domingo‘s heliport at 2:35 p.m. but crashed into a mountain in the south of the country in heavy rain, killing all occupants (the pilot and two passengers: first lieutenant Wilker Diaz, Manuel Checo, Yendi Vásquez)
The last communication with the pilot was at 2:55 p.m. when he told ATC he had Ocoa in sight.
The Dominican consul in Haiti, Carlos Castillo—whose helicopter it is—was not aboard.
Condor Air flight DE-2064 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland, on July 20th.
The Boeing 767-300 flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to Las Vegas, Nevada, had to divert due to smoke in its cabin.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
An Aero Hein plane in flight.
What: Aerohein Piper PA-31-325 Navajo en route from Melinka to Quellón
Where: Quellón Chile
When: Mar 1 2012
Who: 8 aboard, 7 fatalities
Why: On a 20 minute flight, ATC lost contact with the plane six minutes into the flight. Air Force and Navy planes searched where the emergency signal beacon issued a single alarm before the aircraft crashed into the sea.
The plane’s wreckage was located by passengers in a boat in the Gulf of Corcovado off Chiloe island on Piedra Blanca at the mountain’s base. Occupants of the stricken plane included a businessman, his son and company divers and pilot Ricardo Hein. The list of dead includes Richard Hein, Genaro Barrientos Barria, Christopher Barria, Carlos Muñoz, Juan Gonzalez de La Fuente, Onofre Uribe Soto, and Pablo Briceño.
Five of those aboard have been found.
