Former Garuda pilot Captain Marwoto Komar ignored 15 automated warnings and his co-pilot when he crash-landed Garuda Flight 200 in March 2007, at 410 kph – almost twice the normal speed. The pilot’s decision to ignore the warnings is responsible for the 21 people killed, including 5 Australians, including diplomats, federal police officers and a journalist.
His conviction has been overturned, and he was freed by an Indonesian Court.
21 people lost their lives because the pilot ignored warnings.
On Oct 3, 2013, a twenty-three year old Associated Aviation Embraer EMB-120 was en route from Lagos to Akure to carry the deceased regional governor and family to his funeral in Akure when it crashed, killing 16. Four survivors were hospitalized.
The NCAA said the airline had coverage and the plane’s paperwork and inspections were up to date. The flight data recorder has been recovered.
The son of the late former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, Feyi, was aboard the plane and survived the crash. The passengers included family members taking the body of Olusegun Agagu, a former aviation minister, to his funeral.
What: DAVCRON PTY LTD Bell 206
Where: South Turramurra near the Canoon Rd netball courts
When: July 20121
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: The pilot had picked his passenger to take him to Sydney Adventist Hospital apparently without checking weather reports which resulted in the Bell helicopter crashing in a cliff. Inclement weather and hazardous conditions in Lane Cove National Park led to the decision to call off the recovery operation on July 22, 2012, the same inclement conditions which caused the accident. Businessman Bruce Campbell, 65, and freelance pilot Colin Greenwood died in the crash at the foot of 15m cliff in Lane Cove National Park.
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NTSB investigator Joshua Cawthra will be interviewing pilot Daniel McGregor, who was flying the Cessna when it crashed in Denali National Park. McGregor survived the crash, and—with serious burns—walked twenty miles for help. McGregor is currently in a Seattle hospital’s burn unit.
McGregor is a licensed commercial pilot with an instrument rating, a certified aviation mechanic and a very lucky man to have survived the crash which killed wolf biologist Gordon Haber, and burned his blue and white aluminum Cessna 185 to ashes.
What: White and blue Cessna 185
Where: Denali National Park
When: Wednesday October 14, 2009
Who: pilot Daniel McGregor and 67-year-old wolf biologist Gordon Haber.
Why: Biologist Gordon Haber was looking for wolf packs on the north side of Denali Park when the plane failed to return. Thursday the wreckage was discovered. The pilot hiked twenty miles, and encountered two campers who helped get him home. From his home, he called State Troopers and his family. Haber’s remains were in the plane.
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NTSB ADVISORY
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National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
January 29, 2010
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NTSB TO MEET ON FINAL REPORT ON COLGAN AIR DASH-8 ACCIDENT
NEAR BUFFALO, NEW YORK
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The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a Board
meeting on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. in its
Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W.,
Washington, D.C. The Board will consider a final report on
the following investigation:
On February 12, 2009, a Colgan Air, Inc., Bombardier DHC-8-
400, N200WQ, operating as Continental Connection flight
3407, was on an instrument approach to Buffalo-Niagara
International Airport, Buffalo, New York, when it crashed
into a residence in Clarence Center, New York, about 5
nautical miles northeast of the airport. The 2 pilots, 2
flight attendants, and 45 passengers aboard the airplane
were killed, one person on the ground was killed, and the
airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash
fire. The flight was a 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Part 121 scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey.
Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the
time of the accident.
A live and archived webcast of the proceedings will be
available on the Board’s website at
http://www.ntsb.gov/events/Boardmeeting.htm. Technical
support details are available under “Board Meetings” on the
NTSB website. To report any problems, please call 703-993-
3100 and ask for Webcast Technical Support.
A summary of the Board’s final report, which will include
findings, probable cause and safety recommendations, will
appear on the website shortly after the conclusion of the
meeting. The entire report will appear on the website
several weeks later.
Verizon wireless cellular service is accessible in the Board
Room and Conference Center.
Directions to the NTSB Board Room: Front door located on
Lower 10th Street, directly below L’Enfant Plaza. From
Metrorail, exit L’Enfant Plaza station at 9th and D Streets
escalator, walk through shopping mall, at CVS store (on the
left), take escalator (on the right) down one level. The
Board Room will be to your left.
NTSB Media contact: Keith Holloway
202-314-6100
hollowk@ntsb.gov
Olusegun Mimiko, the Ondo State Governor promised to convey the remains of the victims, and support victims’ families of the Associated Airlines crash.
The deceased include protocol official Olayiwola Daji, his wife Olukemi, and other government officials. Mimiko promised the government would cover a university education for the victims’ children.
On behalf of the family, the nephew of Olayiwola Daji, Niyi Daji, urged the government “never to abandon the wife and children and father Pa. Adejoro Daji left behind by Olayiwola Daji.”
A feline survivor has been found in the crash of the Beechcraft plane that killed Steve Davis, 60, and Wes Caves, 58.
Zuul the cat emerged from the construction site where the plane impacted residences. Zuul has suffered some minor injuries, but seems to have at least eight lives left.
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