What: Cessna Skyhawk SP
Where: Fullerton Airport
When: 6:30 Tuesday night
Who: 59-year-old pilot was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange with a broken arm, two broken legs, facial lacerations and other injuries. No one else was on board.
Why: Under Investigation
A helicopter crashed into a mountainside near Roldal, Norway, on February 17th.
The incident happened when the Robinson 44 helicopter was heading from a ski centre at Roldal to Karmoy.
There were two people aboard at the time, including a man and a woman; both were killed in the crash.
A helicopter crashed on Denver Glacier in Skagway, Alaska, on May 7th.
Authorities said the helicopter was returning from TEMSCO’s dog camp on Juneau Icefield when it went down.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. He was identified as Christopher Maggio, 59.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
Pictured: A homebuilt Aussie Ultralight. The one involved in this crash is no doubt a completely different type.
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Contact photographer Phil Vabre
What: 250 lb single-engine true Ultralight aircraft
Where: Desoto County soybean field near the intersection of Stateline and Center Hill Roads.
When: 10/2/09
Who: 52 year-old Louis Bassie of Byhalia Mississippi
Why: As he was coming in for a landing, Bassie’s plane took a nose-dive, spiraled out-of-control and crashed. Bassie had a pilot’s license, worked as a crop-duster, and had served in the military, but it does not take a license to fly a home built kit plane.
Federal authorities will not be investigating the crash of an unlicensed plane.
A Kazakhstan Air Force Aero L-39C Albatros was on a training mission when it crashed in Akhtobe Kazakhstan.
A teacher and a student pilot were aboard. “Methodologist of the-inspector of the security service of flights of the Military Institute lieutenant colonel aviation Colonel Vissarionov Evgeny Nikolaevich and Military Institute Cadet Massalimov Arman Evgeniyuly died on impact.”
The crash was witnessed by passengers who had just arrived from Almaty.
The plane crashed into the hanger.
A criminal investigation has been opened under Article 392 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Violation of the rules of safety and training.”
What: Maldivian Air Taxi DHC-6 Twin Otter en route from Lily Beach resort to seaplane lagoon
Where: seaplane lagoon on Hulhule Island
When: Feb 9, 2012, 12.08pm
Who: 9 passengers, no fatalities
Why: A Maldivian Air Taxi seaplane made a crash landing at Hulhule Island in heavy rain with low visibility.
None of the nine passengers aboard were seriously hurt, but some were in shock after the twenty-five minute flight. The passengers were Maldavian(1) British(2) and Vietnamese (4), were rescued within ten minutes and taken to the CIP ‘Koimala’ Executive Lounge for medical treatment.
The MAT plane is being recovered.
The Tam Air Crash in Sao Paulo has made a top ten disaster list.
#2. Brazil Plane Crash – Aviators call São Paolo’s Congonhas Airport “the aircraft carrier,” because landing on its notoriously short runway, surrounded by densely populated residential areas, is as touchy as trying to put down on the deck of a ship at sea. Though a Brazilian court had banned large jets from the airport in February, citing safety concerns, the ban was later overturned. On July 17, 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, smashed into a gas station and then 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.
