• Kim Dotcom Emergency Landing in New Zealand
  • Southern Hillsborough Emergency Landing injures ultralight pilot
  • Two Survive Small Piper Crash on Hudson River
  • NTSB Report of December 20, 2011 Cool Stream Socata Crash in New Jersey

Video below

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.

Similar Posts

| | | |

Croatian Pilots Survive Coyote Crash but not the Fire

What: Rans S-6 Coyote
Where: Letjelište Zvekovac, Croatia
When: June 16, 2011
Who: 2 fatalities, one injury
Why: A home built ultralight carrying two passengers on a training exercise crashed at an airfield two hundred feet from the runway between 10:00 and 10:15 pm. The plane fell from the sky, and exploded when it impacted the ground. A local farmer who was on site to cut the grass attempted to come to the aid of the pilots who were calling for help, and was injured by the fire.

The light aluminum frame burned quickly.

Apparently Vladimir Bodiš and Marinko Lovri? survived the impact but died in the fire. Bodiš was an Eagle test pilot with a commercial license, and Lovri? taught military pilots although a Croatian newspaper said they found no license for him.

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.
| | |

Baja Crash Kills Two Mexican Flight Instructors

What: Armada de México Fuerza Aeronaval Zlín 242L
Where: La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
When: Dec 5, 2012
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: The flight departed from the Naval aviation school in La Paz; it was a training flight. The two Mexican aviators aboard, Mexican Navy flight instructor Lieutenant Commander Adrian Ignacio Gonzalez Vargas, and Mexican Air Force flight instructor Major Alfonso Barajas Jesus Verduzco, died in the crash.

The Moravan Zlin 242L single engine aircraft crashed at 11:30 a.m., 36 kilometers southeast of La Paz

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.
| | | | |

Family Lost in Brussels Cessna Crash


Traffic was locked down at Brussels South Charleroi airport.

On Feb 9, 2013 at ten a.mm, a privately owned Cessna P210N Pressurized Centurion en route from Brussels to Lyon was taking off from Brussels South Charleroi Airport in Belgium in freezing fog when it ran into trouble.

The plane crashed beside the runway. A family of five, including three children, were aboard: a grandfather, his daughter, her three children age seven, six and two.

Police and a special crisis unit arrived on the scene.

Walloon Prime Minister Rudy Demotte (PS) and federal Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo (PS) offered condolences to the families of the victims.

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.
| | | |

S Dakota Medical Helicopter Bird Strike

What: (new) Avera Careflight helicopter
Where: S Dakota
When: November 2, 2009
Who: Pilot Craig Hilzendager and EMT Terry Willis
Why: While en route, the new helicopter had a bird strike (specifically duck) that shattered the helicopter cockpit window, and injured the EMT.

The landing was simplified by night vision goggles which made it possible for the pilot and EMT to be able to see the ground.

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.
|

German Air Controllers Express Need for Remote Control of Aircrafts

In the wake of recent Germanwings flight 9525 crash, German air traffic control authority has expressed the need for remote control of aircrafts.

At a press conference on April 15, head of the Deutsche Flugsicherung air traffic control authority, Dieter Scheurle, urged the aviation industry to develop a system that would enable the on-ground staff to remotely command the aircrafts. “We have to think past today’s technology,” he said, adding that, “I wouldn’t say it’s the simplest solution though.”

However, according to German pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit, such a system would be prone to misuse as well. The union spokesperson Markus Wahl said, “We also have to ask whether such a solution would really be an improvement, after all it’s the pilots who are sitting in the cockpit and they’re the ones with all the information.”

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.
| |

Perpignan, France Airbus Details

NTSB Identification: DCA09RA013
Nonscheduled 14 CFR Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
Accident occurred Thursday, November 27, 2008 in Perpignan, France
Aircraft: , registration:
Injuries: 7 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.

On November 27, 2008 at 16:46 local time (15:46 UTC), an Airbus A320, equipped with International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500 engines, German registration D-AXLA, serial number 2500, impacted the Mediterranean sea during approach to runway 33 at Perpignan Rivesaltes airport (LFMP) in Perpignan, France. The aircraft impacted the sea approximately 7 kilometers from the coastline and is reportedly submerged 30-40 meters below the surface of the water. The French Navy is currently conducting recovery efforts, which include the use of remotely controlled vehicles (ROV).

The Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation civile (BEA) of France is investigating the accident. As the state of design for the IAE V2500 engines, the NTSB will send a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the BEA with their investigation. An NTSB powerplants specialist and representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and IAE will accompany the U.S. Accredited representative as Technical Advisors.

All inquiries concerning this investigation should be directed to the BEA at:

Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation civile
Bâtiment 153
Aéroport du Bourget
93350 Le Bourget
France
Website: http://www.bea-fr.org

src: ntsb

To include the featured image in your Twitter Card, please tap or click their icon a second time.