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Police Service Eurocopter Missing in Botswana
A Botswana Police Service Eurocopter AS350 was en route on a routine patrol between Gumare and Maun Botswana, and went missing in the Okavango. The flight left at 19:10 and was expected at 20:10. The captain, copilot and an Airborne Law Enforcement Officer were aboard at the time it disappeared. A search is underway, but it has not yet been located. The families of those who are missing have been notified.
The police enlisted the public and local pilots in the search as well as the Botswana Defence Force, (BDF) and Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS). Search and rescue teams have been deployed, and there is also a meeting at Maun Airport concerning the disappearance.
FAA Updates Lightning Protection Airworthiness Standards
The Federal Aviation Administration is amending the lightning protection airworthiness standards.
New lightning protection regulations are beibg estabkusged for electrical and electronic systems installed on aircraft certificated under parts 23, 27, and 29.
Revised lightning protection regulations are also established for electrical and electronic systems installed on airplanes certificated under part 25.
Two levels of lightning protection for aircraft systems based on consequences of system function failure will be established by this rule.
1.) Catastrophic consequences which would prevent continued safe flight and landing;
2.) Hazardous or major consequences which would reduce the capability of the aircraft or the ability of the flightcrew to respond to an adverse operating condition.Lightning protection for aircraft systems are to be established according to the aircraft’s potential for lightning exposure. Airworthiness standards establish consistent lightning protection requirements for both aircraft electrical and electronic systems.
- Alaska | Crash | De-Havilland | float plane | NTSB | USA
3 Killed, 7 Injured as Plane Crashes in Alaska
A small floatplane plane crashed north of Iliamna Airport in Iliamna, Alaska, on September 15.The DeHavilland DHC-3T Turbine Otter aircraft, carrying 10 people, went down while it was taking off from East Wind Lake.
Three people were killed in the accident. They were identified as 80-year-old Tony W. Degroot, of Hanford, California, 69-year-old James Specter, of Shavertown, Pennsylvania and 70-year-old James P. Fletcher, of Clovis, California.
Seven others were injured and were shifted to hospitals.
The plane belonged to Rainbow King Lodge.
The NTSB is investigating.
- NTSB | Public Statement | USA
NTSB ISSUES FIVE NEW GENERAL AVIATION SAFETY ALERTS
The National Transportation Safety Board issued five new Safety Alerts last week that provide general aviation (GA) pilots with mitigating strategies for preventing accidents. These Safety Alerts follow five that were issued in March at a Board Meeting that focused on the most frequent types of general aviation accidents.“Knowing these accidents, which sometimes include entire families, can be prevented is why ‘General Aviation Safety’ is on our Most Wanted List of transportation safety improvements,” said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. “At a time when many people are putting together their list of resolutions for the coming year, these five Safety Alerts remind pilots, mechanics and passengers of basic safety precautions to add to their checklists to ensure a safe flight for all on board.”
A Safety Alert is a brief information sheet that pinpoints a particular safety hazard and offers practical remedies to address the issue.
The five Safety Alerts issued last week are:
• Check Your Restraints
• Engine Power Loss Due to Carburetor Icing
• “Armed” for Safety: Emergency Locator Transmitters
• All Secure, All Clear (securing items in the aircraft cabin)
• Proper Use of Fiber or Nylon Self-Locking NutsThe NTSB is charged with investigating about 1,500 aviation accidents annually. Each year, about 475 pilots and passengers are killed and hundreds more are seriously injured in GA accidents in the United States.
NTSB TO CONSIDER NEW SAFETY ALERTS
March 8, 2013
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to consider five Safety Alerts aimed at reducing the number of general aviation accidents. A Safety Alert is a brief information sheet that pinpoints a particular safety issue and offers practical remedies to address the hazard.Each year the NTSB investigates about 1500 GA accidents in which about 475 pilots and passengers are killed and hundreds more are seriously injured.
The safety issue areas under consideration at the Board meeting will include:
- Reduced-visual-reference accidents, including controlled flight into terrain and uncontrolled descent to the ground due to spatial disorientation
- Aerodynamic stalls at low altitude in daylight visual weather conditions
- Pilot inattention to indications of mechanical problems
- Risk management for aviation maintenance technicians
- Risk management for pilots
