What: “AufderHeide Flying Service LLC” Ayres/Snow S2R-600 Thrush Commander
Where: Southwest of De Witt, AR
When: May 4, 2010
Who: pilot Roger Dale Nichols, 51, of DeWitt
Why: The pilot was on a job spraying chemicals on a field west of U.S. 165. When he did not return, the the Civil Air Patrol and the Arkansas Department of Emergency commenced a search, and found the wreckage.
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Pictured: A Manang Air Mil Mi-8MTV-1
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Contact photographer Michael FritzWhat: Manang Air MI-17 helicopter
Where: Rodikot, Humla district in mid-western Nepal
When: 2009-11-15 11:30 a.m. local time
Who: 6 on board. 1 dies, 5 survivors.
Why: While attempting to land at the helipad while transporting grain and food items from Surkhet to a remote mountain village, the helicopter’s rear rotors hit the mountainside and the pilot lost control of the aircraft.The death is reported to be a Russian engineer Sergei Kovyazo.
The others aboard—copilot Raju Bhandari, accountant Krishna Amatya, overseer Bishnu Bahadur Chaudhary, local resident Lok Bahadur and a Russian pilot—were via helicopter to a Nepalgunj hospital in Nepalgunj.
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Helicopter Crashes in Israel
Pictured: A Tamir Airways Piper PA-31-310 Turbo Navajo. The vehicle in the crash was a helicopter. Co-owner of Tamir Airways was killed in the crash.
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Contact photographer Michael SenderWhat: Tamir Airways Robinson R44 en route from Tel Aviv Sde Dov airfield
Where: Sironit beach in Netanya, Israel
When: Nov 24, 2009
Who: 4 on board, the , Yoav Tamir from Tel Aviv and Ran Lapid from Nes Tziona, Hadar Shavit, 39, from the town of Lapid and a tourist from the UK.
Why: The investigation is considering a technical failure suspected to have caused the fatal accident and the possibility that the propeller broke in mid flight.Pilot Ran Lapid, was an experienced helicopter pilot but human error is not ruled out as a cause.
Witnesses heard “an unusual noise” prior to the helicopter landing in the water and “saw it slowly descend toward the water…flip 90 degrees, the propeller hit the water and broke off and the helicopter dove into the water.”
There were no survivors but all the remains have been found.
When the Sewage Hit the Fanblade
What: Cessna 172 registered to an El Cajon flight school en route from Gillespie Field in El Cajon to Torrance.
Where: Close to a hwy overpass a half-mile from the Oceanside runway Oceanside Municipal Airport east of Interstate 5 in San Diego County.
When: January 24, 2009
Who: 24-year-old pilot Amandeep Singh and an 18-year-old passenger Harshdeep Multani . Both have Indian passports.
Why: The official word is that the plane developed mechanical trouble and was in the process of an emergency landing. On one account, the plane clipped a power line on approach to the runway and crashed. Another account says the plane struck a wooden utility pole. The plane also sheared off the valve to a sewage pipe, spewubg a geyser 25,000 gallons of raw sewage. The airport was closed. It took 45 minutes to extricate the pilot from the wreckage as sewage rained down on them. Decontamination at the scene was comprised of stripping down to their shorts and being hosed down on site.A salvage crew removed the wereckage to Pearblossom in Los Angeles County,
Panamanian Cessna Crash a Mystery
What: Cessna 152 belonging to a flight training school en route from Marcos A. Gelabert Airport to the Calzada Larga Airport
Where: floating near the village of Tranquillas in the Panama Canal’s Lake Madden
When: found early Wednesday
Who: Panamanian flight instructor Alex Bosquez and student Abraham Licona
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An Air Tractor AT-401B spray plane crashed in a field at 2300 block of 170th Avenue and just south of St. John-St. Andrew Road, northwest of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas.The accident happened at about 11 p.m. on July 17, after the yellow colored plane took off from Beloit airport at 10:45 p.m.
The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed that Garrett Moore, 23, who was piloting the plane and was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. The plane was also completely damaged and hardly recognizable.
The plane’s wreckage was spotted the next morning by an Ellis County farmer who was visiting the nearby pasture to check on his cows. The engine of the plane had cooled down by the time it was reported.
The plane was owned by Frontier Ag in Oakley. Moore worked as an aviation pilot and a location trainee for the company.