On August 29, a B&F Technik FK12 Comet with one aboard crashed on the runway at Hannut/Avernas-le-Bauduin Airport in Belgium. The ultralight was destroyed and is a total loss.
A founder of the aéroclub le club d’aviation de Cras-Avernas, Arthur Moureau, died at the scene.
Details of the accident have not been released.
On November 17, 2013 at 6:23 pm, Flight 363, an Ak Bars Aero/Tatarstan Boeing 737-500 en route from Moscow to Kazan, after several go-arounds, and more than one landing pass. On the second (?) attempt, an hour later, it crashed on landing at Kazan. On touchdown, the jet’s nose hit the ground.
The plane caught fire on impact after a fuel tank caught fire. None of the 44 passengers or 6 crew survived the fire.
The leased 23 year old plane was registered as VQ-BBN.
The Metars were reported as:
UWKD 171530Z 23008G11MPS 5000 -RASN OVC007 03/03 Q0993 R29/2/0055 NOSIG RMK QFE734/0979
UWKD 171500Z 23009G12MPS 9999 -RASN OVC008 03/02 Q0994 R29/2/0055 NOSIG RMK QFE735/0980
“The visibility was five thousand meters, the runway was dry. You cannot even imagine better conditions.”
NOTAMS:
A4677/13 – AD CLSD DUE TO TECR. 17 NOV 18:20 2013 UNTIL 18 NOV 08:00 2013. CREATED: 17 NOV 18:29 2013
Transport Prosecution Office has opened a criminal investigation.
The passenger list includes Alexander V. Antonov (regional head of Russia’s Federal Security Service) and Irek Minikhanov, son of the president of Tatarstan.
PICTURED: a Eurocopter AS350B2
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Contact photographer Michal Nowicki
What: OmniFlight American Eurocopter AS350B2 medical helicopter en route from Charleston to Conway
Where: 63 miles southwest of Conway, S.C
When: 2308 PM, ET on Friday, September 25, 2009
Who: 3 person crew:p ilot, flight nurse and paramedic
Why: The helicopter had dropped off a patient at about 9:35 p.m. Friday in Charleston. Thunderstorms were in the area at the time of the crash. The weather was described as “convective.”
A small plane crashed in a mountainous area in central Kenya, on June 5th.
The wreckage of the Cessna plane, belonging to FlySAX airline, was found in the Aberdare forest.
There were ten people aboard at the time, including two pilots and eight passengers. All of them were killed in the crash.
The plane was heading from Kitale to Nairobi, Kenya, at the time.
Pictured: A Cessna T210N Turbo Centurion
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Contact photographer Mick Bajcar
What: Cessna T210N
Where: 3 miles south of Dana Point, California
When: November 19, 2005
Who: Pilot and 3 passengers
Why: The airplane impacted the ocean following a departure from controlled cruise flight, decelerating from 120 to 60 knots spiraling down corkscrew manner before impact. No pre-accident anomalies were noted with any systems examined, and no distress calls or communications preceded or followed the upset. The pilot had moderate to severe coronary artery disease with evidence of at least one prior small heart attack. The combination of coronary artery disease and LVH would have substantially increased the risk for sudden cardiac death in this pilot. Four died in the crash.
What: Guatemalan air force helicopter Bell UH1H
Where: Quebrada Seca, Petén Guatemala
When: Feb 28 2012 10 am
Who: 10 fatalities
Why: After a civilian chopper crashed, the Guatemalan air force helicopter on a regular Tuesday mission went to assist in the rescue but crashed en route. The seven officers and three air force specialists diverted from their mission “to supply some detachments are located in the Laguna del Tigre,” and died in the crash in bad weather in the mountainous area. It appears that when the military chopper reached the scene of the first crash, the rescue had already been handled, so they elected to continue on their mission, and it was on the continuation of the journey to Peten that the accident occurred.
According to eyewitnesses, the helicopter lost power near the village of Quebrada Seca, in the vicinity of the town of San Luis.
Three were crew—two lieutenants and a specialist—and the seven passengers were a flight lieutenant, two second lieutenants of aviation, a second lieutenant of infantry, two specialists and an aére-military policeman. (José Everardo Portillo Salazar, Manuel Ovalle Garcia and Armando Barrientos Mynor, the lieutenants Jose Alejandro Rodriguez and Flores Be Zechariah, Amilcar specialist Humberto Leon and Manuel Escobar Axpuac, Emerson Reyes and Paolo Rivera Martinez Galindo Elbu Stuart, One person was unidentified.)
Pilot Lieutenant Everaldo Portillo had more than 700 flight hours.
The first chopper apparently hit power lines which apparently helped break the fall. It crashed in the El Guarumo in Semox village on Guatemala’s Caribbean coast ( Livingston, Izabal). Three injured survivors of the original crash were taken to del Hospital Roosevelt in Morales, Izabal. The survivors of the first crash were listed as Carlos Larios Aguilar, 48, the pilot of the ship John Paul Moran, 52, and mechanic Jose Gomez, 28. The first chopper was #TG-SAN, also out of Petén.
A small plane crashed in a field near Branson West Airport, Missouri, on December 17th.
The Incident happened when the Piper Cherokee plane was carrying two people.
Both occupants of the plane were killed in the crash. They were identified as the pilot Keith M. Curtis, 52, and Dawn Curtis, 45, both from of Gardner, Kansas.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
