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Medical Plane Crash Leads to Resignations in Romania


A medical rescue crew boarded a plane and left Bucharest for Oradea to pick up transplant organs from a patient who just passed away. But they became victims themselves.

We have seen intensive searches for missing planes all over the globe; but here’s a medical rescue team aboard a BN-2A Islander who suffered tragedy in the accident when an inadequate search for their missing plane failed to reach the plane in time. Pilot Adrian Iovan and student Aurelia Ion died from severe injuries and cold. Authorities failed to find the site in the first six hours. The fallout from that failure has led to the resignation of political officials including Minister of Interior, Radu Stroe, Director General of Romatsa, Aleodor Frâncu and Chief of General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU), Ion Burlui. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta dismissed state secretary Constantin Chiper, who was in charge of the rescue mission, and who should have coordinated the teams better.

A doctor who survived Radu Zamfir said that he gave the emergency service his exact GPS location provided by a smartphone.

Pilot Adrian Iovan died of internal bleeding and cold. AURELIA ION was an officer-student in the fifth year at the UMF Carol Davila, Military Medicine Institute in Bucharest and was also doing an internship at Fundeni Hospital.

A ranger found the wreckage and initiated the rescue. Initially all aboard—four doctors, a nurse and two flight crew—were alive.

Near Petreasa, Romania the airplane sustained substantial damage but the seven aboard initially survived. Near Poiana Horea, the plane had engine trouble. Pilot ADRIAN IOVAN tried to make an emergency landing, came down on a hillside in deep snow near Fântânele village near a lake.

Video of Funeral: Romanian plane crash victim and medical student buried at Ghencea Military Cemetery in Bucharest


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Fashion Mogul Plane Missing in Venezuela

On January 4, 2012, a plane taking off at 11:00AM went missing at 11:30AM. The party was en route from the resort Los Roques Venezuela traveling 100 miles to Caracas and disappeared from radar. A search has been initiated for the private plane, a twin-engine Britten Norman BN2 Islander.

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Listed on the flight were fashion mogul Vittorio Missoni who owned the plane, and his wife Maurizia Castiglioni, entrepreneur Guido Foresti and Elda Scalvenzi from Brescia and two crew members.

The search stopped at nightfall and began again on January 5.
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Pilot and British Tourist Die in Small Plane Crash in Antigua

What: FlyMontserrat Britten-Norman Islander en route from Antigua to Montserrat Island
Where: V.C. Bird International Airport
When: October 7 2012
Who: pilot and 3 passengers
Why: The twin-engine Britten-Norman Islander en route from Antigua to Montserrat Island overran a rainy runway at 4 p.m. and crashed.

Witnesses heard irregularities in the engine before it “plunged into the end of the runway.”

The pilot was reported as a fatality. A female British tourist died in the crash, and two other passengers are reported to be hospitalized at at Mount St. John’s Medical Centre.

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Photographer and Pilots Lost on Mountain in East Taiwan


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What: Dapeng Airlines Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander en route from Taipei to Taitung
Where: Missing en route
When: August 30, 2012
Who: 3 aboard
Why: After departing from Songshan Airport at 7:25, the plane with two pilots and a photographer (pilot Hsuey Chen-hao, co-pilot Chang Ming-chin and aerial photographer Chien Yu-hsin) was on an aerial photography flight conducting a survey. At 7:44 a.m., the pilot requested permission to switch from instrumental to visual flight. After 9:14 a.m there was no more contact with the plane, although it is supposed to check in every 15 minutes.

Around 10:15, the National Rescue Command Center informed ATC that an ELT signal had been detected. At the time, visibility was up to 10 kilometers.

A rescue chopper spotted the wreckage in the mountains at 1600 meters. Weather conditions forced the chopper to return.

The 20 year old plane had an airworthiness certificate renewed last month.


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BN2 Crashes in Caribbean, Pilot Lost, Passengers Rescued


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What: Divi Divi Air Britten-Norman BN2 A Islander en route from Curacao to Bonaire Netherlands Antilles
Where: Caribbean
When: Oct 22nd 2009
Who: 9 passengers and 1 pilot
Why: When the plane experienced engine failure, the flight ditched in the Carribean. The pilot, Robert Marcel, was knocked unconscious on impact.

Passengers were rescued by boat. The unconscious captain could not be freed from his seat harness and the plane sank with him aboard.

George’s Point of View

Condolences to the family of Robert Marcel.


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African Crash update, 9 Dead

What: Britten-Norman Islander en route from Mozambique (Nelspruit’s Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA) at 14:00) to Bloemfontein
Where: The wreckage was found in the Barberton mountain area near Nelspruit
When: Lost Sunday, found Monday 06/10/2008 16:47 – (SA)
Who: Eight passengers, 1 pilot
Why: After disappearing, a search-and-rescue team made up of police, military personnel and the Civil Aviation Authority with two military Oryx helicopters, one police chopper and a private chopper tracked down the crash site. The wreckage was found only when aerial photography perceived the wreckage on a mountainside,

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