Cessna

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    Cessna Crash in Bluff Point State Park


    What: single-engine Cessna en route from New York to Groton-New London Airport
    Where: Bluff Point State Park.
    When: Wednesday night
    Who: Anthony Calanca, and Philip Baker.
    Why: The pilot said he was making an approach to Groton-New London Airport but he landed short of the runway, Flying north over Mumford Cove, the plane went off the radar. Bicyclers directed searchers to the site of the wreckage in Bluff Point State Park. The plane was flown by a student pilot.

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    Emergency Landing Toledo


    What: twin-engine Cessna
    Where: Toledo Express Airport
    When: 11 a.m. Tuesday
    Who: The pilot was the only person aboard
    Why: After the pilot experienced a problem with his navigation equipment, he landed safely at Toledo Express Airport.

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    Colorado Cessna Crash


    What: single engine Cessna 182 en route from Rocky Mountain Regional Airport to Price City in Carbon County, Utah
    Where: found a tenth of a mile east of Josephine Lake in the Holy Cross Wilderness area
    When: Scheduled to land 8 p.m. on Monday but flight was lost. Wreckage spotted on Wednesday.
    Who: pilot Michael Loveless of Price, Utah
    Why: found by a National Guard Helicopter; Vail Mountain Rescue Group and Western Eagle County Search and Rescue are helping with recovery, but weather has prevented crews from reaching the wreckage

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    Arkansas: Cessna Crash


    What: Cessna 177RG registered to Jerry L. Smith of Willow Springs, Mo.
    Where: Rich Mountain in rural Polk County near Queen Wilhelmina State Park, western Arkansas
    When: 2 p.m.
    Who: Jerry L. Smith
    Why: The aircraft appeared to have clipped some trees before plummeting into the right-of-way off Arkansas 88. Someone driving by saw the wreckage around 2:15 p.m. and called it in. The pilot died in the crash

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    A Founding member of the Innisfail Flying Club Dies in Crash


    What: single-engine Cessna 182 en route from Red Deer Regional Airport heading to the Innisfail Airport.
    Where: Red Deer, Alta
    When: Saturday 10:30 p.m.
    Who: Pilot Herluf Nielsen 61, from the Spruceview area, was the only person aboard.
    Why: There was heavy fog in the area. Nielsen left the airport around 10:30 p.m. and was reported overdue at the Innisfail Airport.

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    Emergency Landing Commendation in Brisbane


    What: single-engine Cessna 172
    Where: Archerfield Airport, Brisbane
    When: 4.00 pm
    Who: instructor and student
    Why: landed on one wheel and skidded along the runway. The landing is being described as “near-perfect emergency landing ” and “best possible outcome” in spite of the fact that the Cessna’s undercarriage would not lower. Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) plans to investigate.

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    Emergency Landing Commendation in Brisbane


    What: single-engine Cessna 172
    Where: Archerfield Airport, Brisbane
    When: 4.00 pm
    Who: instructor and student
    Why: landed on one wheel and skidded along the runway. The landing is being described as “near-perfect emergency landing ” and “best possible outcome” in spite of the fact that the Cessna’s undercarriage would not lower. Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) plans to investigate.

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    21 Year Old Cropduster Crashes and Burns in Tasmania


    What: 1967 cropdusting Cessna
    Where: Cressy in north Tasmania
    When: 8 a m
    Who: 12 year old pilot working for a local aviation company
    Why: The engine stalled, lost altitude and hit the ground nose first, exploding and igniting fuel from the ruptured tank.
    The propeller was torn off by the impact.The pilot was wearing a firesuit but his face and hands were on fire.The pilot was taken to Launceston General Hospital. A water tanker driver stopped and helped put out the fire.

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    Valley View Airport Crash update


    What: 1964 Cessna P206 en route to Valley View Airport in Estacada
    Where: a field near the 30700 block of Northeast Lawrence Road
    When: Found at 7:50 pm
    Who: 54-year-old Mark Greenup, a Christmas tree farmer believed to have been flying the 1964 Cessna
    registered to him, and 50-year-old George Smetana, both killed in the crash
    Why: The pilot called the airport’s owner of the airport to report all of the electrical equipment on the plane had become inoperable.

  • Cessna Flips after Hard Landing


    What: Cessna 172 en route from Lafayette
    Where: runway at 2222 S. Airport Rd White County Airport
    When: 5:10 p.m. Oct. 25.
    Who: four people on board
    Why: The cessna approached the airport with a tailwind condition complicated by pilot;s judgment to use the runway without knowing which way the wind was blowing. After a hard landing, the plane flipped forward over its nose. All passengers were able to exit the plane.

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    Sewage Landing

    What: Cessna
    Where: Thames Airport on New Zealand’s North Island
    When: Monday October 27, 2008
    Who: Pilot
    Why: Pilot overshot the runway. The pilot was not hurt but the plane landed in a sewage pond and had to swim (through the sewage pond) to safety.

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    Safe Power-Off Landing at Southern Illinois Airport

    What: Cessna 172/RG owned by Southern Illinois University Carbondale on an administrative flight “to check the plane’s operational systems”
    Where: grassy area adjacent to a landing strip at Southern Illinois Airport.
    When: October 26 Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
    Who: The pilot was a part-time flight instructor; a student also was on board.
    Why: One side of the landing gear malfunctioned. The pilot circled for more than an hour to burn fuel, then made a power-off landing, then the plane slid about 30 yards on its belly before stopping. Officials are saying that “The pilot was incredible”

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    Jaw-Breaking Cessna Crash on Okinawa

    What: four-seater Cessna 172
    Where: sugarcane field in Nago on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa
    When: Friday,
    Who: The pilot–a 45-year-old airman from Kadena Air Base–broke his jaw. The three others aboard were rescued without injuries.
    Why: The plane ran low on fuel while while returning to base.

    The plane cracked its nose cone and caught fire as soon as it hit the ground. It also hit a power line on descent and caused a power outage.

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    Teenager Lands in Oregon Basin

    What: 1978 Cessna fixed wing, single engine aircraft en route from Hillsboro Airport to Corvallis
    Where: in the Jackson Bottom Wildlife Refuge
    When: Saturday
    Who: Teenaged pilot
    Why: The Cessna experienced mechanical problems near Hillsboro Airport.

    The dates reported are not infrequently incorrect. One wonders if this misreported unfound Florida Hillsboro Imaginary Crash may have somehow been a misdirected Ham radio report of the above Hillsboro Oregon Crash.

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    Lost or Imaginary Plane Crash


    What: Cessna
    Where: a wooded area around Buckeye Road in Manatee County, Florida
    When: Thursday evening.
    Who: unknown
    Why: No holds were barred as emergency and rescue teams searched for a reported crash. Manatee Fire Rescue, Hillsborough Aviation and Coast Guard Aviation unsuccessfully searched a three mile radius.

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    Two Planes Collide; Six are Shaken but Survive

    What: Two small planes :
    Mesa County Sheriff’s Department single-engine Cessna 210 en route from from Grand Junction to the state penal system;

    single-engine Cessna 180 4 seater, single engine plane

    Where: in the sagebrush and scrub oak at the foot of the towering Grand Mesa about 10 miles south of the Grand Junction Regional Airport near Kannah Creek.
    When: Wednesday
    Who: six people ( two inmates, a deputy and a pilot. ); (pilot Tom Haefeli and passenger John Haefeli)
    Why: The planes collided in midair; the sheriff’s plane with the inmates aboard made it to the airport and managed a hard landing at 9:48 a.m, with front end damage. The other landed safely in sagebrush ten miles shy of the airport at about 9:30 a.m.. Some of those aboard were taken to a fire station in Whitewater Colorado. Pilot Tom Haefeli is quoted as saying “All of a sudden, there was an airplane headed for us. We tried to dive under him and they just clipped us and took our vertical stabilizer off.”

    The cause is under investigation and the FAA will look into weather, pilot error, tower air controllers, and flight plan. No one was injured.

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    Hidalgo Mountain Crash

    What: twin-engine Cessna 402C owned by the state government en route from Monterrey to La Paz airport in Baja California Sur.
    Where: in the Sierra de Hidalgo mountains
    When: 10 minutes after taking off from an airport in the city of Monterrey
    Who: Victims include Baja California Sur state Finance Secretary Nabor Garcia Aguirre, the pilot and the copilot.
    Why: The plane was flying on instruments because of poor visibility and heavy cloud cover in the area

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    Mexico: Cessna Crashes Ciudad Victoria


    Pictured: a Cessna 310 over Mexico
    Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
    Contact Photographer Carlos Cané

    What: Cessna 310 en route from Mendez Airport, Ciudad Victoria, to Nuevo Laredo, Teamaulipas, Mexico
    Where: Mexico
    When: October 21, 2008 1710 central daylight time
    Who: The pilot and the 4 passenger
    Why: The Cessna experienced a loss of power on takeoff from Pedro J. Mendez Airport, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. When the pilot attempted to return to the airport, the Cessna impacted level desert terrain 45 degrees off to the right of the side of the departure end of the runway.

    The pilot and the 4 passengers were fatally injured.

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    Cessna Crash in Ojinaga, Mexico

    What: Cessna 421B, N7560Q en route from El Paso International Airport to Presidio, Texas
    Operator: Volare Air Charter
    Where: 28 miles northwest of Ojinaga, Mexico
    When: September 15, 2008, approximately 1318 central daylight time
    Who: The dead included the leaders of the U.S. and Mexican sections of the IBWC, Carlos Marin of El Paso and Arturo Herreraof Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Also on board was Jake Brisbin Jr., executive director of the Rio Grande Council of Governments. The chartered Cessna 421 was piloted by Matthew Peter Juneau.

    NTSB Report:

    DFW08RA232
    On September 15, 2008, approximately 1318 central daylight time, a United States registered Cessna 421B, N7560Q, was substantially damaged after it collided with mountainous terrain approximately 28 miles northwest of Ojinaga, Mexico, near the border town of Presidio, Texas. The air transport rated pilot and the three passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was registered to EAC Parts LLC, Springfield, Ohio, and operated by Volare Air Charter, El Paso, Texas. The pilot contacted the Fort Worth Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS), Fort Worth, Texas, at 1016, approximately 15 minutes after he departed El Paso International Airport, El Paso, Texas, and filed a visual flight rules flight plan to Presidio, Texas. The pilot informed an AFSS specialist that he intended to enter Mexican airspace for the purpose of flying over the Luis Leon Dam, but had no intentions of landing in Mexico. The pilot did not request a weather briefing for the flight conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135; however, he was informed by the specialist that visual flight rules were not recommended due to mountain obscuration.

    Onboard the airplane were the pilot, the United States and Mexican Commissioners of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), and the Executive Director for the Rio Grande Council of Governments. The purpose of the flight was to assess Rio Grande flood conditions at Presidio-Ojinaga and to coordinate joint US-Mexican efforts with local officials to address flood control concerns in the area due to heavy inflows to the Rio Grande from reservoirs inside Mexico as a result of recent storms.

    The airplane wreckage was located on September 17, 2008, by the Marfa Sector of the US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Division, on the west side of the Sierra Grande Mountains, at an approximate elevation of 6,500 feet mean sea level (msl). The airplane came to rest approximately 100-150 feet below the top of a ridgeline on a heading of 055 degrees along victor-airway V81.

    A handheld Garmin 496 GPS was removed from the airplane wreckage and sent to the NTSB’s Research and Engineering Laboratory, Washington DC, for further examination and download.

    The investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Government of the Republic of Mexico. Any further information may be obtained from:

    Dirección de Investigación de Incidentes y Accidentes Aviacion
    Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC)
    Ave. 602 NUM. 161. COL. San Juan de Aragon 3RA
    Seccion C.P. 15620
    Delagacion Benustiano Carranza
    México, D. F.

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    Cessna Crashes in Iowa City

    What: Cessna 150 owned by Jet Air Inc
    Where: Crashed on to Edingale Drive, Iowa City near Iowa City Municipal Airport
    When: Oct. 6, 2008
    Who: James N. Meade, 64, of Iowa City
    Why: The FAA’s preliminary report points to engine failure as a possible cause. After the crash where the plane ended up nose down in the street, Meade was taken to University Hospital.

    This is the second crash within the month on Iowa City streets, in fact less than a mile from the June 3 crash on Sunset Street and Willow Creek Court that killed a 2-year-old girl, injured the pilot and one passenger and one passenger Sydney Blanton–died.

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    Georgia Emergency Landing and Rescue

    What: Cessna en route from New Jersey to Saint Simon’s Island.
    Where: near Wassaw Island, in the marsh east of Skidaway Island.
    When: Saturday morning
    Who: pilot Eugenia Singer and her dog
    Why: The engine surged and then lost power. Air traffic control directed her to marshland, where she landed submerged.

    On the Coast Guard Air Station Savannah rescue helicopter was flight mechanic Adam Morehouse who helped hoist Singer and her dog to safety in a basket.

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    Timothy Gerber Praised for Emergency Landing

    What: Cessna flying from Omaha to Des Moines
    Where: Highway 169, five miles north of Winterset Iowa
    When: around 9:45 pm Thursday October 2, 2008
    Who: Pilot Timothy Gerber
    Why: Pilot called Mayday. Flames were shooting out of the engine, but the pilot managed to land safely.

    The landing missed power lines and cars as he stopped in the middle of the busy road. The plane was reportedly undamaged in spite of landing in the dark.

    The pilot received encouragement from KCCI Chief Meterologist and pilot John McLaughlin who was flying at the time and heard him on the onboard radio

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    Emergency Landing at Pauma Valley Air Park

    What: single-engine Cessna 152, is registered to a Patrick Williams of Vista.
    Where: Pauma Valley Air Park, a private air strip
    When: 2:45 p.m
    Who: Two people aboard
    Why:When the light plane lost engine power, the pilot radioed in that he was going to glide into the Pauma Valley Air Park

  • Cessna Fireball on Anchorage Street

    What: Cessna 206
    Where: ANCHORAGE, Alaska near Merrill Field airport in a neighborhood on 8th street
    When: Wednesday October 1, 2008
    Who: The identities of the two on board fatalities have not been released
    Why: Pilot reported power loss at 11:41 a.m. The plane lost power shortly after take-off, banked to the left and clipped the top of an empty before crashing.

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    Cessna Crashes in Fullerton

    What: Cessna Skyhawk SP
    Where: Fullerton Airport
    When: 6:30 Tuesday night
    Who: 59-year-old pilot was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange with a broken arm, two broken legs, facial lacerations and other injuries. No one else was on board.
    Why: Under Investigation