On May 31, 2013, a Transpac Aviation Academy Piper out of Deer Valley airport, and a Westwind School of Aeronautics Cessma were fifteen miles from the Deer Valley Airport when they collided.
Two people were aboard each flight, and there were no survivors.
The Cessna caught fire after impact.
Passengers names have not been released.
An Aerial Photographers LLC Cessna 177B Cardinal en route from Philadelphia to Manassas with two people aboard ran out of fuel and crashed into the living room of Virginia apartment. The pilot William Larson, passenger Tache L. Alejandro, and an apartment resident were injured when the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in David Ventura’s apartment.
The plane displaced 20 tenants.
The Red Cross is assisting the families.
A crane removed the plane from the building. The photo at the top of our screen was posted on Twitter.
On May 24, 2013, a privately owned Cessna 172 had just taken off from Son Bonet de Marratxi airfield, failed to gain altitude and crashed in a field.
There were three passengers from Spain aboard–22 and 26 year old men and a 36 year old woman–and the pilot; only the 22 year old Argentinean pilot survived. The pilot was badly injured.
The plane normally offered tourists flights around the Balearic Islands.
The accident is under investigation
On May 8, 2013, Cessna 172P was on a photo flight over the North Sea when it crashed at sea in foggy weather near the town of Egmond, Netherlands. Around 9:00 pm, the pilot had sent a distress signal.
A military helicopter and an offshore helicopter responded to the alarm. There was dense fog with visibility of 50 meters.
The pilot and passenger were rescued from water at 10 degrees Celsius. The pilot is a 71-year-old man from the North Holland Sint Maartensvlotbrug, and was unconscious when he was picked up and transported to hospital in Den Helder. The pilot later died of hypothermia.
The 48 year old passenger was picked up from Bussum by boat and admitted to an Amsterdam hospital.
On May 1, 2013, at Spirit of St. Louis Airport, a single engine Cessna Centurion made a belly landing.
The pilot landed, and suffered a landing gear emergency. Though the landing gear collapsed, the pilot made a belly landing on the runway without any destructive acrobatics.
The FAA is investigating.
On May 1, three other Cessna’s suffered issues:
-Cessna gear collapsed on rollout in Oakland CA
-Cessna landed gear up in Missouri
-Cessna towing banner flipped over off Louisiana runway, one minor injury
A Cessna 172 and a Cessna 172RG Cutlass collided over Westlake Village eight miles east northeast of Ventura.
The Cutlass, registered to Ameriflyers of Florida LLC made an emergency landing on the Westlake Golf Course, Westlake Village, California. Three aboard sustained minor injuries in a belly landing at 2:15 p.m. near the third hole. They were hospitalized with minor injuries.
The second plane crashed in the Santa Monica Mountains, sparking a brush fire and a search and rescue effort. The pilot was found under the wreckage.
One of the planes had left Santa Monica Airport on an engine test flight and was heading east when it collided with the other.
On April 4, 2013 about 12:30 am, a Leair Charter Service Limited Cessna 402C was landing in the process of a medical evacuation and collided with a parked truck being used to illuminate the runway.
The pilot and passenger in the plane survived.
The vehicle caught on fire, killing three occupants. The fatalities are named in the video.
Additionally, the video calls for the need for lights on the runway.
Official statement:
Tragic aviation accident in Mayaguana
The Hon. Glenys Hanna-Martin
Minister of Transport and Aviation
In the early hours of this morning I was informed of an aviation accident in Mayaguana resulting in the tragic death of 3 people. I am advised that all 3 persons are residents of the island of Mayaguana. A preliminary report from the Department of Civil Aviation says that on 4th April, 2013 at approximately 12:30 a.m. a Cessna C402 owned by Leair Charter Service Limited with a crew of 2 on board was making a landing at night for an emergency evacuation flight with two vehicles strategically placed to outline the useable portion of the runway. It is reported that the aircraft made contact with one of the vehicles resulting in the deaths of the 3 passengers in that vehicle.
An investigative team comprising the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Air Accident Investigation and Prevention Unit of the Department of Civil Aviation will fly into Mayaguana at 5 a.m. this morning.
I wish to assure that a full investigation will be carried out by the Department of Civil Aviation into the causes and circumstances surrounding this terrible event. I will report further as information permits. Out of respect for the families, the names of the persons killed will not be disclosed until an official release is made by the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of these beloved persons and to the wider community of Mayaguana who share in this loss.
On April 1:
A Maxem Aviation Cessna 560 Citation Encore blew a tire at 6.02 am during an aborted takeoff from Perth Airport.
Subsequently, the plane came to rest without landing gear with two blown main gear tires.
The Cessna sustained minor damage. No injuries were reported among the two pilots and seven passengers.
On March 25, a Cessna T210N Turbo Centurion crashed at 5:30 a.m. in a paddock two miles from Roma Airport, Queensland. Two people were aboard, bull rider John Quintana, and the national head of Ray White’s Livestock business, Charlie Maher, both of whom died on the scene. On impact, an emergency beacon activated.
There was a 500 meter debris field. Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Canberra alerted police. Fire crews were called and Careflight but no one survived the crash.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the crash site at Hartley Lane in Orange Hill to begin their investigation.
Investigation title:
Collision with terrain involving Cessna T210N, VH-MEQ, 2 km west of Roma Airport, Queensland on 25 March 2013
ATSB Investigation # AO-2013-057
The ATSB is investigating a fatal aircraft accident involving a Cessna T210N that occurred on 25 March 2013 near Roma, Queensland.
Soon after takeoff, the aircraft collided with terrain. The two occupants died in the accident and the aircraft was destroyed.
A team of four investigators will arrive at the accident site tonight to begin the on-site investigation.
The team comprises experts in engineering, materials failure and aircraft operations.
While onsite, the team will be:
The team is expected to be onsite for around four days.
If you have any information about the accident, please call the ATSB on 1800 020 616.
On March 17, 2013:
On Feb 27, 2013, a privately owned Cessna 150 was near Deming New Mexico when it crashed.
Before ATC lost contact with him, the last message they received from pilot Carl Link was a distress call saying he was losing his vision.
Someone in the area heard the plane fly but did not hear it crash.
The plane impacted near State Road 26 and ended up wheels up a quarter mile from the dirt road.
The pilot died at the scene.
On Feb 25, 2013, in Puella, Puerto Varas Chile, a Cessna 152 struck a fence and crashed. Three aboard survived.
The plane was taking off from a ski slope,but did not sustain adequate altitude, and struck a fence.
The pilot was Alfonso Ruiz Tagle.
Carabineros de la Tenencia Casa Pangue was apparently not notified and responded to the scene in the afternoon. The accident is under investigation.
On Feb 24, 2013, a Cessna 336/337 en route from North Perry Airport Hollywood Florida to Florida Keys Marathon Airport went down in Biscayne Bay, Bayfront Park in Homestead after the pilot lost power.
There were four people aboard. After the plane was upside down, the pilot and passengers came out from under the plane. They were taken to Black Point Marina and from there to a local hospital for minor injuries.
It was termed a forced landing (wheels up) in Biscayne Bay.
There were no fatalities.
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On Feb 14, a privately owned Cessna 310 en route from Okeechobee to Bartow, Florida went missing 15 miles west of Ft. Pierce, and was located west of Vero Beach Florida. Three passengers were aboard.
Paramedics flew in a Coast Guard Chopper to the crash site to recover the three victims; they were fatalities.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
On Feb 08 2013, a Centro Universitario de Aviación Cessna 172R Skyhawk #LV-GEU with four aboard took off from La Matanza – Club Universitario de Aviación for a student flight and crashed in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.
The crash site is a property located at 1500 meters from the intersection of Belt Road and Avenue Juan XXIII, former Black Road, in Lomas de Zamora, in a field next to the Lomas de Zamora federal shooting range.Two passengers were expelled from the plane, and two trapped inside.
Ambulances struggling to get to the scene got lost because they had not established exact coordinates.
Two doctors were flying the plane. The 38 year old was piloting, and the 44 year-old was the co-pilot. Two passengers were aboard, one 45 years old, and one 20 years old. The names have not been released.
The cause of the accident is being investigated by ANAC and the police. Buenos Aires police personnel had custody of the outer perimeter of the crash site overnight.
Eyewitnesses say the plane ignited in the air but a pilot who was flying over during the crash say it ignited on impact with the ground.
Firefighters, police officers technicians, and the mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martin Insaurralde were at the scene of the accident.
Traffic was locked down at Brussels South Charleroi airport.
On Feb 9, 2013 at ten a.mm, a privately owned Cessna P210N Pressurized Centurion en route from Brussels to Lyon was taking off from Brussels South Charleroi Airport in Belgium in freezing fog when it ran into trouble.
The plane crashed beside the runway. A family of five, including three children, were aboard: a grandfather, his daughter, her three children age seven, six and two.
Police and a special crisis unit arrived on the scene.
Walloon Prime Minister Rudy Demotte (PS) and federal Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo (PS) offered condolences to the families of the victims.
On Feb 4, 2013, a Cessna 337D crashed at Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey.
Three people died in the crash, the pilot, a mechanic and the plane owner.
On Feb 1, 2013, a privately owned Cessna was being worked on when it rolled off and struck the fire station.
The Fire Chief of the Belen Fire Department said the building was empty when the plane hit it.
There is some damage to the plane.
The Cessna 182P is registered in Albuquerque New Mexico.
On Feb 1 2013 in Settebagni Italy, an Aerotech Cessna FRA150 en route from Roma-Urbe Airport attempted an emergency landing near a runway at the flight school, made a forced landing and flipped. The National Agency for Flight Safety L’Agenzia nazionale per la sicurezza del volo (ANSV) is investigating the forced landing.
The two aboard the plane, the instructor and a student pilot were injured near Ring Road and the exit in Fiano Romano.
The plane sustained extensive damage.
The instructor and student were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries at 118 al Sant’Andrea for a lumbar trauma and trauma to the shoulder.
On Jan 31, 2013, a Cessna R172K was en route from Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport (El Plumerillo International Airport, ) in Mendoza Argentina to San Carlos de Bariloche Airport in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina when it suffered a loss of electrical power.
Pilot Rodolfo Smith made a safe emergency landing near Villa La Angostura.
Pilots made an emergency landing on Route 40 Rincon Chico Zone, The passengers had planned to visit Bariloche and fly on to Chile. Individuals from an Aeroclub and ANAC came to assist.
Repairs to the electrical system were made and the plane took off to complete its journey. The passengers were en route to a festival in Chile.
On Jan 21, 2013 a Cessna 206 Stationair in San Germán Bolivia crashed while making an illegal flight and came off the airstrip. A drug lord named Roly Delgado was injured in the accident. Delgado had entered Santa Cruz with a different name. He is considered a dangerous drug lords in the area of ??San Germán and Nuevo Horizonte.
He was detained by a narcotics officer.
On January 7, 2012, at 10:15 a.m. a Weber Logistics-owned Cessna Columbia LC41-550FG landed and rolled off the San Carlos Airport runway into a pond.
There were two people aboard the single engine plane and neither was injured.
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A Tanzania National Parks Authority Cessna 182Q Skylane flying from Mpanda airport to Katavi National Park crashed in Nsemlwa village, Tanzania after the plane developed engine failure.
The pilot capt. Adamu Athumani Kajwa survived a crash that split the plane in two. He had already dropped off his passenger at Mpanda Airport.
Farmers witnessed the plane crash and assisted the pilot although their assistance was hampered by bees.
The pilot was hospitalized at Mpanda district hospital.
An Oulton Investments Pty Ltd Cessna 182A Skyline was en route to fly for a skydiving company that hired the plane for a Christmas party at the Flame Lily Adventures park. A Santa Skydiving event was planned. While en route, the plane struck four electricity transmission lines, cutting power to 1600 homes.
The plane crashed in Barrum Heads, Queensland north of Hervey Bay, and caught on fire. Three fire crews responded to put out the blaze as well as three police crews, including an inspector and the forensic crash unit. The 59 year old pilot died in the crash.
According to the ATSB:
The ATSB is investigating a fatal accident involving a Cessna 182A aircraft (registration VH-SBG) that occurred near Burrum Heads, Queensland on 17 December 2012.
Update 18 December 2012
ATSB investigators arrived on the accident site this morning.
The investigators are seeking witness reports including any video footage that might assist the investigation. Witnesses can call the ATSB on 1800 020 616.17 December 2012
It was reported that the aircraft struck a powerline before colliding with terrain. The pilot—the only person on board the aircraft—died in the accident.Four ATSB investigators (with specialisations in engineering and aircraft operations) are expected to arrive on the accident site tomorrow morning.
Over the next three days of the on-site investigation, the team will be interviewing witnesses and examining the wreckage and accident site, including the powerline.
More information will be posted on this page as it comes to hand.
