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    Small Plane Crash-Lands in Longmont, CO; Pilot Escapes Injury

    A single-engine airplane crash-landed near Longmont Municipal Airport in Longmont, Colorado, immediately after takeoff.

    The accident happened at about 9:30 a.m. on June 1, after the pilot lost power of his 1998 Katana Diamond plane and crash landed in a field, some 300-400 yards away from the runway.

    The pilot, identified as Harold Kosmerl of Longmont, 74, the only person in the plane, escaped unhurt. However, the plane was heavily damaged.

    The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

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    August 13 Incident Overview

    Date: 10-AUG-13
    Time: 14:00:00Z
    Regis#: N9752J
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA28
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Substantial
    City: OVERGAARD
    State: Arizona
    Description: AIRCRAFT SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, CRASHED 1/2 MILE FROM THE RUNWAY, MOGOLLON AIRPARK, OVERGAARD, AZ
    Flight Phase: TAKEOFF (TOF)

    Date: 10-AUG-13
    Time: 13:25:00Z
    Regis#: N7811W
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA28
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Substantial
    City: POTEAU
    State: Oklahoma
    Description: AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES NEAR ROBERT S. KERR AIRPORT, POTEAU, OK

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 10-AUG-13
    Time: 17:15:00Z
    Regis#: N96037
    Aircraft Make: TAYLORCRAFT
    Aircraft Model: BC12
    Event Type: Accident
    Damage: Substantial
    City: INDEPENDENCE
    State: Oregon
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING FLIPPED OVER, INDEPENDENCE, OR

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 16:40:00Z
    Regis#: N7720P
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA24
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Substantial
    LOCATION
    City: HESPERIA
    State: California
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING WENT OFF THE RUNWAY INTO THE DIRT, HESPERIA, CA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 09-AUG-13
    Time: 16:30:00Z
    Regis#: N36538
    Aircraft Make: AIR TRACTOR
    Aircraft Model: AT400
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Substantial
    City: DUMAS
    State: Arkansas

    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, GROUND LOOPED, BILLY FREE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, DUMAS, AR

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 09-AUG-13
    Time: 20:28:00Z
    Regis#: N286AM
    Aircraft Make: AVIAT
    Aircraft Model: A1
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Aircraft Missing:
    Damage: Substantial
    City: BETTLES
    State: Alaska
    Description: AIRCRAFT CRASHED ONTO A GRAVEL BAR, 125 MILES FROM BETTLES, ALASKA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 10-AUG-13
    Time: 20:44:00Z
    Regis#: N230AK
    Aircraft Model: S18
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Substantial
    City: HUMBOLDT
    State: South Dakota
    Description: AIRCRAFT, EXPERIMENTAL SUPER 18, CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES IN A FIELD, NEAR HUMBOLDT, SC

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 10:46:00Z
    Regis#: N10PZ
    Aircraft Make: QUEST
    Aircraft Model: KODIAK100
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Substantial
    City: WESTPORT
    State: Massachusetts
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON TAKEOFF, WENT OFF THE END OF THE RUNWAY, WESTPORT, MA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 15:45:00Z
    Regis#: N4514S
    Aircraft Make: BEECH
    Aircraft Model: 33
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: Fatal
    Damage: Destroyed
    LOCATION
    City: ENNIS
    State: Texas
    Description: AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE 2 PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, RANKIN, ELLIS COUNTY, 10 MILES FROM ENNIS, TX

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 09-AUG-13
    Time: 15:22:00Z
    Regis#: N13622
    Aircraft Make: ROCKWELL
    Aircraft Model: 690
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: Fatal
    Damage: Destroyed
    City: EAST HAVEN
    State: Connecticut
    Description: AIRCRAFT CRASHED INTO HOUSES 1/4 MILE FROM THE AIRPORT, THE 2 PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED AND 2 PERSONS ON THE GROUND WERE FATALLY INJURED, EAST HAVEN, CT

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 12:30:00Z
    Regis#: N25QL
    Aircraft Make: RAVEN
    Aircraft Model: S55A
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: Fatal
    Damage: Unknown
    City: ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU
    Country: Canada
    DESCRIPTION
    Description: N25QL RAVEN S55A HOT AIR BALLOON IN LANDING, 1 PERSON ON THE GROUND WAS FATALLY INJURED, AT ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, SAINT GREGOIRE, QUEBEC, CANADA
    INJURY DATA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 10-AUG-13
    Time: 16:55:00Z
    Regis#: N22PA
    Aircraft Make: BEECH
    Aircraft Model: 24
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Unknown
    City: LINCOLNTON
    State: North Carolina
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED, LINCOLNTON, NC

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 10-AUG-13
    Time: 14:58:00Z
    Regis#: N27BD/BA100
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: Unknown
    Damage: Unknown
    LOCATION
    City: KILLEEN
    State: Texas
    Country:
    DESCRIPTION
    Description: AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENTAL BA-100, SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, FORCE LANDED IN A FIELD, NEAR KILLEEN, TX

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 18:52:00Z
    Regis#: N2559Z
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA23
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Minor
    City: BILLINGS
    State: Montana
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON TAKEOFF ROLL, NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED, BILLINGS, MT

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 12-AUG-13
    Time: 09:57:00Z
    Regis#: N4969J
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA28R
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Unknown
    City: FREDERICKSBURG
    State: Virginia
    Description: AIRCRAFT FORCE LANDED ON A PARKING LOT, FREDERICKSBURG, VA
    Total Fatal: 0

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 21:54:00Z
    Regis#: N557BB
    Aircraft Make: RANS
    Aircraft Model: S12
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Unknown
    City: DORCHESTER
    State: Maryland
    Description: AIRCRAFT FORCE LANDED IN THE WATER OFF ELLIOTT ISLAND, NEAR DORCHESTER, MD

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 14:30:00Z
    Regis#: N61JB
    Aircraft Make: MITSUBISHI
    Aircraft Model: MU2B
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Unknown
    City: COLUMBUS
    State: Ohio
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING WENT OFF THE RUNWAY INTO THE GRASS, RICKENBACKER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COLUMBUS, OH

    END NOTICE
    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 21:05:00Z
    Regis#: N73091
    Aircraft Make: CESSNA
    Aircraft Model: 172
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: None
    City: NEW LONDON
    State: New Hampshire
    Description: AIRCRAFT FORCE LANDED ON A HIGHWAY, NEAR NEW LONDON, NH

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 17:28:00Z
    Regis#: N8147J
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA32
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Unknown
    City: ALEXANDRIA
    State: Louisiana
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED, ALEXANDRIA, LA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 01:45:00Z
    Regis#: N82736
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: PA18
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Minor
    City: FAREWELL LAKE
    State: Alaska
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING STRUCK THE PROP, FAREWELL LAKE AIRSTRIP, ALASKA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 20:38:00Z
    Regis#: N88448
    Aircraft Make: PIPER
    Aircraft Model: J3C
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Aircraft Missing:
    Damage: Minor
    City: TITUSVILLE
    State: Florida
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING ROLLOUT, FLIPPED ONTO ITS NOSE, TITUSVILLE, FL

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 18:30:00Z
    Regis#: N894CT
    Aircraft Make: DIAMOND
    Aircraft Model: DA20
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: None
    Damage: Unknown
    City: ATLANTA
    State: Georgia
    Description: AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, GEAR COLLAPSED, NEWNAN COWETA COUNTY AIRPORT, ATLANTA, GA

    IDENTIFICATION
    Date: 11-AUG-13
    Time: 14:30:00Z
    Regis#: UNREG
    Event Type: Incident
    Highest Injury: Minor
    Damage: Unknown
    LOCATION
    City: WATERLOO
    State: Indiana
    Description: UNREGISTERED ULTRALIGHT FORCE LANDED IN A FIELD NEAR WATERLOO, IN
    INJURY DATA
    Total Fatal: 0

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    British Pilot and Passenger Survive Crash in Thailand


    On Dec 17, 2012, a privately owned Diamond dA42 Twin Star crashed and flipped in a paddy in Pathum Thani, Sam Khok, Thailand. The crash was about 200 meters from a residential area.

    The two Brits, Nicholas Turner (54) and David Walls (71)who were aboard survived the crash. They were returning from a business trip.

    After impact, locals assisted the pilot and passenger out of the plane. Volunteers from Ruamkatanyu Foundation took the victims to Krung Siam St. Carlos. They were hospitalized with minor injuries.

    The Civil Aviation Department and Scientific Crime Detection Centre 1 yesterday inspected the wreckage. Asian Aerospace Services removed the wreckage to Don Mueang Airport. The flight data recorder will be analyzed. The immediate cause of the accident.

    * In various sources, the pilot was identified as Nicholas Turner, Nicholas Phillippe, Nicholas Philip Plumer, Nicholas Pumer

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    Photo Flight Ends in Collision, 2 Fatalities


    What: Wings Over Holland General Avia F-22BV Pinguino
    Wings Over Holland Diamond DA40D Diamond Star TDI
    Where: Zeeasterweg, Dronten Netherlands
    When: October 22, 2012 4:35pm
    Who: 2 aboard, 2 injured
    Why: A Diamond DA40D Diamond Star TDI (PH-TDE) and a General Avia F-22BV Pinguino (D-EDMJ) crashed following a mid-air collision. The accident happened during an air-to-air photo flight
    Those aboard the Pinguino flight were airlifted by medical evacuation Lifeliner 1 and Lifeliner 4.

    The two aboard the Diamond Star did not survive.

    Rescue efforts were hampered by the wet ground which trapped afire truck that responded to the scene.

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    Small Swiss-owned Planet Crashes after “problems” in Parchim


    What: Twin Club Diamond DA42 Twin Star
    Where: Schwerin-Parchim Airport, Germany
    When: May 28, 2012
    Who: 4 aboard, 2 fatalities
    Why: After the pilot reported to ATC of having problems with the aircraft just after takeoff, the flight crashed in a forest near the town of Parchim. The 58 year old Swiss pilot and one 61 year old Swiss female passenger were reported as fatalities. Emergency services arrived in time to free two others (also Swiss) from the aircraft.

    They were injured and ported by helicopter to a hospital.

    The names have not been released.

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    Twinstar Engine Failure


    Pictured: A Diamond Aircraft Industries Diamond DA-42 Twin Star, Farnborough England
    Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
    Contact photographer Rez Manzoori

    What: Diamond Twinstar en route from Jersey to Vendee France
    Where: Jersey Airport
    When: July 30 2010 1220 BST
    Who: Pilot
    Why: While en route, the plane developed engine trouble. The pilot returned to Jersey Airport, made a safe landing, and was towed to the gate.