What: DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT 55 BOEING 777
Where: ATLANTA Georgia
When: 01/02/2009
Who: The number of passengers on board is not known at this time.
Why: Engine malfunctioned during take-off. The plane taxied to the gate. DAMAGE REPORTED TO RIGHT ENGINE FAN AND COWLING
What: Bombardier Inc BD-700-1A10 en route from San Jose Cabo-Los Cabos Airport Mexico to Vancouver International * (The plane was also identified as a Cessna Citation)
Where: Vancouver International Airport
When: Jan 4 2009
Who: 5
Why: The pilot reported problems with the landing gear. The plane was substantially damaged on landing; fortunately the passengers were not.
During the gear up landing, the Cessna slid off the runway . No injuries.
What: Kenn Borek Air’s BT-67 Basler turboprop-conversion of a DC-3 en route to Novolazarevskaya Station
Where: on a mountain at 3200 meters in Antarctica
When: Jan 5-2009
Why: The plane was porint spare parts for the cross-country vehicles of a British expedition.
The plane encountered poor visibility and crash-landed.
The Canadian crew of three and a Russian polar explorer survived the accident.
What: American Eagle flight 3505 Embraer 145 regional jet enroute from Dallas to Killeen.
Where: Killeen
When: Monday afternoon –aircraft landed safely at 12:30 p.m
Who: 50 people aboard
Why: pilots reported smoke in the cockpit. The plane landed safely and there were no injuries.
This being the second autopilot fault, the situation is being investigated. A prior incident involving an on board system shutoff has been possibly attributed to communications interfering with aircraft onboard systems.
The ADIRU (air data inertial reference unit) is the flight computer system component about which the crew received an error message during the Dec 27 incident.
What: Fully fueled American Airlines Boeing 737 flight 924 en route from Rionegro to to Miami
Where: emergency landing at Rionegro airport (Jose Maria Cordoba) near MedellÃn
When: 9:50 AM flight
Who: 148 passengers
Why: Passengers heard an explosion, after which the crew was concerned that the full plane would not make it over the mountains. They turned back with a fire in one engine, and the crippled plane not climbing as it should.
The plane circled the airport for half of an hour prior to the successful emergency landing. Though successful, the landing was not uneventful as the heat from braking actually fused the brakes, leaving the plane immobile on the runway. The passengers were successfully deplaned on site via stairs and ported from the runway to the terminal by bus.
No cause has been given for the initial engine problem, but the American Airlines crew is to be commended for a near-miraculous safe-guardianship of the welfare of the passengers.
The plane was carrying thousands of pounds of fuel.
What: LANCAIR 360 Single Engine Registration #: 3603R from Buffalo Niagara International Airport was attempting to land at the Joliet airport.
Where: JOLIET State: IL
When: 01/02/2009, 9 pm
Who: 2 on board: Stuart D. Seffern and his wife, Debbie,
Why: AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNIKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE TWO PERSONS ON BOARD
WERE FATALY INJURED, JOLIET, IL Investigators are trying to determine whether there was mechanical or pilot error involved. The NTSB will be holding a conference at 3 to discuss this crash, The plane burst into flames near the end of a runway.
Seffern was president of the Lantzair Flyers Club.
What: Cessna 152 belonging to a flight training school en route from Marcos A. Gelabert Airport to the Calzada Larga Airport
Where: floating near the village of Tranquillas in the Panama Canal’s Lake Madden
When: found early Wednesday
Who: Panamanian flight instructor Alex Bosquez and student Abraham Licona
Bosquez had a commercial pilot’s license and was certified as a flight instructor. Licona had a private pilot’s license.
Why: The crash is under investigation. The bodies have been recovered.
What: ultralight
Where: 1500 block of Franklin Avenue, Ellenton,, Manatee County Fla
When: 4:55 p.m.
Who: pilot Kurt Pfister, 46, and passenger as Katie Kuss were not injured
Why: The ultralight’s engine quit, and the plane made an emergency landing in the field. I the course of landing, the wheels struck power lines which took out electricity to ten homes; but the craft landed safely without injury to pilot or passenger
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What: Piper PA-28-140 registered to Peter Schneider
Where: Hunterdon County NJ a quarter-mile east of Alexandria Field airport in a wooded area behind a house on Mechlin Corner Road Alexandria Township.
When: Tuesday night some time after 6 pm. Troopers discovered the wreckage around 8 p.m.
Who: Pilot Peter Schneider was airlifted to St. Luke’s Hospital in serious condition. Pilot/flight instructor Ronald Orton died in the crash.
Why: The plane’s owner was in the process of logging hours to maintain his license when the crash occurred.
Paul Corocran was from Trangie, NSW, Australia. Nyngan the town near the accident site is a nearby town also in Western NSW. This accident was not in New Zealand
What: pilot/ director of Wings of Promise Inc., a nonprofit organization who flew charity flights for medical patients
Where: Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix
When: six weeks after a plane crash that killed his two passengers. The death occurred about 12:45 p.m
Who: Rocky Herring
Why: The pilot’s injuries occurred November 14 when the Piper Cherokee plant he was flying lost power and crashed into a forested area.
