What: single-engine Piper
Where: Santo Domingo Pueblo.
When: 8:20 a.m. Sunday morning twelve miles southwest of the airport.
Who: 4 people on board were able to walk away
Why: The plane’s cabin filled with smoke. The cause is under investigation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
The piliot set crash site co-ordinates by CB radio but had to spend the night out in the elements as conditions prevented his recovery until 1 pm the next day.
The wreck was located at 10 in the morning Dec 26th, lying upside down with a wing torn off
What: 1971 Beech B55 registered to Benny W. Green of Rockwall, Texas. en route from from Rockwall, Texas, to Batesville
Where: Batesville Municipal Airport
When: December 24, 2008 just before 2 p.m.
Who: Benny Green, who was piloting the plane, and his wife, 62-year-old Linda Green
Why: On landing, the plane left the end of the long runway, skidded and struck a cement culvert. The plane which was loaded with presents sustained significant damage. The pilot and passenger were injured.
What: 1986 Piper PA-46 Malibu, Malibu Mirage s inbound from Hutchinson, Kan
Where: YAMPA VALLEY AIRPORT, HAYDEN, CO 2 ½ miles northwest of Elkhead Reservoir
When: 12/22/2008 Time: 1920
Who: Pilot and passenger Joseph and Suzette Brumleve
Why: The pilot told the control tower that he was having trouble with the plane’s landing gear. Piper crashes on approach, 10 miles west of the runway at Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Hayden. The deceased couple was part of an investment group attempting to purchase the Steamboat Ski Area.
The pilot “did a fly-by of the runway and was in a right turn to get on a heading for the runway when about three-quarters of the way through the turn he made an unexpected left bank”
What: PA-18 Super Cub
Where: 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANCHORAGE, AK
When: 12/21/2008 Time: 0030
Who: pilot
Why: Aircraft struck tree during aborted take-off 30 miles NW of Anchorage SK
Emilio Bichara Marcos and Rafael Reyes died in the crash. Two reporters and the pilot are still hospitalized.
By the time the passengers had evacuated, the fire had spread inside and started melting the luggage compartments.
Debris remained on the runway, with the plane about 200 yards away and its landing gear and left engine shorn off.
The plane’s first flight was 1994-05-31.It has 2 CFMI CFM56-3C1 engines.
Offshore Flight School gives flight lessons to Japanese tourists.
Satellite weather imagery depicted a line of clouds along the front and over the last radar hit, consisting of nimbostratus to embedded cumulonimbus clouds with level 3 to 4 “heavy” intensity echoes. Sounding data has winds from the west at 50 knots at 5,000 feet, with a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. There were in-flight weather advisories issued, including an AIRMET for occasional moderate turbulence below 12,000 feet over the region.
The pilot, age 35, held a private pilot certificate with ratings for airplane single engine land, multiengine airplane, and instrument airplane. He was issued a first-class medical certificate on May 31, 2007, with no limitation. He had documented 950 total hours at that time.
The passenger, age 28, held a private pilot certificate with a rating for airplane single engine land. He was issued a third-class medical certificate on Oct 23, 2006, with no limitation. He had documented 130 total hours at that time.
NTSB Advisory
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
December 18, 2008
NTSB INVESTIGATING LOSS OF ENGINE POWER ON DELTA AIR LINES BOEING 777
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident in which a Delta Air Lines Boeing 777 experienced an uncommanded engine rollback in the cruise phase of an intercontinental flight.
On November 26, 2008, at about 12:30 pm MST, in the vicinity of Great Falls, Montana, a 777-200ER (N862DA), operated by Delta Air Lines as Flight 18, en route from Shanghai to Atlanta, experienced an uncommanded rollback of the right (number 2) Rolls-Royce Trent 895 engine while at 39,000 feet in the cruise phase of flight. The crew executed applicable flight manual procedures and descended to 31,000 feet. The engine recovered and responded normally thereafter. The flight continued to Atlanta where it landed without further incident. None of the crew of 15 or 232 passengers was injured.
Flight data recorders and other applicable data and components were retrieved from the airplane for testing and evaluation. Both of the pilots have been interviewed. This event is preceded by another airline’s 777 equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent 895 engines, which experienced an uncommanded dual engine rollback while on final approach to London’s Heathrow International Airport on January 17, 2008, crashing short of the runway on airport property. The United Kingdom’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is investigating that accident.
NTSB Senior Air Safety Investigator Bill English, who is serving as the U.S. Accredited Representative in the Heathrow accident investigation, is the Investigator in Charge of the Delta incident.
The AAIB, which has assigned an Accredited Representative to the Delta incident, is working closely with the NTSB to determine if there are issues common to both events. Parties to the investigation are: the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Eaton-Argotech, Delta Air Lines, and the Air Line Pilots Association.
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NTSB Media Contact: Peter Knudson (202) 314-6100 peter.knudson@ntsb.gov
