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    Small Plane Crash in British Columbia Kills 2

    A small plane crashed in a remote mountainous area near Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada, on April 11th.

    Authorities said the Rockwell 112B plane, that took off from Kelowna, went down in the Trout Lake area.

    There were two people aboard at the time; both of them were killed in the crash.

    The cause of crash is being investigated.

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    Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Pennsylvania

    A small Rockwell Commander plane had to make an emergency landing in a field in Penn Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania,tangerinefield on the afternoon of August 1st.

    The two seater plane on a “sightseeing adventure” from Reading, Pennsylvania, had to be landed in emergency due to engine trouble.

    The plane was destroyed. The 55 year-old woman and 47 year-old man aboard remained safe.

    The FAA is investigating the incident.

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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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    Connecticut Crash Update: Four Dead Identified


    The “Meridian” Rockwell 690B Turbo Commander that crashed into the East Haven home had two aboard, Bill Henningsgaard and his teenage son, Maxwell, who were visiting colleges.

    Inside one of the houses struck were Sadie Brantley, 13, and Madisyn Mitchell, 1, bringing the total fatalities up to four. The children’s mother, Joann Mitchell, 39, escaped as well as a Scottish terrier which was found outside after the crash.

    A National Transportation Safety Board official said there might be four to six fatalities.

    Updated reports indicate that the left wing lodged in one house and the right wing in the other.

    Henningsgaard was piloting the plane. He was about to land on Tweed’s Runway 2 with an instrument landing. He had missed his first approach and was about to attempt a second landing.

    Henningsgaard was a former (14 year) Microsoft executive. According to SVP, Henningsgaard Bill was a member of Social Venture Partners since 1998, was the board chair and acting executive director of Eastside Pathways, and on the board of Youth Eastside Services, co-founded the advisory board of the Institute of Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington, and was treasurer of his church council. He had an undergraduate degree at Harvard, post-graduate education at the University of Oslo, Norway, and an M.B.A. from Stanford.

    He is survived by his wife, Susan Sullivan, and two children.

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    Connecticut Plane Crashes into House, Pilot and Two Children involved


    The pilot of a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B en route from Teterboro Airport did not alert air traffic control that anything was wrong before the plane he was flying crashed approaching Tweed New Haven at 11:25 a.m. Friday.

    The plane struck homes north of Tweed New Haven Airport at 64 and 68 Charter Oak Avenue in East Haven; a one year old and a thirteen year old may have been inside one of two houses that caught fire. Heroic attempts were made to reach the children but were unsuccessful. The children and the pilot have been reported missing.

    Witnesses say the mother of the children was in her yard screaming that her children were inside. Passers by attempted to rescue the children, and found the burning plane in a bedroom. Two houses were on fire, and a car blew up in a driveway.

    Fire engines and emergency crews from East Haven, New Haven and Brantford responded to the scene. THe houses, plane and car are a total loss.

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    Hard Landing in Mt Gambier

    What: General Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd Aero Commander 500S Shrike Commander en route from Naracoorte to Mt Gambier
    Where: Mt Gambier Australia
    When: Oct 24, 2012
    Who: 1 aboard
    Why: The pilot was landing at Mt Gambier when the landing gear failed. It apparently retracted while landing.

    The plane came to rest pitched on its side in a pool of leaked fuel. No injuries were reported.

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    Mexico Police Air Crash Kills 3

    What: Policía Federal Rockwell-Gulfstream 695 Jetprop Commander 980
    Where: El Refugio en el Municipio de Acatic, Mexico
    When: Feb 21, 2012, 21:00 pm
    Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
    Why: In the town of Refugio Padrone, the Jetprop Commander 980 crashed. The names of the three victims have not been released.

    State Unit of Civil Protection and Fire Jalisco (UEPCBJ), the Attorney General of the State (PGJE) are investigating.

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    Three Children, Three Adults lost in Arizona Crash

    What: Ponderosa Aviation Inc. Rockwell Commander 690A en route from Mesa, Ariz to Safford, Arizona
    Where: Apache Junction, Pinal County, AZ
    When: Nov 23, 2011
    Who: 6 fatalities
    Why: On a thanksgiving flight that took off at 6:15, the pilot was flying to Safford and struck a rockface at the Superstition mountains. The children’s mother, Karen Perry, was not aboard. The fuselage is jammed between rocks.

    The victims of the crash included Joseph Hardwick, 22, mechanic; pilot and aircraft owner Russell Hardy, 31; pilot Shawn Perry, 39; and Perry’s three children, Morgan, 9, Logan, 8, and Luke, 6.

    The plane had just left Mesa’s Falcon Field when it crashed. It is a six hour hike from a campground to the wreckage. A ten member sheriff’s rescue team was flown in by chopper, and hiked down from a mountaintop.

    The flight path that the pilot took is a controversial one. The FAA redesignated Phoenix airspace, raising the floor altitude for commercial traffic at almost the same height as the tallest peak in the Superstitions (5,057 feet). Planes such as this one flying east from Mesa’s Falcon Field must either go around the peak or request permission to enter commercial airspace to fly above it.

    Webcam footage:

    News Coverage

    Views of the wreckage

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    Wind River Mountain Crash Kills Day Family

    What: Condor Aero 998 Commander AC 11 en route from Jasper to Jackson.
    Where: 15 to 20 miles southwest of Lander, near Christina Lake, at an elevation of about 11,700 feet in Wyoming Wind River Mountains
    When: Dec. 22 2010
    Who: pilot Ralph Day, 56; his wife Doris Day, 52; and Connor Day, 12
    Why: The Days operated the Day Forestry Appraisal and Management company, and left Jasper planning to visit Yellowstone and then Alaska for the Iditarod.

    Day’s plane struck the top of a steep ridge three feet deep in snow. The plane was not reported missing, and was not located until a passing plane heard the beacon in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming,

    A helicopter retrieved the bodies on Saturday.

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    Bolivian Jet Lands for Hydraulics Issues


    Pictured: A S.A. North American NA-265 Sabreliner 40A Jet in La Paz
    Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
    Contact photographer Alan Lebeda

    What: Bolivian owned Sabreliner en route from La Paz to the southern city of Sucre
    Where: Jorge Wilstermann International Airport of Cochabamba
    When: Dec 23. 2009
    Who: Bolivian President Evo Moarales
    Why: The plane made an unscheduled landing in Cochabamba in central Bolivia due to a failure in the hydraulics system. The 30 year old plane is planned to be replaced in 2011 by a $30 million dollar Russian Antonov BJ.

    George’s Point of View

    Reliable older planes…you just can not skimp on maintenance.

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    Puerto Rican Crash Found

    What: Rockwell International 690B, took off from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands en route to the Puerto Rican capital
    Where: Puerto Rican rainforest fog-shrouded El Yunque mountain
    When: on Wednesday
    Who: Caribbean pilot Ken Webster owner of Websta’s Aviation Services Inc. in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. ; and two U.S. tourists Tracy Turner and Ken (Kent) Clapp
    Why: During foggy weather, the plane apparently slammed into El Yunque mountain.


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    Video taken by hikers hiking to top of El Yunque in Puerto Rico May 2008. El Yunque National Forest is the site of the crash.