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    Australia Ground Collision

    On landing on Oct 24, 2013 at Hamilton Airport, a training flight in a Waikato Aero Club Tecnam P2008 struck a parked Cessna 172. The twenty-five year old student pilot, parked vehicle and training vehicle all suffered injury. The parked Cessna sustained the most damage.

    Witnesses say that the pilot managed to get the plane under control as he was landing, reducing the severity of the incident. Impact occurred at low speed.

    The plane came down hard, damaging the Tecnam’s undercarriage, and the pilot’s nose and back. The pilot is suffering from shock.

    This is the first incident in the year old plane the student was flying. He was hospitalized at Waikato Hospital.

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    NTSB ANNOUNCES INVESTIGATIVE HEARING ON ASIANA FLIGHT 214


    WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board is convening a 2-day investigative hearing to discuss the ongoing investigation into the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 and to gather additional factual information. The hearing, which will be held December 10–11, 2013, at the NTSB’s Board Room and Conference Center in Washington, DC, will focus on pilot awareness in highly automated aircraft, emergency response, and cabin safety. Parties participating in the investigative hearing will be announced at a later time.
    Below is an update of the ongoing investigation. This is a factual update only and no interviews are being conducted.
    • The investigator-in-charge and investigators from the Operations and Human Performance Group traveled to Korea and met with officials from Asiana Airlines and the KARAIB. While in Korea, investigators conducted numerous interviews with Asiana management and training personnel, observed Asiana procedures in a simulator and an exemplar aircraft, and gathered further documentation on airline training and policies.

    • NTSB investigators from the Maintenance Group also traveled to Korea and reviewed the records for the accident airplane, including the maintenance that had been performed on the evacuation slides.

    • The Survival Factors Group conducted an examination of the evacuation slide/raft systems at the manufacturer’s facility in New Jersey and is planning future testing of the systems. The group also re-examined the wreckage to gather additional information about the fire propagation and structural damage. Following that examination, the wreckage was sectioned and moved to a secure storage facility.

    • Investigators and party members met in Seattle to examine the recorded flight data and compare it to the expected airplane systems operation. The Systems Group is currently developing a test plan for the mode control panel and the Vehicle Performance Group is finalizing the event simulation match.

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    Cessna Flips on Runway Excursion

    A privately owned Cessna 210 airplane #N6942R flipped over after running off the Lodi runway during a landing excursion at 3 p.m. On October 23, 2013. The pilot reported no injury. The plane had substantial damage.

    The Woodbridge Fire Dept responded to the scene.

    The FAA Database reported that AIRCRAFT ON LANDING WENT OFF THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY AND FLIPPED OVER, LODI, CA

    The plane’s registration is N6942R and the owner is AWAN MAQSOOD.

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    Delta Diversion to Pasco Washington

    A Delta Airlines Boeing 757 en route from Atlanta,GA to Seattle,WA (USA) with 185 people aboard apparently developed a cargo fire on Oct 21, 2013.

    Pilots diverted diverted to Pasco Washington where they made a safe landing.

    Emergency services responded to the scene which was apparently a heat sensor alarm. No fire was found.

    The 757 was grounded at the Pasco airport. Some of the passengers were provided a charter bus to Seattle, some rented cars, and others waited for a Tuesday flight.

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    ATR-72-212 Engine Fire, Emergency Landing in Budapest

    On 02-OCT-2013, a CSA Czech Airlines ATR-72-212 developed an engine fire after takeoff from Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Budapest Hungary. Witness report seeing a long trail of black smoke as the plane took off. Some report that smoke coming from the left side of the gearbox.

    Crew reported smoke in the cabin and requested a return.

    Thirty-three passengers were aboard and four crew.

    The flight was en route to Prague but didn’t get far.

    Pilots returned to Budapest and made a safe landing—or rather, as safe a landing as one can have with an engine on fire and a cabin with smoke in it.

    The burning engine was shut down (it was a PW127).

    The official response from Czech Airlines said that the flight crew turned off the affected engine, shut down the fire and returned to the Budapest airport. After the plane made its landing safely with no problems, passengers disembarked in the standard way by stairs. No emergency assistance was needed, and no one was injured.

    Czech Airlines provided passengers a morning flight to Prague.

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    Fatal Crash during Secunda Airshow


    Photographer Gary Shephard

    A Red Bull Extra 300 aircraft crashed on October 12 during a Secunda airshow in Mpumalanga.

    The engine appeared to stall when the pilot came out of a dive. The plane leveled out, made it to the ground and skidded seventy meters. When the plane caught fire, the pilot, Glen Dell, had to be helped from the cockpit. Reports indicated that he was airlifted and hospitalized at Mediclinic with burns and other injuries then transferred to Glenwood hospital/Netcare Sunninghill Hospital for burn care, but succumbed to the injuries.

    The plane was a Extra 330LC, which is a Lycoming AEIO-580 powered two-seat competition aircraft, a type of Aerobatic monoplane, designed in 1987 by Walter Extra, an award-winning German aerobatic pilot and built by Extra Flugzeugbau.

    Dell had 25,000 hours flying experience on 250 aircraft, held a zero foot aerobatic display waiver, which is awarded to pilots with proven competency and reputation reflecting display pilot expertise. In 2004, Glen finished first overall at the 6th Advanced World Aerobatic Championships, becoming the first South African to win. He had competed several times in the Red Bull Air Race but had announced he was returning to South African Airlines.

    The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating the cause of the crash.
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    Painful Search Continues in Laos


    photographer Teerawut W

    Retrieval of the Lao Airlines plane that crashed in the Mekong river on a go-around has been hampered by primitive conditions. The plane has only been in service since March 2013.

    The plane encountered a strong gust of wind, its nose lifted, then the ATR-72-600 impacted near Done Kho Island. Although the accident was on the 19th, and investigators have detected signals from the flight data recorders, rustic conditions, poor visibility and turbulent river eddies have prevented recovery of the black boxes. Divers have had to use ropes in the muddy water.

    Forty-four victims had been recovered from the swollen river in Laos. The bodies have been subject to significant drift, due to the forceful currents.

    Four crew, the Cambodian captain, plus 16 Laotians, seven French travellers, six Australians, five Thais, three South Koreans, two Vietnamese, and one national each from the United States, Canada, Malaysia, China and Taiwan were aboard.

    This is Lao Airlines first fatal crash in 13 years.

    (Thai)

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    Medical Evacuation Flight Crashes in Somerville

    A Hospital Wing Memphis Eurocopter AS 350B3 Astar en route from Memphis to Bolivar Tn crashed into a wooded area while en route to pick up a little girl at around 6:20 a.m.. No one aboard survived. The chopper went down near Fayette Academy just outside Somerville.

    Pilot Charles Smith, pediatric flight nurse Carrie Barlow and pediatric flight respiratory therapist Denise Adams died in the crash. The nurse and therapist worked with Le Bonheur.

    An NTSB investigator has been mobilized and is headed to the crash scene. The investigator will review the crash site, interview witnesses, review facts, atc and radar data, collect all information, and hold a news briefing this evening. The final report will take as much as 18 months.

    The staff of Le Bonheur is mourning the loss of their pedi flight team.

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    Vietnam AIrlines lost Wheel


    A Vietnam Airlines ATR-72 with 45 aboard en route from Cat Bi to Da Nang developed problems landing in Da Nang.

    On landing, one of the plane’s two landing gear wheels was missing. No one aboard was injured.

    The passengers had already left the airport by the time techs discovered the front shaft of the plane had broken off on one side, resulting in the loss of the wheel.

    The plane had last been inspected on Sept 21.

    Cat Bi and Da Nang airports have been searched for the lost wheel, but it is still lost.

    CAAV ordered Vietnam Airlines to discontinue use of the entire fleet of 14 ATR-72 planes pending the results of the investigation.

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    LAO Airlines Crash Update: Victims Named

    Sixteen Lao, seven French, six Australians, five Thais, three Koreans, three Vietnamese and one each from China, Malaysia, Taiwan and the United States died in the ATR-72 crash near Pakse Airport in the Mekong river.

    From Sidney, the Rhodes family was identified, 39-year-old Gavin, a tax consultant from western Sydney, his wife, Phoumalaysy, 35 and their two children, Jadesuda, three, and Manfred, 17 months, and Penangite Angelin Teh, 24, and her American husband

    Officially, with the Lao Airlines team, local and national authorities, French Aircraft manufacturer team, and Thai rescue team, 14 bodies have been found, and sixteen unidentified bodies.

    A list of identified remains has been released:

    1) Mr. Yong SOM (Captain)
    2) Mr. Soulisack HONGVANTHONG (First Officer)
    3) Ms. Kesone PHON ATH (Flight Attendant)
    4) Mr. Chansamone NANTHAVONG (Mechanic)
    5) Mr. Anousone SISAAT
    6) Mr. Khamphouang VORARAT
    7) Mr. Vithayalay PHONESOPHA
    8) Ms. Phonepaseuth LUANGRATH
    9) Ms.Chinda PHOMMSSONE
    10) Mr. Vukatgeo VIVAVONG
    11) THILOI DAO (Vietnamese)
    12) Manfred GAVIN (infant Australian)
    13) Mr. GAVIN GEOFFRE RHODES (Australian
    14) Mr. RUI GAN (Chinese)

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    Associated Plane Crash Was Due to Human Error

    The report on the Associated Plane crash is based on a study of the flight data recorder (FDR) which contained 47 hours of data, and 32.5 minutes of cockpit voice recording of internal conversation of the two pilots, radio calls and cockpit noise. Sixteen people were killed when the Embraer 120 plane on a Lagos-Akure trajectory crashed shortly after takeoff outside Lagos airport’s domestic terminal. Four people survived.

    The crew had concerns about the plane before they took off; and after they took off, there were more concerns. The crew ignored the plane’s warnings, then the First Officer complained that since the aircraft was not climbing, the Captain should not stall the aircraft. ATC expressed concern of the plane’s orientation.

    The flight data shows the characteristics of an aerodynamic stall thirty one seconds before the crash. The failed engine was a Pratt & Whitney Canada model.

    This is still the preliminary report, but it does point to facts that seem to show that the Lagos crash was caused by engine failure and human error.

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    NTSB Investigating Engine Failure Aboard Spirit Airlines Flight 165
    October 17
    The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Tuesday’s engine failure on a Spirit Airlines Airbus A319, which was flying from Dallas to Atlanta when the event occurred.

    The NTSB has an investigator on the scene at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport inspecting and documenting the engine, an International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500, which has now been removed from the airplane.

    As a result of the initial inspection, it was determined that the engine failure was contained, meaning it did not penetrate the engine casing.

    The engine will be shipped to a separate facility for a detailed examination and disassembly. IAE, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Spirit Airlines are parties to the investigation.

    The NTSB has also secured the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from Spirit Flight 165. The recorders are being brought back to Washington, DC for readout and analysis.

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    Sunrise Airlines Helicopters Crashes in Taiwan


    On Oct 16, 2013, a Sunrise Airlines Kawasaki BK helicopter with 3 aboard crashed on Jade Mountain, Taiwan.

    Two pilots and a passenger were aboard at the time of the crash. THe helicopter was porting supplies to the Central Weather Bureau’s observation station on Yushan.

    The crash victims were named: pilot Chang Kuo-kang, co-pilot Lin Yi-chi and bureau worker Chen Wen-chung. Chang had 3,181 hours of flying and Lin had 2,832 hours.

    The helicopter was planning on making 3 runs, delivering one person at a time to the weather station, but crashed on the second run at 8:05 a.m. Within an hour of missing the 2nd arrival, the wreckage had been located.

    The twenty-three year old Kawasaki BK helicopter had been checked thirteen days before the mission, and had passed its check.

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    Lao Airlines Victims Recovered in Mekong River

    There were Australians-a family of four and an aid worker and his father-aboard the ATR 72 crash in Laos. Forty-four passengers including five crew died in the crash. THe plane caught the tail end of a typhoon and crashed in the Mekong River. People from ten countries were aboard, including Koreans, French and Australians.

    The Oct 16, 2013 crash is the first reported crash of Lao airlines.

    Lao Airlines Flight QV301 Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-600, from Vientiene was about to land at Pakse airport when it crashed. No survivors were reported. Between the weather and low visibility underwater, few bodies have been recovered so far.

    Rescuers in fishing boats retrieved some of the remains.

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    Update on Oct 3 2013 Lagos Crash

    Olusegun Mimiko, the Ondo State Governor promised to convey the remains of the victims, and support victims’ families of the Associated Airlines crash.

    The deceased include protocol official Olayiwola Daji, his wife Olukemi, and other government officials. Mimiko promised the government would cover a university education for the victims’ children.

    On behalf of the family, the nephew of Olayiwola Daji, Niyi Daji, urged the government “never to abandon the wife and children and father Pa. Adejoro Daji left behind by Olayiwola Daji.”

    Associated Jet Crash in Nigeria

    Associated Jet Crash in Nigeria

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    Pilot suspended

    A Kabo Airlines Boeing 747 which carried 512 passengers from Kano to make an emergency landing in Sokoto sustained tire damage, deflated tires, and damaged instrument landing systems on landing at Sokoto.

    The pilot who flew that plane and made the emergency landing has been suspended.

    The Director-General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority made the suspension because the pilot failed to obey the air traffic controller’s directive to land on runway 08, but landed on a different runway.

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    Southwest Emergency Landing

    A Southwest Boeing 737-700 en route from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to Fort Lauderdale made a safe landing at William P Hobby Airport in Houston after developing cabin pressure problems.

    None of the 140 passengers were injured. Flight 2896 made a safe landing the evening of October 9, 2013.

    Passengers were provided an alternate flight to Fort Lauderdale.

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    Maswings Crash


    On October 10, a MASWings de Havilland Dash 6-300 Twin Otter en route from Kota Kinabalu to Kudat made a landing in high wind, and short of the runway impacted a house in Kampung Sin-San.

    A woman and her son were in the living room while the plane struck the bedroom, dining room and porch. The plane had two crew, fourteen adult passengers and two children, of whom six sustained injuries and one died. The injured were first treated at Kudat Hospital. More severely injured will be flown out to Kota Kinabalu; and ten others received outpatient care.

    The two fatalities were the first officer and a passenger, Tan Ah Chai, 96. The pilot was Captain Wan Mohd Abd Amir Wan Yahya. First Officer Marc Joel Bansh, 23, died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu.

    Ten firefighters responded to the scene.

    MASWings published the following announcement

    AIRLINES CEO STATEMENT MH3002 INCIDENT AT KUDAT, SABAH
    We deeply regret the incident in Kudat of flight MH 3002 on Thursday, October 10, 2013. The aircraft, with Registration Number DHC6 9M-MDM, departed from Kota Kinabalu to Kudat with 14 passengers and two technical crew onboard landed in the vicinity of Kudat Airport at 2.50pm. Out of the 16 onboard, 15 were Malaysians and one Filipino national.Regrettably there have been two fatalities (of which one is MASwings Co-Pilot) and two injuries. The Captain piloting the flight was Captain Wan Mohd Abd Amir Wan Yahya, 56. He has over 4700 total flying hours. Captain Wan Mohd joined MASwings on August 2011We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the deceased and those involved in the accident, and we are doing everything we can to assist them in this extremely difficult time. We are assisting the passengers and families the best way we can.

    A 24-hour Call Centre service has been activated. Families of passengers who were on-board may call 603-7884 1234 for further enquiries. We have also set up our Go Team in Kudat to look after their needs and keep them as quickly informed as possible. The investigation will be carried out by the authorities.

    Malaysia Airlines together with MASwings are fully co-operating and assisting the investigation in every possible way. As per aircraft maintenance record, the Twin-Otter was fit to fly and was in good condition before the accident.Malaysia Airlines and MASwings will continue to monitor the situation at the crash site and update on the situation and will provide information relating to the flight itself and updates on steps being taken.Once again, we at Malaysia Airlines and MASwings express our deepest regret and extend our condolences to all affected parties. I would like to reiterate once again that our utmost priority is to ensure complete well being of our passengers, crew and other affected parties.

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    Mooney Missing


    A Mooney en route from Palm Springs to San Diego Gillespie Field went missing on Wednesday October 9. The sheriff’s deputies helicopter search was suspended Wednesday due to gusty winds, and was found on Thursday at 1:00 a.m.

    The search for the plane registered to Andrew Thulin, of San Diego was centered four miles northeast of Julian, near the Volcan Mountain Wilderness. Emergency responders and searchers included US Border Patrol, deputies from Julian, and sheriff’s search and rescue.

    Rescuers pinged the pilot’s phone to locate the wreckage and the bodies of a man and woman.

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    Galveston Ultralight Crash Kills Pilot


    After 11am near Santa Fe on Oct 8, 2013, Roger Brown’s first flight on the ultra-light 67 killed him. The ultralight plane crashed in Galveston County, tearing the tail off.

    Brown took off from his property. According to witnesses, he was looking for somewhere to land when he crashed in an unincorporated area Santa Fe. Brown had radio equipment aboard but apparently had no time to send out a mayday.

    The Galveston County Sheriff Office and the Santa Fe police responded to the scene

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    Two Survive Crash in Colombia


    On October 5th 2013, a de Havilland Dash Candada DHC-8 with six aboard left the city of Balboa, Panama, at 10:45 pm; it was over Acandi, Choco Province Colombia when it crashed on a drug interdiction mission.

    Five Americans and one Panamanian were aboard. The crash occurred in an area where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas and drug-trafficking gangs are in conflict, in a sector of Acandi Township, on the border between Colombia and Panama in a remote, jungle region of northern Colombia. Three American contractors and a Panamanian National Guardsman, Lt. Lloyd Nunez, were killed. Two surviving Americans were severely injured. The surveillance is part of the Salas Becker agreement between Panama and the US, which shares Panamanian drug patrol surveillance.

    Reports say that the vehicle lost radio contact with the U.S.-sponsored multinational task force in Key West that runs the operation. The plane was equipped with surveillance instrumentation.


    Witnesses heard a loud explosion. Two Americans survived the crash with injuries including multiple bone fractures and burns.

    The two wounded were transferred to Carepa in Antioquia and will be moved to the Military Hospital of Bogota at St Vincent hospital de Paul or the Hospital of Pablo Tobon Uribe.

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    Update on the Associated Jet Crash in Nigeria


    On Oct 3, 2013, a twenty-three year old Associated Aviation Embraer EMB-120 was en route from Lagos to Akure to carry the deceased regional governor and family to his funeral in Akure when it crashed, killing 16. Four survivors were hospitalized.

    The NCAA said the airline had coverage and the plane’s paperwork and inspections were up to date. The flight data recorder has been recovered.

    The son of the late former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, Feyi, was aboard the plane and survived the crash. The passengers included family members taking the body of Olusegun Agagu, a former aviation minister, to his funeral.

    Read more on the Associated Aviation Embraer EMB-120 crash.

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    Cessna Crash in Arizona


    A Cessna 340A en route from Laughlin-Bullhead International Airport to Ernest A. Love Field Airport when it clipped trees and a radio tower during a low pass at the Gunsite Training Academy. There are four fatalities.

    Passengers were going to Gunsite Firearms Training Academy when the plane struck a radio tower and crashed. Witnesses heard the plane whining before it crashed.

    Respondents include Chino Valley Fire and Yavapai County Sheriff’s department.

    The names of the victims have not been released. The FAA is investigating.

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    Croatian Canadair Emergency Landing

    On October 2nd, 2013, an Adria Airways Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-900 en route from Zagreb to Sofia developed a mechanical problem with the GNK Dinamo Zagreb team aboard.

    In flight, pilots found error alerts indicating heating of the outer edge of a wing. Pilots diverted to Ljubljana where they made a safe landing. No one was injured.

    In Croatian news services, the focus of this news was mostly on the inconvenienced football team