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    China Southern Airlines Emergency Landing

    What: China Southern Airlines Airbus A319-100 en route from Daqing to Guangzhou
    Where: Hangzhou
    When: Jul 25, 2012 4:50 p.m.
    Who: 105 passengers
    Why: The flight, scheduled from Daqing to Hangzhou to Guangzhou was climbing out of Hangzhou when smoke was reported.

    Pilots returned to Hangzhou and made a safe landing.

    China Southern Airlines’ official page said “an investigation later found the smoke was in fact a mist produced by faulty airconditioning system” according to CRIEnglish. Another jet was provided for passengers to complete their journey.

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    12 year old aboard a Light Single-engine four-seater sport Plane Crashed in Russia

    What: Ilyushin Il-103
    Where: Alekanovo, Ryazan Russia
    When: July 22, 2012
    Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
    Why: Although initially reported as two fatalities, there were three in the crash of the Ilyushin Il-103 in a forested area in the Ryazan region of Russia. The local fire brigade responded.

    The plane belonged to businessman Vladimir Kondrakova and was piloted by a test pilot, Vladimir Lubin.

    One of those aboard was the 12 year old son of a passenger.

    Witnesses said “the crash occurred because the flight had taken too strong a turn, causing the airplane to go into a tailspin and crash vertically into the ground.”

    The Regional Ministry for emergency is apparently not investigating because the plane was not certified.

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    2nd Emergency Landing on CA Highway


    What: Piper PA-28R-180 Arrow en route from Mammoth Lakes to Palomar Airport
    Where: I-15 & W. El Norte Pkwy, Escondido, CA
    When: July 22, 2012, 11:25 p,
    Who: 4 aboard
    Why: After the plane was rented, it ran out of gas en route. The pilot, Pilot Ken Gheysar, managed to make a safe landing on a highway in light traffic.

    No one was injured, but a 1996 Dodge Dakota pickup clipped the plane’s left wing while the plane was sitting on the shoulder.

    The pilot and his family were returning home from a weekend in Mammoth Lakes.

    It was towed by 8:20 a.m. with damage too severe to fly out.

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    Emergency Landing on Route 67

    What: Homebuilt Europa en route from Gillespie Field
    Where: Route 67 in Santee
    When: July 21, 2012
    Who: Pilot
    Why: When his engine locked up in a turn after taking off from Gillespie Field, pilot Wayne Oehler of El Cajon made an emergency landing on to the freeway near Riverton road. A California Highway Patrol officer saw the plane in distress and flying low, and cleared the road.

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    11 Year-old Stowaway

    What: jet2.com Boeing 737-300 en route from Manchester to Rome (and back)
    When: Jul 24, 2012
    Who: 1
    Why: 11-year-old Liam Corcoran managed to fly to Rome on his own without a passport or a boarding pass, and his action has instigated a probe of procedures at Manchester airport.

    Corcoran ran away from his mother, went through full security screening, and boarded the flight while mingling with a family and was discovered while en route. He discussed with other passengers how he was running away. It was other passengers who notified the crew who notified the Captain who called his worried family. He stayed on the plane for the return flight to Manchester, and was returned safely to his family.

    A number of airport and Jet2 employees have been suspended as a result of the security breach. The breach has launched several high-level investigations.

    See Video below

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    Revamped Airtrans Jets go to Southwest to Delta

    Delta Airlines is going to lease 88 former AirTran Airways Boeing 717 jets from Southwest Airlines. SW took over AirTran Airways in 2011.

    These planes are about to undergo a $100 million face lift. Southwest plans to replace the jets with bigger ones. The changes include the outdoor livery, and revamping the interiors.

    The jets will allow Delta to retire 50-seat regional jets which are unprofitable due to fuel costs.

    In George’s Point of View


    Hope they spend some of that budget on making sure the engines and on board systems are up to speed!

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    US FIghter Splashes Down off Japanese Coast

    What: US F-16 Fighter Falcon en route from Misawa Air Base in Aomori
    Where: 200 miles northeast of Hokkaido in the Pacific Ocean off Japanese Coast
    When: July 22, 2012
    Who: pilot
    Why: After a U.S. fighter jet splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 200 miles northeast of Hokkaido Japan, the pilot was retrieved from the water. THe rescue occurred six hours after the crash around 6 p.m. when the pilot was pulled aboard a U.S. container ship.

    The name of the pilot has not been released.

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    Twelve Fatalities in Royal Brunei Air Force Helicopter Crash

    What: Royal Brunei Air Force Bell 212 helicopter en route to Bandar Seri Begawan
    Where: Brunei, Borneo
    When: July 21,2012
    Who: 11 passengers, 3 crew
    Why: Twelve died in the crash in Kuala Belait on the north coast of Borneo island. Two cadets survived and have been hospitalized. They are reported to be in stable condition, one with afractured arm and an injured leg, and the other having undergone surgery.

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    Chopper down in Malaysia, 3 missing


    What: Eurocopter EC120 helicopter en route to Nanga Merit Kapit Division
    Where: Sarawak, Malaysia
    When: July 20, 2012
    Who: 4 aboard
    Why: A privately owned helicopter with four people aboard went down Sungai Teriso estuary near Sebuyau near a small coastal town in Sarawak Borneo. The German pilot, Rko Steger swam for hours to reach Kampung Tebelu, Sebuyau. Fisherman pulled him from the river estuary. Three others —two men and a woman named Peter Ato Mayau, 53, Siti Khuzaima and Henry Loh—had been aboard the helicopter and are still missing. The two engineers and the quantity surveyor aboard the helicopter and that they were flying to Nanga Merit to look at a school project.

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    Australians Killed in Alaska Crash

    What: LNP Saratoga Inc. Piper Saratoga was en route from Fort Yukon to Fairbanks
    Where: Alaska
    When: July 18, 2012 5 PM
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: A plane owned by LNP Saratoga Inc and eased to the West Valley Flying Club of Palo Alto. disappeared from radar in Alaska on July 18.

    The Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons were deployed and discovered the wreckage. Alaska State Troopers identified the 64-year-old pilot Stephen Knight and 60-year-old Gillian Knight of Queensland, Australia.

    The pilots had been engaged in filing a “pop-up” Instrument Flight Rules Plan. The cloud cover was low.

    Two other planes had been flying with the wrecked plane but each with a different route. The wreckage was located 63 kilometres north of Fairbanks.

    Visibility hampered recovery operations on Wednesday but now the remains have been recovered and sent for autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office.

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    Scary Diversion to Peoria: weather, smoke, jumping from plane


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    Contact photographer Agustin Anaya

    What: American Eagle Canadair CRJ-700 en route from Denver to Chicago
    Where: Peoria
    When: July 18, 2012
    Who: 53 passengers, 4 crew
    Why: The flight was en route when bad weather in Chicago made the pilot divert to Peoria.

    On approach, when the wheels came down, smoke came down from the cabin ceiling. The pilot made an emergency landing, and emergency vehicles were on standby.

    The video shows how passengers jumped from the plane, one by one. A single passenger injured an ankle while disembarking.

    A shuttle was provided for passengers to get to Chicago

    See video below:

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    Florida Couple Missing in Bahamas

    What: Van Auto Inc Beech B36TC Bonanza en route from Bahamas to Florida
    Where: Grand Harbor Cay, Berry Islands Bahamas
    When: 16-JUL-2012
    Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
    Why: A Daytona Beach couple, Alan and Kathleen Van Nimwegen departed from Marsh Harbour International Airport about 9 am on Monday and went missing when they lost communications with aviation officials Monday afternoon. The couple regularly made the flight, usually on weekends.

    Rescuers are searching Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, near the Berry Islands where some debris and an oil sheen in the water has been sighted. They lived at a Spruce Creek Fly-In residence. Both were licensed pilots.

    The flight is still missing, not to be confused with the Saturday crash of Bahaman pilot Kenneth Carey and passenger, Dexter Adderley en route from Fort Lauderdale to New Providence who crash-landed in Bimini.

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    Lasered Jet Blue Pilot Hospitalized


    What: Jet Blue en route from Syracuse to NYC, Kennedy Airport
    Where: Long Island
    When: July 15, 2012
    Who: pilot
    Why: The flight was on approach to Kennedy when a laser struck the first officer in the eye. The jet made a safe landing, but the pilot suffered an eye injury. The green laser pointed directly into the cockpit and flashed twice when the jet was at 5,000 feet. First Officer Robert Pemberton was taken to Jamaica Hospital.

    The FBI and the FAA are investigating. The source appears to be from West Islip, Babylon or Lindenhurst.

    See Video Below

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    Mil Mi-17 Crash in Sudan, 7 Fatalities 2 Survive

    What: Sudanese Air Force Mil Mi-17 (Mi-8T)
    Where: El Fasher, Sudan
    When: July 16, 2012
    Who: 9 aboard, 7 fatalities
    Why: The aircraft reportedly went down near El Fasher according to one source “due to a technical fault” and another “gunned down.” Seven military officers on an administrative mission died at the scene. Two survivors were taken to military hospitals.

  • 2012: Tam (Português)

    Mais uma vez estamos em meados de julho. Inevitavelmente, em meados de julho, meus pensamentos se voltam ao voo 3054 da TAM. Em 17 e julho de 2007, cinco anos atrás, um Airbus da TAM não conseguiu aterrissar no Aeroporto de Congonhas, em São Paulo, e tomou-nos cento e noventa e seis vidas. O número de vidas perdidas sempre ultrapassa o número daqueles que morreram. Cada um dos 199 que pereceram tinha família, e cada família afetou inúmeras outras pessoas de forma exponencial. Pude conhecer a maioria das famílias e amei-as todas. Aprendi com elas, em especial com sua força diante das adversidades. Também penso em como o acidente me transformou, em como aprendi com as famílias que ficaram para trás, a me recompor e a seguir em frente.

    Nesse dia, quero recordar essas famílias, sua graça e seus entes perdidos. Não podemos esquecer que, com seu passamento, ficou um buraco no mundo.

    Espero que as famílias – meus gratos amigos – tenham preenchido e superabundado o vazio em suas vidas com algo mais. Cinco anos de vida. Espero que tenham conseguido encher esses últimos cinco anos com uma vida bem vivida. O que isso significa? Uma vida vivida em plenitude. É o que há de bom, de mau, e tudo o que existe no meio disso. Espero que essa vida bem vivida tenha preenchido as trevas com luz, e enchido o vazio com boas lembranças, cada uma digna de ser revivida, como as páginas de um bom livro.

    Cada um de nós é como uma harpa com muitas cordas, sendo que cada corda e tangida por lembranças que tocam uma ou muitas notas. As cordas de nossas vidas se estendem do passado ao futuro, acordes distantes jamais vistos ou conhecidos. Cada dia nos traz acordes com novas e inéditas notas. Deixemos de lado todo arrependimento e regozijemo-nos na harmonia de nossas histórias e de nossos amanhãs. É o todo dessas notas que forma a música de nossas vidas.

    Espero que, ao preencher esse vazio com nova vida, meus amigos, agora sem dor, possam lançar a rede no passado. Espero que tenham aprendido a aceitar as flores que desabrocham no inverno. Lembranças devem ser acalentadas, sendo cada qual uma joia em si mesma. Lembranças são presentes eternos de alegria que não podem ser jamais perdidos. E, assim como podemos recordar a pungente alegria de uma rosa de verão que desabrocha no inverno, podemos recordar nossos entes queridos em julho. Eu não sorrio porque esqueci, eu sorrio porque eu lembro.

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    2012: Tam Remembered

    It is again mid July. Inevitably, in mid July, my thoughts turn toward Tam 3054. On July 17 2007, five years ago, a Tam Airbus failed its landing at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport and stole a hundred and ninety-nine lives. The casualties always number greater than those who died. Each of the 199 touched had families; and each family exponentially touches countless others. I came to know each of the families, and I loved them. I learned from them, especially from their strength in the face of adversity. What I think of too, is how that accident changed me, how I learned from the families left behind to pick up the pieces and move on.

    On this day, I want to remember these families, their grace, and their lost loved ones. We cannot forget that in their passing, a hole was left in the world.

    I hope that the families—my well remembered friends—have overflowed the holes in their lives with something else. Five years of life. I hope they have taken the opportunity to fill to capacity these last five years with a life well lived. What does that mean? A life lived to the fullest. It’s the good and bad and everything in between. I hope that this well-lived life has lit their dark spaces with light, and packed the emptiness with new memories, each to be revisited, like the pages of a beloved book.

    We are all each a harp of many strings, each string struck by memories that play one and many notes. The threads of our lives stretch from the past to future, distant anchors never seen and never known. Each day brings us a chorus of new, and distinct notes. Let us lose all regret, and only joy in the harmony of our histories and our tomorrows. It is the wholeness of these notes that is the music of our lives.

    I hope that in filling the hole with new life, that my friends can now painlessly cast the net into their past. I hope they have learned to embrace the roses in December. Memories are for us to cherish, each one a forever jewel in itself. Memories are a constant gift of joy that is never lost; and as we can remember with poignant joy the roses of summer in December, we can remember our lost loved ones in July. I do not smile because I have forgotten. I smile because I remember.

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    On taxi, wings of Nigerian Airforce C-130 and Arik Airlines Collide, No injury

    What: Nigerian Airforce C-130
    Where: Jos, Nigeria
    When: July 14, 2012
    Who: no injuries
    Why: The jet was about to take off when “An Arik Airline Boeing 737-700 with registration No 5NMJI on a routine flight to Lagos brushed the wing of a parked Nigerian Air Force C-130 (NAF 917) at the Yakubu Gowon Airport.”

    The tank 1 wing tip of the NAF C-130 was damaged. The wing of the Arik aircraft was dismembered.

    The announcement was made by Wing Commander A. Makun, Deputy Director, Directorate of Airforce information.

    The Air Force Jet was about to fly Airforce Military School and Airforce Girls Military School both in the Plateau State capital from Jos to Lagos. The flight was canceled.

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    Dana Air Preliminary Report


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    Contact photographer Peter Tonna
    What: Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 en route from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria
    Where: Iju neighborhood, Lagos
    When: June 3, 2012
    Who: 153 passengers
    Why: According to the Dana Crash Preliminary report, the captain and the first officer were in a discussion of a non-normal condition regarding the correlation between the engine throttle setting and an engine power indication. They did not voice concerns then that the condition would affect the continuation of the flight.

    The report included records of visual examination of the aircraft wreckage, review maintenance records and other historical information of the aircraft, documentation of the training and experience of the flight crew, determination of the chronology of the flight, review of recorded data, reconstructing the aircraft refueling, and collection of related fuel samples and interview of related personnel.

    See report below:

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    3 Americans Lost in Plane crash at Castellet Airport, France

    What: Universal Jet Aviation Grumman G-1159 Gulfstream IV
    Where: Le Castellet Airport, France
    When: July 13, 2012
    Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
    Why: On the ferry flight from Nice-Côte d’Azur Airport to Le Castellet, after the pilot reported problems, on landing, the airplane skidded and overshot the end of the runway. The three victims were two men aged 24 and 61, and a 30 year old woman. All three—two pilots and a flight attendant—were U.S. citizens.

    The airplane broke in two. The front part came to rest in a small pond; the rear part of the fuselage came to rest among trees. A photo from the crash scene shows the thrust reversers were deployed.

    Witnesses reported a large cloud of smoke and flames emerging from the plane. 57 firefighters, EMS personnel, police and rescue teams from the airport responded to the scene.
    Universal Jet Aviation operates out of Boca Raton, Fl.

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    Ex-legislator killed when Cessna Flips at Beluga Lake

    What: Cessna U206G Stationair
    Where: Beluga Lake, Homer, Alaska
    When: July 10, 2012
    Who: 5 aboard
    Why: Five passengers were aboard a plane that flipped on landing in Beluga Lake. The fire department found the plane upside down and underwater. Four passengers were evacuated safely; one passenger was trapped underwater and seatbelted in, but emergency teams were reportedly able to get a pulse. An inflatable Zodiac boat assisted in the rescue.

    The victim, Cheryll Heinze, a former state representative from Anchorage, was taken to Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage for treatment but was pronounced deceased at South Peninsula Hospital.

    The plane was piloted by 71-year-old Evan “Joe” Griffith, general manager at MEA,Matanuska Electric Association. Heinze was director of public affairs for MEA.

    Registration Number: N206VR
    Mode S Code: 50325070
    Certification Class: Standard
    Certification Issued: 2011-10-28
    Air Worthiness Test: 1979-02-22
    Last Action Taken: 2011-10-28

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    Turbulence Over Miami

    What: American Airlines Boeing 757 en route from Aruba to Miami
    Where: Miami
    When: July 10, 2012
    Who: 185 passengers, 6 crew, 12 injured
    Why: While en route thirty minutes from landing, the flight encountered some turbulence. Fifteen seconds worth of turbulence was enough to knock people around. People were knocked out of their seats, and at least one person hit the ceiling. Some of the injured were treated at the airport and some at a Miami hospital.

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    Delta Diverts to Cedar Rapids with Engine Trouble


    What: Delta en route from Minneapolis to St Louis
    Where: Eastern Iowa Airport
    When: July 11, 2012, 6 pm
    Who: 150 aboard
    Why: The Delta flight was en route from Minneapolis to St Louis when it lost an engine. Pilots diverted to Cedar Rapids Iowa and made a safe landing.

    Johnson and Linn County fire crews were reported as first responders. No injuries were reported.

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    US Airways Charlotte-Rome Diverts for Fumes


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    Contact photographer Robert Noël

    What: US Airways Airbus A330-300 en route from Charlotte to Rome
    Where: Philadelphia
    When: July 10, 2012, 10:00 pm
    Who: 176 passengers, 12 crew, 5 crew ill
    Why: While en route, a number of US Airways flight crew became sick from smelling an odor. The pilot diverted to Philadelphia where they made a safe landing. Passengers were provided an alternative flight.

    The flight crew was hospitalized. The fumes that made them ill have not been identified.

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    El Al Tel Aviv Flight Returns to Heathrow on Three Engines


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    Contact photographer Studzinski Mikolaj

    What: El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 747-400 en route from London to Tel Aviv
    Where: London
    When: Jul 4 2012
    Who: 411 passengers
    Why: While en route, pilot Ilan Margalit felt that one of the right side engines was losing power as it reached 26,000 feet. He shut down the affected engine and returned to London where he made a safe landing at Heathrow.

    The Israel Times reported that the engine caught fire; however other sources say there was no actual fire. The plane landed safely on three engines. A replacement flight was provided on July 5.

    The affected engine was a Pratt & Whitney.

    In April of 2007 this plane was damaged when it “taxied over its pushback tractor.” No one was hurt in that incident either.

    Flight Tracking of ELY318 on O4-July 2012

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    Cockpit Odor Causes emergency Diversion

    What: Delta flight en route from Puerto Rico to Atlanta
    Where: Palm Beach International Airport.
    When: July 8, 2012
    Who: 180 passengers
    Why: After an odor was detected in the cockpit, pilots diverted to Palm Beach and made a safe emergency landing. 120 passengers were rerouted, and sixty were picked up by a replacement flight.