A UTair Aviation Robinson R44 had two people aboard on November 22nd 2013 when it made a hard landing in Tyumen, Russia.
This information comes even before a preliminary investigation, but reports are that there was an engine malfunction.
Task Force Firehouse number 146 responded to the scene where it land at Tarakanova Yarkovsky village in Tyumen, Russia.
On November 10, 2013, a Intermountain Powersports Inc Mitsubishi MU-2B-25 took off from Salina Kansas. The pilot was over the woods in Oklahoma when he contacted ATC about engine trouble just before he crashed in a field five miles north of Tulsa International Airport. The incident which occurred around 3:45 p.m. may have been the pilot’s first training flight on his recently purchased plane, though there appears to have been some training in Kansas. The plane lost an engine en route.
The pilot died in the crash on approach to the airport. He was Perry Inhofe, an orthopedic surgeon and the son of Senator James Inhofe.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are investigating with FAA, Mitsubishi and Honeywell.
On Nov 8 2013, a privately owned Embraer EMB-711C Corisco en route to São Paulo took off from Cianorte, Paraná (Cianorte). The pilot circled the area several times, lost power, and crashed a thousand feet from the airport on a farm. On impact with the ground, the plane rolled.
The two people aboard were injured during the impact.
Pilot Walter Auada Botelho de Morais Toledo and passenger Emanuela Érica Garcia were taken to Hospital São Paulo, Cianorte. She is pregnant, and suffered Traumatic Brain Injury. The pilot broke his foot.
Walter Auada Botelho de Morais Toledo is a commercial pilot.
The fire department responded to the scene. The FAB will be investigating the accident.
On Oct 25, an Emirates Airlines Airbus A380 en route from New York to Dubai had to shut down a right engine.
Pilots diverted to Kuwait where they made a safe landing.
A replacement airbus was provided to carry the passengers to Dubai. We don’t have information how long passengers waited or if they were provided accommodations during the interim.
On Oct 23, an American Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) to Miami reported a fire in the cockpit, a smoking engine and a loss of fuel. With smoke in the cockpit, and a hot engine, pilots made a safe landing when they diverted to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
None of the 169 passengers and 6 crew reported injury.
Some sources reported “There was no fire anywhere” but other sources say there was an engine fire. American Airlines sent a replacement flight which made it to Miami Tuesday.
A Yakovlev Yak-18T owned by Enjoair Clanwilliam and flying out of Stellenbosch Airport in S. Africa crashed, killing the pilot.
The plane suffered engine failure thirty minutes after takeoff.
The pilot lost the engine at around 200′ and tried turning back back. The plane spun into the strawberry field hothouses. The plane impacted and caught on fire. Paramedics found the wreckage on a farm.
Netcare911 and the fire department responded to the scene.
The pilot died on impact.
The accident is under investigation.
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)
A 1960 Piper Comanche had smoke in the cabin when there was an engine fire on Oct 8, 2013.
The pilot Kristopher J. Richardson made a safe emergency landing at Hutchinson Airport.
The plane sustained minor damage. No one was injured.
On August 30, 2013, a privately owned Cessna 210 crashed in Ypehû Paraguay en route from Silvio Pettirossi airport to Mariscal Estigarribia, Chaco.
The pilot and five passengers died at the scene. Several of the victims were thrown from the plane.
The wreckage was discovered at ten pm.
Moacir Antonio Kuschel and his son Adriano Kuschel were identified, both Brazilian residents of San Alberto del Department of Alto Parana. Four victims remain unidentified. It is believed that Adriano Kuschel was piloting the plane. The Kuschels produced soy. One of the passengers is presumed to be Spanish.
The Cessna had developed engine problems, and crashed in a remote area, a wheat field difficult to access, five miles from Ypehû Paraguay. The beacon was activated at 19.22 hrs, which began the search.
Prosecutor José Zarza will be investigating.
On August 27 2013, a Flugschule Dortmund operated Piper PA-32R-301T Turbo Saratoga SP took off from Langeoog Airport to Arnsberg in Germany. Eight people were aboard. THe pilot reported engine problems, and his communication with ATC cut off.
The plane crashed in Wickede Germany in a field 1nm east of the runway.
Witnesses saw the plane above the forest, and it descended with a cloud of black smoke.
The pilot, another man, two women and a child died on impact. Three children survived, two of whom met rescue workers at the scene, and one who was taken from the wreckage. The wreckage was located south of the Ruhr near the boat house on the Ruhr meadows
United Airlines flight UA131 en route from Heathrow to Washington made an emergency landing in Dublin.
According to pilots, the Boeing 757-200 developed possible engine trouble. There was also smoke in the cockpit.
Dublin Airport Fire and Rescue Service, dozens of firefighters and Dublin Airport Police responded to the scene.
The flight departed from Heathrow at 1:05pm. None of the 147 passengers or crew of nine were injured.
On August 14, 2013, a Tej Airways Robinson R44 Raven II en route from Godhra to Amdavad ashram had to make an emergency landing at Chartoda graveyard in Gomtipu, near Ahmedabad, India.
The helicopter had been chartered for Narayan Prem Sai by his father, Hindu Spiritual leader Asaram Babu.
Four firetrucks and three ambulances responded to the scene.
Two people were hospitalized.
On August 3rd, a United Airlines Boeing 747-400 was en route to Sydney, Australia when it made an emergency landing in San Francisco International Airport Saturday night.
An emergency was declared on 863 after taking off at 10:45 p.m.
One of the engines was shut down.
The plane turned around, dumped fuel and made a safe landing at San Francisco International Airport with emergency services standing by.
A Fiji Airways Boeing 737-700 was en route from Auckland to Suva when an engine developed issues.
Pilots returned to Auckland International Airport where they made a safe landing with emergency services including fourteen fire engines on standby.
After landing, the plane was escorted by half a dozen fire engines. No fire was found on the plane.
Passengers were provided alternative transportation. None of the 122 passengers or six crew were injured.
On July 14, 2013, a privately owned Rans S-6 en route from an airfield near Tywcross Zoo to Stoke Golding airfield crashed in Fenn Lane, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire with two aboard.
The Rans plane crashed in a field in Leicestershire. Witnesses heard a bang from the aircraft, the engine quit. The plane glided along, banked right and left, then crashed.
The plane was located at Fenny Drayton at about 18:45 BST on Sunday. The man and woman aboard were confirmed dead at the scene, found by emergency responders.
The Air Accident Investigations Branch is investigating.
The fatalities were informally identified as Bob and Olive.
July 2, 2013, a Korean Air Boeing 777 with 273 passengers aboard was en route from Chicago to Seoul when it had a drop in pressure as jet fuel was being pumped into the engine. The left engine broke down. After the malfunction, the pilots dumped fuel and diverted to Anadyr airport in Russia, where they made an emergency landing.
Passengers had to wait inside the plane until the replacement jet arrived, so that with ten hours on the ground made a 13 hour flight almost 24 hours long for passengers.
The malfunctioning jet was grounded in Russia pending inspection.
As Anadyr airport is not one we have visited, we wonder if there is no Customs facility at Anadyr airport for individuals without visas to get some relief from the plane, which had to be exceedingly uncomfortable. Certainly there must be some humane way to abide by international law.
This excessive time stretches some IATA standards of passenger accommodation from both airline and airport. The question isn’t whether passengers are entitled to some kind of compensation for their time and trouble, but rather how the airline and airport are going to recompense the passengers.
A TennAir LLC Beechcraft Super King Air 200 #N92JR out of Clarksville TN developed a problem, and diverted to Wolf Road, just shy of flying into the Foxboro apartments.
At 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, the plane stopped half on the street, barred from hitting the apartment complex by a stand of trees. A couple of eleven year olds witnessed the force landing and ran into their apartments in anticipation of an explosion that didn’t happen. They did get interviewed about the accident.
The pilot had trouble with the plane and managed to get on the ground without injuring any one.
He survived, although not quite at the airport in Wheeling Illinois. THe extent of damage to the plane was not released.
On a takeoff run, an Airbus 330 en route from Manchester to the Dominican Republic suffered an engine explosion.
The pilot aborted the takeoff. None of the 325 passengers aboard the Thomas Cook A330 were injured.
Passengers disembarked and the plane was inspected and for half an hour, the runway was closed. Emergency services were deployed.
How passengers were accommodated was not released.
On May 27 2013, an Air India Flight 452 A321 en route from Visakhapatnam to Delhi was in the air for an hour and a half when alerts indicated engine fluctuations.
Pilots diverted to Nagpur where they made a safe landing at Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport at 11:00 a.m.. None of the 174 passengers and crew reported injury.
Passengers were provided alternative flights to Delhi.
On May 26, 2013, a FAB Força Aérea Brasileira Boeing KC-137 (707-324C) developed problems during takeoff from the airport in Port au Prince, Haiti, bound for Manaus. The flight was making a takeoff run when its engine caught on fire.
The plane veered off the runway, with the landing gear broken off.
Twelve crew and 131 passengers were bound for a peacekeeping mission in Haiti. No one was injured.
The official statement came from Air Brigadier Kanitz Marcelo Damasceno, Head of the Center of Social Communication of Aeronautics
A British Airways Airbus A319-100 was en route from London to Oslo when it developed an engine problem.
Passengers heard a loud explosion, and saw smoke from the right engine. Apparently the engine doors blew off.
During takeoff, the casing of the left engine ‘came away’ and the right engine exploded when the plane made a quick return, landing in London.
Good thing that Emergency services were on standby to extinguish the engine fire.
Passengers and crew made an emergency evacuation via emergency slides.
None of the 5 crew and 75 passengers were injured.
The ABC News video below suggests a birdstrike that is purely speculative
On May 21, 2013, a Copa Airlines Boeing 737-7V3 a flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador landed in the rain at Tocumen International Airport in Panama.
The plane skidded off the runway, and sustained damage getting mired in soft ground.
Engine 2 sustained damage as the right engine impacted soft ground
The plane was towed to the gate.
107 passengers were aboard the flight, and none of them were seriously injured, according to paramedic teams that responded to the accident. The incident also caused delays at the airport, forcing at least one flight to divert to another airport.
On May 21, 2013, a Lufthansa Bombardier CRJ took off at 6 a. m. from Katowice Poland and developed an engine problem. Pilots returned to Katowice and made a safe landing reportedly with an engine fire. The affected engine was shut down.
The plane landed at approximately 7 with about an hour spent in the air. All traffic throughout the airport was stopped at the time.
The fire brigade was ready and the medical responders were immediately on the scene but no injuries were reported. After the plane landed safely, the 63 passengers and four crew were evacuated.
Passengers were provided alternative flights.
A plane crashed in Guntersville Alabama. The pilot was the only person aboard when the engine stalled, and he ditched in a lake near Lake Guntersville Marina and Guntersville Sailing Club.
The pilot extricated himself from the plane and was rescued by fisherman. Alabama Marine Police and Marshall County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the scene and will be securing the site until the NTSB investigation.
The Beech A36 Bonanza crashed in Big Bear Lake had been cleared for landing when it crashed in Big Bear lake.
The four people aboard were slightly injured.
The plane lost power, and the pilot told ATC that the plane was not going to make it to the airport.
The NTSB is investigating.
