What: 1975 single-engine Cessna 182P registration number of N1913M en route from Cobb County Airport-McCollum Field to Kobalt Tools 500 NASCAR race in Henry County.
Where: Crash occurred in Shadinger Lake. Carrollton, Georgia
When: Sunday morning 08-MAR-2009
Who: Pilot Kearney, and his wife Christa Kearney, and Timothy Dean Miller
Why: All the bodies were recovered from the lake. The crash is under investigation
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Contact photographer Dan Brownlee
What: American Airlines MD-80 Flight 311 en route from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to Los Angeles
Where: Austin-Bergstrom International
When: Monday, March 9, 2009
Who: 123 passengers, 5 crew
Why: After take-off, one engine made a “boom.” The pilot powered down to idle, and returned to the airport so that the plane could be examined and repaired.
Pictured: Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-84P
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What: Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-300, HU7871 en route from Xi’an, Shaanxi Province to Shenzhen in Guangdong Province
Where: landing at an airport in the island province of Hainan (extreme south of China)
When: 2009-03-05 19:21:09
Who: 112 passengers and a crew of six
Why: The crew reported a mechanical problem and requested an emergency landing. They turned off one engine, and landed. Reportedly, there were “problems with the throttle that might have led to an excessively fast landing.”
No injuries were reported.
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Contact photographer Alejandro Hdez Leon
What: Canadair BOMBARDIER CRJ-200ER registration EC-IKZ en route from Madrid to Santander-Intl
Where: Santander-Intl
When: 24. Feb.2009
Who: 44 passengers, 4 crew
Why: One engine apparently flamed out on approach. Another report said both engines flamed out and one was restarted. The CL-600-2B19 Regional jet made a safe landing on runway 11.
What: Southwest Airlines twin-engine Boeing 737 en route from Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport to Long Island
Where: McCarran Airport
When: February 12, 2009
Who: 116 passengers , 5 crew members
Why: After takeoff, the left engine started misfiring, and every time it misfired the engine would flame. Nineteen minutes after takeoff, the plane returned to land at McCarran at 3:28 on one engine. Southwestern reportedly said that the engine was not on fire, but witnesses referred to flames.
What: American Airlines Flight 1236 on its way to Chicago from John Wayne Airport in California’s Orange County
Where: LAX
When: one engine died just minutes after takeoff at 3:21 p.m. Sunday.
Who: 149 passengers and a crew of six
Why: The flight was diverted to Los Angeles International Airport, where it landed safely around 3:31pm. There were no injuries.
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What: Continental Airlines Flight 3407, Bombardier Q400 turboprop operated by regional carrier Colgan Air en route from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Where: Clarence Center, New York.
When: Thursday Feb 12 struck a house at 10: 10 pm. Two homes were affected.
Who: 44 passengers and four crew members, 1 off-duty pilot, 1 person on the ground, all fatalities. The passenger manifest has not officially been released.
Why: The New Jersey-to-Buffalo flight was cleared to land on a runway pointing to the southwest. But the plane crashed with its nose pointed to the northeast. Seconds after two automatic warnings to the pilots that the plane was not moving fast enough to stay aloft, the twin turboprop aircraft went through a “severe pitch and roll” after positioning its flaps for a landing. It did not dive into the house, as initially thought, but landed flat on the house. Icing is emerging as the possible cause for why flight 3047 fell from the sky. The flight data recorder has been collected and is currently being examined.
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Contact photographer Michael Van Bosch
What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 [see example above] en route from the McCarran International Airport en route to Long Island, New York.
Where: McCarran International Airport Las Vegas
When: Thursday afternoon shortly after taking off–at 3:28 p.m.
Who: 118 passengers
Why: The crew of the Southwest Airlines Boeing shut down one engine when it caught on fire; and used the remaining working engine to make the emergency landing safely.
What: EXP BEARHAWK Fixed Wing Single-Engine Regis#: 3WC owned by William Cox en route from a private airstrip in Beach City RWJ Airpark
Where: ANAHUAC TX in Chambers Count landing in an open pasture 30 miles east of Houston.
When: Thursday 01/29/2009 3 p.m.
Who: Pilot and two passengers were aboard
Why: Wtnesses reported hearing an engine sputter before seeing the plane nosedived into the ground. The plane was an experimental class plane
What: single-engine homebuilt plane( S FLUT-R-BUG SA6) en route from Santa Ynez Valley Airport
Where: Sycamore Valley Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley in the 6500 block of Figueroa Mountain Road.
When: Between 2 and 2:30 pm.
Why: The pilot had to land because of engine trouble. After landing, he worked on his plane, and took off again to fly the 10 miles to the airport, but the engine quit again and the plane crashed into some oak trees. The pilot sustained a scratch on his head but the plane is considered “substantial”
What: ExpressJet Flight 152 en route to Tampa
Where: 41-passenger plane
When: Jan 6 2008 – ten minutes into the flight at 4:15 p.m.
Who: Passengers included Louisville’s basketball team
Why: The flight had the equivalent of a “check engine” light go off in the instrument panel. The Louisville’s basketball team which was on board deplaned safely after an emergency landing. The passengers were rescheduled for transportation later Tuesday for its Wednesday game; the rescheduled flight took off from Standiford Field at about 9:05 p.m. scheduled to arrive in Tampa after 11 p.m.
What: plane registered to Steven P. Reamer en route from Piedmont Triad International Airport to o Gainesville, Fla
Where: 500 feet short of the runway at Anson County Airport.
When: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25 3 pm
Who: Pilot Steven P. Reamer was killed in the crash. His wife Pamela was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
Why: The plane was having engine problems. Witnesses report the motor was sporadic and sputtering
What: en route from Perland to Meacham
Where: land the plane safely in a field near Mark IV Parkway and Loop 820
When: 10 am reported engine trouble
Who: 2 people aboard
Why: After reporting that the plane’s engine was running rough, the pilot was able to land in the field safely.
What: Delta Air Lines a Flight 18 BOEING 777-200ER, registration: N862DA
Where: en route
When: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Why: The plane experienced a rollback of the right (number 2) Rolls Royce Trent 895 engine during cruise flight at FL390 (approximately 39,000 feet). The flight was a regularly scheduled flight from Pudong Airport, Shanghai, China to Atlanta-Hartsfield International The plane descended, executed flight manual procedures and the engine recovered and continued to Atlanta
