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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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    Eleven Die in Belgium Plane Crash


    A Paraclub Namur Pilatus PC-6/B2-H4 Turbo Porter out of Namur-Suarlée Airport crashed in Belgium in a field. Ten sky divers and a pilot were aboard when the plane lost height. No one survived.

    Investigators found that three of the skydivers had open chutes and the wing of the plane was broken off.

    Apparently the pilot lost control of the plane. A witness said a wing was torn from the plane, then the crash made a lot of noise. Emergency responders arrived to find the plane on fire 250 meters from Wohnhäusern der Ortschaft Marchovelette, a village and a few of the parachutists were alive.

    The plane had been in use since November 1969.

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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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    Mexican Plane Crash, 14 fatalities


    On Nov 14, 2013, an Aereo Services Guerrero Cessna 208B Grand Caravan en route from Loreto to Ciudad Constitucion was lost en route. All attempts to contact the plane from ATC failed.

    Locals reported seeing the plane flying low in Tembabichi. Search perimeters were extablished but Tropical Storm Octave with 50 mph winds interfered with the flight as well as the search.

    The wreckage was found at Agua Verde and Tembabichi area, Baja California Sur.

    The wreckage was found on Oct 17, 2013, with fourteen passengers were aboard, all fatalities.

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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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    Super King Runway Excursion in Aberdeen

    A Scottish Ambulance Service Beechcraft B200 Super King Air (flown by Gama Aviation) en route from Sumburgh to Aberdeen developed steering problems on landing and skidded off the runway on landing at Aberdeen. The plane was mired in soft ground, and resulted in suspended traffic, and diversions to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

    The patient aboard the ambulance has been hospitalized.

    The patient, an escort, a paramedic and two crew were aboard. No one was injured in the landing.

    Scottish Fire and Rescue Services responded to the scene.

    An investigation is underway.

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    Piper Comanche Emergency Landing

    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.

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    Panther Bell Crashes


    A Panther Bell Helicopter crashed en route from an oil rig. The Parent company of Panther Helicopters is John Wood Group PLC, based in Aberdeen, Scotland

    Three men and the pilot were en route to shore when they went down 30 miles NE of Venice, Louisiana.

    The pilot died in the crash, and two passengers sustained back injuries.

    The injured were taken to LSU Medical Center New Orleans. A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 helicopter and crew assisted in the rescue as well as supply vessel, “Ridge.”

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    Star Marianas Crash in North Marina Islands

    Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six operated by Star Marinas crashed between Tinian and Saipan, North Marina Islands on Oct 5.

    The four survivors of the crash were airlifted to the Commonwealth Health Center.

    Three boats and a US Navy helicopter and 57 rescue personnel were part of the search and rescue of the Star Marianas flight that was missing.

    There were three fatalities, a 29 year old Chinese man, a 26 year old Chinese woman and the pilot, a male Caucasian. The flight was reported lost at sea, but the wreckage indicated that: 2 of the bodies were still in the fuselage and one was outside the plane on the ground.

    An earlier report announced the missing flight:

    At approximately 3:15am local time on October 6, 2013 a Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six aircraft being operated by Star Marianas Air, Inc. which had departed from West Tinian Airport (Airport ID: PGWT) at 2:41am enroute to Saipan International Airport (Airport ID: PGSN) was reported as having been overdue for arrival.

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    Aeroprakt Crashes in Nepal


    An Avia Club Nepal Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat crashed in Nepal with two aboard.

    The Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat is an ultralight that was flying out of Pokhara Airport in bad weather.

    The plane impacted in a mountain range near Shanti Stupa in Pokhara. Neither the Pilot Stephan Shrestha nor the Chinese tourist Jun Liu survived the impact.

    Shrestha was the sports aviation entrepreneur who established Avia Club Nepal in 2001. His pilot training was in Arizona.

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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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    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.

    The Embraer developed engine trouble on take-off. (The failed engine was a Pratt & Whitney.) The plane struck a wooded area, a wall and came to rest on fire, avoiding a residential area. The flight data recorder has been recovered.

    The number of people aboard has not been determined. Some sources say the flight had 20 passengers plus a crew of seven; some sources say only twenty were aboard in all. Fifteen victims lost their lives initially, and one died in the hospital.

    The four survivors were hospitalized.

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    Helicopter Pilot Dies during Fair

    Carl R Enlow was killed by a helicopter rotor at the Bloomsburg Pennsylvania town fair.

    Enlow was a former military helicopter pilot who was giving rides. He was struck after his shift, in an accident. He was med-evaced by LifeFlight helicopter to Geisinger Medical Center where he died.

    The Heritage Rotors LLC Enstrom F-28C helicopter was standing at the time of the accident, in the parking lot near gate five was in the process of gassing up between rides. Enlow was returning to the helicopter to speak to the next pilot when apparently his hat blew off and he reached for it.

    The Bloomsburg Fair Association is donating their profit from the rides to Enlow’s widow, and a memorial fund is being arranged.

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    First Responders Compromise Investigation

    The first responders to the Sunday crash in India’s Naneghat Hills compromised the investigation of a crash by moving the wreckage before investigators arrived. The United Helicharters flight from Juhu to Aurangabad to Nagpur crashed in the Naneghat Hills at an altitude of 2,000 feet.

    The bodies of the deceased and the flight data recorders were also removed before the DGCA arrived.

    Two pilots and three passengers died in the twin-engine Bell 212 crash during a foggy flight. The crash occurred on Sept 29, 2013 at 8:15 a.m..

    Protocol demands that except for rescue of survivors, the wreckage not be touched until the DGCA has arrived.

    Police and fire teams removed the bodies of captain Anshu Kumar Matta, captain Surendra Singh Bhadauria, co captain Allen Martin, technician Dean D’Souza and engineer Yatin Wakde, whose bodies were burned in the crash. The recovery team also failed to record the recovery process which is a violation of protocol, just as in the Mangalore crash.

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    Helicopter Crashes in Nepal


    An Air Dynasty Aérospatiale AS350B Ecureuil en route from Kathmandu to Tenzing-Hillary Airport was landing at Lukla, Nepal when the helicopter touched a fence and crashed on September 26, 2013.

    The four aboard the helicopter sustained injury.

    Captain Arun Malla, Anita Sherpa, Dagel Sherpa and Sonam Chhiring Sherpa were aboard during the crash. The injured were airlifted and hospitalized at Pasang Lhamu – Nicole Nicky Hospital in Lukla.

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    Emergency Diversion in Brazil

    An Avianca Brazil Airbus A318-100 en route from Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo had taken off from Porto Alegre’s runway 11 when the plane developed problems with the hydraulics system.

    After burning off fuel, the pilots returned to Porto Alegre and made a safe landing.

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    Semi Hits Chopper

    An unmanned CEMIG Helibras HB-350B Esquilo (Eurocopter Ecureuil) in Celso Buelo Brazil was parked with its pilot nearby when the helicopter was struck by an articulated semi that was rolling on its own. The truck driver had forgotten to apply the brakes.

    The helicopter sustained damage in the horizontal stabilizer and tail cone.

    Both the helicopter and the semi had been parked, and neither had a driver aboard at the time of the collision.

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    United Airlines Emergency Landing in Boise

    On Sept 26, a United Airlines Boeing 737-924ER (WL), flight 1603, was en route from Houston to Seattle with 161 passengers and six crew when the pilot suffered a heart attack.

    The first officer took over and diverted Flight 1603 to Boise, Idaho. A doctor and military personnel aboard the plane performed CPR on the Captain in First Class.

    A pilot/trainer who was a passenger took the copilot seat as the co-pilot took the captain’s seat and made the safe landing in Idaho.

    Capt. Henry Skillern, 63, was taken to Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise where he he died.

    United flew in a pilot from San Francisco and then Flight 1603 continued to Seattle.

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    Crash in Bank Lot


    On Sept 25, Kentucky doctor and his wife who were flying a GDK International LLC-owned Cirrus SR20 G2 to the Chicago area to attend a medical conference when their plane struck a tree, a light post and several cars in Bolingbrook. The pilot had aborted a landing, and never completed the go-around back to the airport

    The wrecked plane ended up in a Chase Bank parking lot.

    The plane was consumed by fire. The surgeon, Dr. Narayan Venguswamy made it out of the plane but he was burning

    Witnesses tried to stifle the flames with a sweatshirt. He was hospitalized at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital then Loyola University Medical center, where he died.

    His wife died at the scene. Several cares in the parking lot also caught fire.

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    El Dorado Airport: Avianca Airbus Skids off Runway


    Avianca Airbus A318 en route from Bogota to Armenia-El Edén Airport was taking off when it veered right with its nose gear mired in the soft ground.

    El Dorado Airport crews responded to the scene. The accident occurred during taxi prior to taking off. Flight 9847 had been scheduled to depart at 2:15 pm Saturday in Bogota to Armenia.

    There were 83 people aboard the plane at the time of the incident, none of whom were injured.

    Passengers were provided an alternative flight.

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    Japan: Emergency Field Landing when Engine Quits

    Four people aboard a privately owned Fuji Fa-200-160 made a crash landing in a field near Ozaki, Yachiuo city, Japan.

    The pilot made the emergency landing because the engine quit.

    There were no fatalities, and only the co-pilot, who suffered a facial injury sustained any injury.

    The plane had taken off from and was returning to Otone airfield, Ibaraki, JAPAN.

    The Fuji is a single engine piston plane built by Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. of Japan.

    * Asahi Shimbun

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    Four Dead in Passenger Plane Crash, Lyon


    Photographer Rolando Criniti

    A privately owned Cessna 421C Golden Eagle en route from Lyon Bron Airport to Aix-Les-Milles/Aix En Provence Airport took off then crashed near Lyon, France. The four passengers, one of whom ejected) died in the crash.



    The plane crashed in a field near the end of the runway. Fifty firefighters and sixteen vehicles, nvestigators from the RCMP Air Transport and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, responded to the scene. Four charred bodies were found in the plane, one without. Prefect Stéphane Rouvé and Lyon Prosecutor Marc Cinamonti visited the wreckage.

    The names of the passengers have not been released.