A single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee crashed at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Missouri, at around 7 p.m. on March 1.
The incident happened when the plane was attempting touch-and-go landings at the airport. Authorities said the aircraft loss power before it went down near the Missouri River.
There were 2 people aboard at the time of accident; the pilot remained unharmed while his female passenger broke her arm. She was taken to hospital.
The accident is being investigated.
A small plane crash landed on the Skywest Golf Course in Hayward, California, on the afternoon of February 15.
According to Hayward Fire Capt. Don Nichelson, the plane departed from Hayward Executive Airport but had to crash-land shortly afterwards, due to power loss.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, remained uninjured.
The incident is being investigated.
A small plane made an emergency landing in a field near Lovett Road and McCoy Church Road in Burke County, Georgia, on February 6.
The Burke County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the pilot had to make a hard landing after his plane lost power. He was taking photographs over Burke County at the time.
The plane landed safely and the pilot remained uninjured.
The pilot said he is an aerial photographer and has more than 4000 flight hours.
A Greek F-16 jet crashed during NATO training in Spain at around 3:20 p.m. on January 26.
The plane went down shortly after it took off from a training center in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, during a NATO exercise.
According to a statement released by the defense ministry, “The plane lost power, crashing into the parking area for planes, crashing into various planes that were parked there.”
Ten people, including 2 Greek and 8 French nationals, were killed in the accident while 21 others were injured. Five of the injured were shifted to La Paz Hospital’s specialist burn unit in Madrid.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, “This is a tragedy that affects the whole NATO family.”
A Navajo Chieftain aircraft, operated by Ferguson Air and conducting a charter flight for Southern Air, crashed near New Providence Island in the Bahamas on December 2.
The plane took off from Governor’s Harbour in Eleuthera Island and was making an approach to the Lynden Pindling International Airport in New Providence airport when it lost power. According to the police, the pilot informed the authorities that he was facing some problems and attempted to bring the plane near shallow water before it crashed.
A 77-year-old U.S. man was killed in the accident. His identity has not yet been disclosed.
The other 10 people, including the pilot, were injured and were shifted to Doctors Hospital in Nassau.
A twin-engine Beechcraft crashed into a building at Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, on October 30.
The aircraft reported trouble soon after departing from the airport. It then lost power and crashed into the flight safety center, while it was returning to the runway.
Atleast 4 people, including the pilot Mark Goldstein, were killed in the accident while 5 others were injured. One of the injured is believed to be in critical condition.
According to Wichita Fire Chief Ron Blackwell, the pilot was the only one travelling in the plane. Officials also said that the flight safety building had around 100 occupants at the time of accident.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
A single-engine aircraft clipped on an SUV during an emergency landing in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on the afternoon of October 26.
The plane departed from Norman, Oklahoma and was about to land at Ardmore Downtown Executive Airport when it lost power. The pilot then tried to land in emergency on Lake Murray Drive, however, the aircraft hit the top of an SUV before it landed.
The authorities confirmed that neither the pilot nor the passengers of SUV were injured.
The aircraft is registered to New Jersey based Topflight Aviation LLC.
The NTSB and the FAA are investigating.
Two teenage pilots successfully landed a Cessna 172 aircraft in emergency, at a road just south of Tulsa International Airport, Oklahoma, after it lost power on August 19.
The incident happened when the 18-year-old certified Pilot, Eric Nichols and his pilot-in-training friend Tanner Price were flying from Riverside Airport and performing a touch and go at Tulsa International Airport.
According to Nichols, the plane had just passed the runway when its speed indicator dropped to zero. ‘We had about 1,900 RPMs and I knew that wasn’t going to be enough to get us anywhere, so we didn’t have enough runway, I told tower, ‘I’m putting it down,’ and I set it down on the road here,’ said Nichols.
The teenagers carefully landed the plane between two utility poles and avoided hitting a car running on the road. Tulsa Fire Airport Chief, Michael Atchison was impressed with the boys’ performance in such life-threatening situation. “Real proud of those guys…They did a good job ’cause, you know, the tense moments right there, for them to lay it down, find a place to land it when they lost all the power. They did a great job,” Atchison said.
Nichols has only 61 hours of training while Tanner has just 13. Christensen Aviation, the owner of the plane, confirmed that neither the plane was damaged nor anyone was injured.
A two-seater American Super Decathlon aircraft crashed in a cornfield in Leflore County about 4 miles west of Greenwood, Mississippi, at around 7 p.m. on August 16.
Two Leflore County men, 71 year-old Grady Perkins of Greenwood, and 44 year-old Matt Weldon of Sidon, survived with injuries. They were airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
According to Perkins’ wife, he was a licensed pilot and was giving flying lessons to Weldon. They were practicing emergency landings when the single-engine plane lost power and went down.
Weldon, who suffered severe but non life-threatening injuries, managed to call 911. Ambulances and Leflore County sheriff’s deputies located the airplane in time to save them.
The plane is registered to Steve Jennings according to FAA records.
The FAA is investigating the crash.
A fixed wing, single-engine Piper PA-28 aircraft crash-landed on its belly in the parking lot of Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Cheektowaga, New York, at around 3 p.m. on August 14.
The incident happened shortly after the plane took off for a tourist flight with 3 people aboard, including a pilot and 2 tourists. According to NFTA spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer, the plane apparently lost power due to which it crash landed. “The full investigation that will be conducted by the FAA will determine the actual cause, but the preliminary cause is being given as a loss of power,” he said.
The pilot, identified as Anastasiia Goldowsky, 31, sustained minor injuries, and was taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment. She was released after treatment by evening.
Both the tourists remained unhurt. They were identified as Bing Shen, 39, and his 6-year-old son, Qiain.
The plane is registered to Prior Aviation, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.
A 1972 Piper Cherokee lost power and crash landed on sand near Caspersen Beach on Venice Island, Sarasota County, Florida, on July 27.
Spokesperson of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, Wendy Rose, confirmed that none of the two people aboard the plane were injured in the incident. However a man, identified as Ommy Irizarry, 36, who was walking on the beach with his 9 year old daughter, was killed. His daughter, Oceana Irizarry, was critically injured and was airlifted to Children’s hospital in St. Petersburg. But on July 29, the authorities confirmed that she had succumbed to her injuries. They belonged to Fort Stewart, Georgia.
It is not yet clear whether the two victims were hit by the plane or debris.
According to Rose, at 2:45 p.m., the Venice airport received a distress call from the plane’s pilot. “They were contacted by a pilot whose small plane was in distress. He knew he couldn’t make it back to the airport and was going to try to land on the beach. And he did land at the edge of the water on the beach,” she said.
The NTSB is investigation the incident.
Ikar airlines flight IK-2474 had to make an emergency landing at Haikou airport, China on June 18.
The incident happened when the Boeing-767-300 was en route from Thailand to Yekaterinburg, located in the Russian Urals.
According to authorities, the decision to make an emergency landing was due to a power generator malfunction. The plane landed safely, with a delay of 3 hours from its scheduled landing time of 1:40 a.m. No one was hurt.
Gennady Chuprov, the airline’s Deputy Director General for flight safety, said that 231 passengers were accommodated at a Wuhan city hotel.
On Feb 10 2013, Alaska Airlines flight 837 en route from Norman Y Mineta San Jose Int’l Airport to Honolulu departed and returned to Mineta San Jose after a power problem in a navigation system an hour into the flight. 132 passengers and six crew were aboard.
When the captain decided to return to Mineta San Jose, the San Jose Fire Department was on standby.
The Boeing 737-800 (738) made a safe landing at 9:40 a.m after two hours in the air, and did not need towing.
The replacement flight was scheduled to leave at 10:45.
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 an October 30, 2013 training flight, a Centro de Capacitacion Aereo Michoacan Cessna 152 out of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport lost power over Cajititian lake.
The pilot made a crash landing beside the lake. The pilot Andres Gonzalez, 20, tried to land in an unpopulated area when the plane developed a mechanical problem in the engine.
Emergency responders included firefighters and paramedics from Tiajomulco and El Salto. Gonzalez suffered only minor injuries.
la Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (Civil Aviation Directorate) will be investigating the incident in Cajititlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
A CHC operated Eurocopter AS 332L2 Super Puma Mk2 with 18 aboard had taken off from the Borgsten Dolphin rig en route to Sumburgh Airport and suffered a “catastrophic loss of power” before it ditched 2 nm W off Sumburgh, Shetland Islands, Scotland.
Fourteen survivors were recovered. Four fatalities were reported: Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland, Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness, and George Allison, 57, from Winchester. Three of the four bodies have been recovered.
The survivors were hospitalized at Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick. Nine were detained at the hospital for exposure.
Rescue services included a ferry, a cargo ship, lifeboat crews from Lerwick and Aith, coastguard helicopters, RAF Lossiemouth and two Bond rescue helicopters.
CHC works for Total transporting rig workers.
The cause of the crash has not been determined. Pumas have been grounded due to safety concerns.
An Embraer EMB-201A Ipanema was en route from Paracatu MG to Goinia when the pilot had to make a forced landing in a field. The plane was commonly used as a cropduster.
The plane had had a fuel supply problem before but apparently this time the problem was in the fuel pump/power system.
The pilot was uninjured but the plane sustained some damage. There was no fire, but firefighters were on hand, and there was a fuel leak.
Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos (Cenipa) will be investigating.
On July 16, 2013 around 6:20 a.m, an Apuí Taxi Aéreo Beechcraft 58 Baron with six aboard scheduled from Manaus-Eduardo Gomes International Airport to Apui crashed in Brazil. Five passengers and a pilot were on board.
Seconds after takeoff, the plane lost power and crashed.
The plane caught fire by Terminal 2. Three victims (two men and a woman) are hospitalized with burns in Hospital 28 Julio Hospital in Manaus in the South Central Zone of Manaus.
Aurélio Simonetti, 68 and two others died in the crash. Adonay Campos, Edson Oliveira Parron, 36, and Vanessa Guedes were injured.
INFRAERO Fire brigade teams responded to the scene. The Regional Service Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents is investigating
On April 20, 2013, a Boeing A75N1 Stearman took off from Petaluma airport and lost power at 2,000 feet before making a hard landing in a Santa Rosa vineyard near 6500 Jamison Road. Witnesses heard a plane flying low around 10 a.m..
The pilot, Patrick Bell, circled looking for a place to land before finding the vineyard.
The pilot was able to exit the plane under his own steam and although the plane flipped, Bell was uninjured.
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.
Didn’t mention this all together yesterday but it was a bad day (or two) for helicopters.
On Mar 19
On Mar 21
On Jan 23, 2013, a single engine Kenyon Flight Cirrus SR20 was engaged in a training flight, Groton-Danbury, near Danbury Connecticut. Aboard was an instructor, the pilot trainee and a friend of the trainee. The pilot was on approach to Danbury Municipal Airport two miles away when the plane suffered a loss of power.
The pilot deployed a rocket-fired parachute system and floated down to land without hitting anything in a parking lot near South Street and Wixted Avenue at about 7:30 p.m. The parachute did become tangled with electrical wires.
The pilot and two passengers were injured but survived.
The parachute is being credited with saving their lives.
Power was cut to unentangle the parachute, resulting in an electrical outage that affected about a thousand homes.
What: Cessna 150
Where: San Diego bay
When: May 26, 2012, 4:20 p.m
Who: 2 aboard, no fatalities
Why: A Cessna towing a banner lost engine power. Pilots informed ATC, cut free the banner they were towing and ended up in San Diego Bay, Missing the Hilton Hotel. The plane sank; the pilot and passenger aboard were recovered uninjured, by passing boaters.
A salvage company is going to recover the plane from the bay.
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What: Kitze Aviation Inc. Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee G
Where: Frankenmuth, MI
When: May 20, 2012, 3:20 pm
Who: 4 aboard
Why: A 25 year old pilot Thomas Wolfe successfully landed the Piper in Zehnder Field after losing power.
The pilot and one passenger got medical treatment after landing. Two others were transported to Flint’s Hurley Medical Center for treatment.
The pilot, Thomas Wolf, 56 year old Gerald Wolfe and 57 year old Frank Tima, are from Livonia. 26-year-old Laura Richardson is from Royal Oak.
The accident is under investigation.
What: GE Engines in Sikorsky S-61N helicopter
Where: Portland Courtroom
When: Aug. 5, 2008 crash, March 28, 2012 Jury decision
Who: 9 crash fatalities
Why: The Aug. 5, 2008 crash occurred after a loss of power in the No. 2 engine shortly after takeoff from a nearly 6,000-foot-high mountaintop in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Co-pilot William Coultas of Cave Junction, his wife, Chris, and the widow of pilot Roark Schwanenberg, 54, of Lostine were awarded $37 million and his wife $4.3 million by the jury, while the estate of Schwanenberg was awarded $28.4 million, according to The Associated Press. The jury placed 57 percent of the blame on GE, but also found the helicopter’s owner and its manufacturer partially at fault. Coultas is the only surviving crewman.
Fatalities include David Steele, 19, Ashland; Shawn Blazer, 30, Medford; Scott Charlson, 25, Phoenix; Matthew Hammer, 23, Grants Pass; Edrik Gomez, 19, Ashland; Bryan Rich, 29, Medford; and Steven “Caleb” Renno, 21, Cave Junction; U.S. Forest Service check pilot Jim Ramage, 63, of Redding, Calif.. Richard Schroeder Jr., Jonathan Frohreich and Michael Brown survived with injuries.
The case hinged on a problem with the engine’s fuel control valve. Evidence included a GE internal email from Aug. 6, 2008 discussing the size of the fuel filter, noting that the military version removes much smaller particles than the commercial version.
Official NTSB Report:
On August 5, 2008, about 1941 Pacific daylight time, a Sikorsky S-61N helicopter, N612AZ, impacted trees and terrain during the initial climb after takeoff from Helispot 44 (H-44), located at an elevation of about 6,000 feet in mountainous terrain near Weaverville, California. The pilot-in-command, the safety crewmember, and seven firefighters were fatally injured; the copilot and three firefighters were seriously injured. Impact forces and a postcrash fire destroyed the helicopter, which was being operated by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) as a public flight to transport firefighters from H-44 to another helispot. The USFS had contracted with Carson Helicopters, Inc. (CHI) of Grants Pass, Oregon, for the services of the helicopter, which was registered to CHI and leased to Carson Helicopter Services, Inc. of Grants Pass. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and a company visual flight rules flight plan had been filed.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
The following actions by Carson Helicopters: 1) the intentional understatement of the helicopter’s empty weight, 2) the alteration of the power available chart to exaggerate the helicopter’s lift capability, and 3) the practice of using unapproved above-minimum specification torque in performance calculations that, collectively, resulted in the pilots relying on performance calculations that significantly overestimated the helicopter’s load-carrying capacity and did not provide an adequate performance margin for a successful takeoff; and insufficient oversight by the U.S. Forest Service and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Contributing to the accident was the failure of the flight crewmembers to address the fact that the helicopter had approached its maximum performance capability on their two prior departures from the accident site because they were accustomed to operating at the limit of the helicopter’s performance.
Contributing to the fatalities were the immediate, intense fire that resulted from the spillage of fuel upon impact from the fuel tanks that were not crash resistant, the separation from the floor of the cabin seats that were not crash resistant, and the use of an inappropriate release mechanism on the cabin seat restraints.
