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    Illegal Flight Ends in Colombia

    What: Cessna T210L en route from Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia to Quibdó, Colombia
    Where: Puente Iglesias, Fredonia Colombia
    When: June 15, 2010
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: Near Puente Iglesias, the illegal flight was lost at dusk over the Cauca river; no trace of the crew was found. Searchers found a bag containing 57 kilos of cocaine aboard. Witnesses to the crash said the crew had been seen on the plane in the river, but there had not been time to reach them before the plane sank in the river. Rescuers are looking for the bodies along the river.

    George’s Point of View

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    Ultralight Fatality in Italy

    What: Ultralight en route to Ozzano of the Emilia
    Where: Rogno Italy
    When: June 6 2010
    Who: Pilot and passenger
    Why: The ultralight developed problems on takeoff, and crashed near an Artogne airstrip. Passenger Ivan Belotti, resident of Cevo Brescia died in the crash. The pilot, Alan Planeti of Esine Brescia has been hospitalized in serious condition.

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    Helicopter Crashes in Atizapan, Mexico

    What: CRIT Helicópteros Bell 206
    Where: Atizapan , Mexico
    When: June 6 2010
    Who: 3 injured
    Why: On 11 Maple drive in the Hidden Valley golf club (el club de golf Valle Escondido), the Bell Helicopter crashed for unknown reasons. Pilot Gerardo Alberto Lujano González, and crew Eduardo Rodriguez Vértiz and Gabriel Brito Macías were taken to the Angels of Huixquilucan hospital with undisclosed injuries. The helicopter has been written off as damaged beyond repair but there were no fatalities.

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    Mangalore Crash: Air India Express Boeing 737-800


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    Contact photographer WT

    What: Air India Express Boeing 737-800 en route from Dubai to Mangalore
    Where: Mangalore airport
    When: 6:00 a.m May 22 2010
    Who: 160 (?) passengers including 23 children, 6 crew= 158 fatalities and 8 survivors
    Why: Air India Express flight 812 attempted touch down was around the middle marker. (Conflicting) reports are that it overshot the runway, and that the pilot intended a go round (tapes reveal the co pilot was urging a go-round) but the plane hit the localizer antenna at the runway’s end, plowed through the perimeter losing part of a wing, and went down 75 feet into a ravine, and broke into pieces and burst into flames. On touchdown, there was a reported “bang” which may have been a tire bursting. A drizzle started after the accident. From 5 to 10 people have been hospitalized, but according to reports there are possibly 3 survivors.

    Survivor Abdul Puttur suffered burns. He was seated near the wing exit and said that the pilot had announced the landing, then there was a thud. He saw huge flames after the plane fell into the ravine and then he jumped out from the back entrance. Another passenger said the pilot made no announcement.

    The Serbian pilot was Zlatko Glusica, first officer was S.S. Ahluwalia.

    According to DGCA rules, Mangalore International Airport is deemed a “critical airfield” which means that “supervised take offs and landings” are prohibited. Only the captain (not the first officer) can pilot take-offs and landings. Mangalore International Airport has a controversial table top runway and which forces pilots to make a precision landing. The airport has no buffer zone, and pilots landing planes must fly precisely or risk hurtling off the edge.

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    Tuscaloosa Crash Kills Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist

    What: Dagmar Transport LLC Cirrus SR22 GTS en route from the Dominican Republic to Miami to Tuscaloosa Alabama
    Where: Tuscaloosa Regional Airport
    When: May 10 2010
    Who: Pilot and passenger 41 year old Mark Yellen and 56 year old Paula Moffett
    Why: Witnesses say that on landing, one of the plane’s wings may have hit the pavement before the landing gear. The single engine plane flipped and crashed twenty-five yards short of the runway.

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    Afriqiyah Crash: What happened?


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    Contact photographer Martin Stephen

    What: Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 en route from Johannesburg South Africa to Tripoli, Libya
    Where: Tripoli’s runway 09
    When: May 12th 2010
    Who: 93 passengers and 11 crew (105 reported fatalities: 94 passengers and 11 crew) A child may have survived.
    Why: In good weather conditions with winds of three mph, the flight was on approach to Tripoli International Airport which has no instrument landing system and the runway itself is not in good condition. The accident happened one minute before sea level sunrise may have had to deal with visibility problems flying toward the rising sun, or possibly patchy fog.

    The plane crashed on approach to the runway and is fragmented as if a high speed impact.

    The wreckage area is described as a debris field. Rescue crew and volunteers are on the scene and all bodies are said to have been recovered, with one possible survivor.

    Afriqiyah Airways is owned by the Libyan government.

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    Hawaii: Microlight Crash Results in Two Fatalities


    Pictured: Image on Tedd’s Flying Adventures website

    What: Tedd’s Flying Adventures Airborne Outback XT-912 SST Tundra micro-light aircraft
    Where: Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
    When: April 21, 2010 9:36 a.m.
    Who: Pilot Tedd Robert Hecklin, owner of Tedd’s Flying Adventures in Kailua-Kona and passenger Kathryn Grace Moran of Kailua-Kona
    Why: While en route, witnesses report seeing the wing of the Airborn Edge “fold.” Then the plane descended and impacted Kealakekua Bay. Local tour boats hurried to retrieve both aboard, and those aboard attempted CPR but both victims had sustained fatal injuries.

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    Hampshire Crash kills two

    What: Small single engine aircraft
    Where: Monxton, near Andover in Hampshire UK close to the junction of the A303 and A342.
    When: April 17 2010
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: In a field near Red Post Lane, a small plane crashed in a field and burst into flames, killing both occupants. The Weyhill Andover crash is said NOT to have been caused by ash but by some other reason.

    The AAIB has sent investigators to the scene. The type of craft and the victims names have not been released.

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    Haiti: Naval Helicopter Crash


    Pictured: A Spanish-owned Agusta-Bell AB-139 filmed in Spain, February 14, 2009
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    Contact photographer Rafael Alvarez Cacho

    What: Spanish Navy Agusta-Bell 212ASW
    Where: Fond Verrettes area, about 50km from Port-Au-Prince Haiti
    When: April 16, 2010 10:30
    Who: 4 on board. No survivors.
    Why: One of a detachment of four Spanish Navy Agusta-Bell 212ASW helicopters assigned to the Spanish navy amphibious ship Castilla crashed in a sparsely populated remote
    rugged location called Mount Toro. The helicopter, which is part of an independent detachment is said not to be part of the 400+ Spanish soldiers engaged in Haiti’s recovery and reconstruction efforts, reportedly struck trees and slammed into the ground before catching fire. The rugged terrain is reportedly hampering recovery.

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    Aero Union Cargo Flight Crashes


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    Contact photographer Juan Carlos Guerra

    What: AeroUnion Airbus A-300B4-200 en route from Monterrey (Mexico) to Los Angeles,CA
    Where: Mexico
    When: April 13th 2010
    Who: 2 crew ; 3 on ground fatalities
    Why: After taking off from Monterrey on a freight flight after 11:00 pm, it is reported that a turbine and wing fell off the plane, and then the Airbus fell out of the sky on to a highway not far from the runway. (Most of the wreckage is on airport property. ) The crew and three individuals on the ground were killed.

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    Student Helicopter Crash

    What: Front Range Helicopters
    Where: near Mount Morrison
    When: April 04, 2010
    Who: Pilot instructor 29-year-old Jesse Whitsett of Fort Collins and student Michael McDonald
    Why: The student was practicing a “remote site landing,” a move required for a license. McDonald was practicing to get his license.

    After the crash, the pilot radioed in his location. Neither instructor nor student was seriously injured, although McDonald did go to the hospital.

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    Denmark: Family tragedy in Piper

    What: Anlægsselskabet Dansk Nybyg Piper PA-28-151 Warrior en route from Laesoe island.
    Where: between Solsbæk and Sæby, North Jutland, Denmark
    When: April 5 2010
    Who: Two were hospitalized; remains of Niels and Bente Birch Nielsen recovered on the scene
    Why: The 35-year-old Piper PA-28-151 Warrior crashed into trees near Solsbæksvej (Solsbæksroad), between Solsbæk and Sæby, North Jutland. The parents were were killed and the two daughters (17 and 25) were taken to hospital with serious injuries. At the time of the crash, visibility was not good, and according to witnesses, the plane was flying low.

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    Jet Blue Airbus Emergency Landing


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    Contact photographer Jordi Grife

    What: Jetblue Airbus A320-200 en route from New York to Long Beach
    Where: New York
    When: Mar 28th 2010
    Who: 144 on board
    Why: Leaving the runway, the plane’s tail impacted either hail or a bird or had a tail strike (reports conflict); the flight returned to JFK and made a safe landing so that the damage could be checked out. Passengers debarked, and boarded an alternative plane some time later.

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    Brownsville Medical Helicopter crash


    What: Hospital Wing Eurocopter AS.350B3 Ecureuil helicopter en route from Jackson-Madison County General Hospital to Brownsville
    Where: 100 yards off Springfield School Road, about four miles east of downtown Brownsville Tennessee
    When: MARCH 25, 2010
    Who: 3 on board (no patients)
    Why: Dispatchers lost contact with the helicopter crew before 6 a.m. A lightning strike and a fireball was seen near the field where the wreckage was found, a location that was found by GPS.

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    Tupolev Crashes in Moscow


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    Contact photographer Ilya Morozov

    What: Aviastar-TU Tupolev TU-204-100 ferry flight en route from Hurghada Egypt to Moscow
    Where: Moscow
    When: Mar 22nd 2010
    Who: 9 crew
    Why: While nearing its destination in poor weather conditions with limited visibility, .6 miles from the runway, the flight went off radar, landing 3300 feet shy of the runway– ostensibly a belly landing–crashing in a forested area. Five aboard had minor injuries and two were injured seriously. One wing separated, and the rest of the plane incurred serious damage.

    Sunday, another Tu-204 plane bound for Hurghada, left Domodedovo but had to return to Moscow.

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    Rescue Helicopter Crash


    Pictured: A Kazakhstan Government Mil Mi-8MTV-1
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    Contact photographer Alan Lebeda

    What: Mil Mi-8 Helicopter en route from Makanchi Kazakhstan
    Where: near Urdzhar, Kazakhstan
    When: Mar 11 2010
    Who: 8 aboard
    Why: Around 2 local time, the Mi-8 was engaged in a rescue mission in conditions of bad weather and low visibility (28 have been killed in local floods); the tower lost contact with helicopter, though its partner helicopter continued on safely. Bad weather and low visibility severely hampered the search, but a day later, the wreckage was been located near Urdzhar to the northwest, with no survivors.

    Two local officials and two doctors were among the deceased.

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    Vintage Crash in Chandler


    Pictured: North American P-51D Mustang; N514NH / 4484850/FF-850 (cn 124-44706) Former Apollo astronaut Frank Borman own this Mustang in the ’90s. Borman registered it as N15FS in August 1995 and named it Su Su. In it’s history this aircarft has carried the registrations N151TH, N850AH, N151BF, N151FS. Now it belongs to Hirani Oil in Chandler Arizona.
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    Contact photographer Dave Budd – Photorecon

    What: (Hirani Oil Arizona) single-engine P-51D Mustang
    Where: Stellar Airpark in Chandler
    When: Thu Mar 11 1:20 p.m.
    Who: pilot Nazzi Hirani
    Why: On an attempt to land, the World War II-era plane appeared to be coming in to land too fast, hit a brick retaining wall, then flipped into the hanger, setting it afire and killing the pilot.

    * Although the Mustang was built by North American Aviation, it is the precursor of the Piper.

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    Piper Crash in Vero Beach neighborhood

    What: Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II
    Where: Nr. 12th Street and 34th Avenue Sun Villas, Vero Beach Florida
    When: Mar 5 2010
    Who: pilot and student pilot
    Why: While on a Paris Air training flight, the flight crashed near a canal and within 50 feet of homes. Both the pilot and student pilot were seriously injured and trapped inside the plane. The extrication took 90 minutes, after which one was taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, and the other was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce.

    The plane’s owner is a New York surgeon who leases the piper to Paris Aviation.

    The passengers were in communication with the rescue team during the rescue, but were in serious condition on transport.

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    University Executives Die in Humanitarian Mission

    What: Piper PA-31 Turbo Navajo B en route from Tomé to Concepción
    Where: Tomé Chile
    When: Mar 1 2010
    Who: Fatalities included Pablo Desbordes, Ignacio Fernández, Luis ernesto Videla, Juan Guillermo Moya and Rodolfo Becker and pilot Marcelo Ruiz.
    Why: The plane crashed near the town of Tomé, Chile while transporting five University Santo Tomás executives for eartquake relief work. They were traveling to the site of the earthquake to evaluate shelter safety conditions. No reason has been reported for the crash.

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    Nazca Airlines Blames Wind Shear

    Updated

    Pictured: Nazca Airport
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    Pictured: A Cessna 206 Super Skywagon
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    Contact photographer Alan Lebeda

    What: Nazca Airlines Cessna U206F tourist flight en route from/to Nazca Airport
    Where: El Mirador in the coastal Nazca Desert, Peru
    When: Feb 25 2010
    Who: Four Peruvians, one of whom was a boy, and one who was the pilot, and three Chileans.
    Why: While on a tourist flight to view ancient geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines, the plane crashed. The wreckage is about 150 yards (meters) from a figure known as “the spider”. Around 11:00 a.m. with seven people on board, the flight crashed. There were three Chilean tourists, a Peruvian couple with a 5-year-old daughter, and the Peruvian pilot.

    Nazca Airlines (AeroIca) announced they blame the crash on wind shear.

    The 7 who were killed were on a plane with a capacity of 6.

    In November 2008, the same plane was involved in an emergency landing near kilómetro 424 de la carretera Panamericana Sur (South Pan-American highway). At that time, the problems was ascribed to engine trouble.

    The Peruvian passengers were identified as Sameli Chavarry, Erika del Pilar Zúñiga, John Rojas Rodríguez and Dayesca Rojas Zuñira; the Chileans were Matías Poblete, Gabriela Ortega Poblete and Alejandra Cienfuegos.

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    Nazca Airlines Cessna Crash Kills 7 in Peru


    Pictured: Nazca Airport
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    Pictured: A Cessna 206 Super Skywagon
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    Contact photographer Alan Lebeda

    What: Nazca Airlines Cessna U206F tourist flight en route from/to Nazca Airport
    Where: El Mirador in the coastal Nazca Desert, Peru
    When: Feb 25 2010
    Who: Four Peruvians, one of whom was a boy, and one who was the pilot, and three Chileans.
    Why: While on a tourist flight to view ancient geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines, the plane crashed. The wreckage is about 150 yards (meters) from a figure known as “the spider”.

    In November 2008, the same plane was involved in an emergency landing near kilómetro 424 de la carretera Panamericana Sur (South Pan-American highway). At that time, the problems was ascribed to engine trouble.

    The Peruvian passengers were identified as Sameli Chavarry, Erika del Pilar Zúñiga, John Rojas Rodríguez and Dayesca Rojas Zuñira; the Chileans were Matías Poblete, Gabriela Ortega Poblete and Alejandra Cienfuegos.

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    Mexican Air Force Crash Kills 2

    What: Fuerza Aerea Mexicana Cessna 182
    Where: Chihuahua
    When: FEB 24 2010
    Who: 2 fatalities 3 injured
    Why: After takeoff, the small military Cessna 182 crashed, killing 2, wounding 3. The reasons for the crash are unknown, but possibly might be related to a technical problem according to officials. No other details have been released at this time.

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    Piper Crash Lebanon-Springfield

    What: KMT Consultants Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee C en route from St Clair County Airport to Lebanon- Springfield Airport
    Where: west of Lebanon-Springfield Airport
    When: Feb 23 2010
    Who: Pilot Kent Douglas Shilling of Springfield (lost in crash)
    Why: The Piper 28 airplane disappeared from radar about 4 miles west Lebanon Springfield Airport. Kent Douglas Shilling was piloting the plane. Shilling, who owns a flight school, was returning to Kentucky from Alabama. When his arrival in Lebanon-Springfield was overdue, a search ensued. The Emergency Operations Center received a call concerning the crash at 4:10 p.m.

    A state trooper found the wreckage in a wooded area off of Kentucky Highway 55 thirty minutes after the flight disappeared from radar.

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    Toronto: Uncleared Air Canada Landing


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    Contact photographer Javier Cáceres

    What: Air Canada Airbus A321-200 en route from Montreal to Toronto
    Where: Toronto
    When: Feb 22 2010
    Who: crew
    Why: On landing, after normal communication had been established, attempts to reach the crew to confirm were not answered. Nevertheless, the plane landed safely.

    This is a disruption of procedure; if landing clearance is not received, the pilot is supposed pull up, abort the landing and make another pass. We have not heard if there was some kind of cockpit emergency that would make extenuating circumstances, but it is not likely, as the crew apparently contacted ATC after landing, confirming they had landed without clearance.

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    Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 Recovery Numbers fluctuate

    In a Fri Feb 12 release, Earthtimes says Lebanon announced 45 bodies had been retrieved and their DNA identified them as passengers of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409. 83 passengers and seven crew (or 82 passengers and 8 crew?) died in the 4 minute flight from Beirut international airport into the Mediterranean. However as we can not confirm that number anywhere, we believe the confirmed dna-identified deaths are of a much smaller number.

    U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation Civile and Boeing are participating in the investigation.