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Andes Lineas Aereas Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Argentina

Andes Lineas Aereas flight OY-641 made an emergency landing in Cordoba, Argentina, on January 27th.

The plane flying from Florianopolis, Brazil, was descending toward Cordoba when the crew noticed dropping oil pressure and decided to shut down one of the engines.

The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.


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Aerolineas Argentinas Plane Suffers Drone Strike in Buenos Aires

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1865 suffered a drone strike near Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 11th.

The incident happened when the Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Trelew, Argentina, was on final approach to Aeroparque Jorge Newbery.

The plane continued for a safe landing. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.


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LATAM Argentina Flight Makes Safe Landing After Hail Strike

LATAM Airlines Argentina flight 4M-7570 made a safe landing after encountering hail near Las Termas Airport, Argentina, on August 29th.

The Airbus A320-200 plane flying from Buenos Aires, Argentina, was descending toward Las Termas Airport when it encountered a hail storm.

The plane continued for a safe landing. All passengers and crew members remained safe.


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Aerolineas Argentinas Flight Makes Emergency Landing due to Engine Issue

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1651 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, on July 13th.

The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Neuquen to Buenos Aires, Argentina, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.

The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty-three passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.


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LATAM Airlines Flight Returns to Argentina After Bird Strike

LATAM Airlines flight LA-487 had to return and make an emergency landing in Cordoba, Argentina, on March 27th.

The Airbus A321-200 plane took off for Santiago, Chile, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a bird strike.

The plane landed back safely. All 220 people aboard remained unharmed.


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Aerolineas Argentinas Plane Makes Emergency Landing due to Engine Problem

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1842 had to return and make an emergency landing in Cordoba, Argentina, on March 10th.

The Boeing 737-700 plane took off for Rosario, Argentina, but had to return shortly afterwards after one of the engines emitted a loud bang, prompting the crew to shut down the engine.

The plane landed back safely. All 111 passengers and 5 crew members remained unharmed.


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Aerolineas Argentinas Flight Rejects Take Off From Buenos Aires

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1360 had to reject take off from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 15th.

The Airbus A340-300 plane was accelerating to take off for Bogota, Colombia, when the crew rejected take-off due to a bird strike.

The plane safely returned to the apron. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.


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Bird-Hit Aerolineas Argentinas Plane Makes Safe Landing in Argentina

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1476 made a safe landing following a bird strike in Tucuman, Argentina, on February 13th.

The plane flying from Buenos Aires, Argentina, was on approach to Tucuman Airport, Argentina, when a bird hit it.

The plane continued for a safe landing. All 130 passengers and 7 crew members remained unharmed.


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Aerolineas Argentinas Flight Makes Safe Landing after Bird Strike

Aerolineas ArgentinasAerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1245 made a safe landing after a bird strike in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 10th.

The plane flying from Sao Paulo, Brazil, was on final approach to Buenos Aires when a bird hit it.

The plane continued for a safe landing. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.


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Aerolineas Argentinas Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Buenos Aires

Aerolineas ArgentinasAerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1300 had to return and make an emergency landing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 27th.

The Airbus A330-200 plane took off for John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, but had to return shortly afterwards after flames were seen emitting from the left engine along with loud bangs.

The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.

The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.


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Austral Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Argentina

AustralAustral Airlines flight AR-2505 made an emergency landing in Cordoba, Argentina, on September 29th.

The plane took off for Buenos Aires, Argentina, but had to return shortly afterwards after a bird ingestion caused vibrations in right hand engine.

The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.

The passengers were accommodated in other flights.

Bird-Hit Aerolineas Argentinas Plane Safely Lands in Buenos Aires

Aerolineas ArgentinasAerolineas Argentinas flight AR-1285 made a safe landing after a bird strike in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 18th.

The Boeing 737-800 plane was flying from Santiago, Chile, when a bird hit and damaged its nose.

The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained safe.


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Avianca Airlines Flight Encounters Severe Turbulence; 23 Injured

AviancaAvianca Airlines flight AV-965 had to make an emergency landing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 4th.

The Airbus A330-200 aircraft, flying from Lima, Peru, ran into severe turbulence that injured 23 people on-board.

The plane continued for a safe landing in Buenos Aires, where the injured were given medical aid. Authorities confirmed that 10 people were shifted to hospital for further treatment.


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Air New Zealand Plane Returns to Argentina due to Landing Gear Issue

Air New Zealand flight NZ-31 had to return and make an emergency landing at Ministro Pistarini International Airport, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 8.

The Boeing 777-200, en-route to Auckland, New Zealand, had to return after it could not retract it’s landing gear. The plane had to dump fuel before landing.

The plane landed safely.

No one was injured.


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MTV’s The Challenge Helicopter Crashed in Argentina; 2 Killed

A helicopter working on MTV’s show The Challenge crashed in Mendoza, Argentina, on December 12.

The Bell 206 helicopter was traveling to a shooting location when it went down.

There were two people aboard at the time, including the pilot and a technician, both of them were killed.

The cause of crash is being investigated.


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Argentina: Helicopters Collide as French Survivor Reality Show Filming “Dropped”

Ten people died near Villa Castelli in La Rioja province, Argentina when two helicopters (Eurocopter AS 350B3 Ecureuil) and (Eurocopter AS 350B2 Ecureuil) carrying French contestants, crew and two Argentine pilots collided and exploded during the production of ‘Dropped,’ a French reality show.

The fatalities included Laurent Sbasnik, Lucie Mei-Dalby, Volodya Guinard, Brice Guilbert, and Edouard Gilles of the French production team, and three celebrities: swimmer Camille Muffat, boxer Alexis Vastine, and French sailor Florence Arthaud, and the two Argentine pilots:Juan Carlos Castillo and Roberto Abate.

One helicopter, LQ-FJQ, was owned and operated by Gobierno de Santiago del Estero, and the other, LQ-CGK, by the Government of La Rioja.


Dropped Trailer


Small Plane Crash in Argentina Kills Businessman and his Wife

A smaFirell plane crashed and caught fire during an attempt to land in a lake in Nordelta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, at around 3:30 p.m. on September 14.

The Beechcraft 300LW Super King Air aircraft, carrying a businessman Gustavo Deutsch and his wife, crashed into a house and then rammed into another property, both of which were uninhabited.

The authorities confirmed that both Gustavo and his wife were killed in the crash.

Gustavo was the ex-president of Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas (LAPA), an airline company which is now defunct.

The cause of crash is under investigation.

Plane Crashes into Río de la Plata, 5 dead

plane crashFive people were killed after a BE020 plane crashed into the river Río de la Plata, which marks the border between Uruguay and Argentina, on May 27.

The incident happened after the aircraft flew from the Buenos Aires in San Fernando, Argentina, and was on its way to Carmelo, in Uruguay.

Five out of the nine passengers on board died; four of them were rescued and airlifted to hospitals in Buenos Aires and Uruguay. All of the passengers were from Argentina.

The dead have been identified as the pilot Leandro Larriera and passengers Fernando Sánchez, Facundo Alecha, Fernando Lonigro and Gustavo Fosco. Fosco was the communications director, while Fernando Sánchez was the press officer at the renowned car-manufacturing company, Renault.

Those who survived the crash include: Sebastián Vivona, Santiago Villamil, Paula Silvana Buery and Ignacio Javier Losa.

The plane was owned by Argentine textile businessman Federico Bonomi but he was not on board.

According to Uruguayan Navy spokesman Gastón Jaunsolo, the accident happened due to a fault in the plane and the passengers raised the alarm after they discovered the malfunction.

Compensation after Fifteen Years

I know I’ve said before how cases take a long time. Sometimes they drag on in unexpected ways. Take for example the LAPA case. On August 31 1999 Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas scheduled Flight 3142 (LV-WRZ) to fly Buenos Aires–Córdoba with a hundred and one persons aboard. The twenty-nine year old Boeing 737-204C failed to get in the air because the flight crew forgot to put the flaps in the appropriate position for flight. Instead of shooting into the air, the plane sped through the perimeter fence, across a street, struck a car and collided with a median and machinery on the road.

The accident took sixty-five lives, two of them not even on the plane. Forty aboard were injured, seventeen of them seriously. NTSB records say there were 80 fatalities and 21 minor injuries.

That’s what is widely known. What many do not know is that after the accident, nine families were given the wrong bodies. Those bodies were exhumed, checked, delivered to the correct families, and reburied at the cost of Argentina’s First Chamber of the House. The financial cost associated with all of this was covered. Not the emotional cost.

Three of those families affected will be compensated 100 thousand dollars plus interest.

In my heart of hearts, I do believe no amount of money can ever compensate for the wear and tear on the families due to the mix-up, even if at the time, the hasty mistake was well-meaning (or expedited due to politics.) Can you imagine what the families went through, seeing the resting places disturbed, then having to endure new funerals? It must have been like losing them more than once—refreshing the whole misery of loss a multiple of times. I cannot help but wonder about the families who were not compensated. I wonder if it has been so long that there is no one left to pay.

This can be of no assurance to the families of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. It is further proof that aviation crash cases do take a long time. Tragedy is tragedy. There is no best case scenario in a tragedy.

Astral Airlines Runway Excursion


An Austral Airlines Embraer ERJ 190AR en route from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires suffered a runway excursion on landing in Buenos Aires Argentina. The landing was complicated by strong wind and rain.

After the plane left the runway, it struck the antenna of the instrument landing system.

The weather was reported as:
SAEZ 150900Z 19014KT 160V240 3000 RA FEW010 SCT020 OVC050 16/16 Q1004

Translation:
SAEZ 15th @ 0900Z, wind from 190 at 14 KT, winds varying from 160 to 240, visibility 3000′, Weather: rain, Sky: few clouds at 1000, scattered at 2000, overcast at 5000, temperature 16, dewpoint 16, altimeter 1004 mb

Passengers disembarked via slides, resulting in a single injury. Most of the 96 passengers were Brazilian.


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Piper Crash in Argentina

Mr. Julio Contreras – President of Allen Air Club was flying a Piper PA-11 Cub Special on May 10, 2013 and on landing at the Aeropuerto Arturo Humbert in Argentina, the plane flipped–a wheels up landing.

Volunteer firemen, police, airport staff and members of the aeroclub responded to the scene.

The cause of the accident is being attributed to excessive braking. Local news in Argentina is calling it just a scare. The pilot suffered a bump on the forehead, but is otherwise okay. He told reporters “IT WAS A BAD LANDING, SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE WHO FLIES. I ADMIT THAT WAS MY MISTAKE AND DO NOT REALLY KNOW IF SMUG, WANTING TO PLAY SHORT, I TOUCHED THE BRAKES A LITTLE MORE. THIS IS AN AIRCRAFT THAT HAS A TRAIN CONVENTIONAL WHEELS THAT ARE MORE LIBERATED LATER, STOPPED AND TURNED VERY SLOW. BUT I’M FINE, BUT WITH A BIG RAGE AND PAIN OF THE SOUL BECAUSE BREAKING A PLANE IS LIKE THAT YOU DAMAGE A CHILD … AND ANGER COMPARED TO SOMEONE WHO KICKS A PENALTY AND MISSES. IT WAS A VERY SIMPLE BEAT, CAME TO REFUEL AND BRAKED MORE, IS AN AIRCRAFT THAT HAS THE BRAKES VERY JEALOUS, MAYBE A LITTLE SMUG I WANT TO LAND SHORT, I WAS WRONG. THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO US HUMANS, WE WERE WRONG” (machine translation.)


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Four Die in Fiery Crash in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.

On Feb 08 2013, a Centro Universitario de Aviación Cessna 172R Skyhawk #LV-GEU with four aboard took off from La Matanza – Club Universitario de Aviación for a student flight and crashed in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.

The crash site is a property located at 1500 meters from the intersection of Belt Road and Avenue Juan XXIII, former Black Road, in Lomas de Zamora, in a field next to the Lomas de Zamora federal shooting range.Two passengers were expelled from the plane, and two trapped inside.

Ambulances struggling to get to the scene got lost because they had not established exact coordinates.

Two doctors were flying the plane. The 38 year old was piloting, and the 44 year-old was the co-pilot. Two passengers were aboard, one 45 years old, and one 20 years old. The names have not been released.

The cause of the accident is being investigated by ANAC and the police. Buenos Aires police personnel had custody of the outer perimeter of the crash site overnight.

Eyewitnesses say the plane ignited in the air but a pilot who was flying over during the crash say it ignited on impact with the ground.

Firefighters, police officers technicians, and the mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martin Insaurralde were at the scene of the accident.

Cessna Street Landing As Electrical Quits


On Jan 31, 2013, a Cessna R172K was en route from Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport (El Plumerillo International Airport, ) in Mendoza Argentina to San Carlos de Bariloche Airport in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina when it suffered a loss of electrical power.

Pilot Rodolfo Smith made a safe emergency landing near Villa La Angostura.

Pilots made an emergency landing on Route 40 Rincon Chico Zone, The passengers had planned to visit Bariloche and fly on to Chile. Individuals from an Aeroclub and ANAC came to assist.

Repairs to the electrical system were made and the plane took off to complete its journey. The passengers were en route to a festival in Chile.


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Glider Instructor and Student in Glider Tow Accident

On January 19, 2012, an Aeroclub Punta Alta I.C.A. Brasov IS-28B2—a glider— apparently improperly released from a tow plane and crashed at Punta Alta Airfield in Argentina.

Those aboard were an instructor and a student on their first flight.

Two fire crews and several police responded to the scene.

Scientific Police in Bahia Blanca arrived on the scene to conduct the initial investigation and survey of the site and the remains of the glider.

Maria Agustina Mallemaci and the glider pilot, William Hugo Santos, died from their injuries.

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