What: stolen plane Where: Shopping mall parking lot in Goiania, near the centre of Brazil When: 18:30 local time Who: Kleber Barbosa da Silva and his 5 year old daughter Penelope Barbosa Correia were killed in the crash. Why: The crash occurred after the husband and wife had an altercation, and da Silva threw his wife out of the car. She was hospitalized in Brasilia; da Silva went on to take his 5 yr old and steal the plane, which crashed in a parking lot.
What: Cougar Helicopter’ Sikorsky Helibus (twin-turboshaft) en route to offshore Hibernia oil field to bring down two passengers and 14 were going to the Sea Rose oil platform Where: off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Atlantic. When: Thursday morning March 12 Who: 18 people aboard Why: At 9:15 a.m., the Sikorsky pilot sent an SOS to Gander Newfoundland air traffic controllers. After the mayday, the helicopter ditched in the Atlantic. Two people were sighted but only one was recovered. Robert Decker, has been transported to St. John’s hospital. Searchers received signals from survival suits equipped with water-activiated locator beacons and integrated life vests.
The search has been hampered by a gale force warning. Visibility is 10 nautical miles.
Couger, Husky Energy and ExxonMobile have made statements to the press. The Hibernia oil platform is owned by ExxonMobil Canada, Chevron Canada Resources, Petro-Canada, Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation, Murphy Oil and StatoilHydro Canada Ltd.
The SeaRose oil platform in the White Rose oil and gas field is operated by Husky Energy and Petro-Canada.
What: Turkish Airlines flight TK-260 en route from Istanbul to Kayseri. Where: Nevsehir When: Sunday Who: 194 passengers Why: The plane could not land at it’s scheduled Erkilet Airport destination, because of the wind and limited visibility due to dust. The flight was rerouted to Kapadokya Airport in Nevsehir where it made an emergency landing. Passengers were bused to Kayseri.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Martin Stephen What: Easyjet Airbus A319-100 en route from Thessaloniki Greece to London’s Gatwick Where: Thessaloniki Greece When: Monday, Mar 9th 2009 Who: 139 passengers and 6 crew Why: After take-off, the Airbus flew through a flock of birds, damaging its engine (s) and was forced to return to the airport, where the crew safely landed the plane.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Gary C. Orlando What: Perimeter Swearingen SA-226TC Metro, registration C-FSLZ en route from from Sainte Therese Point to Winnipeg Canada Where: James Richardson International Airport When: 3 March 2009 12:15 p.m. Who: 2 crew members, 8 passengers Why: The landing gear would not go down, so the crew had to take a belly landing. There were no injuries.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Michael Brazier What: Boeing 757-200, G-LSAA operating a Charter flight LS2113 en route from Manchester Airport to Taba, Egypt Where: Athens When: Monday afternoon Mar 2 at 3:40 p.m Who: about 192 passengers Why: The flight made “a controlled, rapid descent” when the pilot noted a problem with the cabin air pressure. About half a dozen passengers–including a child–were taken for medical evaluation. A Boeing 757-200, G-LSAH from Manchester was sent to pick up the marooned travelers.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Paulo Carvalho What: Piper PA-28-161 Warrior III registration EC-IYU en route from JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA Where: two miles northwest of the JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA runway 20 When: 8. FEB-2009 Who: pilot Why: A pilot’s training flight was interrupted at 1:30 when he had to make an emergency landing two miles from the airport. He was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net 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: bright-orange helicopter Where: between the Carnival City Casino and the Rondebult offramp, (beside the road) Boksburg When: 10.30am Who: two injured were both men aged between 30 and 40. Why: The crash is under investigation. Witnesses say the helicopter “fell like a rock.”
One was treated by ER24 and taken to Glynnwood Hospital in Benoni; the other suffered head injuries and was treated by paramedics; he was placed on advanced life support and ported to the Netcare Union Hospital in Alberton.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Snorre – VAP What: Orenburg Airlines Boeing 737-400, registration VP-BGQ en route from Volgograd (Russia) to Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) Where: emergency landing at Domodedovo Airport When: Thursday, Feb 26th 2009 Who: with 142 passengers, 7 crew Why: On takeoff, the plane hit a runway edge light with its inner left main gear tire which resulted in destruction of the inner tire and hydraulics. The flight spent two hours burning fuel and eventually landed at Volgograd.
What: Navy FA-18 fighter jet doing flight operations Where: MCAS Miramar When: Tuesday night 9 p.m Why: When the jet ran low on fuel, the pilot was directed to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which meant flying over Allied Gardens. The sight and sound of a jet flying low over the neighborhood brought back a panicked response, a reminder of an identical jet which killed people on the ground a few months ago in University City. Although the jet landed safely, the still-recovering neighborhood was catapulted back into a terror response–although the jet was completely in control the entire time.
Without wanting to sound too harsh, one hopes that San Diego recalls there is a military base and planes will be flying there when need be. There was no actual incident. Should they have ditched the jet in the bay rather than safely fly over? Then someone would have been complaining about the cost of a ditched FA-18. Be happy.
View from a Cessna 172S Skyhawk SPIn Flight in Australia’s Northern Territory, Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Stuart JR What: Cessna 182 on an inspection Where: Northern Territory outback. When: Wednesday night feb 25 Who: Pilot and passenger Why: The Cessna’s pilot made an emergency landing when the plane experienced emergency problems. Rescue crews found the stranded pilot and passenger and flew them by helicopter to Elliot; the passenger was taken to Elliot Health clinic with a facial cut. The pilot was uninjured.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Joop Stroes – Global Aviation Photography What: Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 (TC-JGE) Flight 1951 en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam. Where: Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport When: 10:40 a.m. Wednesday Feb 25 Who: 135 passengers on board; eight crew members. (numbers vary) Why: The plane crashed as it approached the runway to land. Witnesses say the approach was too low and the pilot tried to go higher to avoid crashing into the A-19 (hwy.) The wreckage is in three pieces lying in a field next to the runway; emergency crews are tending injured passengers on site. The cockpit was intact, adn the fuselage broke at the wings.There was an immediate report of one fatality which was later denied. There were at least 20 injured and at least 50 survivors. Another report estimated the majority of the passengers are injured. (Sorry the numbers don’t mesh, but this is the news as it came in–) There was no fire. Fights to and from Schiphol were suspended temporarily after the crash. Update:
The number of deceased has been increased to 9.
More than 80 suffered injury.
25 suffered “serious” injury.
6 are hospitalized in critical condition.
Numbers corrected (again): 127 passengers 7 crew.
According to various passenger accounts, prior to the crash, twelve minutes to the scheduled landing, the plane was flying low, and an announcement was made that the plane was landing. (No announcement was made that the plane was in an emergency.) Immediately on landing, those who were able left the plane, and when there was no fire, they went back in and pulled the others out, especially in the front of the plane, where there was screaming. Outside help arrived within 20-25 minutes.
Pictured: McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 in Jakarta Indonesia Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Raldi What: Lion Air McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 en route from Medan to Batam (Indonesia) Where: Batam (Indonesia) When: Feb 23rd 2009 Who: 156 passengers and 6 crew Why: The crew spent an hour and a half trying to get the nose gear to lower but eventually had to land on foam without it. The landing was safe, after circling the airport for so long, although several on board did go to the hospital
What: EC225 Super Puma chopper en route to a drilling rig, the Global Santa Fe Where: in the North Sea, 500 yards from the BP ETAP platform. When: Wednesday February 18, 2009 6.40 pm Who: 16 passengers and 2 pilots Why: 125 miles east of Aberdeen, the helicopter was forced to ditch in conditions of poor visibility. Flotation bags kept the helicopter afloat. Passengers waited on two rubber rafts. Individuals on the platform called the coast guard. Rescue vehicles included a Nimrod from RAF Kinloss, a Coastguard copter and a Sea King from RAF Lossiemouth. Emergency homing beacons fitted to the rafts and the men’s survival suits assisted the rescue as conditions made them nearly invisible.
Three were winched to a helicopter; 15 were rescued by lifeboat, taken to the platform and flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. A triumph of rescue. No fatalities.
What: Ukrainian Russian-made Antonov An-12 cargo plane [registration# S9-SVN] crashed during takeoff en route from Entebbe, Uganda to the Ukraine, on it’s way to Nikolaev, an avia-repair plant Where: Luxor, Egypt When: Friday Feb. 20, 2009 Who: – Five crew members died Why: On liftoff, the plane slammed to the tarmac, then slid down and off the runway and hundreds of feet from the runway burst into flames. The plane had a full tank.
The crew included one person from Russia, two from Belarus and two from the Ukraine. The plane’s black box data recorder were recovered.
What: two-engine Bombardier CRJ-200 en route to Southern California Where: emergency landing in Las Vegas When: Thursday Feb 19 Who: 44 team members and a crew of four Why: After the plane made a fuel stop in Salinas, Kan., the left engine lost oil pressure and the pilots shut it down at 38,000 feet. The General Manager of Michael Waltrip Racing said that “the plane operated flawlessly on one engine and we landed with absolutely zero incident.”
The Michael Waltrip Racing team members were en route from North Carolina to Southern California for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup. The team came the rest of the way by bus.
Click here for full size photo at Airliners.net Contact Photographer Andy Martin – AirTeamImages What: retrofitted AC-47 and registration FAC-1670 or FAC – 1659 Where: in an empty lot near the electrical sub station El Purino, in the west of Caldas, border with the municipality of Honda (Tolima) When: 18 FEB 2009 Who: 5 crew members, three mid-ranking and two lower ranking officials all fatalities Why: The military “phantom” plane was on a training flight when it crashed in the vicinity of the air base.
What: United Airlines Boeing 777-200 registration N219UA en route from Tokyo-Narita to Washington-Dulles Where: unscheduled landing in Winnipeg When: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Who: One passenger on a full commercial flight Why: Eight hours into the 11-hour trip, a 41 year old passenger became incoherent, began having difficulty breathing and collapsed. A flight attendant performed CPR and provided oxygen. A doctor (passenger) used the plane’s defibrillator to restart her heart. The plane then made an unscheduled stop in Winnipeg, where the woman was transported to an area hospital.
What: Celco Constitución helicopter Where: south-central Chile– in the Maule region about 185 miles south of Santiago When: Feb 15 Who: Aboard were 12 firefighters, aged around 18 to 30, and the pilot, Why: The firefighters had been on their way to put out a fire at a eucalyptus plantation when the helicopter crashed. There was a dense mist in the area and that there was light rain at the time of the crash.
What: Cessna T303 owned by Josip Crncevic en route from Zagreb to Zadar. Where: missing on Velebit Mountain When: Feb 7 3:45 pm Who: carrying pilot and 3 crew members: the pilot and 3 crew members from Zagreb flying club “Ban,” were: Gerd Govejsek, 63, Walter Aleksandar, 49, Miljenko Bartolic, 61, and Zvonko Kelek, 68. Why: There is very little factual information available, but thecrash is being investigated by Investigator Dinko Vodanovic. It is speculated that the altitude meter or the wings froze.
It took 4 days of searching before the wreckage was located on the north side of the mountain at 11am at an altitude of 1,200 metres on Vagan peak. The scene of the crash is subject to harsh weather conditions.
Click here for full size photo on Airliners.net Contact photographer TFSPhoto What: Robinson 22 single seat helicopter out of Leeds Bradford Airport Where: near Sandtoft Air Field in a field near the village of Sandtoft When: 12.45pm Feb 14 Who: Only the pilot was aboard Why: The pilot of the crashed helicopter was on his first solo flight. South Yorkshire and Humberside fire and rescue services were there; the pilot was pronounced dead.
What: Two Grob Tutors [see type above] twin-seater light plane with propellers Where: in mid-air in southwest Britain in the Kenfig Nature Reserve, Porthcawl, a seaside resort in south Wales When: Wednesday Feb 11 at 11am Who: Two members of the RAF and two Air Training Corps cadets were killed in the crash. Why: two light aircraft crashed in midair in Britain.
What: Air India’s Airbus 320 Flight IC 206 en route from Dibrugarh via Jorhat to Kolkata
and an Indian Air Force transport IAF Gajaraj IL 76 en route to Dibrugarh at 19,000 feet flflying at a speed of 600 km per hour. Where: over Jorhat in Upper Assam, around 300 km from Guwahati When: Tuesday Who: 43 passengers in the Airbus. The number aboard the Air Force plane was not disclosed. Why: Pilot Joydeb Banerjee saw the air force plane about 300 feet away –Banerjee and co- pilot Neeraj Singha of IC 206 alerted the ATCs at Jorhat and Dibrugarh. The Airbus dived 2,000 feet just in time to save the lives of his 43 passengers. His airbus had taken off from Dibrugarh at 11.55 am.
An Airports Authority of India ATC officer stationed in the Mohanbari airport in Upper Assam was suspended for “apparent lack of co- ordination with the authorities in Jorhat”.
What: Robinson-44 Where: Danube river at Csepel Island near Lagymanyos Bridge When: Tuesday, 10 February 2009 Who: executive of the general contractor of a sewage treatment project in S Budapest died in the crash. The pilot and and a photographer were rescued. Why: The rotor was erratic before the helicopter crashed into steel moulds used to pour in concrete of the structure being built.
