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    Cessna Crashed near Victoria Falls Airport

    CessnaA 4-seater Cessna plane, heading to Hwange National Parks, crashed near Lupinyu business center close to Victoria Falls Airport, Zimbabwe, in the afternoon of August 11.

    According to the officer commanding Victoria Falls police, Jairos Chiwona, “The crash happened a few minutes after take-off from the airport. The pilot communicated that he was turning back soon after the take-off because the plane was having engine problems.”

    Three people aboard the plane, including 2 Australian tourists and a German pilot, suffered critical injuries. They were transported to Chinotimba Medical Centre and Victoria Falls District Hospital.

    The names of the victims have not yet been released.

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    Ontario Plane Crash Kills 3 Americans

    CessnaA Cessna 182 crashed at Chappie Lake, south of Kenora, in northwestern Ontario, Canada, just after 4 p.m. on August 8.

    According to Ontario provincial police, 3 Americans have died in the crash; 2 of them were pronounced dead at the spot while the third succumbed to her injuries later on.

    The victims were identified as Nikolas Rajala, 41, Teresa Rajala, 40, and Lynn Bohanon, 36. According to police the victims belonged to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and were on a fishing trip when the crash happened. They were staying at a fishing lodge nearby.

    Police located the downed plane after receiving an emergency locator signal from Chappie Lake.

    Ontario Provincial Police and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

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    Ukrainian Warplane Shot Down Near the MH17 Crash Site

    Ukraine FlagA Ukrainian fighter jet crashed after it was shot down near the crash site of MH17, in Eastern Ukraine, on August 7.

    The incident happened when the Sukhoi warplane was flying low over the rebel-held area, near Donetsk, some 40 km west of the site where the Malaysian Airline flight MH17 crashed on July 17.

    The aircraft exploded midair before it crashed into the ground; however, the witnesses reported that the pilot managed to parachute out.

    Spokesperson of Ukrainian military Vladislav Seleznyov, confirmed that rebels had shot down a fighter jet and said that “the pilot managed to steer the craft away from a residential area.” He also said that a search and rescue operation is being carried out for the pilot.

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    Small Plane Crashes in Russia

    On August 7, the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (RME) started a lookout for a 4-seater amphibian plane L-42.

    According to the initial reports, the plane crashed in Kirov Region’s Podosinovets District. RME confirmed that they received a message about the possible air crash at about 22:30 local time on August 7. At that time, there were 2 planes in the air, one of which disappeared from the radar.

    The head of press service of the RME regional department, Aleksey Neustroyev said, “The plane was, tentatively, on a flight from Samara to Arkhangelsk.” He also said that the light multi-purpose twin-engine plane has not yet been found therefore, it is not possible to confirm anything at the moment.

    RME officials and equipment from Vologda and Kirov are participating in the search and rescue operation, however, the fog in the area is making the task difficult.

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    Pitts Biplane Flips during Emergency Landing in Oceanside

    Pitts biplaneA single-engine biplane went down and flipped over, while making an emergency landing, in a vacant field in Oceanside, California, at about 11:30 a.m. on August 5.

    According to the FAA, the engine of the Pitts Biplane failed midair after it took off from Carlsbad’s McClellan-Palomar Airport. The pilot was attempting to divert it to Oceanside airport when it went down in a nearby field.

    There were 2 people aboard at the time of incident; Lance Murray, the pilot and Daniel Harabagiu, his passenger. Both of them suffered only minor scratches.

    The FAA and the NTSB is investigating the incident.

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    Plane Crash in Brazil Kills 5

    A single-engine Embraer-720C plane crashed into a house in Balsas, Maranhao state, in northeastern Brazil, at about 6:19 a.m. on August 3.

    The plane was transporting an elderly sick lady and her relatives to a hospital when it crashed.

    All five people aboard the plane were killed. The victims included the pilot, Delano Martins Coelho, 36, his fiancée and nurse, Lorena Alves de Lima, 22, an 87 year old sick lady Maria de Jesus Cruz e Silva who was being shifted from a hospital in Balsas to another in Piaui, her daughter, Francisca Pereira e Silva and one of her grandsons, Alan Patrick Silva Setulvedo.

    The house hit by the plane was occupied by three people. However, none of them was hurt.

    The cause of the crash is not yet known.

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    Cessna 180 Crashed in Front Yard of a New York Home

    CessnaA Cessna 180, which took off from Heber Airpark, hit the trees and crashed into the front yard of a house at 303 Brownville Road in Gansevoort, Northumberland, New York, at about 5:40 pm, on August 2.

    The plane had two people aboard when it went upside down in the yard; both of them died at the spot. The police identified them as the pilot, Ciprian M. Ivascu, 33, of Newburgh, and the passenger, Jon C. Stomski, 61, of Milton.

    Nancy Rouse, the owner of the house and a witness to deadly crash, said, “I seen the plane hit the top of the trees and then nose-dive into the ground…It was right in my front yard, and I knew they had to be hurt, so I just run and called 911.”

    The plane was owned by Saratoga Skydiving Adventures.

    The FAA and the NTSB are investigating the accident.

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    Pilot Killed as Crop-Dusting Plane Crashed in Siskiyou, California

    Crop dusting planeA crop dusting plane crashed in a privately owned field near Hill Road and East West Road in north-eastern Siskiyou County, west of Tulelake in California, after 9 a.m. on August 1.

    Officer Tim Wood of the California Highway Patrol confirmed that the pilot of the plane, William Whitlatch of Klamath Falls, 58, died in the crash. He also said that, “At this point it appears that he struck some power lines which caused the collision.”

    The plane, having pesticides on board, caught fire after the crash. “It sounds as if some of the first responders attempted to put out the flames…But unfortunately, the pilot died as the result of the collision,” Said Officer Wood.

    According to police the plane was registered to Tulelake based Macy’s Flying Service.

    First responders removed the body of Whitlatch from the wreckage, but hesitated to remove the plane due to damaged power lines and freshly-sprayed pesticides in the field. According to Officer Wood, “We just don’t want to enter the scene quite yet…Until we’re sure that it’s not going to cause harm to any of the other responders.”

    The Federal Aviation Administration will assist the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office with the investigation.

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    Small Plane Crashed in Helena, Alabama, 4 Injured

    Piper crashA small plane crashed in a yard at the 4500 block of the South Shades Crest road, in Helena, Alabama, at around 2 p.m. on August 1.

    All 4 people aboard the plane survived with minor injuries. They have been identified as the pilot, Dan Smith, and the passengers Andy Smith, Sharon Smith and a 17-year-old female whose name has not been disclosed. All of them hail from Tennessee. They were taken to local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

    Jefferson and Shelby County sheriff’s deputies and Helena police and firefighters arrived on the scene immediately after the crash. Helena police Detective Sgt. Chris Rollan said the pilot and passengers were saved by the neighbors who pulled them from the plane before it caught fire.

    Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the plane was a Piper PA-32 aircraft that left Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport in Panama City, Florida, for Dickson Municipal Airport in Tennessee. The single-engine plane was built in 1978 and registered to Cougar Aviation LLC in Dickson, Tennessee.

    The FAA and NTSB were called to determine the cause of crash.

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    2 Killed After Plane Crashes into Warehouse in Germany

    Two people were killed after a small plane crashed into a tires warehouse in Bremen, northern Germany, in the early afternoon of August 1.

    According to police spokesman Dirk Siemering, the aircraft came down shortly after taking off from Bremen airport.

    The rescue workers found two bodies at the tires warehouse, however, their identities have not so far been released.

    The cause of the crash is not yet clear.

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    Parking Lot Crash-Landing in Kearny Mesa

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    At 5:30 p.m., a single engine Mooney M20L registered to William and Devon Logan of San Diego lost power over San Diego, struck a light pole and crashed in the Kearny Mesa Costco parking lot. One woman died at the scene; the other was evacuated to Sharp Memorial Hospital. Two witnesses who were assisting the injured, were treated for burns. The pilot managed to find the only spot that would not cause a lot of damage to people and property.

    The registration says the plane flies with a Porsche engine.

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    Small Homebuilt Plane Crashed West of Lolo Pass, Pilot Killed

    LancairA homebuilt single engine Lancair Legacy small plane crashed near Blacklead Mountain, about eight miles west of Lolo Pass, in the mountainous area of Clearwater National Forest, Idaho, on July 28.

    The incident happened when the pilot Milton Meyer, 72, was flying from his home in Richland, Washington, to attend the Experimental Aircraft Association Convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

    A helicopter from Two Bear Air in Flathead County located the wreckage of the plane and the pilot’s dead body, at around 11:30 a.m.

    Clearwater County Idaho Sheriff authorities said the pilot radioed being in trouble to Helena Regional Airport around mid-morning. He reported having mechanical problems in the plane and oil on his windshield. The pilot said he might not be able to land in Helena, as planned.

    The FAA and the NTSB are looking into the cause of accident.

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    Helicopter Crashed in Logan County; Pilot Seriously Injured

    helicopterAn MD 500 helicopter crashed west of Township Road 188 in Liberty Township of Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, at about 4:45 p.m. on July 29.

    Leo Boucher, 50, pilot of the crashed helicopter suffered life threatening injuries and is being treated at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. Boucher works for South Carolina-based Rotor Blade.

    The Ohio Highway Patrol post at Marysville rules out use of any alcohol or drugs by the pilot.

    The helicopter was equipped with an aerial saw and was deployed for tree-trimming and brush-clearing for a bike path. Apparently the pilot lost control of the helicopter and crashed into the tree line.

    The crash remains under investigation by the FAA.

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    Father, Daughter Killed as Small Plane Crash Lands Near Caspersen Beach

    PiperA 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.

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    Single-Engine Plane Hits a Truck on Pyramid Highway

    MustangA P-51 Mustang single engine plane which took off from Reno-Stead Airport and was en route to South Dakota crashed on Pyramid Highway just north of Spanish Springs in Nevada at around 8 a.m. on July 26.

    The accident happened after an experimental Roscher built Thunder Mustang ‘Miss Picabo’ experienced mechanical failure and its engine stopped suddenly. The pilot and the co-pilot then decided to make emergency landing at Pyramid Highway and eventually crashed into a truck travelling northbound with at least 2 people aboard.

    The aircraft caught fire after the crash. However, the pilot and the co-pilot managed to get out of it in just minutes. No major injuries were reported except for some scratches from broken glass.

    Recalling the accident, the Pilot Fred Roscher of Cupertino said, “The plane was flying, and then, all of a sudden the engine just died….. We touched down and immediately hit him [the truck]… A couple minutes later, the plane caught fire and was completely consumed.”

    Two lane Pyramid Lake Road remained closed for six hours.

    The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the mechanical failure of the aircraft.

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    7 Killed in Indian Air Force Helicopter Crash

    helicopterA helicopter belonging to the Indian Air force crashed in Sitapur district of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh state of India.

    The helicopter, which was en route from Bareilly to Allahabad, crashed nose down and bursted into flames. The accident happened on July 25 at about 5 p.m. after the Dhruv helicopter lost radio and radar contact. According to the authorities, the pilot reported a technical fault in the helicopter before losing contact.

    There were 2 pilots and 5 passengers aboard at the time of accident; all of them were killed. A statement released by the air force maintained that there was no report of any damage on the ground.

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    AirAlgerie Flight 5017 Wreckage found near Gossi in Mali. Update

    The crash is confirmed of the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 flight, which embarked from Ouagadougou Airport in Burkina Faso for Algiers-Houari Boumediene Airport in Algeria. None of the six Spanish crew nor the 112 passengers survived. The current estimation is that the pilots encountered a sand storm, and redirected due to weather. The plane was found in an area in Mali.

    The MD-83 was owned by the Spanish company Swiftair, and leased to Air Algérie. A wet lease, which is what Air Algérie had, means that the operating crew was included in the lease.

    The initial list of passengers included 51 French, 27 Burkinabe, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, five Canadians, four Germans, two from Luxembourg, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian, but this list has been updated several times.

    Swiftair has released the following:

    Footage of the crash site of Air Algerie flight 5017 first broadcast in Burkina

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    Indiana Teen Attempting to Fly Around the World Dies in Plane Crash

    The small plane of a Pakistani-origin Indiana teenager went down shortly after leaving Pago Pago in American Samoa for Honolulu, over the Pacific Ocean on July 22.

    Haris Suleman, 17 and his father Babar Suleman, were aboard the plane when it crashed. The Sulemans left Indiana on June 19 in a bid to make a world trip in 30 days to set the record for the fastest circumnavigation around the world in a single-engine airplane with the youngest pilot in command. The trip was also to raise money for the Citizens Foundation, a nonprofit that builds schools in Pakistan. They were scheduled to stops in England, Egypt and Pakistan and return home on July 30.

    Annie Hayat, a family spokesperson, said the body of Haris Suleman had been recovered, but crews were still looking for his father. Haris’ sister Hiba Suleman said that the plane took off at about 9:50 p.m. and the air traffic controller saw the plane going down at 10:15. “With a trip like this, there’s always a risk, and they did prepare for that risk,” she said.

    Babar Suleman was an experienced pilot while Haris recently received his license in June this year.

    Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor in Los Angeles said the single-engine Hawker Beechcraft plane crashed into the ocean under unknown circumstances. The tail number provided by the FAA shows the plane is registered to the address of Babar Suleman in Plainfield, Indiana, west of Indianapolis.

    The NTSB is investigating the cause of crash.

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    AH5017 Air Algerie First reported missing. 116 Aboard in McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Crash in Niger

    On July 24, 2014, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 leased from SwiftAir and flown for Air Algérie disappeared fifty minutes into the flight between Ouagadougou Airport and its destination in Algiers, Algeria. Pilots requested a route change request due to weather.

    The hundred and ten passengers and six Spanish crew members were aboard. Algiers is a transit point for Lebanese flying home to Beirut. Twenty Lebonese were aboard, including Fadi Rustom and Joseph Hajj from Aintoura, and Omar Ballan from Ghazir. About fifty French may be aboard also.

    The most recent report is that the plane crashed in Niger, according to Elnahar TV.

    Mali is unstable, but an airline spokesperson said unofficially “the fighters have shoulder-fired weapons which could not hit an aircraft at cruising altitude.”

    METAR Weather report:
    01:00 UTC / 01:00 local time:
    DFFD 240100Z 23008KT 9999 FEW020 BKN100 26/23 Q1015 NOSIG
    02:00 UTC / 02:00 local time:
    DFFD 240200Z 22006KT 9999 TS FEW020 FEW033CB BKN100 25/23 Q1014 TEMPO 4000 TSRA

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    Bad Weather Crash in Taiwan, after Typhoon Matmo

    mapOn July 23, 2014, a fourteen year old TransAsia Airways ATR 72-212A with a crew of four and fifty-four passengers, was making a go-around prior to landing near Magong Airport in Taiwan, and instead of landing, TransAsia Airways flight GE222 impacted buildings and the ground. GE-222 flies from Kaohsiung to Magong.
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    ATC lost contact with the crew at 90 metres (300ft) above the ground. The flight was coming from Kaohsiung International Airport, Taiwan and initially suffered delays from Typhoon Matmo. Bad weather on landing led to the disastrous go-around at 7:06 p.m. The pilot had been advised to delay landing and crashed about a thousand feet shy of the runway in heavy gusting wind (47 mph) in Xixi village in the Penghu Islands, also reported as Huhsi township. There had just been ten inches of rain.

    The accident occurred after the first go-around. The pilots were on their second attempt. Two residences were damaged in the crash, and four residents injured.

    Two hundred troops, eight ambulances and two fire trucks responded to the scene.

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    Eleven people were rescued, all suffering injuries and serious burns. One died at the hospital, and the others are in critical and serious condition. Lee Yi-liang, 60, was the pilot. His co-pilot was Chiang Kuan-hsing, 39. It has not been reported if they are among the survivors. The death toll has fluctuated since the accident was reported. It appears that of all the 58 aboard, only 11 were hospitalized, and one or more of those at the hospital have died. None survived of the 47 still in the plane though they are being reported as missing, feared dead. The injured were hospitalized at military Tri-Service General Hospital in Magong. Makung Airport was closed after the accident, forcing a number of planes to reroute or cancel.

    The Metars at the time of the crash:

    RCQC 231130Z 23019G29KT 800 + TSRA SCT002 BKN006 FEW012CB OVC016 24/23 Q0998 RMK A2948 NOSIG R20/0800N TS OVHD STNRY =
    RCQC 231110Z 25018G28KT 800 + TSRA SCT002 BKN006 FEW012CB OVC016 22/22 Q0998 RMK A2948 R20/0800 TS OVHD STNRY =
    RCQC 231100Z 22011G21KT 1600 TSRA SCT002 BKN006 FEW012CB OVC016 23/22 A2945 RMK NOSIG Q0997 RERA TS OVHD STNRY =
    RCQC 231040Z 19013G24KT 1600 TSRA SCT002 BKN006 FEW012CB OVC016 22/22 Q0996 RMK A2942 RERA TS OVHD STNRY =

    Initial reports about the crash had it confused with a four month old ATR that made a successful landing.

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    Small Plane Crash Took Lives of Two Utah Brothers

    CessnaA single- engine Cessna 172 crashed in Mohave County of northern Arizona, near the Utah-Arizona border at about 7:30 p.m. on July 20.

    Two brothers, Daulton Whatcott, 19 and Jaxon Whatcott, 16, were killed in the crash. Both of them were students of Syracuse High School; Jaxon was about to begin in junior year this fall while Daulton recently graduated in 2013. Whatcott family spokeswoman Taunie Reynolds confirmed the unfortunate deaths and said that Daulton had recently received pilot license and he was flying his brother to Las Vegas for a basketball tournament.

    The Mohave County sheriff’s office said that the accident happened just south of Virgin River Gorge, near Interstate 15 and about 25 miles southwest of St. George in Utah. The plane was en route to Mesquite, Nevada from Beaver, Utah at the time.

    According to the FAA records, the plane was registered to D&G Aircraft Leasing in Bountiful, Utah.

    The FAA and the NTSB are investigating the cause of accident.

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    Small Plane Crashed in Ellis County, Pilot Killed

    Air TractorAn Air Tractor AT-401B spray plane crashed in a field at 2300 block of 170th Avenue and just south of St. John-St. Andrew Road, northwest of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas.

    The accident happened at about 11 p.m. on July 17, after the yellow colored plane took off from Beloit airport at 10:45 p.m.

    The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed that Garrett Moore, 23, who was piloting the plane and was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. The plane was also completely damaged and hardly recognizable.

    The plane’s wreckage was spotted the next morning by an Ellis County farmer who was visiting the nearby pasture to check on his cows. The engine of the plane had cooled down by the time it was reported.

    The plane was owned by Frontier Ag in Oakley. Moore worked as an aviation pilot and a location trainee for the company.

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    Potentially unsafe situation in Crimea area lives up to potential. Statement from Maylaysia Airline, Partial Manifest, Cargo

    ICAO’s take is that the air traffic control region where the passenger plane came down was believed to be under the control of the Ukraine, and they will be pointing blame at the Ukraine for its internal strife.

    The Ukraine is saying…but the ICAO said it was safe.

    Other countries were already avoiding the hot zone. We should ask the ICAO why they were professing it was safe when it was so obviously not.
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    Let’s all remember that greasing the wings of airline commerce does not mean greasing up the safety glasses too.

    Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Safety measures failed because of corporate optimism, cutting corners and who knows what other reasons. Prepare for the mudslinging and blame throwing to begin. Someone pulled the trigger, and someone let it happen. Someone will be held accountable.

    Now…Here is Malaysia’s Friday statement.
    Cargo manifests, hedging on the passenger manifest, and a news clip (including 25 minutes with CBS and President Obama) and a partial translation of that raw smoke video we have seen 37 times and wondered about.

    Friday, July 18, 08:20 PM GMT +0800 Media Statement 4 : MH17 Incident
    Media Statement 4: MH17 Incident

    1. Flight plan

    MH17’s flight plan was approved by Eurocontrol, who are solely responsible for determining civil aircraft flight paths over European airspace. Eurocontrol is the air navigation service provider for Europe and is governed under ICAO rules.

    The route over Ukrainian airspace where the incident occurred is commonly used for Europe to Asia flights. A flight from a different carrier was on the same route at the time of the MH17 incident, as were a number of other flights from other carriers in the days and weeks before. Eurocontrol maintains records of all flights across European airspace, including those across Ukraine.

    In April, the International Civil Aviation Organization identified an area over the Crimean peninsula as risky. At no point did MH17 fly into, or request to fly into, this area. At all times, MH17 was in airspace approved by the ICAO.

    2. Altitude

    MH17 filed a flight plan requesting to fly at 35,000ft throughout Ukrainian airspace. This is close to the ‘optimum’ altitude.

    However, an aircraft’s altitude in flight is determined by air traffic control on the ground. Upon entering Ukrainian airspace, MH17 was instructed by Ukrainian air traffic control to fly at 33,000ft.

    3. Nationalities

    Following this afternoon’s press conference, Malaysia Airlines can confirm that a further 16 passengers’ nationalities have been verified. The latest breakdown of nationalities of those on board the flight is as follows:

    · 189 Netherlands

    · 44 Malaysia

    · 27 Australia

    · 12 Indonensia

    · 9 UK

    · 4 Belgium

    · 4 Germany

    · 3 Philippines

    · 1 Canada

    · 1 New Zealand

    Four passengers’ nationalities remain to be verified.

    4. New flight route

    Following this incident, Malaysia Airlines now avoids Ukrainian airspace entirely, flying further south over Turkey.

    -end-




    And below, take a look at an update of the raw news video with translation; families in distress; speculation about the terrorist/separatists.
    Note ICAO was reportedly denying war zone warning and Ukraine was denying war, but the NOTAM warnings were ALREADY up by US, Britain and European aviation authorities.

    Missed the flight. Second Chance.

    CBS News Special Report: American on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 – 25 Minutes

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    Helicopter Crashed in South Korea, 5 Killed, 1 Injured

    Helicopter crashA South Korean firefighting chopper crashed in the downtown area of Gwangju, about 330 km south of Seoul, at about 10: 50 a.m. on July 17.

    All five people aboard the helicopter, including two pilots, one engineer and two rescue workers were killed while one female student, who was waiting at a bus stop near the site of crash, sustained minor injuries. She was taken to a close-by hospital for treatment.

    The helicopter belonged to the fire headquarters in the east Gangwon Province. The accident happened when it was coming back from a search operation for the missing people of the Sewol ferry which sank off the southwest coast on April 16. Around 300 people, mostly high school students were killed in the disaster while 11 are still missing.

    The helicopter caught fire after falling in the sidewalks of a road. Witnesses said it spinned around at a low altitude as the pilot was apparently looking for a less crowded place.

    The exact cause of the crash is being investigated.

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    MH17 Another Malaysia Airlines tragedy of infinite magnitude. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Shot Down in Ukraine

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    Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior confirmed that a Malaysia Airlines plane en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in the Ukraine near the Hrabovo village at Torez, near Shakhtersk, 25 miles from the Russia border in a location where Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels have been in conflict.

    None of the 285 passengers or 15 crew is reported to have survived. It is being reported that the plane was shot down by a BUK surface-to-air missile but Ukrainian rebels deny involvement. The plane was at 33000 feet when it disappeared from radar.

    The wreckage was seen on the ground at 17.10. The plane involved was Boeing 777-200, registration 9M-MRD.

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    The flight plan has been released:

    (FPL-MAS17-IS
    -B772/H-SDFGHIJ3J5M1RWXY/LB1D1
    -EHAM1000
    -N0490F310 ARNEM UL620 SUVOX UZ713 OSN UL980 MOBSA DCT POVEL DCT SUI L980 UTOLU/N0490F330 L980 LDZ M70 BEMBI L980 PEKIT/N0480F350 L980 TAMAK/N0480F350 A87 TIROM/N0490F350 A87 MAMED B449 RANAH L750 ZB G201 BI DCT MURLI DCT TIGER/N0490F370 L333 KKJ L759 PUT R325 VIH A464 DAKUS DCT
    -WMKK1137 WMSA WMKP
    -EET/EDGG0017 EDWW0023 EDUU0036 EPWW0052 UKLV0135 UKBV0153 UKDV0225 URRV0255 UATT0347 UTAK0411 UTAA0432 UTAV0507 OAKX0518 OPLR0601 OPKR0616 VIDF0631 VABF0725 VECF0747 VYYF0926 VOMF0930 VTBB1013 WMFC1051 REG/9MMRD PBN/A1B1C1D1L1O1S2 SEL/QREJ DOF/140717 RMK/ACASII EQUIPPED)

    A NOTAM is a notification issued to pilots before a flight, advising them of circumstances relating to the state of flying.

    Did Malaysia not have NOTAM, like the FAA NOTAM below?

    B0447/14 (Issued for EISN PART 1 OF 2) – POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS SITUATION UKRAINE AIRSPACE, PARTICULARLY
    OVER
    CRIMEA, THE BLACK SEA, AND THE SEA OF AZOV.

    DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR CONFLICTING AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (ATC)
    INSTRUCTIONS FROM UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES AND FOR THE
    RELATED POTENTIAL MISIDENTIFICATION OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT, IRISH
    AIRCRAFT OPERATORS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO AVOID, UNTIL FURTHER
    NOTICE, THE AIRSPACE OVER CRIMEA, THE BLACK SEA, AND THE SEA OF
    AZOV, WITHIN THE FOLLOWING LATERAL LIMITS:
    454500N 0345800E-460900N 0360000E-460000N 0370000E-452700N 0364100E-
    452242N 0364100E-451824N 0363524E-451442N 0363542E-451218N 0363200E-
    450418N 0363418E-445600N 0363700E-443100N 0364000E-424400N 0361600E-
    424700N 0340000E-424800N 0304500E-434100N 0303200E-441500N 0302400E-
    444600N 0300900E-455400N 0322500E-454900N 0324700E-455400N 0330600E-
    455600N 0332700E-455900N 0332900E-THEN ALONG THE CRIMEA BORDER TO
    454500N 0345800E.

    UNILATERAL ACTION TO ESTABLISH A NEW SIMFEROPOL (URFV) FIR THAT
    INCLUDES BOTH UKRAINIAN SOVEREIGN AIRSPACE OVER THE CRIMEAN
    PENINSULA AND INTERNATIONAL HIGH SEAS AIRSPACE MANAGED BY UKRAINE
    CONTRADICTS INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ICAO ANNEX 11 STANDARDS.
    END PART 1 OF 2. 01 JUL 08:45 2014 UNTIL 01 AUG 00:01 2014. CREATED: 01 JUL
    08:56 2014
    B0447/14 (Issued for EISN PART 2 OF 2) – UKRAINE NOTAM A0528/14, PUBLISHED 28 MAR 20:14 2014, REJECTS NOTAM
    A0907/14 PUBLISHED BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. UKRAINE CONTINUES TO
    PROVIDE AIR TRAFFIC SERVICES (ATS) IN THE AIRSPACE DESCRIBED IN THE
    PARAGRAPH ABOVE AND RUSSIA IS ALSO PROVIDING ATS IN THAT AIRSPACE.
    FURTHERMORE, UKRAINE NOTAM A0520/14, PUBLISHED 28 MAR 16:59 2014,
    CREATES A PROHIBITED AREA OVER THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA FOR OPERATIONS
    BELOW FL290, AND UKRAINE NOTAMS A0524/14 AND A0569/14 CLOSE VARIOUS
    ATS ROUTE SEGMENTS. RUSSIAN FEDERATION NOTAM A0912/14 REJECTS AND
    DIRECTLY CONFLICTS WITH UKRAINE NOTAMS A0520/14 AND A0524/14.
    CONSEQUENTLY, THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR CIVIL AIRCRAFT TO RECEIVE
    CONFUSING AND CONFLICTING ATC INSTRUCTIONS WHILE OPERATING IN THE
    DISPUTED AIRSPACE.

    OPERATIONS ARE NORMAL IN ALL OTHER UKRAINE FIRS.
    HOWEVER, IRISH OPERATORS FLYING INTO, OUT OF, OR WITHIN LVOV (UKLV),
    KYIV (UKBV), DNEPTROPETROVSK (UKDV), AND ODESSA (UKOV) FIRS, AS WELL
    AS AIRSPACE IN SIMFEROPOL (UKFV) FIR THAT IS OUTSIDE THE LATERAL
    LIMITS OF THE AIRSPACE OVER CRIMEA, THE BLACK SEA, THE SEA OF AZOV
    DESCRIBED IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS NOTAM, SHOULD REVIEW
    CURRENT SECURITY/THREAT INFORMATION AND NOTAMS.

    THE CONTENT OF THIS NOTAM SAFETY WILL BE RE-EVALUATED BY 30 JUN 2014.
    END PART 2 OF 2. 01 JUL 08:45 2014 UNTIL 01 AUG 00:01 2014. CREATED: 01 JUL
    08:56 2014

    Malaysia Airlines Media Statement:


    Media Statement : MH17 Incident

    Released at 12:30am/18 July 2014

    Malaysia Airlines confirms it received notification from Ukrainian ATC that it had lost contact with flight MH17 at 1415 (GMT) at 30km from Tamak waypoint, approximately 50km from the Russia-Ukraine border.

    Flight MH17 operated on a Boeing 777 departed Amsterdam at 12.15pm (Amsterdam local time) and was estimated to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6.10 am (Malaysia local time) the next day.

    The flight was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew onboard.

    More details to follow.

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