Crash

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    Turkish Chopper Crashes in Storm on Herekol mountain

    What: Turkish Sikorsky S-70
    Where: Herekol mountain, Turkey
    When: Nov 10, 2012
    Who: 17 aboard 17 fatalities
    Why: Three crew members and 14 police special forces were aboard the Turkish Sikorsky S-70 when it crashed in poor weather conditions.

    The weather was described as heavy fog and rain.

    The official statement by Siirt province governor Ahmet Aydin was that the “… helicopter hit a hill due to unfavourable weather conditions caused by a thick fog and heavy rains.”

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    Algerian Air Cargo Crash in France

    What: Algerian Air Force CASA C-295M Cargo Plane en route from Paris to Algiers
    Where: Saint-Germain-du-Teil, near Avignon, France
    When: Nov 9 2012, 3:45 pm.
    Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
    Why: The Algerian Cargo plane crashed in Southern France near the village of Trelans, killing two military personnel and four civilians.

    Firefighters recovered the remains of four civilians and two soldiers from the burning wreckage.

    14 vehicles from Lozere carried 25 firefighters; and from Aveyron six vehicles brought 25 firefighters. An Air Force helicopter also assisted.

    The research departmemt of the Paris Air Police and the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie de Rosny-sous-Bois were dispatched to determine the cause of the crash.

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    Two Die in Russian Flight School Engine Failure


    What: Sasovskoye Civil Aviation Flying School Yakovlev YAK-18T
    Where: Petelino, Russia
    When: Nov 7, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
    Why: On November 7, 2012 at 2:36 pm, on the Petelino landing pad the Yak-18 RA-44302 Sasovskoye (Sasovo) flight school MTU CR FATA plane was in an accident.

    The crew performed accounting and training flights. On board were the pilot/instructor and a third year student. According to preliminary information, the plane suffered an in-flight engine failure. When performing a forced landing the aircraft impacted with the ground. All aboard were killed. The accident is under investigation.

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    Piper Crashes in Chilean Yard injuring Pilots


    What: Servicios Aéreos Romeo Mike Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee
    Where: near Santiago/La Reina-Eulogio Sánchez Airport, Chile
    When: Nov 6, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: After taking off from Tobalaba Airport (aka Santiago/La Reina-Eulogio Sánchez Airport), the plane crashed 500 meters away, in a field adjacent to commercial property in ??Avenida Ossandón.

    Pilots Sergio Canilla Canales and Jorge Juacida Ramírez were injured and transported to the hospital.

    The plane struck a tree and a structure in a residential yard, according to firefighters. Four fire companies assisted in rescuing the pilots.

    The Directorate General of Civil Aviation is investigating.

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    Chartered Flight Crashes in Paraná Brazil


    What: Táxi Aéreo Hercules Piper PA-31T2 Cheyenne II XL
    Where: Almirante Tamandaré, Paraná Brazil
    When: Nov 6, 2012
    Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities
    Why: The Táxi Aéreo Hercules Piper left Dourados for the Bacacheri Airport, in Curitiba with the pilot, copilot and two passengers. Táxi Aéreo operates out of Bacacheri Airport. The flight was chartered for Brinks and was carrying money.

    One security personnel named Wilmar survived the crash and was taken to Hospital do Trabalhador where he later died.

    The plane crashed fifteen miles short of its destination.

    Seripa (Serviço Regional de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos) is investigating. Currently no cause for the accident has been released.

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    €10,000 Awarded for Child Trauma


    Two year old Emma Reddan witnessed a Sikorsky S76 piloted by Bill Curry crashing in the Neptune Hotel car lot. The chopper’s rotor blade struck a lamp post, resulting in the crash.

    Emma Reddan suffered from separation anxiety disorder.

    In Civil court, Judge Matthew Deery approved a €10,000 settlement for Emma Reddan from Curry and GP Helicopter Services Ltd, of Woodstown Dale, Knocklyon, Dublin, and Barrack Construction Limited, Thomastown, Caragh, Naas, Co Kildare.

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    Fed Ex Crash in Wichita

    What: Federal Express turboprop Cessna Caravan
    Where: West 47th Street South, Wichita Mid-Continent Airport
    When: Nov. 6, 2012
    Who: 1 fatality
    Why: Pilot Brian Quinn had taken off from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport but turned back, declaring Mayday, after developing engine trouble, with “oil on the windshield.”

    The pilot landed in a grass field, crossed it and struck a tree row two miles south of the airport.

    He died at the scene. Sedgwick County and Wichita emergency workers responded. The accident is under investigation.

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    S7 Emergency Landing

    What: S7 Airlines Airbus A319-114 en route from Domodedovo
    Where: Novokuznetsk-Spichenkovo Airport, Russia
    When: Nov 7 2012
    Who: between 98 and 112 aboard
    Why: Stanislav Khokhlov, a pilot for S7 Airlines made an emergency landing at Novokuznetsk-Spichenkovo Airport. He made a smooth landing with a missing landing gear wheel.

    The plane was examined in Domodedovo before take-off. The tire was not found on the runway at Novokuznetsk-Spichenkovo Airport.

    No emergency teams were on standby as the plane was making a routine landing.

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    Atlanta Officers Killed Chopper Search/Crash

    What: OH-6A helicopter
    Where: Atlanta
    When: Nov 4, 2012
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: Pilot Richard J. Halford, 48, and tactical flight officer Shawn A. Smiley, 40 were killed when the low-flying police helicopter they were in hit a power line, fell to a city street and exploded. The officers were searching for a nine year old boy who was later found. The chopper did not hurt anyone on the ground.

    Witnesses heard the helicopter and saw a flash of light when the chopper hit the pole. The chopper’s landing gear was caught in the support cables. The power company assisted authorities in getting it down.

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    The helicopter has been moved to a secure location as investigators work to piece together what happened.

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    Six Die in Matto Grosso

    What: Mato Grosso Transport Secretariat Twin Engine
    Where: Chapada dos Guimaraes,
    When: Nov 2, 2012
    Who: 4 fatalities
    Why: Two engineers supervising paving works in Confresa lost control of the plane on approach to the airport.

    What: Single engine Inpaer Excel
    Where: Taquarinhas beach, Camboriu
    When: Nov 3, 2012
    Who: Two adults, 1 child, 2 fatalities
    Why: The flight went down in the ocean near Taquarinhas beach. The pilot and another adult aboard were killed. An eleven year old boy who was aboard survived the crash and has been hospitalized. The flight had taken off from Porto Belo, Santa Catarina. The aircraft sank around 10 a.m.

    Fishermen rescued the eleven year old, tossing him a floatation device. He was hospitalized at City Hospital Ruth Cardoso.

    The remains of pilot Julius Mandelli and his adult passenger were retrieved by rescue crews on jet skis and ski boats.

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    Nashua Couple’s Plane Crashes Hooksett Highway

    What: Herman Hassinger Architects Beechcraft A36 Bonanza en route from Nashua to Laconia
    Where: Hooksett, New Hampshire
    When: Oct 25, 2012 1:30 pm
    Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
    Why: According to reports, the single-engine Beechcraft hit a light pole alongside I-93 northbound.

    The two aboard, Husband and wife Herman and Doris Hassinger, were on their way to a board of trustees meeting at a New Hampton boarding school, and died when the plane crashed on to the shoulder and guard rail after glancing off the pole.

    Herman Hassinger was ejected into the woods about 25 yards from the plane.

    The plane sustained heavy front-end damage. The debris included parts fallen from the light pole and about six feet of the plane’s wing.

    The Bureau of Aeronautics, FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating.

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    Two aboard Piper Crashed in Creve Coeur Lake, Maryland Heights

    What: Piper PA-28 Cherokee#N55620 en route from Delaware, Ohio to Creve Coeur airport.
    Where: Creve Coeur Lake, Maryland Heights
    When: Oct 24, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: While attempting a landing on the shore, the piper that crashed into Creve Coeur Lake had two occupants, pilot Russell Hazelton, 78 who died at DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton and passenger Suzanne Hazelton, 69 who was on life support. The plane flipped on to its back during the attempted landing.

    Lake Saint Louis Fire Protection District dive team, police and rescue services were on hand for the recovery.

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    Photo Flight Ends in Collision, 2 Fatalities


    What: Wings Over Holland General Avia F-22BV Pinguino
    Wings Over Holland Diamond DA40D Diamond Star TDI
    Where: Zeeasterweg, Dronten Netherlands
    When: October 22, 2012 4:35pm
    Who: 2 aboard, 2 injured
    Why: A Diamond DA40D Diamond Star TDI (PH-TDE) and a General Avia F-22BV Pinguino (D-EDMJ) crashed following a mid-air collision. The accident happened during an air-to-air photo flight
    Those aboard the Pinguino flight were airlifted by medical evacuation Lifeliner 1 and Lifeliner 4.

    The two aboard the Diamond Star did not survive.

    Rescue efforts were hampered by the wet ground which trapped afire truck that responded to the scene.

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    Byron California: Small Plane Crashes Killing 2

    What: DSB Inc Glasair III
    Where: Byron, California
    When: October 23, 2012
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: Five miles from the nearest airport, the small home-built Glasair III crashed in a field near Byron, California, killing two aboard. A witness saw the plane “corkscrewing toward the ground.”

    IDENTIFICATION
    Regis#: 655DB Make/Model: EXP Description: GLASAIR
    Date: 10/23/2012 Time: 2103
    Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal
    Damage: Substantial

    LOCATION City: BYRON State: CA Country: US

    DESCRIPTION
    AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN A FIELD, THE 2 PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, 4 MILES FROM BYRON, CA

    INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 2

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    CHC North Sea Crash Inquiry In Progress


    What: CHC (for Total) Helicopter Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma en route from Aberdeen to West Phoenix drilling rig
    Where: 32 miles south of Shetland, off Fair Isle
    When: October 22, 2012
    Who: 19 aboard, 0 fatalities
    Why: The helicopter that was ditched in the North Sea has been retrieved and taken to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

    The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is investigating the incident in which seventeen passengers and two crew were on the way to the drilling rig when the crew had to ditch the helicopter (controlled ditching) in the North sea.

    Report name:
    S5/2012 – EC225 LP Super Puma, G-REDW
    Registration:
    G-REDW
    Type:
    EC225 LP Super Puma
    Location:
    20 nm east of Aberdeen
    Date of occurrence:
    10 May 2012
    Category:
    Commercial Air Transport – Rotorcraft
    Summary:

    This Special Bulletin contains information about the helicopter’s main gearbox (MGB) lubrication system and the results of an investigation into the indication of a failure of the emergency lubrication system, after it was activated by the crew. It follows publication of two earlier Special Bulletins on this accident, AAIB Special Bulletins S2/2012 and S3/2012.

    This was the first occasion that the EC225 LP MGB emergency lubrication system had been operated in-service. One Safety Recommendation is made.

    The investigation into the failure of the bevel gear vertical shaft in the MGB continues.

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    French Pilot Crashes in Vienne

    What: Skyranger
    Where: Vienne France
    When: Oct 23, 2012 3:00 pm
    Who: 1 fatality
    Why: The pilot of a SkyRanger failed to return from a 2 hour flight, triggering a Sater Bravo land-air rescue.

    A search went on till 2:00 a.m. The next day his remains were discovered near an electrical cable in a wooded area, ten miles east of the airport. The plane was severely damaged.

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    Update: Identifications made in Fire Island Inlet Accident

    The two men who died in the accident were 51-year-old Cyril McLavin, of Fresh Meadows in Queens, and 72-year-old Andrew Messana, from Bayside, Queens.

    The accident is under investigation.


    What: Globe Swift en route from Spadaro Airport
    Where: Moriches inlet, Fire Island
    When: Oct 20, 2012 3 p.m.
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: A Globe Swift plane that took off from Spadaro Airport had two aboard.

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    Plane crashes in German Meadow

    What: Mooney M20E Super 21
    Where: Speichersdorf, Germany
    When: Oct 21, 2012
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: 48-year-old pilot from the Erlangen-Hochstadt and his 53 year old passenger died in a crash. THe plane crashed into a meadow shortly after takeoff.

    Emergency services arrived quickly but could not resuscitate the victims.The representative from the Federal Bureao of Aircraft accidents said that the cause of the crash was human error.

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    Plane Crashes into Inlet beside Fire Island


    What: Globe Swift en route from Spadaro Airport
    Where: Moriches inlet, Fire Island
    When: Oct 20, 2012 3 p.m.
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: A Globe Swift plane that took off from Spadaro Airport had two aboard.

    The plane was witnessed nosediving into Moriches inlet where it sank twenty to thirty feet deep, ending up upside down on a rock where divers took hours trying to retrieve the occupants.

    Fishermen were the first on the scene, and tried to haul the plane up with a rope.Medics were on standby waiting for the divers to retrieval of the passengers, but the occupants were underwater for hours and presumed deceased.

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    Krasavia Chopper Kills 1, 10 injured

    What: Krasavia Mi-8 helicopter
    Where: Krasnoyarsk Russia
    When: Oct 17, 2012 8:00 a.m.
    Who: 1 fatality, 10 injured
    Why: A Krasavia helicopter with four crew transporting eight passengers to an oil field crashed on landing at Evenkiysky at 8:00 a.m

    There was one fatality and three serious injuries, eight minor injuries. The destination was identified as the Yurupchen-5 oil field.

    The tail rotor of the chopper struck something or was damaged by the main rotor, and it fell on its side.

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    Russian Photos Not Released


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    Contact photographer Martin Lidzba

    What: Polish Air Force Tupolev TU-154M
    Where: Smolensk
    When: Apr 10th 2010
    Who: 88 passengers and 8 crew
    Why: The flight that killed 96 people including President Kaczynski has come to news attention as Poland protests Russia’s publication of grisly images of the crash showing mangled bodies, bodies in body bags, etc… Several websites were involved.

    Russia’s federal Investigative Committee is looking into the leaked photo incident.

    Russian investigators blame Poland for the crash; Polish invistigators blame Russian ground controllers for allowing the plane to land in heavy fog.

    This comes after prior problems of misidentified passengers who were buried by the wrong families. Other agencies are looking into the problems of misidentification.

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    Plane Crash in Ontario

    What: Lake LA-250 Renegade
    Where: South of Pickle Lake Airport CYPL, Ontario
    When: Oct 16, 2012
    Who: 4 aboard, 3 fatalities
    Why: A plane on a ferry flight to new owners landing at Pickle Lake Airport and crashed three kilometers past the end of the runway in a wooded area.

    At two a.m. a search for the plane was initiated, after a beacon went off. A 424 Squadron parachute team dispatched from a C130 Hercules Trenton, Ont.

    Three individuals died at the scene. A fourth has been hospitalized.in Winnipeg.

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    Gol: US Pilots Retrial Upholds Conviction, No Jailtime

    Joseph Lepore of Bay Shore, New York, and Jan Paladino were flying the Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet that collided with a Boeing 737 operated by Gol Lineas Aereas Intelligentes SA. Lepore and Paladino guided the plane they were flying to safely while the larger jet crashed into the jungle, killing all aboard. The pilots were convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 52 months in prison because according to prosecutors, the aircraft’s anti-collision system was turned off for almost one hour. The pilots deny wrongdoing, and say the TCAS system was never off and suggest the other plane’s TCAS may not have been working. The NTSB blames the collision on the Brazilian ATC. Air force sergeant Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos was sentenced two years ago to 14 months in jail for failing to take action when he realized that the Legacy’s anti-collision system was off.

    The case was retried in Brazil Monday and upheld; in fact, the jail time that had last year been commuted to community service was eliminated. In lieu of jail time or community service, now the pilots will only be required scheduled check-ins with Brazilian parole authorities.

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    Indian Army Helicopter Crashes in Goa

    What: Indian army Aerospatiale SA-315B Alouette III en route from Mumbai to Bangalore
    Where: Goa
    When: October 15, 2012
    Who: 3 aboard
    Why: During the approach to landing at the air base, one of the rotor blades broke off, initiating a fire.

    Three aboard the flight died at the scene. Two of those aboard were officers.

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    Pocono Helicopter Crash Investigation Underway


    What: ACS Helicopter LLC Bell 407 helicopter
    Where: Mount Pocono
    When: Oct 11, 2012
    Who: Two fatalities, one injury
    Why: The Tuesday wreck piloted by a full time American Airlines pilot (part time with ACS Helicopter LLC) was discovered at 2:30 a.m. wednesday. The helicopter encountered bad weather as it passed through northern Monroe County. Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport is not equipped for receiving distress calls.

    The helicopter was found on its right side, leaking fluids, with broken rotor and tail.

    Fatalities of the crash were Pilot William Ellsworth, 52, of Califon, N.J., and passenger Tighe Sullivan, 51, of Darien, Conn.