Crash

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    Beechcraft Crash


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    Contact photographer Allen M. Schultheiss

    What: Poelking Air LLC Beechcraft B36TC Bonanza taking off from Wright Brothers Airport to Chicago
    Where: Ohio: 741 along Penny Royal Road, Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport.,
    When: April 1 2010
    Who: 2 fatalities, 2 occupants
    Why: After takeoff, the Beechcraft Bonanza experienced problems. On the pilot’s attempted landing, the plane’s right wing struck the runway. The plane cartwheeled and exploded 1,000 feet south of the runway, killing both aboard.

    The pilot was Tom Hausfeld; the passenger was his daughter Kacie Hausfeld.

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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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    Aussie Heli Crash

    What: chopper
    Where: Queensland rural area at Tally Ho, about 60km south of Emerald
    When: 11 am March 10, 2010
    Who: 2 unidentified pilots
    Why: Information on this so far is very sparse–: The helicopter they were piloting crashed, and they walked away. One of them with minor injuries was taken to Springsure Hospital.

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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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    Brazil Cessna Crash

    What: Cessna 310R en route from Leopoldina to Pampulha
    Where: Serra do Curral, Minas Gerais Brazil
    When: Feb 26 2010
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: After takeoff, the plane crashed in conditions of fog and low visibility. The mountainous crash site was 5 meters below the top of Serra do Curral mountain range. The plane apparently blew up on impacting a “wall” of mountain.

    A local fire department helicopter spotted the wreckage.

    The victims were identified as Tanus Sales and Rafael Tanus Pascoal Sales. Rafael was the pilot.

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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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    Pilot Fires House, Crashes Plane, IRS Suicide Protest

    What: Joseph Andrew Stack’s (owner) Piper PA-28-236 Dakota en route from Georgetown Municipal Airport
    Where: Northwest Austin, Echelon building
    When: Feb 18, 2010
    Who: Joseph Andrew Stack
    Why: The pilot apparently set his house on fire prior to crashing his plane into the Echelon Building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Northwest Austin. Stack left a suicide note.

    IRS employees in their offices described the crash “as if a bomb went off” “black and gray smoke billowing” and “windows blown out.”


    See PDF of the 6 page suicide letter here


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    Piper Crashes in Amarillo

    What: Piper PA-30 en route from Tradewind Airport to Alamogordo, N.M
    Where: Amarillo
    When: Thurs Fri 17 2010 7:15 a.m
    Who: Pilot William Runyan Ellett, 59, and passenger Andrew Arnold Hanson 57
    Why: A mile from Tradewind airport, the plane as it banked over the buildings, turned sideways and shot straight down and crashed into Arctic Glacier Premium Ice warehouse. James Ziolkowski and William Runyan Ellett shared ownership of the plane. No explanation is given for the crash.

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    Cessna Crashes Palo Alto neighborhood.

    What: Air Unique Inc Cessna 310R registration en route from Palo Alto to Hawthorne Municipal Airport in Southern California
    Where: Palo Alto
    When: Feb 17 2010
    Who: 3 dead (passengers) employees of Tesla Motors
    Why: After takeoff, over a residential neighborhood, the Cessna either struck a 100-foot electrical tower or clipped its power transmission line, causing the plane to burst into flames, fragment and crash.

    A wing fell on a residential day care, and debris scattered on houses and cars in the neighborhood, and the crash caused a power outage in Palo Alto.

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    Small Plane Crashes in NJ

    Updated:
    4 bodies identified, 1 missing in the NJ crash. Monmouth Airport is 5 miles east of Trenton. In Wall township. Relatives of the pilot were on the scene (mentioned on the video) and the current input is that the plane was neither going to or from Monmouth.


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    Contact photographer Mariusz Siecinski

    What: Jack Air LLC’s Cessna T337G Turbo Super Skymaster en route to Monmouth Executive Airport
    Where: Monmouth Executive Airport
    When: 4 p.m. Monday Feb 15 2010
    Who: 2 dead, 3 missing
    Why: Witnesses saw the plane coming in for a landing when the tail broke off, the plane veered and crashed nose down beside the runway in a field.

    Witnesses say the pilot pulled up and a piece of the plane fell off before it spun out of control and crashed.

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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.

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    Boulder Collision Video

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    When 2 planes collided near Boulder Municipal Airport, glider pilot Reuben Bakker flew through the fireball. He and his two passenger were all right; three people were killed. Altitude my have been a factor, as well as the highly technical nature of the Cirrus, which is heavily video-electronic with a blind spot under the plane

    It appears that a Piper Pawnee hit the a Cirrus SR-20 from below.

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    Update: Ethiopian Crash Cockpit Voice Recorder Found/not found


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    Contact photographer Alastair T. Gardiner

    In an announcement hauntingly similar to the initial release of 7 survivors (who were later confirmed as 22 dead), the cockpit voice recorder was reportedly found…but later reported to be missing the memory unit.

    Ethiopia Airlines release is below and denies recovery of the CVR.
    ET Flight 409 Accident Update 9 – 10 February, 2010

    Ethiopian Airlines would like to express its position on the latest speculative reports released on the cause of the accident on ET-409, 25 January.

    As a member of the investigation team, Ethiopian Airlines strictly adheres to the ICAO annex 13 regulation, in which it is mandated to refrain from any inconclusive comments on the process of investigation.

    The investigation is still in its early stage and the CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) and the aircraft wreckage are not yet retrieved for analysis, it is therefore, too early to conclude the cause of the accident. Ethiopian Airlines does not rule out all possible causes including the possibility of sabotage until the final outcome of the investigation is known.

    Ethiopian Airlines would continue to cooperate with the investigation team to complete the process in accordance with the ICAO regulation and reveal the truth.

    We share the pain and sorrow of the families of our crew and dear passengers who have lost their lives in the accident.

    What: Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 en route from Beirut to Addis Ababa
    Where: 2 miles west of the coastal village of Na’ameh.
    When: Jan 25 2010
    Who: 7 crew 83 passengers
    Why: Shortly after taking off in stormy weather and heavy lightning, Lebanese ATC lost contact. The plane disappeared from radar 45 minutes after leaving Beirut. Witnesses on the coast saw the plane as it crashed into the sea. So far 9 bodies have been found by members of the Lebanese army

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    Helicopter Crashes While Filming Robbery


    What: Record TV News helicopter
    Where: Sao Paulo’s jockey club
    When: February 10
    Who: Pilot and cameraman
    Why: News network’s Astar helicopter developed rear engine failure and careened to the grass of Sao Paulo’s jockey club. The pilot managed to avoid rush hour traffic on Marginal Pinheiros, and no one on the ground was injured. The cameraman Alexandre Borracha was conscious when on the way to the hospital, surviving with serious injury. The pilot Rafael Delgado Sobrinho was found slumped over the controls died on the scene. The accident was filmed by another news crew.

    Pilot of the helicopter filming the crash incident was Globo pilot Dato de Oliveira, who followed and landed, and rushed to assist; he turned off the fuel pump and battery to avoid an explosion.

    Both crews were in the area filming a bank robbery.

    Longer video from the crashed vehicle and Portuguese newscast

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    Two Crash in Redlands


    Pictured: A Bacau Yak-52 taken in the UK. This is not the plane in the incident. Photos of private planes are the hardest to find.
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    Contact photographer Malcolm Clarke

    What: Joseph M. Gauthier’s Yakovlev circa 1985 YAK-52 en route from/to from Redlands Airport performing aerobatics
    Where: Santa Ana River bed at Opal Avenue, 10 miles from Redlands, CA
    When: Monday, Feb 08 2010 between 12:50 and 1 p.m.
    Who: 2 fatalities (a man and a woman) both off-duty California Air National Guard ( March Air Reserve Base) members
    Why: Witnesses say that while they were watching the plane doing aerobatics, the plane went down. The area is a place where planes often perform aerobatics, and the soviet-built Yakovlev was designed as a trainer and acrobatic aircraft.

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    4 Fatalities in Fayetteville Crash

    What: Beechcraft Bonanza 36 en route to Fayetteville
    Where: rural backyard outside Winslow
    When: Feb 6 2010
    Who: 46-year-old pilot Edward Cooper; 16-year-old Mary Cooper; 14-year-old Elizabeth Cooper; and 57-year-old Martin Draper, all of Hot Springs.
    Why: The destination of the flight was the Razorbacks’ basketball game.

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    Fatal African Crash Kills Two


    Pictured: A Cessna T206H Turbo Stationair TC obviously not in Africa. This shot was taken of a T206H in Helsinki
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    Contact photographer Juhani Sipilä

    What: Cessna T206H Turbo Stationair en route from Krugersdorp to Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria
    Where: Magaliesberg mountains, Boekenhoutskloof South Africa
    When: Feb 3 2010
    Who: Pilot and passenger
    Why: The flight crashed in a valley in the Magaliesberg mountains (North West Province, South Africa), and on impact burst into flames. A police helicopter found the wreckage around 10.15 am, although the location was not accessible by helicopter. A rescue unit hiked in though a heavy mist. No survivors.

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    Angry Riots in Argentine Court over Aviation Decision


    Photo: A LAPA – Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas
    Boeing 737-2T4C/Adv photographed in July 2000, not the ill-fated LV-WRZ
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    Contact photographer James Richard Covington

    Relatives of victims disrupted the Argentine court when a two-year long trial ruled 6 LAPA (Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas) officials were not negligent. The operations manager and the 737 airlines chief both received three-year suspended sentences. Neither is currently employed in those positions.

    35 survived the 1999 crash; 65 were killed. On August 31, 1999, the LAPA Boeing 737 crashed at Buenos Aires, Argentina while taking off on a regularly scheduled passenger flight to Cordoba, Argentina. Witness reports indicate the pilot had aborted the takeoff. The airplane departed the airport property, crossed a highway, and came to rest on a golf course. There were 101 persons on board. The flight failed to take-off, broke through a perimeter fence and burst into flames on a golf course.

    The investigation attributed the crash to pilot error and found LAPA and air force deficiencies also contributed. The Argentine Air Force controlled civil and commercial aviation until 2009.