What: Canadian built Twin Otter owned by Yeti Airlines Where: crashlanded at the mountainous Lukla airport in north-eastern Nepal in the Mount Everest region When: Wednesday morning Who: 18 people died in the crash, mostly foreign tourists from Germany and Australia: 12 Germans, including six women, four Nepalese and two Australian. The captain is the only survivor; he was airlifted to Kathmandu. There Swiss casualties reported turned out to be Australian. Why: Lukla airport, located 2,743 metres above sea-level has steeply-inclined runway and is considered one of the world’s most dangerous airports.
What: Cessna 150 owned by Jet Air Inc Where: Crashed on to Edingale Drive, Iowa City near Iowa City Municipal Airport When: Oct. 6, 2008 Who: James N. Meade, 64, of Iowa City Why: The FAA’s preliminary report points to engine failure as a possible cause. After the crash where the plane ended up nose down in the street, Meade was taken to University Hospital.
This is the second crash within the month on Iowa City streets, in fact less than a mile from the June 3 crash on Sunset Street and Willow Creek Court that killed a 2-year-old girl, injured the pilot and one passenger and one passenger Sydney Blanton–died.
What: Britten-Norman Islander en route from Mozambique (Nelspruit’s Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA) at 14:00) to Bloemfontein Where: The wreckage was found in the Barberton mountain area near Nelspruit When: Lost Sunday, found Monday 06/10/2008 16:47 – (SA) Who: Eight passengers, 1 pilot Why: After disappearing, a search-and-rescue team made up of police, military personnel and the Civil Aviation Authority with two military Oryx helicopters, one police chopper and a private chopper tracked down the crash site. The wreckage was found only when aerial photography perceived the wreckage on a mountainside,
Who: home-built, Challenger 2 experimental airplane registered out of Wasilla Where: crashed into the trees just outside the village of Eklutna near some railroad tracks and a new gravel pit near Eklutna Alaska When: Friday Who: pilot Why: The plane was equipped with BRS ( a ballistic recovery system) which had not launched during the crash. The pilot was deceased when found.
What: Plane landing at McClellan-Palomar Airport Where: plane crashed into a hillside about two miles southeast of the Carlsbad airport When: 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning Sept. 28 Who: Pilot Giuseppe Puzzo. a 42-year-old resident of Lake Havasu, Ariz died of multiple blunt force injuries Why: Puzzo missed his first attempted landing in foggy conditions and was performing a fly around for a second approach when the plane went down.
What: single-engine acrobatic Bellanca Super Decathlon plane Where: Minaret Range California When: Found Wednesday (a year after the plane was lost Sept. 3, 2007) Who: Steve Fossett
Three days after a hiker, Preston Morrow, found Fossett’s pilot’s license, a glider license and a membership card for the National Aeronautic Association, the wreckage of his plane was found.
A piece of bone 2 by 1 1/2 inches was found–the only possible human remains found to be DNA tested. Apparently the plane flew horizontally into the mountain, then the wood, aluminum and cloth plane shattered and burned.
Once the DNA is confirmed, at least the family will be able to have closure.
Governor Martin O’Malley ordered all state flags to fly at half mast to honor the four victims killed in a medevac helicopter crash over the weekend.
Vewing for Trooper First Class Mickey Lippy will be Thursday, October 2nd from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Gamber & Community Fire Company Station 13 on Niner Road in Gamber, MD.
Viewing for Pilot Stephen Bunker from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at South Potomac Church on Crain Highway in White Plains, MD.
Lippy’s funeral will take place on Friday, October 3rd at 11:00 a.m at Gamber & Community Fire Company. Burial will be at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens on Padonia Road in Timonium.
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Bunker’s funeral will take place Saturday, October 4th, at 11:00 a.m. at South Potomac Church in White Plains, MD. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery on Pennsylvania Avenue in Suitland, MD.
Arrangements for Frostburg State University freshman Ashley Younger and Waldorf Rescue Squad EMT Tanya Mallard have not been announced.
Survivor eighteen year old Jordan Wells critical at Boston Hospital where she was operated through the night Sunday, which alleviated fears that they might have to amputate one or both of her legs. When Ashley Younger (the other victim) never showed up, Younger’s mother probed the hospital staff, learned the helicopter had been rerouted to Andrews Air Force Base. The three women rushed there only to find that no helicopter had landed, so they returned to the hospital where they found Wells rushed through on a gurney. In spite of asking ‘Where’s my daughter? Where’s Ashley?’ ” no one told her that her daughter had died on the scene. The medical helicopter was carrying victims of a Saturday night traffic accident when it went down around midnight.
What: American Eurocopter Dauphin II Where: Helicopter left its hanger at Andrews Air Force Base. suburban Washington park in a wooded area of Walker Mill Regional Park off of Ritchie Road. When: Sunday Who: Killed in the crash besides Bunker were Trooper First Class Mickey Lippy, EMT-B Tonya Mallard of the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department and Ashley Younger, a 17-year-old who was the second victim from the Waldorf car accident. Why: The helicopter was transporting car crash victims to the hospital. One eighteen year old crash victim survived both the car crash and the helicopter crash, and was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
On the twenty-five mile trip from the traffic accident to the hospital the flight was diverted due to bad weather. On approach to the runway, the pilot radioed that he was having trouble assessing his surroundings. Under deteriorating weather conditions, the pilot had requested an instrument approach and reported problems “capturing the glide slope”. The glide slope is the part of the instrument landing system that helps keep the aircraft at the proper altitude during the approach. It appears the helicopter first hit a tree at about 80 feet above the ground. The chopper landed on its left side with a tree crashing down on top of the helicopter.
Accident victim Jordan Wells, 18, survived the crash and is at a hospital in critical condition
The law enforcement agency’s helicopter fleet was grounded until Tuesday.
What: United Nations-contracted helicopter carrying food to peacekeeping mission Where: Darfur region of Sudan near the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons When: Tuesday Who: (3 Russian one Sudanese)four crew members killed Why: chopper fired upon over Darfur
What: Cessna Skyhawk SP Where: Fullerton Airport When: 6:30 Tuesday night Who: 59-year-old pilot was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange with a broken arm, two broken legs, facial lacerations and other injuries. No one else was on board. Why: Under Investigation
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Survivor eighteen year old Jordan Wells critical at Boston Hospital where she was operated through the night Sunday, which alleviated fears that they might have to amputate one or both of her legs. When Ashley Younger (the other victim) never showed up, Younger’s mother probed the hospital staff, learned the helicopter had been rerouted to Andrews Air Force Base. The three women rushed there only to find that no helicopter had landed, so they returned to the hospital where they found Wells rushed through on a gurney. In spite of asking ‘Where’s my daughter? Where’s Ashley?’ ” no one told her that her daughter had died on the scene. The medical helicopter was carrying victims of a Saturday night traffic accident when it went down around midnight.
What: American Eurocopter Dauphin II Where: Helicopter left its hanger at Andrews Air Force Base. suburban Washington park in a wooded area of Walker Mill Regional Park off of Ritchie Road. When: Sunday Who: Killed in the crash besides Bunker were Trooper First Class Mickey Lippy, EMT-B Tonya Mallard of the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department and Ashley Younger, a 17-year-old who was the second victim from the Waldorf car accident. Why: The helicopter was transporting car crash victims to the hospital. One eighteen year old crash victim survived both the car crash and the helicopter crash, and was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
On the twenty-five mile trip from the traffic accident to the hospital the flight was diverted due to bad weather. On approach to the runway, the pilot radioed that he was having trouble assessing his surroundings. Under deteriorating weather conditions, the pilot had requested an instrument approach and reported problems “capturing the glide slope”. The glide slope is the part of the instrument landing system that helps keep the aircraft at the proper altitude during the approach. It appears the helicopter first hit a tree at about 80 feet above the ground. The chopper landed on its left side with a tree crashing down on top of the helicopter.
Accident victim Jordan Wells, 18, survived the crash and is at a hospital in critical condition
The law enforcement agency’s helicopter fleet has been grounded until further notice.
Because of the September 14 crash of the Russian Aeroflot-Nord while preparing to land in the city of Perm in the Ural Mountains area, the Russian Federal Air Transportation Agency has suspended the use of a subtype of Boeing 737-500s until their pilots receive additional training.
The training involves a key indicator showing the plane’s attitude, ( artificial horizon) The attitude indicator is designed differently on Soviet and Western planes. Investigators have not yet determined what caused the crash, but the pilot had little experience in piloting Boeings, so the speculation is that the cause was pilot error.
Notification of the ban has been sent to six air companies, including Aeroflot-Nord, Aeroflot-Don and Volga-Dnepr
Russian carrier Aeroflot-Nord has also temporarily suspended operations with a Boeing 737-300 because its instrument panel includes indicators similar to those on the 737-500. Tthe cockpit of the VP-BKT features “special” director-indicator pointers on complex flight-control and navigational instruments.
The Urals city lab is conducting DNA identification the 88 victims of the September 14 Boeing 737 crash in Perm. The workload has caused such a backlog that it is delaying work on the comparison of DNA samples from Nicholas II’s blood-stained shirt and bone fragments.
What: A twin-engine Cessna 320 owned by Hazelwood taking off from private Airman Acres airport Where: rural agricultural area near Owasso north of Tulsa in a field near East 116th Street North and Sheridan Road, about a mile from the rural airstrip where it took off When: noon Sunday Who: Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain-Larry Jackson, 49 and Harvey Hazelwood, was dock inspector for American Airlines in Tulsa. Both were killed in the crash Why: The cause of the crash has not been determined. The first evidence points to engine failure.
What: 1964 Cessna 150D airplane en route from Gene Snyder Airport in Pendleton County, Ky. Where: Gene Snyder Airport in Pendleton County, Ky.in a wooded area near the end of the runway. When: 1:20 Sunday afternoon Who: Pilot Mark Martin and his sixteen year old son Why: The engine stalled on takeoff. The crash is under investigation. This is the second time this week that a small plane taking off from this particular airport stalled and crashed.
What: Agusta Westland A109S helicopter, Brazilian registration PR-IPO departure from the Parati/CondomÃnio Laranjeiras heliport, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Where: Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil When: April 30, 2008 22:59 UTC Who: 2 fatalities. Why: The Brazil CENIPA has requested assistance from the US manufacturers of electronic components in the helicopter to download non-volatile memory information.
What: a United States registered Cessna 421B, N7560Q, Where: 28 miles northwest of Ojinaga, Mexico When: September 15, 2008 1318 central daylight time Who: pilot and the three passengers were fatally injured Why: collided with mountainous terrain
NTSB Identification: DFW08RA232
Nonscheduled 14 CFR Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
Accident occurred Monday, September 15, 2008 in Ojinaga, Mexico
Aircraft: Cessna 421B, registration: N7560Q
Injuries: 4 Fatal.
On September 15, 2008, approximately 1318 central daylight time, a United States registered Cessna 421B, N7560Q, was substantially damaged after it collided with mountainous terrain approximately 28 miles northwest of Ojinaga, Mexico, near the border town of Presidio, Texas. The air transport rated pilot and the three passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was registered to EAC Parts LLC, Springfield, Ohio, and operated by Volare Air Charter, El Paso, Texas. The pilot contacted the Fort Worth Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS), Fort Worth, Texas, at 1016, approximately 15 minutes after he departed El Paso International Airport, El Paso, Texas, and filed a visual flight rules flight plan to Presidio, Texas. The pilot informed an AFSS specialist that he intended to enter Mexican airspace for the purpose of flying over the Luis Leon Dam, but had no intentions of landing in Mexico. The pilot did not request a weather briefing for the flight conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135; however, he was informed by the specialist that visual flight rules were not recommended due to mountain obscuration.
What: six passenger, twin-engine Cape Air Cessna 402 Flight 105 en route to Boston’s Logan International Airport took off from Runway 33 on its way to pick up passengers at Logan. Where: Crashed on land about 2 miles from Nip-N-Tuck Farm Martha’s Vineyard West Tisbury When: 8:05 p.m Who: Pilot David D. Willey (fatality) Why: During takeoff, there was heavy rain and high wind. The crash is under investigation
Cape Air runs a fleet of more than 50 Cessna 402s and carried more than 650,000 passengers last year
What: Cessna 172, was owned by Randy Hall Where: York airport When: The wreckage was found at 4 p.m. Friday but the time of the flight is not known Who: 54-year-old David Biba of Geneva and 68-year-old Leon Snoberger of San Diego, Calif were killed in the crash Why: No one saw the plane go down and the cause of the crash is unknown
What: experimental plane Where: Tampa Bay North Executive Airport off State Road 54 near I-75 in Pasco County When: Sept 24 Thursday afternoon Who: The pilot was the only person aboard, had head injuries, but was conscious and alert when he was taken to the hospital. Why: The plane flipped onto its side. The FAA is investigating-no details available as yet
What: P-51 Mustang en route from Schenectady County Airport. Where: GLENVILLE, N.Y in a wooded area north of the Empire State Aerosciences Museum and east of Route 50. When: Tuesday Sept 23 Who: The pilot Charles Hudson, 42. was the only one on board. He is in critical condition. He was not the owner of the plane. Why: Prior to takeoff, the pilot had been working on the engine. The plane lost power during takeoff, veered off to the side and crashing into the trees.
What: 2006 Robinson R44 registered to Midwestern Air Services of Kenosha Where: one mile south of the Kenosha Airport, at 6934 97th Ave. When: 5:30 a.m. Sunday Who: Alan Sapko and Joan Anzalone were killed in the crash. Sapko, 54, reportedly played cards until about 4:30 a.m. before lifting off and flying into fog. Why: Some fog was in the area at the time, but it was not known if that played a role. The FAA is investigationg why the helicopter crashed through the roof of a house in southeast Wisconsin Sunday, killing the two people on board. The five people in the house–the Wilson family including their three children–were all unharmed.
The two hundred gallons of fuel spilled but did not set the house on fire.
Witnesses heard the helicopter sputtering before the crash. The airport’s tower does not open until 7 a.m.
What: Itek Air Boeing 737 en route from Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek. The aircraft was operated by Iran Aseman Airlines as Flight 6895. Where: 2 km (1.3 mls) from Bishkek-Manas International Airport When: Departed 20:30 local time ; accident happened accident happened at 20:42 24 AUG 2008 Who: killing 68 out of the 90 passengers and crew. All six Kyrgyz crew members and an Iranian aviation official were among the survivors. 51 of the passengers were foreigners, including people from China, Turkey, Iran and Canada. 17 members of a school sport team from Bishkek on board, seven of whom survived. Why: The crew had reported a technical problem, and the plane crashed not far from the airport and caught fire. Itek Air is on a list of airlines banned from EU airspace because of fears over safety standards. Word of mouth is that the plane had been made in 1979 and was “in good condition and had an extended warranty”.
Note: The Itek Air website says that there were 84 passengers and six crew members on board the accident aircraft. Itek Air says that 68 of the passengers were killed, and that 16 passengers and all six crew members survived the crash, although not without injuries. The aircraft departed Manas International Airport at Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, bound for Tehran, Iran. Itek Air says that the aircraft departed Bishkek at 20:30 local time, and that the accident happened at 20:42. News reports have said that the aircraft was attempting to return to Bishkek, but crashed before reaching the airfield, and a fire ensued.
Status: Preliminary – official Report
Date: 24 AUG 2008
Time: 20:44
Type: Boeing 737-219
Operator: Itek Air
Registration: EX-009
C/n / msn: 22088/676
First flight: 1980-06-16
Crew: Fatalities: / Occupants: 7
Passengers: Fatalities: / Occupants: 83
Total: Fatalities: 65 / Occupants: 90
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: 2 km (1.3 mls) from Bishkek-Manas International Airport (FRU) (Kyrgyzstan)
Phase: Unknown (UNK)
Nature: International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Bishkek-Manas International Airport (FRU/UAFM), Kyrgyzstan
Destination airport: Tehran-Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA/OIIE), Iran
Flightnumber: 6895
Narrative:
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 from Bishkek (FRU), Kyrgyzstan to Tehran (IKA), Iran was carried out by Itek Air. The Kyrgyz airline operated one of their Boeing 737-200 aircraft on that flight.
In the afternoon of August 24, from 16:30 to 20:00 local time, a thunderstorm with associated rain passed over Bishkek. Over that period the wind shifted from 220 degrees to 100 degrees at 20:30. Wind was blowing at about 6 kts, with wind variable at 23 knots. The temperature had dropped from 31 to 27 degrees C.
The weather then improved and at the time of departure visibility was more than 10 km with 6/8 clouds at an altitude of 5000 m (ca 16400 ft).
The Boeing 737 was cleared to taxy to runway 08 for departure. Take off was commenced at 20:30. The flight was cleared for a DW-1 departure, which entailed a left turn after takeoff to a heading of 240 degrees towards the RENAT beacon. From there it was to continue to the Chaldovar NDB, which should be crossed at or above FL158.
At 20:36:40, the airplane was climbing through an altititude of 3000m (almost 10.000 feet). At that moment the cabin altitude alert horn probably sounded, because the crew reported problems with the cabin pressure.
The crew decided to return to Bishkek and requested a visual approach to runway 08. This was approved and the airplane made a right hand turn, for a straight-in approach to runway 08. At 20:41:40 the crew reported the runway in sight. About 20:42:30 the flight was 12 km from the runway, flying at 400 m above airfield elevation at an airspeed of 460 km/h (250 kts). At a distance of 5 km from landing, the airplane had decelerated to 340 km/h (185 kts), but it was not properly configured for landing. The flight crew then obtained permission to carry out a left-hand orbit in order to configure the plane for landing. A left hand turn was flown with a 30-degree bank.
In the process of ther turn the aircraft descended further with the airspeed decreasing to 290 km/h (155 kts).
The airplane struck terrain some 7.5 km from the runway. At the time of impact the landing gear was down and flaps were selected down at 15 degrees. (src=http://aviation-safety.net/db)
Senator John Cornyn–on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Border Security and Refugees subcommittee and the Armed Services Committee’s Airland subcommittee, former Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge– released a Statement regarding the International Boundary and Water Commission Plane Crash
“Since the disappearance of this aircraft earlier in the week, all of us have been hoping and praying for a miracle. So it is with a profound sense of sadness to learn that the wreckage has been found, and that the lives of these four men have been lost. Commissioner Marin and Jake Brisbin Jr. were devoted public servants and proud Americans whose loss will be felt throughout the border region. Their hard work and commitment, along with that of Commissioner Herrera’s, reflected the spirit of goodwill and partnership that is shared by the United States and Mexico as we work together on our common goals. Their family and loved ones are in my prayers tonight as the entire border region remembers their lives and legacies, and mourns this tragic accident.â€
What: Chartered Cessna 421 Where: Border Patrol located the wreckage in a remote rugged section of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico, about 20 miles northwest of Presidio. When: The plane was reported missing after it did not land on time Monday in Presidio. It was found shortly after noon Wednesday Who: Found deceased: leaders of the U.S. and Mexican sections of the IBWC, Carlos Marin of El Paso and Arturo Herrera, of Ciudad Juarez, Mexicom, Jake Brisbin Jr., executive director of the Rio Grande Council of Government and pilot Matthew Peter Juneau Why: The group had traveled to inspect flooding conditions in Presidio and Ojinaga, an aerial view of the Luis Leon Reservoir. Cause of the crash is not known but the pilot had signalled a problem after taking off Monday from El Paso, Mexico.
AP had inadvertently listed the passengers as deceased when the plane disappeared and optimistically attempted to retract the story, hoping the passengers would be found alive. Sadly, there were no survivors
Update
Based on findings derived from the MD-82’s flight and cockpit voice recorder, the wing flaps of the Spanair airliner (that crashed killing 154 people) were not set for take off, and pilots were unaware of it because the warning alarm did not go off.
The faulty valve that prevented the first attempt at takeoff was disconnected rather than repaired. Planes are allowed to fly for up to 10 days with the system involved disconnected.
Newlywed Brazilian Ronaldo Gomes Silva, 25, and his Spanish wife Yanina Celisdibowsky had been living in the UK for three years. a month ago in Sao Paolo, Brazil, they got married; They had just gotten on a plane to visit the Canary Islands, where Yanina was going to meet her in laws for the first time.
They got on the wrong plane. They were two of the victims of Spanair Flight JK5022.
Juliao Alves da Silva, the groom’s father said: “I have lost my son and a daughter-in-law. I am destroyed.”
I don’t even know these people and I am nearly inconsolable.
What: Spanair Flight JK5022, a 15-year-old MD-82 jet bound bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
Where: Madrid airport Terminal Four
When: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 2:45pm
Who: Carrying 166 passengers and nine crew, at the time of this writing, the number of fatalities had mounted to 154 people.
Why: The jet swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff. Spanish Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil (CIAIAC) is investigating
What: Learjet N999LJ owned by Global Exec Aviation en route to Van Nuys, Calif Where: When: departed shortly before midnight Friday Who: carrying six people Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles — died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured Why: air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane was traveling at least 92 mph, its minimum takeoff speed, when the crew thought the tire burst The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence, crossing a five-lane highway and ending up on an embankment in flames.The plane was heading to Van Nuys, Calif.
In serious condition is Travis Barker, who was the drummer for the band Blink-182. Barker was one of the two people wounded when the Learjet 60 crashed on a highway and caught fire.
Listed in critical condition is Adam Michael Goldstein otherwise known as celebrity disc jockey DJ AM. He reportedly saved his own life by jumping from the burning plane while it was skidding down a runway.
Joseph M. Still Burn Center said they both suffered second- and third-degree burns
What: Kenny-owned helicopter took off from Bellburn airstrip Where: Purnululu National Park The airstrip abuts a bush camp in the World Heritage-listed Purnululu, about 55 kilometres by air from the township of Warmun. When: on Sunday Who: three young women and their Queensland pilot killed when a helicopter crashed. Pilot Christian Cartigue, and passengers Jessica May Cousins, 19, and Sarah Louise Thomas and Whitney Pinney, both 20. Why: Rugged terrain in the remote Kimberley location is hampering recovery
Photo from http://www.smh.com.au/
Jessica Cousins inset, Sarah Thomas … both died in the crash.
