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    Pilot Makes and Survives Emergency Landing in Texas after Running Out of Fuel


    On Feb 14, 2013 at 10:30 a.m., a Beechcraft A60 Duke was en route from Fort Smith to Abilene when it ran out of fuel. The pilot, Frank LeRoy Bell, 75 attempted to divert to Elmdale Airpark but had to make an emergency landing. He tried to land in a blowed field but landed instead in a rough pasture where the plane sustained damage. No passengers were aboard and Bell was able to walk away.

    Emergency services responded as an in-flight emergency at Elmdale Airpark.

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    Student Pilot Crash in Settebagni Italy


    On Feb 1 2013 in Settebagni Italy, an Aerotech Cessna FRA150 en route from Roma-Urbe Airport attempted an emergency landing near a runway at the flight school, made a forced landing and flipped. The National Agency for Flight Safety L’Agenzia nazionale per la sicurezza del volo (ANSV) is investigating the forced landing.

    The two aboard the plane, the instructor and a student pilot were injured near Ring Road and the exit in Fiano Romano.

    The plane sustained extensive damage.

    The instructor and student were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries at 118 al Sant’Andrea for a lumbar trauma and trauma to the shoulder.

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    Jasper Trainee Flips in High Wind, Survives Forced Landing


    DEC 18, 2012, 10:30 a.m. A Jacksonville FLight Training Zenair CH-2000 Alarus flown by a student pilot was en route from Jacksonville to Suwannee County when it made a hard landing in a Hamilton Country field.

    25-year-old Mao Borui was not seriously injured when the plane landed in Jasper Florida, although it flipped and broke the nose of the plane.

    When the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene, they called it a crash landing.

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    Two Rescued by Coast Guard After Beechcraft Ditched in Gulf Of Mexico

    What: Beechcraft 55 Baron en route from Baytown TX to Sarasota FL
    Where: 28 miles east of South Pass in the Gulf of Mexico
    When: Sept. 20, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: After the International Emergency Response Coordination Center notified 8th Coast Guard District command center of a beacon alert, the search began.

    Two men whose flight ditched were rescued after the Border Patrol spotted them adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin helicopter was launched.

    The pilot hit the water at an estimated 100 knots after the plane caught fire and the cockpit filled with smoke. The two men aboard survived the crash and three hours in the water.

    Coast Guard helicopter pilot Lt. Becki Fosha said that “They had a limited time to bring the aircraft to the water and then they had about two minutes to get all of their survival gear together and get ready for a survival situation before the aircraft submerged…They had a GPS sport beacon. They had their current EPERB 406 beacon. They had floatation and survival equipment for just this kind of scenario…the men did a great job ditching the plane.”

    Theodore Wright and Raymond Fosdick were pulled out of the Gulf and flown to Belle Chasse Naval Base. Fosdick was hospitalized at Ochsner Medical Center.

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    Emergency Landing in Hollywood


    What: KTLA EUROCOPTER AS350 helicopter
    Where: Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue.
    When: August 28, 2012 1:00 pm
    Who: pilot and passenger
    Why: When the helicopter started giving off blue and white smoke, the first to see it was the pilot of another helicopter.

    KTLA pilot Tim Lynn declared an emergency, then made a forced landing in a parking lot of the senior center at Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue.

    The incident was witnessed by SKY2 pilot Dan Catalano (who taught Lynn to fly heicopters.)

    The smoke came from an oil leak. Some newspapers report two aboard the helicopter but the FAA entry only reports the presence of the pilot.

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    Hollandscheveld Crash Injures 3


    What: Piaggio P-149D
    Where: Hollandscheveld, Netherlands
    When: August 4, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard, 1 on the ground, 3 injuries
    Why: The plane took off at 11.30 from the nearby airport in Hoogeveen. After engine problems developed, the pilot reported via radio that he had an engine failure. He made a forced landing and struck an outbuilding and came to rest in a residential garden.

    Both occupants of the plane and one person in the shed were injured.

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    Banner Flight Ends in San Diego Bay

    What: Cessna 150
    Where: San Diego bay
    When: May 26, 2012, 4:20 p.m
    Who: 2 aboard, no fatalities
    Why: A Cessna towing a banner lost engine power. Pilots informed ATC, cut free the banner they were towing and ended up in San Diego Bay, Missing the Hilton Hotel. The plane sank; the pilot and passenger aboard were recovered uninjured, by passing boaters.

    A salvage company is going to recover the plane from the bay.

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    Mooney M20C Lands at Island Road and Sheridan Street

    What: 1965 Mooney M20C en route from Baldwin County Georgia to North Perry Airport, Pembroke Pines
    Where: Sheridan Street in Cooper City Florida
    When: May 19, 2012
    Who: Pilot and passenger
    Why: The pilot who experienced engine trouble managed to force-land on Sheridan street, only clipping his wings on the tree-lined street. No injuries were reported but traffic was shut down on the street for a while.

    The FAA is investigating.

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    Nigerian Goats Invade Runway


    photo: Pictured a Hawker Sidley HS 125
    Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
    Contact photographer Giovanni Verbeeck

    What: King’s Aviation Hawker Sidley HS 125 registration 5N-BNR
    Where: Bauchi Airport, Nigeria
    When: 08 MARCH 2011
    Who: Nuhu Ribadu, presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria
    Why: On landing at the airport, the plane struck goats on the runway.

    The plane owned by Wings Aviation incurred some damage. No one aboard the flight was injured, but the director of media and publicity of the Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation is calling the invasion of goats on the runway a sign of sabotage.



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    3 Survive Fiery Catalina Crash

    What: Sabovich and Sons Cessna 310 registration N310XX
    Where: Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California
    When: Oct 2 2010 3:40
    Who: 3 aboard: 54-year old pilot, the 50-year old male passenger and the 48-year old female passenger
    Why: The pilot flew in from Santa Ana to pick up two passengers. On takeoff, the left engine failed. The pilot had to make a forced landing a half-mile southeast of the airport, which set off a field fire.

    The injured were airlifted to hospitals by helicopter.

    Passengers sustained significant but non-life-threatening burns.

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    India: Helicopter makes Emergency Landing

    What: United Heli Charters BELL 212 en route from Chennai to Pondicherry
    Where: Sulerikattukuppam, at Soolerikadu near Mahabalipuram on East Coast Road
    When: 9.30am. 22 December 2009
    Who: 2 pilots and an engineer
    Why: After developing a fuel transmission system problem ( pilot noticed a leak in the transmission) while over the sea, the helicopter descended to a lower altitude. However, the low altitude made communication with ATC difficult, and communication from ATC was triangulated through available aircraft who were able to make contact.

    The helicopter made an emergency landing described as “force-landing” and “successful” in the sands near the beach–which hopefully means no injuries.

    Sulerikattukuppam is a fishing hamlet off the East Coast Road

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    Vorkuta Russia Hard Landing in Hard Weather


    Pictured: A Gazpromavia Mil Mi-8MTV-1. The craft involved in the incident was a Mi-171
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    Contact photographer Peter Taskaev

    What: GazPromAvia Mil Mi-171 en route from Bovanenkovo to Vorkuta
    Where: Vorkuta Russia
    When: Dec 19 2009
    Who: 22 passengers, 3 crew
    Why: The helicopter made an emergency landing–described also as a forced landing, and a rough landing–4 kilometers from where the flight originated. Fourteen were hospitalized.

    The incident is under investigation. It is suspected that the cause will be attributed to harsh weather conditions.

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    Helicopter Crashes after Tail Rotor Strikes Power Lines

    What: R44 Astro Helicopter en route to Nelson in rural Butte County
    Where: Near Yuba River, Marysville, California
    When: 07/13/2009 at 1700 hrs
    Who: 3 crew members aboard
    Why: N244HP, A ROBINSON R44 ROTORCRAFT, STRUCK A POWERLINE AND FORCE LANDED on its side 10 MILES FROM MARYSVILLE, CA on the bank of the South Yuba River.

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    R-22 Engine Failure

    What: ROBINSON R22 ROTORCRAFT
    Where: WINTER HAVEN, FL
    When: 05/07/2009
    Who: pilot
    Why: A ROBINSON R22 ROTORCRAFT owned by “NOVEMBER ALPHA LLC” at 5657 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 330, REPORTED AN ENGINE FAILURE AND FORCE LANDED ON A PARKING LOT.

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    Cessna Flips in Pescadero


    What: Rented Sterling Aviation’s Cessna 150 en route from Monterey to Half Moon Bay Airport
    Where: PESCADERO, CA in an open field south of Half Moon Bay (about 1 mile south of Pescadero Road and Highway 1 )
    When: 01/11/2009
    Who: 2 Michael Paul Harris, and his wife, Danette,
    Why: The pilot noticed they were running low on fuel. After a Forced landing in a field outside of PESCADERO, CA, about 200 yards into the field, the plane’s front nose wheel dug into the soil and collapsed, causing the plan to flip. The pilot buzz is that the renter of the plane should have refueled, and that the forced landing and resultant plane damage was entirely unnecessary.

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    Grumman Forced Landing in Goshen


    What: 1978 Grumman Tiger en route from Howe, Indiana to Goshen, Indiana
    Where: CR 150 East and the Elkhart/Kosciusko County Line Road Goshen Indiana
    When: 01/05/2009 11:43 a.m.
    Who: 2 people aboard. instructor William T. Reid and Pilot Chad L. Miller
    Why: During cruise flight the prop broke off. Pilot Chad L. Miller had to make a force landing in a field in Koscuisko County in Goshen IN, The pilot had been intending to practice “stop and go/touch and go” landings at the airport in Goshen.

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    Brazil Helicopter Crash


    What: Brazilian air force model H-IH chopper en route from Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte to Fortaleza, the capital of Ceara.
    Where: forced landing in the city of Icapui in the northeastern state of Ceara.
    When: Friday night
    Who: 3 fatalities, 3 survivors who got first aid in Aracati before they were taken to a Fortaleza hospital.
    Why: Under investigation

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    Tahoe Plane Splashes Down

    What: unidentified “sea” plane … upside down
    Where: off Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village; south of the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe pier
    When: 11 a.m. Thursday Sept 11 2008
    Who: pilot and passenger are both unhurt
    Why: While the plane was being towed by North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District’s Marine 16 boat, it took on water a half-mile south of Burnt Cedar. Buoys were affixed to keep the plane afloat till crews managed to tow it to Ski Beach. Fuel leaking into the lake has instigated testing by local risk management. Absorbent booms were being used to collect some 40 estimated gallons of fuel, and the rest is expected to safely evaporate without injury to the local ecosystem.

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    Aussie GA-8 Forced Landing

    What: Kakadu Air Gippsland GA-8
    Where: near Cooinda Australia (Northern Territory)
    When: 3pm on Tuesday
    Who: Pilot suffers minor injuries.
    Why:Engine failure forces landing. Suspected engine failure related to faulty fuel systems.

    Last Sunday 5 people walked away from a Barrier Air charter plane that experienced engine failure at 2500 feet and crashed when trying to land on Whitewood Rd, Howard Springs, in Darwin’s rural area.

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    Spanair Survives Emergency Landing

    What: Another Spanair airplane, a SAS Group airline Flight JK-4113
    Where: en route from Ibiza to Lisbon landed at Palma de Mallorca Airport
    When: one hour after take-off
    Who: 163 people on board
    Why: unknown reason. The plane had taken off on its third try.

    Good for you Spanair. Better safe than sorry. But maybe if it takes more than one try to get in flight, its time to take a hard look at the plane. D’ya think?

  • Cockpit Fire forces Landing in Kirksville


    What: Private charter jet registered to JJSA aviation out of San Jose, California; and the plane owned by the Honeywell Corporation.
    Where: Kirksville Regional Airport
    When: Friday. 1:15 p.m.
    Who: 20-25 passenger jet was only carrying one passenger. No injuries.
    Why: electrical fire in the cockpit. The electrical malfunction appeared to stem from a heated window in the cockpit, similar to a defrosting window on a car. The failure caused the plane’s windshield to smoke and burn.

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    Emergency Landing in KY


    What: Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter out of Frankfort
    Where: In a field next to the Kroger grocery store and Burger King restaurant in Murray Kentucky
    When: 2:30 p.m.
    Who: four-man flight crew from the 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade
    Why: one of the crew members said a hydraulic hose busted and they had to make the emergency landing. A six-foot high-pressure hydraulic hose – about the size of a straw – frayed and developed a leak. A second helicopter flew in repair parts. There were no injuries.

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    Forced Landing in Single-engine Piper

    What: single-engine four-seat Piper registered to Tri Radial Flyers, of Tiverton en route from T.F. Green Airport to New Hampshire
    Where: crashed into some trees at the edge of the Schofield Farm. Rhode Island
    When: about 8:30 am Sept 1
    Who: pilot Barry Carroll, 58 was uninjured
    Why: The plane experienced engine problems at 7,500 feet and the pilot could not make it the five miles back to the airport, so made a forced landing in the Schofield Farm field. On landing the plane’s left wing tip broke off.

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    Cessna crashes in Ontario


    What: Cessna four-seat 172 owned by the Brampton Flying Club
    Where: Shelburne, Ontario –a farmer’s field just north of Toronto
    When: just before 5 a.m Sep. 01 2008
    Who: 2 men, including pilot, airlifted to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto with life-threatening injuries;one Headwaters Hospital in Orangeville
    Why: There is no reason listed why the plane crashed in the field. It looks like a total loss. The pilot is building flight time to become a commercial pilot