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    Four die in Red Wings Ferry Flight Crash in Russia


    On December 29, 2012, at 16:33, a Red Wings Tupelev 204-100V was on a ferry flight from Pardubice Airport Czech Republic to Moscow-Vnukova Airport, Russia when it crashed-landed in snow, overrunnning the runway. Weather conditions showed heavy gusts accompanying a light snowfall. The Federal Air Transport Agency said that the plane touched down in the proper landing area but for some reason was unable to stop on the runway.

    Initially traffic controllers refused to authorise landing, and the plane had to circle the airport. Fire trucks were not on standby; they were undergoing maintenance and were nearly an hour late.

    The captain, copilot, flight engineer and one flight attendant were killed. Two died on the scene, one died en route in the ambulance, and one died at the hospital. Four crew survived with serious injuries. Pieces of the plane caught fire.

    The plane overran the runway and struck the M3 highway embankment, breaking into three parts. The fuselage landed on the highway 320 meters from the end of the runway. A BBC report said the aircraft was in several pieces, with the cockpit on the highway. Kiev Highway and Vnukovo Airport were both shut down temporarily.

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    Crash Kills Six Month Old Baby

    December 22, 2012, at 18:13 a Perimeter Aviation/ Kivalliq Air Swearingen SA227-AC Metro III en route from Winnipeg to Sanikiluaq airport crashed during its second approach.

    The flight had two crew and seven passengers. One of the passengers died when the plane crashed at the end of the runway. The plane was landing during blowing snow and overran the western end of the runway by about about 600 feet.

    The fatality on charter flight 671 was a six month old boy. The pilot was treated for injuries on the scene. The co-pilot was flown to a Winnipeg hospital.

    RCMP and the Chief Coroner of Nunavut are investigating.

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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.

    Video

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    Sao Paulo Chopper Training Flight Crash


    Dec 16 2012-An instructor and student of Rangel Escola de Avião Civil were injured during a training flight in a Robinson R-22 when it crashed at 19:30 near the Guarapiranga Dam in Sao Paulo Brazil.

    The hard landing was close to 15796 M’Boi Mirim road in the Garden Angela, in jungle terrain and destroyed the helicopter. Passengers were conscious when the rescue team arrived. Three fire vehicles responded.

    The instructor and the student pilot were admitted to Hospital das Clinicas and Hospital São Luís. The student’s head injuries are supposed to be not serious.

    The Fire Department and “Team Eagle” helicopter and Military Police responded to the scene.

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    Cessna Accident in Juneau AK


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    Contact photographer Russell Williams
    What: Private Cessna 150C
    Where: Juneau AK
    When: Dec 12, 2012 2:10 p.m.
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: While on a training flight, pilots were landing at Juneau International Airport on a wet runway when the plane’s gear collapsed.

    The pilot had been practicing touch-and-go landings.

    The plane came to rest on its side. The plane suffered significant damage. The runway was tied-up as the plane was towed to an aircraft parking area. The pilot and passenger survived.

    IDENTIFICATION
    Regis#: 1901Z
    Make/Model: C150
    Description: 150, A150, Commuter, Aerobat
    Date: 12/12/2012
    Time: 2309
    Event Type: Accident
    Highest Injury: None
    Mid Air: N
    Missing: N
    Damage: Substantial

    LOCATION
    City: JUNEAU State: AK Country: US

    DESCRIPTION
    AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, GEAR COLLAPSED AND WENT OFF THE RUNWAY, JUNEAU, AK

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    Hard Landing at McGhee Tyson Airport

    What: TBM7 twin engine en route from Hanover County Municipal Airport in Ashland, Va. to McGhee Tyson
    Where: McGhee Tyson
    When: Dec 12, 2012
    Who: pilot and passenger
    Why: After developing nose gear issues, the plane made an emergency landing at McGhee Tyson Airport, ALCOA Tennessee

    Emergency vehicles were on standby.

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    Agricultural Plane Crash in NZ

    What: Ravensdown Aerowork light plane
    Where: Taranaki NZ
    When: Dec 11, 2012
    Who: 1 aboard
    Why: A light plane was engaged in fertiliser spreading and agricultural spraying for Wanganui Aero Work company. (Wanganui was acquired by Ravensdown Aerowork in 2004 but the plane had not been provided new colors.)

    The plane went down near Waitaanga Rd.

    The Rescue Co-ordination Centre heard the beacon at 5.38 p.m.

    The pilot was tended by paramedics then hospitalized at Waikato Hospital.

    The sixty year old pilot sustained serious spinal injuries.

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    Flat on Landing, Intrepid Nepal Pilots OK


    Joseph Debattista

    What: Goma Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
    Where: Dolpa Airport, Nepal
    When: Dec 2, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard, no fatalities
    Why: A Goma Air Flight from Nepalganj Airport to Dolpa suffered a blown tire when landing at 10:00 a.m. at Jufal Airport.

    The plane was carrying cargo from Nepalgunj.

    Two crew members, Sanjiv Shrestha and Prajjwal Bhattarai were aboard the flight. There were no passengers aboard and the plane suffered slight damage. Goma Air sent in flight engineers to make repairs. Airport services were temporarily suspended while the plane was on the runway.

    A blown tire is more along the lines of a hard landing rather than a “crash” as we have seen reported.

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    Sudan Hard Landing


    What: Ultimate Air Antonov AN-26B-100 en route from Entebbe to Yida
    Where: Yida
    When: November 14, 2012
    Who: crew
    Why: On landing the Antonov AN-26B cargo plane in the Sudan, pilots skidded off the runway.

    The left main gear collapsed just short of a Yida refugee settlement.

    The plane was carrying medical supplies.

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    Tropic Air Táxi Emergency Landing in São Paulo


    What: Tropic Air Táxi Aéreo Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3 en route from Florianópolis to São Paulo
    Where: São Paulo-Congonhas Airport Brazil
    When: Nov 11, 2012
    Who: 2 crew, 1 passenger
    Why: The corporate jet sustained substantial damage in a runway excursion. The captain, co-pilot and passenger were all injured on landing three people were injured, one with head trauma, one with chest injuries one hospitalized with lumbar spine injury. The plane landed, bounced and continued down a slope where it crashed at the perimeter fence near Avenida dos Bandeirantes.

    Metars at the time were SBSP 111900Z 30009KT 9999 SCT045 31/14 Q1012 [19:00 UTC: Winds: 300 degrees at 9 knots; Visibility: 10+ km; scattered clouds at 4500 feet AGL; Temperature 31°C, Dewpoint 14°C; Pressure 1012 mb]

    SBSP 112000Z 16013KT 9999 SCT045 28/18 Q1012 [20:00 UTC: Winds: 160 degrees at 13 knots; Visibility: 10+ km; scattered clouds at 4500 feet AGL; Temperature 28°C, Dewpoint 18°C; Pressure 1012 mb]

    The accident closed Congonhas Airport for an hour afterwards. At the time of the accident, the plane was in good standing with the Annual Maintenance Inspection (AMI) and the Certificate of Airworthiness (CA) was valid until November 2013.

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    Bemidji Aviation Flight Gear Collapse

    What: Bemidji Aviation/UPS Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
    Where: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
    When: Nov 9 2012 8 p.m.
    Who: pilot
    Why: The Bemidji Aviation plane was on a UPS flight attempting to land when the left rear wheel collapsed. The plane veered off the runway and came to a stop.

    There were no injuries and the plane remained upright.

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    Hard Landing in Mt Gambier

    What: General Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd Aero Commander 500S Shrike Commander en route from Naracoorte to Mt Gambier
    Where: Mt Gambier Australia
    When: Oct 24, 2012
    Who: 1 aboard
    Why: The pilot was landing at Mt Gambier when the landing gear failed. It apparently retracted while landing.

    The plane came to rest pitched on its side in a pool of leaked fuel. No injuries were reported.

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    Multiple Flats on Landing in Costa Rica

    What: TACA airlines Airbus A321-200 en route from El Salvador to San José Costa Rica
    Where: Costa Rica
    When: October 18, 2012
    Who: 146 passengers, 7 crew
    Why: On touchdown, three tires burst on the wet runway, resulting in an emergency landing. The plane skidded and spun to the right and when it came to a stop, it was perpendicular to the end of the runway.

    There were no injuries reported when the plane landed at 4.pm. Burst tires can often occur as the result of a hard or too fast landing.

    Passengers disembarked on to the runway.

    The incident is under investigation.

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    Helicopter Crashes in Indonesia with 27 aboard


    What: Nyaman Air Mil Mi-8MTV
    Where: Tembagapura, Mimika, Papua Indonesia
    When: Oct 9, 2012
    Who: 27 aboard
    Why: The chopper made a hard landing near mile 66. Twenty four or five passengers (18 Indonesians and seven citizens of other countries) and three crew survived the landing, though the helicopter sustained damage.

    There were no fatalities, but the number of those aboard has been reported from 27 to 29 with either 2 or 3 crew, and 24 or 25 passengers.

    US PT Freeport Indonesia evacuated the passengers who were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries.

    A Russian news report said that two of the pilots were Russians.

    Right after takeoff, the flight lost altitude and struck a tree.

    Ministry of Transportation Republic of Indonesia

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    Falling Chopper amended to Hard Landing in Brazil

    What: Golden Fly Taxi Aereo Robinson R-22 Beta II
    Where: km 17 of the highway Ayrton Senna, in Guarulhos City, Brazil
    When: Sept 24, 2012
    Who: 2 aboard
    Why: A Robinson 22 helicopter used by “Golden Fly” for training flights made ??a forced landing on September 24. Although at first the Fire Department reported that the plane fell, the report was corrected to be listed as a hard landing. The Fire Department responded with four vehicles and the Military Police (MP) sent a chopper. The two crew members aboard suffered no injuries.

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    After Electrics Fail, Hard Landing in Anchorage blows 14 tires on Southern Air Landing


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    Contact photographer Rainer Bexten

    What: Southern Air Boeing 747-200F en route from Miami to Anchorage
    Where: Anchorage International Airport
    When: Sept 11, 2012
    Who: crew
    Why: Outside of Anchorage, all four main power generators on the Southern Air Boeing quit; the plane had a complete electrical failure. They made the rest of the flight on battery power, which was nearly depleted by the time they reached Anchorage.

    The Southern Air cargo jet landed in Anchorage on backup power and without communication until 13 minutes before landing; the landing was hard and fast without reverse thrusters. No one was injured, although on landing, 14 of the Of the jet’s 18 tires blew out. Emergency services were on standby awaiting a fire.

    The previous owner of the plane was Saudi Air.

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    All Nippon Airways Bounce-Landing, No Injuries


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    Contact photographer Liukw

    What: All Nippon Airways Boeing 767-300 en route from Beijing to Tokyo
    Where: Tokyo
    When: June 20, 2012
    Who: 190 aboard
    Why: On nosegear touchdown, the jet received damage, bouncing before securing the landing and making it to the gate. No injuries were reported.

    The video below records the “bounce.”

    The skin of the jet developed several creases.

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    Helicopter Pilot Walks Away from Hard Landing


    What: Enstrom F-28F helicopter en route from Elko, Nevada to Twin Falls Idaho
    Where: Twin Falls, Idaho.
    When: May 20, 2012
    Who: Pilot
    Why: The pilot reported that ten miles south of the Twin Fall Airport, he contacted the control tower that was inbound for landing. However, then he told ATC that he would not be able to make it to the airport with the problems he was having.

    He subsequently made a precautionary landing to an open field with control problems with the helicopter. During landing, the helicopter’s tail boom separated from the aircraft.

    The pilot is the owner of the helicopter, and was not injured.

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    Contract Air Cargo Freight Convair Damaged in Guatemala Landing


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    Contact photographer Gary Chambers

    What: IFL Group/Contract Air Cargo Convair CV-440 en route from Miami to Guatemala City
    Where: Guatemala City
    When: May 11th 2012
    Who: 2 crew
    Why: The Contract Air Cargo freight flight landing in Guatemala City on Friday had a less than stellar landing.

    On landing, the nose gear crumpled. After one of the propellers impacted the runway, it disengaged. Remarkably, no one was reported as injured, although the plane may be a write-off.

    Civil aviation spokeswoman Oddra Lacs said that the Airport was shut down for four hours after the crash-landing about 100 yards the cargo hangers.

    The certificate of the IFL GROUP INC plane was issued on 12/13/1994

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    Hard Landing in Denver

    What: United/Expressjet Embraer ERJ-145 en route from Peoria,IL to Denver,CO
    Where: Denver
    When: Apr 3rd 2012
    Who: 22 aboard
    Why: The pilot made what is described as a “hard short landing” and informed ATC that he struck the lights. To exacerbate matters, smoke was reported in the cockpit. A firefighter reported hot spots on the control panel.We haven’t heard verification if he actually hit the lights, but apparently one passenger was injured and the plane was reported as being “disabled” on the runway for two hours.

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    Airport Runway in Construction Impacts Fokker Accident


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    Contact photographer TK

    What: Feeder Airlines Fokker 50 en route from Juba to Wau
    Where: Wau
    When: Mar 29th 2012
    Who: 50 aboard
    Why: THe runway has been in the process of being repaired for the past several months. The pilots were apparently not advised regarding the necessity to touch down at midpoint due to construction. The first attempt at landing was aborted; on the second, after touching down, the plane left the pavement, and stopped on the ground with a nose and main gear collapse. At least five were hospitalized.

    Passengers evacuated with some casualties, including a broken leg.

    We sincerely hope ATC and the airport will accept responsibility for any inaction on their part in this matter.

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    Hard Landing, Blown Tires, Pilot Lands Safe in Vegas


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    Contact photographer Klaus Ecker

    What: Allegiant Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 en route from Des Moines to Las Vegas
    Where: Las Vegas
    When: Mar 17th 2012
    Who: 147 passengers and 5 crew
    Why: On landing, the plane bounced. Trailing smoke from two blown tires, the plane stopped on the runway, where passengers disembarked and were bussed to the terminal.

    The right main gear tires blew, and the left main gear sustained damage. No injuries were reported.

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    Air Group 42 Plane Hard Landing With No Casualties

    What: Fuerza Aérea del Peru de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
    Where: Laguna Caballococha, Loreto, Peru
    When: Mar 9 2012
    Who: 3 crew, 8 passengers
    Why: The Twin Otter made a hard landing in Laguna Caballococha waters that collapsed the right pontoon. The boat was semi-submerged meters from shore.
    The IAEA (Board of Accident Investigation) is investigating at the behest of the High Command of the Air Force.

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    Main Gear Collapse after Isle of Man Landing

    What: Manx2/Links Air British Aerospace Jetstream 3102 en route from Leeds to Isle of Man
    Where: Isle of Man
    When: Mar 8th 2012
    Who: 12 passengers and 2 crew
    Why: While landing on the Isle of Man, the pilot veered off the runway at Ronaldsway Airport with damage to the main gear after making a hard landing.

    The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) is investigating.