What: RV8 registration # 396JD ( RV-8 is a kit produced by Van’s Aircraft)
Where: El Monte CA
When: 01/21/2009
Who: 1 crew, 1 passenger
Why: On landing, the plane ground looped and the gear collapsed.
What: Hughes OH6A Helicopter owned by Charlotte Helicopters Flight Academy
Where: Monroe NC (Union County) at Stephen Street and Donham Street in a field behind Central Academy of Technology and Art
When: Thursday 10:30 a.m
Who: pilot, Justin Travis, survived. Passenger 46-year-old Mark Bartlett was killed in the crash
Why: helicopter hit power lines and crashed
What: Gulfstream AC-90 operated by J.W. Operating Co. of Addison, Texas
Where: approaching the Wray airport
When: Thursday
Who: The bodies of 53-year-old David Carey, 33-year-old Daniel Rojas, 32-year-old Zachary Hergot have been recovered. (The third boyd was recovered on Saturday)
Why: The plane had been cleared for an instrument landing because of limited visibility
What: Fresno Police helicopter
When: 9:00 PM Sunday night.
Where: just off a runway at Fresno’s Chandler Airport. When:
Why: The copter was following a hit and run suspect when the oil light on the instrument panel came on. No injuries.
What: ultra-light plane from the Keswick Dam area half a mile away from Benton Airpark,
Where: emergency landing on Eureka Way. Redding
When: Sunday Afternoon 1-18
Who: pilot Ron Lim and passenger
Why: Lim was on his third flight of the day when his engine died. He managed to avoid power lines and made a perfect landing–on the right shoulder of a public street.
What: aerobatics plane
Where: Temora Airport New South Wales Riverina
When: 10:30am
Who: Pilot Tom Moon national aerobatics champion
Why: After an emergency call was made from Airport Road, Temora, the plane caught fire after crashing near the Aviation Museum.
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What: MAULE MX-7 registration 1052U
Where: AKRON, AL
When: 01/18/2009
Who: information not released
Why: On landing, the plane struck a windsock pole.
The Preliminary NTSB report is as follows:
On January 14, 2008, at 0508 Hawaiian standard time, N410UB, a Beech 1900C, was lost from radar over the ocean about 7 miles south of the Lihue Airport, Lihue, Hawaii, located on the island of Kauai. Alpine Aviation Inc., doing business as Alpine Air, was operating the airplane as an on-demand cargo flight under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 135. The airline transport pilot was killed, and the airplane was destroyed. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and an instrument flight rules flight plan had been filed. The flight departed Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, at 0443, and was destined for Lihue.
According to the operator, the pilot was making his first flight after coming off of a two day scheduled rest period. The purpose of the flight was to transfer mail to Lihue, and then the pilot was to return to Honolulu later the same day. The flight was scheduled to arrive at Lihue about 0515.
The Coast Guard indicated that debris from the airplane was initially identified floating on the ocean surface at 0848, approximately 11 miles south-southwest of the airport. The water depths in the search area were up to 800 fathoms (4,800 feet). Additional debris was identified and collected and then transported to the Coast Guard station at Lihue. The Coast Guard discontinued the search on the afternoon of January 15.
An Airport Duty Operations Controller was conducting an airport inspection while the accident airplane was approaching the airport. He recalled that he heard a pilot who identified himself as Alpine Air state that he was, “…landing 35 and 7 miles out.” Airport personnel reported that the runway lights, medium intensity approach lighting system with runway alignment indicator lights (MALSR), and precision approach path indicator (PAPI) lights for runway 35, were recorded as functional at the time of the accident.
The following weather conditions were reported at Lihue Airport at 0453: wind from 030 at 23 knots with gusts to 27 knots, 10 miles visibility, cloud layers scattered at 4,100 feet and overcast at 5,500 feet, temperature 20 degrees Celsius, dew point 13 degrees Celsius, and the altimeter setting was 30.13 inches of Mercury.
What: Gulfstream Rockwell Turbo-Prop Model 690C owned by a leasing company in Boca Raton
Where: SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
When: Sunday around 3:30
Why: engine trouble
What: US Airways Express plane enroute from Laguardia to Rochester
Where: emergency landing in Syracuse at Hancock Airport
Who: 10 people on board including Congressman Eric Massa (D) Corning
Why: The plane made an emergency landing because of “flap” failure, successfully negotiating the icy runway.
New York–The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board released Coast Guard footage today of the U.S. Airways passenger plane as it conducted an emergency landing into the Hudson River Jan. 15, 2009.
You see the plane emerge at the middle of the left screen, at 3:31.02
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What: single-engine homebuilt plane( S FLUT-R-BUG SA6) en route from Santa Ynez Valley Airport
Where: Sycamore Valley Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley in the 6500 block of Figueroa Mountain Road.
When: Between 2 and 2:30 pm.
Why: The pilot had to land because of engine trouble. After landing, he worked on his plane, and took off again to fly the 10 miles to the airport, but the engine quit again and the plane crashed into some oak trees. The pilot sustained a scratch on his head but the plane is considered “substantial”
What: PC-12 Eagle single-engine turboprop from (to) Yampa Valley Regional Airport.
Where: Hayden Colorado (Routt County)
When: 01/11/2009 9:40 a.m.
Who: 2 fatalities-William “Bill” Rooney Jr. and son William Patrick Rooney III
Why: The Pilatus PC-12 crashed 2 miles from Hayden Colorado ten minutes after takeoff, apparently attempting to return to the airport. They had already delayed their trip home to Yorba Linda from Steamboat Springs with the intention of avoiding strong Santa Ana winds near Chino Hills.
What: Piper Saratoga 32-R owned by PIPER LANCE HOLDINGS LLC, a six seater, single engine aircraft En route to Dare County Airport
Where: Roanoke Island North Carolina- on the upper back deck of a private residence on Joclar Lane in Manteo.
When: 5:57 pm
Who: two individuals on board; pilot Frank Snodgrass and son both were taken to Outer Banks Hospital. The son was trapped inside the cockpit, and sustained a broken arm and injured ribs.
Why: When attempting to land at the Dare County Regional Airport, the plane hit a tree and then crashed into a house. The home owners and their six year old daughter were in the house at the time and were not hurt. The homeowner helped get the people out of the wreckage. They walked on their own power to the ambulance.
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What: Mi-2 helicopter hired by Yuganskneftegaz
Where: Siberian region of Khanty–Mansi
When: Monday January 12 2009
Who: Dmitry Podgorodinsky, the copilot Victor Morozov, and two passengers Denis Inotsenko and Sergey Sokolov
Why: The helicopter was found near the Obninsk oil deposit 50 kilometres away from the city of Nefteyugansk. All those onboard were killed in the crash. Pilot’s documents and samples of fuel have been taken from the scene. The autopsies of the victims and also an examination of the helicopter’s fuel are in progress. The helicopter had been hired to fkt over the company’s area oil wells. The flight was found at 23:40 local time by 3 search helicopter/rescue crews from aviation companies Convers Avia, UTair and Yugra Avia.
The pilot who had been reported missing in our earlier report of a parachutist near Childersburg/Milton is named Marc Schrenker. When his windshield imploded, Shrenker parachuted out, leaving his unmanned plane on auto-pilot. (It crashed near Ft. Walton Beach.) He checked into a hotel under the name Jason Galoozis and slipped away to retrieve a motorcycle he’d stashed in a store room. The Childersburg police are looking for him. So is his soon to be ex-wife, AND the Securities Commission.
Update
It now looks like Schrenker tried to fake his own death. The windshield implosion is a fairy tale. and is fleeing a divorce and officials investigating him for securities fraud.
