What: four-seat Grumman Cheetah
Where: 40 miles northwest of Grand Junction/ 210 miles west of Denver.
When: Found Sunday September 7, 2008
Who: Charles Landry of Houston, born in 1947, and Steven or Stephen Bartlet of Green River, Wyo., born in 1958.
Why: Cause unknown. The crash is under investigation by NTSB
What: United Airlines Flight 167 en route to Los Angeles from Boston
Where: diverted to O’Hare International Airport
When: Wednesday 8:37 p.m
Who: 138 people were on board.
Why: When about a dozen passengers became sick during a flight, the flight was diverted to O’Hare and an EMS Plan 2 was called which sends at least 10 ambulances to the scene. Some passengers became sick from the smell of vomit on the plane. Those who fell ill were reportedly part of the same tour group of about 40. One among them reported feeling sick prior to takeoff. Four were hospitalized at Lutheran General Hospital. Fourteen declined to be hospitalized when examined by paramedics though the entire tour group was examined by paramedics. No food was served on the flight.
What: R-22 training helicopter
Where: Victoria International Airport off of the tarmac.
When: just before noon Friday Oct 17
Who: The instructor was seriously injured; the student was trapped in the wreckage for some time with minor injuries
Why: Witnesses said the helicopter “…was doing an exercise about 100 metres above a grassy training area west of the airport when it fell to the ground, bounced twice and landed upside down.”
What: Frankfurt-based XL Airways Boeing 737-800 flight G1-614 en route from Frankfurt Germany to Antalya Turkey registration D-AXLF
Where: emergency landing at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport
When: on Saturday Oct 18 7:47 a.m. (0547 GMT)
Who: 163 passengers and six crew (official release said 183 passengers and 6 crew)
Why: The pilot reported engine failure, and requested an emergency landing with five minutes to manoeuvre and land the plane at the nearest airport. Smoke was seen coming from one of the plane’s two engines and the emergency crew doused said engine with foam. The official report denies fire, and says only “unspecified “engine problems” instigated the emergency landing
Evacuation was ordered for those living near the radio tower that was involved in the Air Angels helicopter crash in Aurora Illinois, 42 miles outside of Chicago, specifically those living in the Amli and Oakhurst North apartments and homes on Riverstone Drive and Riverstone Court. The crash site is the Night Heron Marsh – part of the DuPage County Forest Preserve – at the intersection of Eola Road and Waterstone Drive on the Aurora’s far east side. The helicopter clipped a guy wire connected to a 750-foot tall WBIG radio antennae tower on the west side of Eola Road. Structural damage to the tower is being investigated. The top of the tower has been removed. Ironically, a helicopter was involved in the remediation procedures.
What: motorized hang glider
Where: off Piedmont Road, Anderson County S.C.
When: Thursday night
Who: pilot Andy Walls, 20
Why: While attempting to land, the glider hit a stand of trees. Pilot suffered a broken back, a broken leg, fractures to his face and burns over 14 percent of his body and is recuperating in Greenville Memorial Hospital.
What: Piper Cherokee
Where: crashed in trees two miles from Alpine County, Calif., airport, near Woodfords south of Lake Tahoe.
When: late Thursday morning
Who: Pilot 53-year-old Raymond Wieveg
Why: Pilot radioed in engine failure then attempted an emergency landing. The pilot was the only one on board. He did not survive the crash.
What: United Airlines 757 en route from Boston to San Francisco.
Where: Hancock Airport
When: 10/16/08
Who: 155 passengers
Why:smoke detector in a bathroom went off. No injuries on landing.
What: Norwegian Air Boeing 737-8Q8 en route from Rygge Airport to Barcelona
Where: Rygge Airport
When: 10/17/2007 Friday
Who: 163 passengers 7 crew
Why: 20 minutes into the flight, an alarm warned of fire in one of the wings. Smoke was reported in the cabin.The aircraft was breaking very hard, and used half the runway to stop. On return to the airport, passengers deplaned via emergency slides, but there was apparently no external wing fire. There was a minor injury on the slide disembarkment.
What: ultralight aircraft
Where: in Pine Hall on Knight Road in Stokes county NC
When: 6:40pm.
Who: unnamed pilot.
Why: When the pilot’s engine quit, the pilot made an emergency landing in a tobacco field. The vehicle was described as a “hangglider with a motor”
What: Air Angels Inc.emergency medical transport Bell 222 helicopter en route from Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago from Valley West Hospital in Sandwich. The helicopter was based out of Clow airport in Bolingbrook.
Where: Crashed in a corn field near a residential area in east Aurora near Eola Road and Liberty Street, and was engulfed in flames.
When: Oct 15 Went down about midnight
Who: victims included three crew members and the little girl.
Why: The little girl was being transported to the hospital because of epileptic seizures. Witnesses report that after the helicopter crashed, it exploded. There is speculation that the helicopter struck a 750-foot tall radio transmission tower which is now about 15-feet off center. One witness reported a midair explosion, and then another explosion after the helicopter hit the ground. Two of the tower’s guy wires were impacted during the crash.
What: Emirates Airbus A340 Flight EK425 en route from Perth International Airport leaving at 6am bound for Dubai
Where: PERTH Westralia Airport, Australia
When: The pilot made a textbook emergency landing about 8.40am.
Who: All 120 passengers disembarked safely at about 9am..
Why:The pilot was forced to turn back after reporting smoke in the cabin. Fuel was dumped from the plane before it came in to land. The Airbus is the same set-up as the Qantas Airbus A330-300 that injured more than 70 people when it lost altitude. Passengers said no smoke was visible inside the jet.
What: Emergency landing by a CBS 3 backup chopper leased from U.S. Helicopters en route to cover a news event
Where: Landed on an athletic field adjacent to Mayfair Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Northeast section
When: On Columbus Day
Why: The pilot landed after the chopper began losing a large amount of oil. A similar problem occurred recently with another leased helicopter several weeks ago in which a warning light came on for a different problem
What: Bell 206L-4 SkyEye 13 news chopper
Where: on property owned by The Woodlands Development Company,heavily wooded area East of the W.E. Jones State Forest in southwest Montgomery County.
When: Monday morning between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m
Who: Pilot John Downhower, 43, and photographer Dave Garrett, 36. Downhower worked for Helicopters Inc., which operated the Bell 206L-4, and Garrett worked for Metro News on assignment for Houston TV station KTRK
Why: Pilot and phtographer were en route to cover an officer-involved shooting when the accident occurred. On impact, the helicopter broke into pieces and burst into flames, Both men were pronounced the men dead at the scene, and both suffered massive trauma. One body was charred. The bodies were taken to the Southeast Texas Forensic Center in Conroe
Memorial service for Downhower: 11 a.m. Friday at Fellowship of The Woodlands, One Fellowship Drive.
Garrett’s funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday at River Pointe Community Church, 5000 Ransom Road, in Richmond.
A fund has been established for Garrett’s son:
Adam Ryan Garrett Educational Fund
P.O. Box 1811
Sugar Land, Texas 77478-1811.
What: Single-engine Tomahawk.
Where: Sierra Sky Park in northwest Fresno
When: Saturday evening
Why:the pilot was getting ready to land and going about 70 mph when a downdraft shifted the course of the plane and it clipped the top of a Mor Furniture truck driving on Herndon Avenue then slammed into the ground short from the runway. The impact sheared off the top of the truck
What: Raytheon A36 registered to ST Inc. in Peoria, Ariz.
Where: Crashed a mile and a half northwest of the Santa Teresa airport runway where it took off
When: Saturday 6 p.m.
Who: Michael Perry and Jim Crosby were killed.
Why: Witnesses saw the plane fly into the storm. The plane crashed during a storm and burned.
What: single-engine Piper Cub owned by Phyliss Harvey
Where: crashed in a field on Red Oak Hill Road
When: Sunday afternoon
Who: Paul Aquaviva, the injured pilot was taken to Exeter Hospital
Why: The plane lost power and crash landed. The crash is under investigation.
What: London-bound Air India Boeing 777-300 flight AI-111 en route from Delhi
Where: Delhi
When: Saturday. The flight took off at 6:50 am. Emergency was declared at the airport at 7:50 am and it was withdrawn at 8:25 am after a safe landing.
Who: 115 passengers and 15 crew members, all safe
Why: After flying for 30 minutes, the alarm sounded, the pilot detected smoke in the cabin. and returned to the airport under Emergency conditions.
What: Cessna 421B, N7560Q en route from El Paso International Airport to Presidio, Texas
Operator: Volare Air Charter
Where: 28 miles northwest of Ojinaga, Mexico
When: September 15, 2008, approximately 1318 central daylight time
Who: The dead included the leaders of the U.S. and Mexican sections of the IBWC, Carlos Marin of El Paso and Arturo Herreraof Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Also on board was Jake Brisbin Jr., executive director of the Rio Grande Council of Governments. The chartered Cessna 421 was piloted by Matthew Peter Juneau.
NTSB Report:
DFW08RA232
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.
Onboard the airplane were the pilot, the United States and Mexican Commissioners of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), and the Executive Director for the Rio Grande Council of Governments. The purpose of the flight was to assess Rio Grande flood conditions at Presidio-Ojinaga and to coordinate joint US-Mexican efforts with local officials to address flood control concerns in the area due to heavy inflows to the Rio Grande from reservoirs inside Mexico as a result of recent storms.
The airplane wreckage was located on September 17, 2008, by the Marfa Sector of the US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Division, on the west side of the Sierra Grande Mountains, at an approximate elevation of 6,500 feet mean sea level (msl). The airplane came to rest approximately 100-150 feet below the top of a ridgeline on a heading of 055 degrees along victor-airway V81.
A handheld Garmin 496 GPS was removed from the airplane wreckage and sent to the NTSB’s Research and Engineering Laboratory, Washington DC, for further examination and download.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Government of the Republic of Mexico. Any further information may be obtained from:
Dirección de Investigación de Incidentes y Accidentes Aviacion
Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC)
Ave. 602 NUM. 161. COL. San Juan de Aragon 3RA
Seccion C.P. 15620
Delagacion Benustiano Carranza
México, D. F.
What: Northfield Aviation single-engine Sky Arrow 600 taking off from Santa Monica Airport
Where: in the ocean off Malibu Beach
When: Oct 7 5:15 p.m
Who: Two men were on board: One was Griff Horner, 70, an experienced pilot and helicopter instructor. Critical injuries.
Why:The incident is under investigation.
Update
Fourteen unidentified tourists who died in the crash remain unidentified due to the lack of experts and equipment who can do DNA testing in Nepal. Thursday the team was augmented by three German medical and forensic experts, and more are expected Friday. DNA samples will be taken and sent out of the country.
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.
Contact photographer Ivan P. Nesbit
Update
Aircraft mechanic Edwin David Hernandez came home today for the last time. He was one of the casualties of Ecuador, leaving behind his wife, Dilma, and two children. Hernandez was one of three crash victims retrieved by members of the Civil defense and the Red Cross of Ecuador. One of the plane’s black boxes was also found.
The two Venezuelan victims were identified as Pedro Menderi (pilot) and Gerald Rangel (copilot).
Licensing is still under investigation. There appear to be irregularities regarding the plane’s registration, as well as 39 licenses for technicians, pilots and Venezuelan and Peruvian air hostesses. The maintenance plan must be supervised by the supervising body of the country of origin of the airplane’s owner.
Masry & Vititoe has been retained on behalf of family members.
What: Conviasa Boeing 737-291 advanced (reg. YV-102T) en route from (Simón BolÃvar International Airport,) Maiquetia, Venezuela to Latacunga, Ecuador
Where: Illiniza Volcano elevation approx. 17000 feet) Toacaso, Ecuador
When: August 30, 2008
Who: 3 crew members, no survivors
Why: The plane was being delivered to a new owner after being in storage. The flight crew lost lost radio and radar contact with Ecuadorian air control at 02:56Z on beginning descent to Latacunga. The wreckage location (near the LOTOA waypoint (LOTOA at 0° 46′ 23S 78° 52′ 20W) at an altitude of approximately 4000 meters )suggests the airplane flew into the side of the Iliniza Volcano and was completely destroyed on impact. The wreckage was spread 400 meters.
Hondorus states attorney opened an investigation against “Atlantic Airlines de Honduras.” It has yet to be established, whether the airplane was operating under a Honduran license and if all requirements for legal use were met.
Atlantic Airlines had operated the airplane until March 31st 2007.
As of Sept 3rd, both flight recorders (flight data and cockpit voice recorder) have been recovered and will be sent to the USA for analysis
So far there have been no groundbreaking discoveries regarding the cause of the Aug. 20 Spanair crash beyond what was known originally: a problem with the plane’s wing flaps and the failure of a cockpit alarm, evidence of which is backed up by the plane’s black boxes. The plane’s history indicates that this was not the first time the wing slats were an issue. Two days before the accident, they were repaired.
Before the crash, on the plane’s first pass, a warning sounded from a “heat sensor in the engine inlet” which prompted the pilots to return to the gate and get it inspected. The system was “isolated, ” i.e. unplugged.
The technician discusses the disconnected probe.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espan…/elpepiesp/20080823elpepinac_5/Tes
What: US Airways 737 Flight 1801 en route from Charlotte
Where: Palm Beach International Airport
When: Wednesday night
Why: After reporting landing gear problems; the flight landed safely at about 12:45 a.m.
