Landing

  • Nepalese Plane Crash kills 18

    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.

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    Cessna Crashes in Iowa City

    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.

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    African Crash update, 9 Dead

    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,

  • Springfield-Branson National Airport Emergency Landing

    Where: Springfield-Branson National Airport
    When: 11 a.m. shortly after takeoff
    Who: 13 people on board
    Why: The on board computer indicated that the plane was not in the air, and that the landing gear would not go up. The plane landed after circling to burn off fuel

    And (separate incident). The model and airline were not indicated in the original news transmission.

    Where: Springfield-Branson National Airport
    When: 3 p.m. on Saturday
    Who: Thirty-two people were on board the jet, including crew and passengers.
    Why: Fire in the cockpit

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    Timothy Gerber Praised for Emergency Landing

    What: Cessna flying from Omaha to Des Moines
    Where: Highway 169, five miles north of Winterset Iowa
    When: around 9:45 pm Thursday October 2, 2008
    Who: Pilot Timothy Gerber
    Why: Pilot called Mayday. Flames were shooting out of the engine, but the pilot managed to land safely.

    The landing missed power lines and cars as he stopped in the middle of the busy road. The plane was reportedly undamaged in spite of landing in the dark.

    The pilot received encouragement from KCCI Chief Meterologist and pilot John McLaughlin who was flying at the time and heard him on the onboard radio

  • Plane Crashes near Eklutna Alaska


    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.

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    Emergency Landing at Pauma Valley Air Park

    What: single-engine Cessna 152, is registered to a Patrick Williams of Vista.
    Where: Pauma Valley Air Park, a private air strip
    When: 2:45 p.m
    Who: Two people aboard
    Why:When the light plane lost engine power, the pilot radioed in that he was going to glide into the Pauma Valley Air Park

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    Crash landing at Carlsbad airport

    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.

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    Fossett’s Plane Found

    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.

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    Medevac Crash Update

    update:

    • 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.


    Click to view Memorial Page

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    UN Helicopter crash in Darfur

    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

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    Cessna Crashes in Fullerton

    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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    Helicopter Crashes in Washington Park

    update:
    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.


    Click to view Memorial Page

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    Perm Crash update

    • 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.

  • Emergency Landing at Sky Harbor

    What: Southwest Airlines plane en route from Las Vegas to El Paso
    Where: Sky Harbor International Airport
    When: Sunday evening.
    Who: 135 people were onboard
    Why:The pilot called air traffic control to report a strong, plastic-like burning smell onboard.

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    Tulsa Crash Kills Two

    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.

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    Cessna Crashes in Kentucky

    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.

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    Brazil Helicopter Crash under Investigation

    What: Agusta Westland A109S helicopter, Brazilian registration PR-IPO departure from the Parati/Condomínio 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.

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    Ojinaga, Mexico Crash 4 Fatalities

    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.

  • Otisco Indiana Emergency Landing

    What: single-engine Velocity aircraft. en route from Ohio to Kentucky
    Where: Otisco, Ind.on the 7200 block of State Road Three
    When: 3 p.m. Saturday
    Who: Pilot Elizabeth Ferrell and her husband Brett Ferrell weren’t injured
    Why: The pilot reported smoke in the cabin before landing along a state highway. She heard a pop and a gauge registered zero oil pressure. On landing (?) the pilot struck a reflector that did minor damage to the right wing . The plane’s oil line appeared to have ruptured.

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    Martha’s Vineyard Fatality

    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

  • RAF Emergency Landing

    What: RAF F/A-18 Hornet taking off from RAAF base at Williamtown
    Where: RAF base at Williamtown
    When: declared a mayday at around 12.15pm Sept 25
    Why: After declaring an emergency, the flight circled back and landed. There were no reported injuries, and a maintenance investigation is underway. Details of the mayday have not been released.

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    Helicopter Lands Hard On Soft Ground

    What: Helicopter, from Bristow Academy, a helicopter flight school located at the Space Coast Regional Airport
    Where: Landing occurred off Highway 50, west of Interstate 95 in a marshy area in Brevard County.
    When: 11:45 a.m. Thursday
    Who: The helicopter was carrying an instructor and a student on a training exercise. Neither was injured but both were transported to Parrish Medical Center
    Why: When helicopter came in for a landing, it skidded in the marsh.

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    Cessna Crashes in Nebraska

    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

  • Biplane crashes in Pasco County Fla.

    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