Landing

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    Plane Crashes North of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

    What: Cessna Centurion being used for aerial photography
    Where: crash/lands in the shallows north of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
    When: 2 p.m. Wednesday.
    Who: Pilot Matt Barcelona of San Jose and passenger Bruce Moody.
    Why: The pilot reported a loss of power before it crashed. Witnesses reported the plane left a dark trail. After the impact. they managed to get the door open. They waited on the plane’s wing until rescued by Coast Guard vessels conducting training sessions within fifteen minutes of the vicinity; passengers were taken to Yerba Buena Island, then to the hospital.

    Listen to the audio podcast of a witness being interviewed by KCBS

  • Student Dies six days after Crash

    What: University of Dubuque plane
    Where: Eagle’s Roost Resort in Cassville, Wis. approaching the airport.
    When: Tuesday
    Who: Grant Vogt, a junior aviation student died six days after the crash; student pilot Cory Alsip is recovering.
    Why: The plane crashed into a tree and two cabins before it burst into flames. One student died at the crash; the other died later at the hospital.

    About Grant’s services.

  • Experimental Plane Crashes, One Fatality.

    What: Single-engine Pitts S-1, experimental craft that had no transponder or Emergency Locator Beacon.
    Where: Wooded area near the Ridgely Airport in Caroline County.
    When: left airport at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening but not found until found about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday
    Who: Pilot 52-year-old Ronald Fenwick is listed as a fatality.
    Why: No reason is listed but the accident is under investigation.

  • Witham Field Crash landing

    What: twin-engine aircraft
    Where: Witham Field
    When: Wednesday morning about 10:45 a.m.
    Who: Not released. There were no injuries.
    Why: After the plane lost its landing gear, the plane slid on its belly off the runway into a field.

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    Trainer and trainee crash near Pueblo Memorial Airport

    What: Diamond DA20 two-seat trainer aircraft owned by Doss Aviation
    Where: Near Pueblo Memorial Airport
    When: Noon Monday Sept 8 2008
    Who: Instructor/pilot and a trainee
    Why: The plane fell down a ravine and landed upside-down in a dry creek. A wing, the front landing gear and the engine had to be removed in order to extricate the trapped pilot. The trainee got out on his own

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    Mooney Crashes in Wallace

    What: a Mooney 20 en route to NJ. Plane registered to Raymond Conley of Sarasota, Florida.
    Where: about a mile from Wallace Airport in a wooded area near the Duplin-Pender county line.
    When: just before 11:00 a.m. Tuesday
    Who: unnamed pilot reportedly 80 years old and airlifted to New Hanover Regional Medical Center
    Why: The plane crashed shortly following takeoff.

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    Cheetah Crash Victims Found near Colorado-Utah


    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

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    Ultralight Crash in Canada


    What: ultralight plane en route from Volks Aerodrome in Tottenham near Caledon, Ont.
    Where: north of Toronto
    When: The wreckage found by York Region police helicopter at about 7:45 p.m.
    Who: The pilot, John Townsend of King City was found in the wreckage
    Why: unknown. Transport Canada is investigating

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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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    Helicopter Crashes in Dubai Killing 7


    What: Aerogulf Bell 212 helicopter flying from Dubai International Airport to one of the oil fields in the Gulf Sea. The helicopter was leased to the oil company by the aircraft firm Aerogulf,
    Where: Crashed into an oil platform off the Duba Coast 50 NM west of Dubai Airport
    When: Sept 3–20:23 local time
    Who: two pilots and five contractors working for British oil and gas services company Petrofac: an American, a Briton, two Indians, a Pakistani, one Filipino and a Venezuelan.
    Why: The British pilot lost control during take off, hit a crane crashed and exploded wednesday on a recently installed Resilient jack-up oil rig. After the helicopter propellers hit the crane, the aircraft split in two; half smashed on to the rig, while the other half fell into the sea.

    The rig is owned by AP Moller-Maersk but operated by Petrofac on behalf of state-owned Dubai Petroleum. Production in one of Dubai’s four oil fields has been suspended. The engine and the gear box have been found.

    So far five of the bodies have been identified; one report says only two of the bodies need identification by DNA testing. All of the victims were contracted personnel.

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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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    Helicopter crashes in Canada


    What: helicopter en route to a remote fishing camp near the Quebec-Labrador border
    Where: wilderness in northeastern Quebec
    When: Friday
    Who: Two pilots–a man and woman–flown to hospital in nearby Schefferville, Que and are reported to be in good condition.
    Why: No cause is given. The search began Tuesday after someone at the fishing camp called to say the helicopter hadn’t shown up. The crash was located by a Cormorant from Greenwood, N.S. at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday

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    South African Beechcraft Crashes into Mountain


    What: Beechcraft plane owned by Air Serv which provides air transport for international aid agencies. The plane was being flown by South Africa’s Cem Air.
    Where: eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    When: crashed into a mountain near Bukavu. The plane was last contacted in heavy rain 10 minutes from Bukavu
    Who: 15 passengers and two crew members. Most of the passengers were aid and relief workers.
    Why: The weather is considered a factor but no cause is listed as yet. UN rescue teams are “securing the site and searching for and recovering victims’ bodies.” No survivors.

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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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    Connecticut Pilot Treed


    What: 1930s single-engine de Havilland Tiger Moth
    Where: East Windsor, Conn
    When: Saturday August 30
    Who: pilot and passenger
    Why: The plane lost power 200 feet from the runway at the Skylark Airpark Saturday. The pilot and passenger crashed in treetops and were stuck in the tree until help arrived. A tree surgeon climbed the tree, and set up a pulley to rescue the pilot and passenger who were apparently unhurt. The pilot was an instructor who “maintained an airspeed where he was in control and buffeted [the plane] into the top of the trees. That’s what saved both their lives.”

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    Yak 52 Crashes; pilot and passenger lost


    What: Russian-built Yak-52 stunt plane flying from Archerfield Airport on Brisbane’s southside
    Where: off South Stradbroke Island, Jumpinpin Australia in south-east Queensland. Wreckage was found after a significant search in about 20 metres of water
    When: Sunday Aug 31 12.30pm AEST
    Who: veteran pilot Barry Hempel and 20 year old passenger. The pilot and passenger are missing.
    Why: no reasons listed; crash is under investigation

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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

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    Wildfire Crash Update


    While on it’s third run from Helispot 44, at an elevation 5,935 feet, to Helispot 36, at an elevation of 2,516 feet, ferrying firefighters from a remote mountain site in the Shasta-Trinity forest, the Sikorsky S-61N helicopter crashed killing 9.

    Fortunately, the voice-data recorder was determined to be intact despite fire damage. The investigation so far has found that the chopper’s main rotor lost power during takeoff. After the rotor malfunction, witnesses say the helicopter struck trees and slammed into the hillside. Four of the thirteen passengers–three fire fighters and the co-pilot–survived. The co-pilot remains hospitalized.

    Read profiles of the victims here

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    UTair Crash at Nizhnevartovsk


    Pictured: A UTair Aviation Mil Mi-8T
    Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
    Contact photographer Schelakovsky Maxim

    What: UT Air
    Where: 350 kms from Nizhnevartovsk, Russia
    When: July 2 2008
    Who: 9 fatalities, 13 aboard
    Why: The helicopter was on landing approach when according to witnesses, it caught fire and crashed. Apparently one of the black boxes survived and is being studied. The crew survived the crash.

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    Legacy Crash Murieta CA


    Pictured: A Lancair Legacy 2000
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    Contact photographer Connector

    What: Poulin L/Cullen D Lancair Legacy
    Where: Murrieta, CA
    When: May 30 2008
    Who: 2 aboard, both fatalities
    Why: The Lancair Legacy was heading south to the runway, made a hard right turn and nosed into the ground with one “loud engine rev” before the engine ” died out.” The propeller was not under power when it impacted terrain. The wings, wreckage, vegetation, and ground did not indicate signs of a fuel spill. It appeared that the airplane had run out of fuel and stalled on approach, causing it to enter a spin prior to impacting terrain in a near vertical attitude. Cited as cause was the pilot’s inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in the loss of engine power.

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    Catalina Island Express Crash


    Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
    Contact photographer Jerry Search

    What: Island Express Helicopter Service
    Where: Catalina Island
    When: May 24 2008
    Who: 6 aboard, 3 fatalities
    Why: On May 24, 2008, at 0920 Pacific daylight time, an Aerospatiale AS-350-D helicopter, N67GE, operated by Island Express Helicopters, Inc., impacted terrain while landing at Two Harbors, Avalon, located on Santa Catalina Island, California, during a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 on-demand, commercial flight. The flight departed from the Queensway Bay Heliport, Long Beach, California, at 0907. The commercial pilot, a company employee, and one passenger were killed, and three passengers were seriously injured. The helicopter was destroyed by impact damage and fire

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    Cessna: 5 Fatalities in Bolivia


    Pictured: A Cessna 172A
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    Contact photographer Giovanni Francisco Rodriguez Bravo

    What: Bolivian Cessna 172 RG
    Where: “Agropecuaria Arco Iris” airstrip, north of Montero, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
    When: May 11, 2008
    Who: 5 fatalities
    Why: While en route, the plane impacted a tree with its left’s wing and then the ground, where a fire ensued. The accident site was about 1,150 meters from an unlit runway of “Agropecuaria Arco Iris” airstrip, north of Montero, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The pilot and the four passengers received fatal injuries; the airplane was destroyed. The flight originated from El Tromprillo Airport, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, at about 1808.

  • Crash: National Airways Corporation



    What: National Airways Corporation
    Where: Rand Airport
    When: 26 April 2008
    Who: pilot Ms Kekana, 21 and flight-tracker Peter-John Winterbottom, 29
    Why: pilot hit an airplane-shed, lost control over the helicopter and crashed it onto the runway. The plane, which had just refuelled, burst into flames.