What: American Eagle flight en route from New York to Washington DC
Where: New York
When: Sept 19, 2012
Who: 2 flight attendants
Why: Pilot turns plane around when two Flight attendants fight on American Eagle Flight.
Flight 3823 was delayed for four hours. Lucky passengers. Apparently this happened wednesday, and on Thursday management gave them a “talking to.”
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What: Rgd. Dewberry Air LLC Beechcraft 400 en route from Charleston to Macon
Where: Macon GA
When: Sept 18 2012 10:05
Who: 3 aboard
Why: The Beechcraft hydroplaned while landing during a downpour at Herbert Smart Airport, overran the runway, went over an embankment, crossed Oculgee East Blvd and stopped in the trees thirty yards from the runway. The businessman and quarterback who were aboard the plane were not hurt. They had flown in on a business trip on the Dewberry Air Corporation Jet, on a plane registered in Dover Delaware.
The pilot was pinned in the plane and had to be cut out was not seriously injured.
What: K-VA-T & W-L Aviation LLC Bell 407 en route to Bristol Motor Speedway
Where: South Holston Lake, Washington County Park, VA
When: AUG 24 2012 20:30 Local time
Who: 1 fatality
Why: 911 call of the Saturday 25 August 2012 crash in South Holston Lake late Friday 24 August 2012.
What: X Aviation LLC Piper PA-23-250 Aztec en routes from Hooks to Tyler
Where: Near Lake Palestine, Bullard, TX
When: Sept 12, 2012
Who: 1 fatality
Why: The pilot identified as 51-year-old Stephen Annis of Huntsville, crashed behind a subdivision, spiraling down, missing most of the trees and crashing. An ambulance is responded to the crash, which is located in the 15000 block of Treasure Cove in Bullard. In the adjacent neighborhood, witnesses heard the thud, smelled the fumes and saw flying debris. Investigators speculate he was aiming for the lake, and trying to avoid the neighborhood.
There was no report of a distress call.
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 4842P Make/Model: PA23 Description: PA-23-150/160 Apache
Date: 09/12/2012 Time: 2000
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed
LOCATION
City: TYLER State: TX Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES. TYLER, TX
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
# Crew: 0 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Pleasure Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: DALLAS, TX (SW05) Entry date: 09/13/2012
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Contact photographer Dmitriy Pichugin
What: Local carrier FGUPKAP twin-engine Antonov An-28 en route from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yelizovo to Palana
Where: Palana village, Russia
When: Sept 12, 2012 12:28 p.m.
Who: 12 passengers, 2 crew, ten fatalities
Why: The plane was scheduled to land in Palana village, but lost contact with ATC and crashed in a cedar forest on a hill 10 kilometers away from the intended landing site. A thirteen year old boy who survived is now comatose. The three other survivors are in critical condition.
A recovery helicopter landed as close as possible to the wreckage; but rescue personnel had to navigate through rough topography to reach the wounded.
Originally nine bodies were found, and five injured people, but one child died of injuries.
FGUPKAP, the carrier is owned by the state. Minister of Health Tatiana Lemeshko Kamchatka participated in a conference regarding the crash, and reported on the status of the 4 surviving passengers. The ministry is sending September rescue personnel and doctors to Palana on September 13.
Weather conditions, human error or technical malfunction may be the cause. Officials announced that the families of the fatalities will be getting 200,000 rubles in compensation.
What: ABX Air Boeing 767-200 en route from Cincinnati, to Seattle
Where: Seattle
When: Sep 7th 2012
Who: Crew
Why: A cargo flight lost a little something over Washington state. The refrigerator-sized landing gear door crashed to a Kent Washington street and skidded along the ground.
The FAA picked up the DHL plane part.
The video below mentions a couple other cases when planes have rained parts down on people below:
What: Houston to Decatur
Where: Decatur Municipal Airport
When: Sept 6 2012, 10:30 a.m.
Who: 4 aboard
Why: No one was injured when Pilot Mark Moran made a hard landing in Decatur when returning a passenger from cancer treatment and surgery. Moran is an Angel Flight program pilot, providing free flights to sick people who cannot afford their treatments. Moran came in too fast and would have performed a go round but he didn’t feel he had enough lift to make it over powerlines at the end of the runway. He veered left off the end of the runway through a barbed wire fence. Fire crews sprayed down the leaked fuel.
(unconfirmed)
What: Aero Med LLC AMD CH2000 Alarus
Where: Nephi Utah
When: August 30, 2012, 4 p.m.
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: Returning to Nephi Municipal Airport, the plan crashed on approach at 4 p.m.. The two aboard died on impact. The impact area was in the area of highway 132. Weather may have been involved, as it was storming at the time. After impact, there was a fire.
The fatalities were identified as Robert Marion Lamb, 45, of Utah County and Peter John Mrowiec, 58, of Ontario, Canada. Either one could have been flying.
Robert Lamb, a flight instructor, had been aboard while Peter Morwiec was trying to earn five hours of flight training to fly the plane home. Mrowiec was intending to purchase the plane.
According to Lamb’s wife who asked why he was going, since he wasn’t getting paid and didn’t know [Mrowiec]. he said, “If I was stranded and couldn’t get home, I would hope someone would help me.”
What: Bell 206 Chopper
Where: Godhra, Gujarat, India
When: August 28, 2012
Who: 5 aboard, 2 injured, 0 fatalities
Why: On landing, the helicopter crashed and rolled. The pilot and one passenger were extricated from the chopper and rushed to the hospital. One of the passengers was Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu who was scheduled to speak at Godhra Science College.
As can be seen in the video below , the chopper rolls end over end on landing.
What: KTLA EUROCOPTER AS350 helicopter
Where: Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue.
When: August 28, 2012 1:00 pm
Who: pilot and passenger
Why: When the helicopter started giving off blue and white smoke, the first to see it was the pilot of another helicopter.
KTLA pilot Tim Lynn declared an emergency, then made a forced landing in a parking lot of the senior center at Hollywood Boulevard and Franklin Avenue.
The incident was witnessed by SKY2 pilot Dan Catalano (who taught Lynn to fly heicopters.)
The smoke came from an oil leak. Some newspapers report two aboard the helicopter but the FAA entry only reports the presence of the pilot.
What: Piper PA-32-301T Turbo Saratoga
Where: off Winnemucca Avenue near Barton Hospital, Barton Meadow, South Lake Tahoe, CA
When: August 25, 2012, 9:45 p.m.
Who: 5 aboard, 5 fatalities
Why: The plane took off from Lake Tahoe Airport. No flight plan was filed. Witnesses heard the plane having engine trouble, and saw the plane turn and crash. A witness said he heard something like “a lawnmower that got something caught in the blade. There were two quick cracking noises and then it was over.”The plane impacted in Barton Meadows within El Dorado County limits, and caught on fire. Other witnesses reported seeing the fireball. The wildfire burned about an acre and was contained by 11:10 p.m.. Debris from the crash remained in the field but the numbers on the wing and tail were not identifiable.
Those aboard were identified as pilot Francisco de la Mora, his wife Lorena, and daughter, and Harold and Kin Cardwell. The plane was registered in the pilot’s name.
What: Lindstrand LBL 180A
Where: Ljubljana Slovenia
When: August 23, 2012
Who: 30 passengers, 2 crew, 4 fatalities, 28 injured
Why: A hot air balloon with 32 aboard caught fire and crashed into a tree, burning four beyond recognition. At least six children were injured. Then people at the scene were reported resuscitated; eight in the crash were in critical condition. One passenger was quoted as saying “we were landing, but I think the speed was too high for landing so we hit the ground, bounced off once and hit it again. We held on, but five of us fell out“. Twenty-one were admitted in the hospital Ljubljana, and seven to other hospitals. The injured included one brit and three Italians.
When the balloon hit the ground and and bounced back in the air, some passengers jumped or fell out, scattering the injured across four locations and making it more difficult for rescuers. Nine teams with ambulances and twelve emergency medical service teams responded as well as 79 firefighters, 20 fire fighting vehicles and three helicopters.
The balloon takes off and lands in uncontrolled airspace and does not need air traffic control clearance.
Prime Minister Janez Janša, Minister for Health Tomaz Gantar, Minister of Defense Aleš Hojs and Interior Minister Vinko Gorenak expressed condolences.
The cause is being attributed to ground level wind shear. The pilot needed to retake a health exam to renew his license in June.
Five are unidentified.
The on board extinguishers apparently had cracked cylinders.
What: Jetblue Airbus A320-200 en route from New York to Los Angeles
Where: Denver
When: Aug 19 2012
Who: one disorderly
Why: On August 22, Marcus Covington was charged with abusive sexual contact and interference with flight crew members and attendants.
The August 19 flight where the infraction occurred was en route from NY to LA. The Captain diverted to Denver after Covington groped a pregnant woman, argued with flight attendants, and was taken into custody by a special agent who was aboard the flight. Covington, who had been seen taking eight pills of some kind, accosted the pregnant woman near the restroom.
The complaint says “He then ran his hands up the front of her body going from her crotch up to her breasts. He started with the back of his hands, but turned his hands with his palms facing her as he ran his hands over her breasts. She pushed him away and she got behind the flight attendant that had come up behind her. She then went into the lavatory where she remained crying for approximately five minutes.”
Covington left the plane in handcuffs.
What: Piper PA 32 en route from Davis Island
Where: I-75 at Gibsonton Drive, Florida
When: August 23, 2012
Who: 3 aboard
Why: The pilot, Charles Pulliam took off from Davis Island en route to Opa Locka AIrport, but began losing oil and had to make an emergency landing. He struck a power line but managed to land on the shoulder of I-75 Northbound. His right wing was cut off halfway after striking a road sign, but neither Pulliam nor his two passengers were injured.
See Video below
Is this alarming? The Federal Aviation Administration may be facing a billion in mandatory cuts in January.
Consequences of the cuts would result in fewer ATC, customs and security personnel.
According to Aerospace Industries Association, the cuts will “cost up to 132,000 aviation jobs.”
You can read or download”Economic Impact of the Budget Control Act” here (23 pages):
What: Alfa Airlines Antonov 24/26 en route from Khartoum to Talodi
Where: near Talodi
When: August 19. 2012
Who: 32 aboard, 32 fatalities, 6 crew, 26 occupants
Why: Sudanese officials en route to a Muslim festival were aboard a flight that crashed into a hill near Talodi. According to some reports, the 35 year old plane crashed into a mountainside during a dust storm while on a second go-round on approach to the airport; other reports make no reference to mountains or dust and just say the crash occurred during seasonal rains.
Talodi is a town in South Kordofan.
Guidance and Endowments (religious affairs) Minister Ghazi al-Sadeq was killed in the crash, along with Mahjoub Abdel Raheem Toutou, state minister for youth and sports, and Eissa Daifallah, state minister for tourism, antiquities and wildlife were aboard the plane.
Initial reports indicated there were 31 aboard but that number was increased to 32.
The news video below says the accident occurred during the second go-round during a rain storm.
Alfa Airlines is on the list of airlines banned within the EU. The captain who was from Russia had been flying with Alfa Airlines for five years, according to “Inquirer News” and was flying with a Sudanese co-pilot.
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On August 9, 2012 at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, two months after the June 3, 2012 crash, after that all possible DNA testing was complete (only 52 of 149 bodies identified, the rest burnt beyond testability,) the Lagos Government announced that it would release bodies of Dana crash victims to the next of kin.
Families were requested to contact the Funeral Director’s office on 01-8542254 at the teaching hospital 24 hours before they come to claim the bodies.
One family trying to claim their loved one, Mr. George Moses, found he is missing. He was #22 on the list of 29 identified names at the Lekan Ogunsola Memorial mortuary in June. Mr. Achief Olajide, a family member said that after the June 3 crash, he saw Moses intact body, his ID card and wallet. The mortuary refused to let him claim the body, and now it is lost.
Below, a retired Nigerian Air Force captain criticizes the Nigerian government’s handling of aircraft emergency.
What: Ugandan helicopter Mil Mi-24 en route from Soroti to Garissa
What: Ugandan helicopter Mil Mi-24 en route from Soroti to Garissa
Where: Mount Kenya
When: August 12, 2012
Who: 7 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: Three Mi-24 were heading to Somalia. A fourth helicopter did not crash.
Capt. William Letti and Lt. Patrick Nahamya were flying a peace-keeping mission when they crashed onto the side of Mount Kenya. They are calling it a “hard landing” i.e. in an “ungazetted” area. Two bodies were found on August 14. A third body was found a day later (August 15)
One choppers made it to Garissa, North Eastern Kenya. 18 people from that helicopters safely evacuated.
Two of the helicopters crashed, and were found burned.
A pilot from one of the helicopters sent a message requesting assistance for ground troops and the grounded chopper crew.
What: SkyWalker II ultralight training aircraft
Where: Idar-Oberstein, Germany
When: August 3, 2012
Who: 2 aboard, 1 fatality
Why: An 18 year old pilot crashed in an ultralight training aircraft in Idar-Oberstein. The pilot died on impact.
His 23 year old passenger was injured seriously, and transported via medical helicopter to University Hospital Homburg.
An investigation is underway. NO cause for the crash has yet been determined.
What: US Airways en route from Washington
What: US Airways en route from Washington
What: US Airways en route to Washington
Where: Reagan National Airport, Washington
When: July 31, 2012 2:00 pm
Who: 192 aboard
Why: One US Airways plane had been rerouted into Washington’s Reagan international airport. Its route had been changed in Warrenton, Va due to an approaching storm. The problem is that no one apparently told Reagan National and that rerouted plane was scheduled to land into two US Airways Jets that were taking off.
Warrenton, Va ATC changed courses due to weather and wind patterns.
Reagan Airport ATC caught the potential collision 12 seconds before it happened and rerouted the incoming jet.
What: United Boeing 737-900 en route from Dallas to Denver
Where: Denver
When: Jul 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.
Who: 151 aboard
Why: The Boeing was on approach when it suffered a bird strike in the nose cone. The bird strike did not affect the engine or landing gear.
No one was injured. The birds remains are being identified by an ornithologist.
The NTSB is investigating.
What: Beechcraft B60 Duke
Where: Sedona Airport
When: July 26, 2012
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: On takeoff, the Beechcraft failed to achieve adequate lift and crashed southwest of the airport. The husband and son of U.S. Olympic distance runner Pat Porter were aboard when the plane crashed. The third fatality was a 14 year old friend and classmate of the son.
The plane went straight past the end of the runway, crashed and sent up a black mushroom cloud on impact just before 9 a.m. At the end of the runway is a ravine (shown in the second video below) where the beechcraft impacted.
Witnesses say the plane’s engines appeared to be running normally. The cause of the crash was unclear.
What: jet2.com Boeing 737-300 en route from Manchester to Rome (and back)
When: Jul 24, 2012
Who: 1
Why: 11-year-old Liam Corcoran managed to fly to Rome on his own without a passport or a boarding pass, and his action has instigated a probe of procedures at Manchester airport.
Corcoran ran away from his mother, went through full security screening, and boarded the flight while mingling with a family and was discovered while en route. He discussed with other passengers how he was running away. It was other passengers who notified the crew who notified the Captain who called his worried family. He stayed on the plane for the return flight to Manchester, and was returned safely to his family.
A number of airport and Jet2 employees have been suspended as a result of the security breach. The breach has launched several high-level investigations.
What: Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet en route from SW Asia to MacDill Air Force Base
Where: Peter O. Knight Airport, Davis Island
When: July 20, 2012
Who: 23 passengers and 19 crew
Why: The Globemaster III cargo jet landed on a runway that is 3,580 feet long and 100 feet wide rather than the 11,421 feet long and 151 feet wide runway at MacDill. The nose stopped six to 10 feet from the end of the runway. It took off again later with no problem.
