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: Cessna 172
Where: North Bend, Washington
When: Feb 15, 2012
Who: 3 fatalities
Why: Around 2 a.m. a King County resident heard the sputtering engine of a plane in distress, and called in a 911. Deputies on foot patrol heard the sound of a crash in the same area. The FAA picked up the emergency beacon (transponder). Emergency teams were using portable emergency locator receivers to follow the beacon to find the crash site. At 4:15 a.m., the King County’s Guardian One helicopter crew with night vision goggles assisted in discovering the fuselage from a single-engine Cessna 172 near a sheer face of Little Si mountain. The bodies of three individuals were found by teams of rescue hikers traveling about a mile by foot from the local base of operations.
Two men and a woman were found. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus said the flight was not in contact with ATC.
Two of the three people killed in the small plane crash on Mount Si were swim coaches in King County. 31-year-old “Coach Seth” Dawson’s memorial was held Thursday night. Federal Way’s Decatur High School swim coach, Rob Hill was also killed in the crash, as well as Liz Redling. Hill was pursuing his commercial pilot’s license.
There may have been ground fog at the time of the crash.
On March 6, 2013, a Danish Air Survey, BioFlight A/S Partenavia P.68 Observer was on a bird counting mission when it made an emergency landing at Copenhagen-Roskilde Airport. Two people were aboard.
The hard landing and fire virtually broke the plane in two and sent a plume of thick black smoke up in the air.
The plane crashed on approach and caught fire. A large number of emergency vehicles responded to the scene, according to Ekstra Bladet
A “large number” of emergency vehicles, including fire and rescue services arrived on the scene.
The crash is under investigation.
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.
What: TSI Titanium (1982) Beechcraft 58 Baron en route from Arnold Palmer Regional Airport
Where: Bell Township Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
When: Aug 7 2010 9:19 am
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: The plane crashed nine minutes after take-off. Witnesses say it sounded like the engine cut out before it crashed. The pilot did not contact ATC and the cause is unknown, pending investigation.
Edward Sobota, president and owner of TSI Titanium, was flying his new Beechcraft two engine plane, and working on getting certified in it, when it crashed into a Bell Township neighborhood. Ted Kokolis a pilot for Bayer, who was also on board and killed in the crash. Steve Yanko was sleeping on his couch in his family room and was not injured when the plane crashed and burned in his wife’s art studio at the opposite end of the house. His wife was not in the house at the time.
What: Keystone Air Service Ltd.Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain en route from Winnipeg to Manitoba.
Where: North Spirit Lake reserve, Ontario Canada
When: Jan 10, 2012, 10:00 a.m.
Who: 5 aboard, 4 fatalities
Why: The Keystone Air Service two engines propellor driven aircraft went down half a mile from North Spirit Lake’s gravel runway. THe plane crashed on the lake and caught fire 500 metres from the airport. People from a nearby residence rushed to the plane and tried to put out the fire with snow until the snow became saturated with jet fuel. Then they attempted to cut through the ice to get water to douse the flames. There was no firefighting equipment and no rescue resources or emergency equipment, and the runway has no control tower.
Witnesses heard the plane making a “putt putt” noise as it circled.
The cause of the crash has not been pinpointed; the plane had no black box, but locals say there was a blinding white-out blizzard with no visibility when the plane crashed.
Three of the passengers aboard were employees of Aboriginal Strategies, Inc. The pilot was one of the four people were killed. One male survivor is injured. Martha Campbell, Ben Van Hoek, and Colette Eisinger are among the deceased.
The locator beacon went off at 10:30, alerting ATC and the NTSB that the plane went down. NAPS and the Ontario Provincial Police responded. ASI(Aboriginal Strategies, Inc.) is owned by Tataskweyak Cree Nation, of Split Lake. The small (400 member) community is devastated.
A light plane crashed over Lake Naivasha, Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya, on the noon of September 8th.
The crash killed 1 woman and injured 5 other occupants. The injured were taken to hospital.
The cause of the cause is under investigation.
