What: Eurocopter EC120 helicopter en route to Nanga Merit Kapit Division
Where: Sarawak, Malaysia
When: July 20, 2012
Who: 4 aboard
Why: A privately owned helicopter with four people aboard went down Sungai Teriso estuary near Sebuyau near a small coastal town in Sarawak Borneo. The German pilot, Rko Steger swam for hours to reach Kampung Tebelu, Sebuyau. Fisherman pulled him from the river estuary. Three others —two men and a woman named Peter Ato Mayau, 53, Siti Khuzaima and Henry Loh—had been aboard the helicopter and are still missing. The two engineers and the quantity surveyor aboard the helicopter and that they were flying to Nanga Merit to look at a school project.
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What: Susi Air Pilatus PC-6/B2-H4 Turbo Porter
Where: Ritan, East Kalimantan, Kutai Kartanegara, Indonesia
When: April 25, 2012, 5:30 pm
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: On an aerial photography flight, the Susi Air plane developed problems. South African Pilot Jonathan Willis reported engine problems and was planning to make an emergency landing. Australian Ian McDougall was aboard, performing an aerial survey. The plane crashed 60 metres shy of a probable successful emergency landing site. He had sent his company PT Surtech Utama Indonesia a text message regarding a fuel program. They had been nearing the end of a six-hour survey flight when the pilot had attempted to fly or glide to a road 300 meters long, 20 meters wide.The owner of the airline, Susi Pudjiastuti grounded its seven Pilatus Porter planes and the owner is considering shutting down. This is Susi Air’s the third fatal crash in eight months: In September 2011, a Susi Air crash killed two in Papua; and in November of 2011, a Spanish pilot crashed at Sugapa Airport.
Both Willis and McDougall’s remains were recovered Thursday.
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NJ: Piper Crash
Pictured: a Piper PA-28-181 Archer II
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Contact photographerWhat: Piper Cherokee Arrow model PA28201R en route from Woodbine Municipal Airport in Cape May County
Where: densely wooded area in Dennis Township
When: NOVEMBER 14, 2009 11 a.m
Who: 2 on board
Why: No cause has been determined for the crash, although weather has been poor in the area due to Tropical Storm Ida, which has battered the Jersey Shore with high winds and rain since Thursday. At the time of the crash, cloud cover in the region was very low, about 300 feet.The deceased were an older man and a boy.
Mexico: Helicopter Crash Kills Businessman and Pilots
What: Eolo AgustaWestland AW109SP
Where: Cerro Alpino, Mexico
When: July 28, 2012, 23:40
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: The businessman and son of Fidel Herrera left the town of Atlacomulco after a meal with the former governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto and died in a chopper crash.Toluca Airport lost contact with the helicopter an hour prior to the accident.
The pilot Miguel Angel Rodriguez Lopez, co-pilot Rodolfo Caballero and the passenger, Armando Hinojosa-Garcia, were killed in the town of Juquipilco when the Augusta 109 chopper they were in crashed close to the Jiquipilco-Temoaya road, in the State of Mexico, North of Mexico City.
Search patrols located the wreckage early Sunday morning in a place known as “Hill of Alpine”
A Civil Aeronautics investigation is underway.
As always, we offer condolences to the families.