In the 2008 Continental Airline crash at Denver International Airport, although the crash was blamed on pilot error, pilots did not have all the facts. How could the pilots do anything but fail to make proper rudder adjustments when air traffic controllers didn’t bother to tell the pilots about a forty-knot crosswind.
The settlement will be “several million dollars.”
Some passengers were not injured, but they all have to remember that after they jumped from the wreckage, it burst into flames.
What: crop dusting helicopter
Where: 1778 Richvale Highway, Richvale, Butte County California
When: Wednesday May 13
Who: pilot Craig Compton
Why: The pilot (and business owner of Avag ) was moving the plane when it crashed into a building. Compton was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico.
AVAG’s business is aerial seeding.
A small plane crashed in Meriden, Connecticut, on January 27th.
The Piper PA-28 was carrying two people when it went down near the American Legion building on Hanover Road.
Both occupants of the plane were injured and were taken to a hospital.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
What: Pacific East Air Cargo/UPS / ATMA Atyra Transport Antonov AN-12BP en route from Mactan to Angeles Philippines
Where: SE of Clark airport, Pampanga province, northern Philippines
When: Apr 21 2010
Who: 6 crew
Why: Flying low over Mexico village in the Philippines, the cargo plane crashed south east of the base. The crash fragmented the plane, and it burst into flames. Three Russian crew members were hospitalized, 3 other crew members are reported missing. The pilot, who survived, was quoted saying that the plane encountered electric circuit trouble about an hour into the flight, and a fire that broke out forced him to make an emergency landing on the open field.
The Interisland Airlines flight was chartered on behalf of UPS.
Delta Airlines flight DL-981 had to divert and make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, on August 22nd.
The Airbus A321-200 plane heading from Boston, Massachusetts, to Atlanta, Georgia, was diverted after the crew reported fumes on-board.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty-eight people aboard remained unharmed.
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Contact photographer Karl Nixon
What: Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 en route from Cyprus to Athens to Prague, Czech Republic
Where: Athens
When: Aug. 14, 2005
Who: 121 passengers
Why: Before losing radio contract, pilots reported trouble with the air conditioning system. In the flight, cabin pressure failure knocked out the pilots. They made it to Athens, but the plane ran out of fuel and crashed. Crash video shows fire fighting planes controlling fires, bodies, baggage, airplane spread over a large debris field, the tail and engines relatively intact. At the time of the crash, except for one pilot (who was observed trying to land the plane), everyone aboard was comatose due to lack of oxygen.
In the case, prosecution failed to prove that German pilot Hans-Juergen Merten and his Cypriot co-pilot Charalambos Charalambous didn’t meet the minimum standards
A Cyprus court has acquitted four former airline officials of manslaughter charges.
What: Beech A36 Bonanza en route from Chicago Executive Airport to Minocqua
Where: Eagle lake Kansasville, Racine County, WI
When: Sept 9, 2012
Who: 1 fatality
Why: The pilot who had been en route from Chicago Executive Airport to Minocqua crashed into a Kansasville Wisconsin garage but avoided hitting any of the neighborhood houses in Eagle Lake. the plane, a garage, and two cars were destroyed; and two homes sustained damage. Debris and plane parts were scattered over the immediate area.
Witnesses say that when the plane hit, it shook the neighborhood.
The FAA and Racine County Sheriff’s Office are investigating.
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 3224G Make/Model: BE36 Description: 36 Bonanza
Date: 09/09/2012 Time: 1653
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed
LOCATION
City: RACINE State: WI Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES. RACINE, WI
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: MILWAUKEE, WI (GL13) Entry date: 09/10/2012
