The missing Ace Air Cargo/Alaska Central Express Beech 1900 freight flight from King Salmon to Dillingham was located wrecked twenty miles from the airport in Muklung Hills.
At about 9:15 a.m., an emergency locator beacon had begun transmitting a signal.
The plane crashed in rough terrain in stormy weather. The two aboard were reported as fatalities.
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What: Divi Divi Air Britten-Norman BN2 A Islander en route from Curacao to Bonaire Netherlands Antilles
Where: Caribbean
When: Oct 22nd 2009
Who: 9 passengers and 1 pilot
Why: When the plane experienced engine failure, the flight ditched in the Carribean. The pilot, Robert Marcel, was knocked unconscious on impact.
Passengers were rescued by boat. The unconscious captain could not be freed from his seat harness and the plane sank with him aboard.
George’s Point of View
Condolences to the family of Robert Marcel.
A float plane crashed near Ketchikan on the shoreline of a lake in Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, on August 15th.
According to sources the plane wreckage was located on the Island, after which the pilot was rescued by the MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter.
One person aboard was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
United Airlines flight UA-656 overran the end of the runway after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on January 19th.
The incident happened when the Boeing 737-900 plane was coming from Phoenix, Arizona.
All one hundred and twenty-nine people aboard remained uninjured.
On January 27, 2013, a United Express Jet’s ailerons mid-flight failure fifty miles out forced the pilot of the Shreveport-Denver flight to make an emergency diversion and landing in Wichita.
The pilot of the Embraer EMB-145XR Flight ? ASQ6099 could not turn left but made a safe landing at Mid-Continent Airport. Kudos to the pilot for figuring out how three lefts make a right (or something to that effect.)
None of the thirty-nine passengers reported injury.
Emergency services responded to the scene.
After the plane taxied to the gate, UE provided transportation alternatives to the passengers.
We can’t wait to hear what was wrong with the ailerons. Maintenance?
A plane carrying New York Mets’ team made an emergency landing in Detroit, Michigan, on the night of July 2.
The flight, en-route from New York to Los Angeles, was landed in emergency after Howie Rose, the radio play-by-play broadcaster, fell sick on-board.
Rose was taken to a hospital in Detroit while the flight continued to Los Angeles after delay of an hour.
A Bell 206-L4 helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Mexico at South Timbalier Block 317, some 90 miles from Houma, on the afternoon of June 11.
The accident happened when the helicopter was on its way to an oil rig platform, with two people on-board.
The crashed helicopter and 2 dead bodies were recovered after tireless efforts of U.S. Coast Guard first responders and many others on June 13. The names of the deceased have not so far been released.
The helicopter, owned by Westwind Helicopters, was contracted by an oil and gas company, Wood Group, at the time of accident. A spokesperson of the company, Bobbie, confirmed the incident and said “Our thoughts and prayers are with them, their families and friends during this difficult time.”
Westwind Helicopters and NTSB are working to determine the cause of crash.
