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What: Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 en route from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria
Where: Iju neighborhood, Lagos
When: June 3, 2012
Who: 153 passengers
Why: NAICOM told seminar attendees that the $70,000 per Dana Plane Crash victim payment is contingent on the death certificate and letter of administration, and 70 per cent of Dana Air Crash Claim settlements have been delayed due to families being unable to submit death certificates and letter of administration.

58 families have been paid $30,000 (the initial 30%) that is due 30 days after the crash. On verification of the correct claimants, the balance of the claims should be covered by Prestige Assurance, six Nigerian insurance companies and Lloyds and Lloyds Associates.

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Brazil Helicopter Crash


What: AgustaWestland A109C Helicopter en route from the coastal resort town of Parati to Itupeva
Where: (near Sao Paulo) in Brazil’s northeastern state of Ceara.
When: Monday 01/05
Who: Pilot and copilot were hospitalized. One businessman (Gilberto Ramalho) was the only fatality, 5 in all were injured.
Why: The pilot was about to land at Ramalho’s famiy farm in Itupeva when the helicopter exploded. On board were the pilot, copilot, a business couple, their teenage daughter and her friend. Three passengers got out quickly–the pilot and copilot were severely burned. The security camera at Ramalho’s farm recorded the impact.

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NZ Chopper Smashed While Setting up Christmas Tree

What: Helisika Agricultural Ltd. Aérospatiale AS 350B2 Ecureuil
Where: Viaduct Harbour, Auckland, NZ
When: Nov 23, 2011
Who: 1 pilot
Why: After setting a pylon for a christmas tree, the chopper’s roter struck a cable, and crashed the chopper.

Pilot Greg Gribble was hospitalized and released.

Te Wero Bridge has been closed to pedestrians until the investigation is complete.

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CHC North Sea Crash Inquiry In Progress


What: CHC (for Total) Helicopter Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma en route from Aberdeen to West Phoenix drilling rig
Where: 32 miles south of Shetland, off Fair Isle
When: October 22, 2012
Who: 19 aboard, 0 fatalities
Why: The helicopter that was ditched in the North Sea has been retrieved and taken to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is investigating the incident in which seventeen passengers and two crew were on the way to the drilling rig when the crew had to ditch the helicopter (controlled ditching) in the North sea.

Report name:
S5/2012 – EC225 LP Super Puma, G-REDW
Registration:
G-REDW
Type:
EC225 LP Super Puma
Location:
20 nm east of Aberdeen
Date of occurrence:
10 May 2012
Category:
Commercial Air Transport – Rotorcraft
Summary:

This Special Bulletin contains information about the helicopter’s main gearbox (MGB) lubrication system and the results of an investigation into the indication of a failure of the emergency lubrication system, after it was activated by the crew. It follows publication of two earlier Special Bulletins on this accident, AAIB Special Bulletins S2/2012 and S3/2012.

This was the first occasion that the EC225 LP MGB emergency lubrication system had been operated in-service. One Safety Recommendation is made.

The investigation into the failure of the bevel gear vertical shaft in the MGB continues.

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Mexico Cessna Sport Fishing Hop has at least four fatalities

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On July 10, a Cessna 206 en route from Tamaulipas to Veracruz with seven aboard crashed in eastern Mexico has killed four people and injured two. The fall of the plane did not affect the residents of the town. No cause has been reported for the plane failure.

The pilot reported engine failure at 22:18 to Veracruz ATC around the time the plane disappeared from radar..

The wreckage is being recovered at Rancho Coralillos in the town of Alto Lucero. The remains of four people were found aboard the plane. (Number varies.) Two injured have been named as Sergio Rage Marrón and Jorge Arturo Velázquez Amorringa.

The number of fatalities has been raised to five. The bodies inside the plane were burned, and difficult to identify.

The injured were taken to a private hospital in Veracruz.

The passengers had been going to a sport fishing competition.
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The Secretary of Civil Protection and the Municipal Civil Protection and a navy Mi17 helicopter responded to the scene.

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Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896


Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 took off from Boa Viagem, Recife, Brazil, on 13 July 2011, issued a mayday shortly after, and after experiencing trouble with one engine, the Let L-410UVP-E20 crashed 1,300 yds from the end of the runway. Two crew and fourteen passengers were killed on the scene.

From the final:

The CVR data indicate a change in the emotional state of the PIC on account of the aircraft adverse condition, to which he had to respond with an operational procedure that was different from the one for a normal flight situation.
The copilot, in turn, in his communications, gives the impression of being highly tense on account of the emergency situation.
This became clear with the delay of the copilot in retracting the landing gear, and in the PIC’s initiative to “feather” the propellers that had already been feathered by the copilot, after an order given by the very PIC.
The evident anxiety identified in the cockpit is reflected in the barriers and filters that influenced the process of communication between the two pilots, sensitively affecting the PIC’s situational awareness.
Moreover, it is a known fact that non-routine situations can cause a rise in one’s level of anxiety, but such alteration of the emotional state may be intensified when one does not have enough knowledge to manage the circumstance, and this interferes in the analysis of the scenario and adoption of appropriate measures.

See Final Report (Text Only)

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Piper Crash in Virginia Kills Man and Woman


What: single-engine aircraft, Piper PA-24 en route from Asheville, North Carolina, to Charlottesville
Where: in a densely wooded area about one-half mile from Route 20 near the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
When: Oct. 24, 2008 7:20 p.m. Friday
Who: 47-year-old Thomas Mahoney and 50-year-old Elizabeth Marie Paris died instantly.
Why: The airport received a distress call at 7:20. The crash occurred 12 miles from CHO after the flight hadbeen cleared for an instrument approach to the airport, but the aircraft was found crashed 2 hours later at approximately 9:30 p.m. Weather conditions were unfavorable. (It was drizzling.)

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