On board RusAir Flight 9605, there were 9 crew members, and a total of 52 people, 44 of whom died on the scene. At this time of the year, in Petrozavodsk, this is the time of White Nights so the accident occurred in subdued daylight. One died on 22 June 2011.
Nationalities have been released:
one Swede
one from Netherlands
two Ukranians
4 with US/Russian citizenship (dual)
Fatalities include chief designer of Gidropress Sergei Ryzhov, and the deputy CEO and chief designer, Gennady Banyuk, and football ref Vladimir Pettay.
While on final approach to Petrozavodsk Airport in poor weather and heavy fog, Flight 9605 crashed on the A133 highway, 3900 feet shy of the runway. The weather during the arrival of the flight was deteriorating from OVC005 to OVC003 to fog with zero visibility. The black boxes were recovered. The fire at the crash was extinguished 45 minutes after midnight. The Tu-134 was 31 years old.
Russia is considering removing the Tu-134 from service.
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A small plane crash-landed near the runway of Georgetown-Scott County Airport, Georgetown, Kentucky, on the night of August 1.
The the twin-engine Beechcraft King Air plane was attempting an emergency landing when it crash-landed. All 4 people aboard sustained injuries and were taken to hospitals.
The injured were identified as the pilot Mark Conrad and his pasengers Ron Absher, Aaron Conrad and Jonathan Absher.
The FAA is investigating.
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What: Beech Bonanza en route from Vereeniging to Margate Where: Harrismith South Africa When: Dec 28 2009 Who: 4 passengers aboard, believed to be a family Why: The flight was en route to margate but diverted to Harrismith due to technical problems. ATC lost contact with the plane during bad weather.
The plane crashed into a remote, inaccessible section of Platberg Mountain during heavy fog. The wreckage was located by another plane.
All 4 aboard the flight were fatalities, and believed to be a family group.
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It’s no surprise that the FAA has no crystal ball and can’t tell us when the 787 is flying again.
Is Boeing going to switch out Battery systems? Are they wasting time trying to qualify the problematic lithium-ion system they have when they could switch to a different technology? Is it cost prohibitive to switch systems temporarily while Boeing works the kinks out of a system they seem to want to keep?
Cessna confirms that it intends to requalify lithium-ion batteries. It means that they are going to keep using them–but we do agree with their determination to REQUALIFY them. Let us not forget that Cessna issued an emergency recall of the CJ4+ Citation Jet lithium-ion batteries when they suffered a fire in late 2011. Their airworthiness directive required CJ4+ operators to replace the lithium-ion batteries within 10 flight hours. The company that produced the Cessna batteries, A123 Systems, went out of business. Maybe Cessna should go talk to Boeing about their findings.
The investigation of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery that caught fire in Boston is that two things have been found:
thermal runaway (a cycle where temperature goes up causing it to go up more) If the electrolyte catches on fire it can self-sustain.
short-circuit (unintended contact of components and consequent accidental diversion of the current)
The Boston event battery suffered both.
Now the question is which one is the chicken, and which one is the egg. Which came first? And they still haven’t figured out why. And did both failed batteries come from the same batch of batteries?
Was the whole battery system a mistake? It was, according to whistleblower Michael Leon who we mentioned in Battery Buzz wrote a report (2006) saying that the battery technology was risky and that substitute battery technology should be used on the 787.
Now the NTSB is going to point fingers at the FAA for certifying what may be a problem.
What: Iran Air Boeing 727-200 en route from Tehran Mehrabad to Uromiyeh Where: Uromiyeh Iran When: Jan 9th 2011 7:45pm Who: 94 passengers and 12 crew (alternately reported as 93 passengers and 11 crew) Why: The weather was foggy and it was snowing. While on final approach to Urmia Airport runway 21 the crew had to perform a go-around, but five miles from the airport struck the mountainous area of Terman village.
The Deputy Minister of Roads and Transportation reported this as a crash during a forced landing outside the airport.
The impact shattered the plane. 33 were rescued by emergency responders and hospitalized. 73 bodies were recovered, including all 12 crew members. There are 77 confirmed dead (currently), 42 of whom have been identified.
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What: Krasavia Mi-8 helicopter Where: Krasnoyarsk Russia When: Oct 17, 2012 8:00 a.m. Who: 1 fatality, 10 injured Why: A Krasavia helicopter with four crew transporting eight passengers to an oil field crashed on landing at Evenkiysky at 8:00 a.m
There was one fatality and three serious injuries, eight minor injuries. The destination was identified as the Yurupchen-5 oil field.
The tail rotor of the chopper struck something or was damaged by the main rotor, and it fell on its side.
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