What: Piaggio P-149D
Where: Hollandscheveld, Netherlands
When: August 4, 2012
Who: 2 aboard, 1 on the ground, 3 injuries
Why: The plane took off at 11.30 from the nearby airport in Hoogeveen. After engine problems developed, the pilot reported via radio that he had an engine failure. He made a forced landing and struck an outbuilding and came to rest in a residential garden.
Both occupants of the plane and one person in the shed were injured.
What: Hospital Wing Eurocopter AS.350B3 Ecureuil helicopter en route from Jackson-Madison County General Hospital to Brownsville
Where: 100 yards off Springfield School Road, about four miles east of downtown Brownsville Tennessee
When: MARCH 25, 2010
Who: 3 on board (no patients)
Why: Dispatchers lost contact with the helicopter crew before 6 a.m. A lightning strike and a fireball was seen near the field where the wreckage was found, a location that was found by GPS.
A light plane crashed in a remote area near Blackstairs Commons on the Carlow-Wexford border in the Republic of Ireland, on May 24.
The Cessna 172 crashed when it was heading from Ballyboy airfield towards Wexford.
There were 2 people aboard the plane; both of them were killed in the crash. They were later identified as Bryan Keane, 69, and Paul Smith, 58. Authorities said both of them were seasoned pilots.
The Air Accident Investigation Unit is looking into the causes of crash.
A Russian cargo plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh, on March 9th.
The Antonov An-26 plane, belonging to True Aviation cargo service, was transporting shrimp from Cox’s Bazar airport to Jessore district, Bangladesh, when it went down. According to airport manager Sadhan Kumar, “Before the crash the pilot sent us a message saying one of the two engines of the plane went out of order… We prepared the airport for its emergency landing but the aircraft could not make its way back here.”
There were four Ukrainian crew members aboard at the time; three of them were killed in the crash while fourth one was injured.
The crash is under investigation.
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What: Seair Seaplanes De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. 1 en route from Tofino to Vancouver
Where: Lyall Harbour, British Columbia, Canada
When: Nov 29 2009 4:10 p.m.
Who: 8 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: After departing Lyall Harbour on Saturna Island, the flight crashed on departure. Two people—a male pilot and a female passenger— were rescued from the water. Rescuers had a difficult time dealing with near-zero visibility and strong currents
Fatalities included Vancouver doctor Kerry Telford Morrissey and her baby daughter, Sarah, and a California couple Richard Bruce Haskitt, 49, and Cindy Schafer, 44, with a cottage on Saturna, Catherine White-Holman, 55, of Vancouver; and Thomas Gordon Glenn, 60, of White Rock.
TSB investigators supervising the recovery are offering counseling to relatives, and recovery workers.
A private Cessna aircraft, carrying 2 American pilots, crash landed near King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 3.
Khaled al-Khaibari, spokesperson for the General Authority of Civil Aviation, confirmed that the pilot asked for an emergency landing because the plane was running out of fuel. However, he could not make it to the airport and crash landed near the runway. The plane was travelling from Hurghada, Egypt at the time.
The pilot and the co-pilot, both U.S. citizens, sustained minor injuries and were taken to a hospital. Their names have not been released.
The aircraft’s right wing was slightly damaged.
