A Cessna 210 plane crashed in Hayden, Blount County, Alabama, on March 25th.
Authorities said the plane was heading from Kissimmee, Florida, to Jackson, Tennessee, when it went down.
Four people were killed in the crash, including a 45-year-old man, a 43-year-old woman,
a 16-year-old boy, and a 14-year-old girl. They are believed to be family members.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
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ll plane crashed and caught fire during an attempt to land in a lake in Nordelta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, at around 3:30 p.m. on September 14.
The Beechcraft 300LW Super King Air aircraft, carrying a businessman Gustavo Deutsch and his wife, crashed into a house and then rammed into another property, both of which were uninhabited.
The authorities confirmed that both Gustavo and his wife were killed in the crash.
Gustavo was the ex-president of Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas (LAPA), an airline company which is now defunct.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
A Shelby County Sheriff’s Office helicopter made an emergency landing in a field near Logan Martin Dam in Alabama, on March 15th.
The incident happened after the aircraft came in contact with power lines.
Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
The aircraft was participating in search for a missing kayaker.
A Hawker Beechcraft BE35 plane crashed onto Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tracks at the crossing between Hicksville and Bethpage stations on Long Island, New York, on August 16.
The plane was heading from Francis S. Gabreski Ariport, Westhampton Beach to Morristown when the pilot reported difficulty in maintaining altitude. Authorities said he was attempting to make an emergency landing at Republic Airport, Farmingdale but could not make it to there.
The pilot was killed in the crash while his only passenger, identified as Carl Giordano, 55, of New Vernon, New Jersey, sustained injuries. He was taken to Nassau County University Medical Center.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
What: Cessna 402B en route from Montichiari to Rome
Where: Ciampino, Rome, Italy
When: Sept 7, 2012
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: In Rome, a Cessna has crashed in a car depot near Ciampino airport. Thirty cars sequestered by police were damaged.
The two aboard were killed on impact. They had been intending to land at Urbe airport in Rome but impacted at 167 Via Fioranello. Alfredo Segariol and Antonio Salvoldi, 39, Brescia were in the air performing a photographic surveys for the Rossi company. After impact, the Cessna caught fire; and the fire spread to gut thirty cars at the depot. The plume of smoke was visible across the city.
It is not yet known if the plane had mechanical trouble or ran out of fuel.
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Contact photographer Egor Naumenko
Today I read an article saying that the SuperJet that crashed on a promotional flight boils down to one question: pilot or plane? I have to disagree. It is not that simple. It takes a lot of coordinating systems to get a plane in the air, and it usually takes more than one error to take a plane down.
If there is a problem with the plane, it is most likely the investigation will reveal it, and anything that comes out before the investigation is just speculation. (How much of the investigation will be made public often depends on the transparency policies of government, however.) So I am speculating here.
Russian Aviation does have a lot riding on the success of this entry into the global aviation marketplace so we know it’s not a paper airplane they folded together in ten seconds or as many months. We suspect that the quality of the teams performing the design, construction, training and troubleshooting that went into the jet’s creation is about par for contemporary jet design. Which is to say the teams are probably very good. The plane has fly-by-wire technology but Sukhoi consults with Boeing on a “step-by-step project management … fully explored and translated into business reality by SCAC.”
There are a number of problems that are coming to light with this flight.
Sometimes investigations take the easy path and just blame the pilot. I’ve seen happen a hundred times before, when the pilot was blamed simply because he was not longer able to defend his actions. And while pilots are only human, and sometimes do make mistakes, sometimes those mistakes are caused by corporate pressures, pressure to meet deadlines, fuel quotas, scheduling, etc. What is pressure of corporate expectations on a joy flight pilot? Do we know if he was under orders to showcase the plane’s agility, possibly even to make the very move that crashed the plane?
The pilot, 57 year old Alexander Yablontzev was experienced. He was Sukhoi’s chief test pilot and had spent more than 14 thousand hours flying. After retiring as Lieutenant Colonel from the Russian Air Force, he flew for Transaero and had a lot of hours. But the fatal flight was his first time flying in Indonesia. Did the crash occur because he was flying a strange, possibly wrongly mapped terrain, and recklessly “buzzing” the peak of Mount Salak to show off the plane’s versatility?
No answers here. I’m just saying that the question is not so simply put.
A helicopter crashed in a farmer’s field near Township Rd 251A, between RR 32 and RR 33, north of Springbank Airport in Alberta, Canada, just after 11 a.m. on February 4.
EMS officials confirmed that there were 2 people aboard at the time of incident; both of them sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
According to Stuart Brideaux, from Calgary EMS, “On arrival EMS determined there were a total of two occupants aboard, a man in his 40s and a man in his 50s, each taken to the hospital…It was described as quite a hard impact, although the helicopter did remain upright, when it struck the ground… Both men were fortunately able to get out of the helicopter under their own power after it impacted, however both still required hospital transport.”
The cause of accident is under investigation.
