A helicopter failed to return from a flight on May 24 2013 in Missouri. The flight took off at 5:45 p.m.

The Lucas Oil Products-owned helicopter was located crashed, and two people died in the crash.

The NTSB will arrive on site Sunday to begin the investigation. The pilot was flying passenger 21-yearold Missouri State University student Catalina Richard around the perimeter of a Lucas Oil Speedway event. The pilot’s name has hot been released as of this posting.

The helicopter crashed in rural Cross Timbers Missouri.

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Four Die in Fiery Crash in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.

On Feb 08 2013, a Centro Universitario de Aviación Cessna 172R Skyhawk #LV-GEU with four aboard took off from La Matanza – Club Universitario de Aviación for a student flight and crashed in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.

The crash site is a property located at 1500 meters from the intersection of Belt Road and Avenue Juan XXIII, former Black Road, in Lomas de Zamora, in a field next to the Lomas de Zamora federal shooting range.Two passengers were expelled from the plane, and two trapped inside.

Ambulances struggling to get to the scene got lost because they had not established exact coordinates.

Two doctors were flying the plane. The 38 year old was piloting, and the 44 year-old was the co-pilot. Two passengers were aboard, one 45 years old, and one 20 years old. The names have not been released.

The cause of the accident is being investigated by ANAC and the police. Buenos Aires police personnel had custody of the outer perimeter of the crash site overnight.

Eyewitnesses say the plane ignited in the air but a pilot who was flying over during the crash say it ignited on impact with the ground.

Firefighters, police officers technicians, and the mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martin Insaurralde were at the scene of the accident.

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Concorde Involuntary Manslaughter Verdict of 2010 At Trial

Remember Air France Flight 4590— Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris to JFK—the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde supersonic transport (SST) in Paris? A hundred passengers and 9 crew died.

A piece of debris ruptured a tire, debris going 310 mph struck the wing led to a tank rupture. Engines one and two lost power on ignition. To make a long story short, the terrible conundrum ensued that the plane was going too fast to stop, unable to ascend, and on fire even before it took off. The plane crashed into the Les Relais Bleus Hotel killing everyone aboard and five in the hotel.

In France, the French court may be on the road to overturning the verdict against Continental Airlines. Opening arguments were heard in an appeals court in Versailles to consider the U.S. carrier’s request to purge the involuntary manslaughter verdict of 2010. Some of the “not guilty” findings may also be overturned.

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Turkish Boeing Crash at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport


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What: Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 (TC-JGE) Flight 1951 en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam.
Where: Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport
When: 10:40 a.m. Wednesday Feb 25
Who: 135 passengers on board; eight crew members. (numbers vary)
Why: The plane crashed as it approached the runway to land. Witnesses say the approach was too low and the pilot tried to go higher to avoid crashing into the A-19 (hwy.) The wreckage is in three pieces lying in a field next to the runway; emergency crews are tending injured passengers on site. The cockpit was intact, adn the fuselage broke at the wings.There was an immediate report of one fatality which was later denied. There were at least 20 injured and at least 50 survivors. Another report estimated the majority of the passengers are injured. (Sorry the numbers don’t mesh, but this is the news as it came in–) There was no fire. Fights to and from Schiphol were suspended temporarily after the crash.
Update:
The number of deceased has been increased to 9.

More than 80 suffered injury.

25 suffered “serious” injury.
6 are hospitalized in critical condition.

Numbers corrected (again): 127 passengers 7 crew.

According to various passenger accounts, prior to the crash, twelve minutes to the scheduled landing, the plane was flying low, and an announcement was made that the plane was landing. (No announcement was made that the plane was in an emergency.) Immediately on landing, those who were able left the plane, and when there was no fire, they went back in and pulled the others out, especially in the front of the plane, where there was screaming. Outside help arrived within 20-25 minutes.

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Yemen Airbus Crash


The government sent a rescue crew 8 hours after the crash. The rescue plane was found 17 kilometers from land. A child–either a 5 year old boy or a 15 year old girl–was apparently found alive. Two french ships and a french airplane were already engaged in searching before Yemen sent a ship and military plane.

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Single Engine Plane Crashes in Cote d’Ivoire, UN Attempts Rescue

What: Aéro-club d’Abidjan Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II
Where: Near Daloa Airport, Cote d’Ivoire
When: Nov 14, 2011 5 p.m.
Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities
Why: After taking off from Daloa, the Aero-club-owned Cessna crashed.

Witnesses say the pilot was clearly in trouble and the plane made several pirouettes in the air before falling.

Initially there was one survivor who died in the hospital. The UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire responded to the scene of the crash, and the UN’s Bangladeshi batallion (BANBATT) assisted in the recovery.

The pilot was a local pilot. The three white foreigners have not been identified but one had been hired by a local logging company.

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Beech Down in Fallon Nevada


On July 10, 2013 at about 4:45 a.m., a Beech A36 Bonanza with four aboard took off from Fallon Municipal airport en route to Dixie Valley.

Pilot Dan Urquhart force-landed in the desert a couple hundred yards from Fallon Municipal Airport near the intersection of Indian Lakes Road and Enterprise Way.

Two injured parties were flown by Care Flight medical helicopter in stable condition, and one injured party driven to to Banner Churchill Community Hospital and one other hospital.

Damage to the plane has not yet been assessed.

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