What: Hughes OH6A Helicopter owned by Charlotte Helicopters Flight Academy
Where: Monroe NC (Union County) at Stephen Street and Donham Street in a field behind Central Academy of Technology and Art
When: Thursday 10:30 a.m
Who: pilot, Justin Travis, survived. Passenger 46-year-old Mark Bartlett was killed in the crash
Why: helicopter hit power lines and crashed
What: Ugandan helicopter Mil Mi-24 en route from Soroti to Garissa
What: Ugandan helicopter Mil Mi-24 en route from Soroti to Garissa
Where: Mount Kenya
When: August 12, 2012
Who: 7 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: Three Mi-24 were heading to Somalia. A fourth helicopter did not crash.
Capt. William Letti and Lt. Patrick Nahamya were flying a peace-keeping mission when they crashed onto the side of Mount Kenya. They are calling it a “hard landing” i.e. in an “ungazetted” area. Two bodies were found on August 14. A third body was found a day later (August 15)
One choppers made it to Garissa, North Eastern Kenya. 18 people from that helicopters safely evacuated.
Two of the helicopters crashed, and were found burned.
A pilot from one of the helicopters sent a message requesting assistance for ground troops and the grounded chopper crew.
What: Aéropro Beechcraft A100 King Air en route from Jean-Lesage International Airport to Sept-Îles Airpor
Where: 1.6 km N. of Jean-Lesage Int. Airport near Quebec
When: June 23, 2010
Who: 5 passengers, 2 crew, 7 fatalities
Why: After takeoff, the pilot complained of a problem in his right engine. The pilot attempted to return to the airport, but the plane crashed into a residential neighborhood and exploded.
Several different alerts on this plane went off immediately prior to the plane disappearing from the radar, including 1) issues with the windows on the co-pilot’s side of the plane; 2) two smoke alerts, the first one “SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE” at 00:26 a.m. local time; 3) the second one “AVIONICS SMOKE” at 00:27 a.m. The second alert refers smoke in the avionics bay, which is located below the cockpit, and is where the electronics are housed.
This is also the same plane that was vandalised two years ago at Cairo Airport. In Arabic someone, presumably Cairo Airport workers, wrote on its belly, “We will bring this plane down.”
It is a special concern that the plane had flown to Eritrea.
The US State Department has a standing travel warning for Eritrea, and is quoted as saying “security at the Asmara airport ‘can be unpredictable,’ and had a ‘lack of efficiency and consistency” in screening passengers.'”
The search for Egyptair is still underway.
According to AV:
“on 2016/06/01, Egypt’s Civil Aviation Authority reported “Laplace” located pings presumably from one of MS804’s black boxes. The vessel “John Lethbridge” of DOS will be joining the search team to retrieve the black boxes. The BEA (FR)confirmed that Egyptian Authorities have confirmed a “signal that may come from one of the recorders” of flight MS-804. The BEA did NOT confirm that a black box has been located.”
Debris has been found.
A small plane crashed in the Canton of Valais in Switzerland, on August 20th.
Authorities said the plane was carrying three people when it went down near the Sanetsch Pass.
All three occupants of the plane were killed in the crash.
The accident is being investigated.
A small plane crashed in Warren County, Indiana, on January 27th.
Authorities found the wreckage near the West Lebanon area.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. He has not been identified yet.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
No one was killed; and no one had worse than scratches and bruises, even the baby whose dehydrated condition had required the medical evacuation in the first place.
