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What: Tentara Nasional Indonesia-AU (Air Force) Lockheed C-130H Hercules
Where: near Madiun-Iswahyudi Airport, Indonesia
When: 20 MAY 2009
Who: 14 crew, 98 passengers
Why: On approach to Madiun-Iswahyudi Airport, the plane hit four houses, skidded into a field and burst into flames. The number of injured and dead is unclear.
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What: KLM Embraer ERJ-190 en route from Amsterdam to Birmingham
Where: Amsterdam
When: Apr 21st 2012
Why: While en route, a leak in the right engine was detected. Pilots shut down the affected engine and returned to Amsterdam where they made a safe landing.
KLM Cityhopper received delivery of the plane on April 1 2010. It has CF34-10E6 engines. (GE)
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What: Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 en route from San Francisco,CA to Munich Germany
Where: Munich
When: May 29th 2009
Who: 277 passengers
Why: When landing flaps failed, the Airbus prepared for an emergency landing. Fortunately, though the plane landed too fast, there was no serious consequence to the flap failure. Reportedly the plane was repaired and returned to service hours later.
George’s Point of View
It’s a good thing they weren’t landing at Sao Paulo, or another airport with a short runway–
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What: Mi-2 Plus ambulance helicopter operated by Polish Medical Air Rescue (registration SP-SXF) en route to the scene of an accident near the southwestern town of Budziszow
Where: Jarostów Poland
When: 17-FEB-2009 7:50am
Who: Pilot and medical assistant were killed, while the doctor was taken to a Wroclaw hospital for treatment.
Why: A rescue team of the pilot, a doctor and a medical assistant were flying a rescue mission to a traffic accident at theA-4 freeway to assist a pregnant woman who had crashed in (car) traffic in foggy conditions. The helicopter hit the ground 20 km from their destination and 50 km west of Wroclaw. Visibility was poor and it was snowing.The cause of the helicopter crash is under investigation.
A single-engine Embraer-720C plane crashed into a house in Balsas, Maranhao state, in northeastern Brazil, at about 6:19 a.m. on August 3.
The plane was transporting an elderly sick lady and her relatives to a hospital when it crashed.
All five people aboard the plane were killed. The victims included the pilot, Delano Martins Coelho, 36, his fiancée and nurse, Lorena Alves de Lima, 22, an 87 year old sick lady Maria de Jesus Cruz e Silva who was being shifted from a hospital in Balsas to another in Piaui, her daughter, Francisca Pereira e Silva and one of her grandsons, Alan Patrick Silva Setulvedo.
The house hit by the plane was occupied by three people. However, none of them was hurt.
The cause of the crash is not yet known.
What: LNP Saratoga Inc. Piper Saratoga was en route from Fort Yukon to Fairbanks
Where: Alaska
When: July 18, 2012 5 PM
Who: 2 aboard
Why: A plane owned by LNP Saratoga Inc and eased to the West Valley Flying Club of Palo Alto. disappeared from radar in Alaska on July 18.
The Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons were deployed and discovered the wreckage. Alaska State Troopers identified the 64-year-old pilot Stephen Knight and 60-year-old Gillian Knight of Queensland, Australia.
The pilots had been engaged in filing a “pop-up” Instrument Flight Rules Plan. The cloud cover was low.
Two other planes had been flying with the wrecked plane but each with a different route. The wreckage was located 63 kilometres north of Fairbanks.
Visibility hampered recovery operations on Wednesday but now the remains have been recovered and sent for autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office.
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What: Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300 en route from Istanbul to New York
Where: New York
When: Jul 14th 2010
Why: On approach to JFK, the Turkish Airlines Boeing encountered a bird. The flight made a safe landing although it incurred slat damage that will cause a delay in the return flight.