What: Kenya Police Air Wing Eurocopter AS 350B3e Ecureuil
Where: Ngong Hills, near Nairobi Kenya
When: June 10, 2012 8:30 a.m.
Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti was killed in a helicopter crash on June 10, 2012. Clatus MacOwenga had been appointed in the investigation, and the appointment was backdated to January 5 to fill a legal gap for the period when no chief accidents investigator was in office. MacOwenga apparently was running an investigation separate from that of the President Kibaki’s public inquiry.

Martin Lunani is now the lead investigator, appointed for a period of three years : August 18 to August 17, 2015. The demotion occurred prior to Mr Macowenga submitting a report. Macowenga will now report to Mr Lunani.

The end of the investigations is scheduled to be October.

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The Question of Foul Play

The big question: was there foul play involved in the crash of the Mexican governmental airplane that resulted in the death of José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Miguel Monterrubio, Arcadio Echeverría, Norma Díaz, Álvaro Sánchez, Gisel Carrillo, and several people in the vicinity of Paseo de la Reforma?

The Mexican government is at war against the drug cartels and apparently the drug cartels had put a price on the head of Vasconcelos. The problem of figuring out the truth is exacerbated by the citizenry’s distrust; the Mexican government is not exactly known for disclosure. In fact, if the facts prove this was indeed an accident, how will people ever be convinced of it? Because no sign of any explosives were found in the wreckage; and the presumed cause of the crash is that the Lear Jet was adversely affected by turbulence from a large Boeing jet in front of it.

What: Learjet 45 flown by the Mexican government
Where: Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
When: 04 NOV 2008
Who:Passengers included:

  • Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, top aide to President Felipe Calderón.
  • José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos-former assistant attorney general and current head of the federal technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security.
  • Miguel Monterrubio, director general of social communications with the Interior Secretariat.
  • Arcadio Echeverría, coordinator of special events, office of the Interior Secretary.
  • Norma Díaz, director in the communications department of the Interior Secretariat.
  • Julio César Ramírez Dávalos, pilot.
  • Álvaro Sánchez, co-pilot.
  • Gisel Carrillo, stewardess.

Why: At 18:45, although the aircraft was instructed to switch to the Tower frequency which the pilot acknowledged but never contacter Mexico Tower. The Learjet then crashed on the Avenida Reforma and caught fire. Several cars were destroyed and at least five people on the ground were killed.

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Seaplane Crash Injures 2 Near Lake Idamere

A seaplane crash near Lake Idamere Park, outside of Tavares city in Florida injured the pilot and the only passenger on board.

The incident took place just before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 10. According to the Tavares city officials, the pilot was attempting to land the plane on Lake Idamere but miscalculated the distance and landed it in a wooded region near the lake park’s parking lot located on County road 448.

The pilot suffered from a back injury while the passenger was shifted to Florida Hospital Waterman with minor injuries.

According to the official website of the Federal Aviation Administration, the crashed plane was registered to Coastal Alliance Inc. of Ventura, CA and was manufactured by Progressive Aerod.

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Four Killed as Small Plane Crashes near Navasota Municipal Airport

A small plane crashed near Navasota Municipal Airport, Texas, on February 28th.

Authorities said the wreckage of the single-engine Cirrus SR-20 plane was found in a wooded area southeast of the airport.

All four people aboard the plane, including two adults and two children, were killed in the crash.

The plane was flying from David Wayne Hooks Airport in Houston at the time.

The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.

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Airblue 202 A Year Later


India’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued a statement which they are calling an interim report. It is not what we would call an interim report, but appears to be a report that there is a report that restates the facts as they were known already, not containing actual investigation output. The media has already highlighted the findings of the interim report several times. The report notes that the investigation covered system issues, fire, bird strikes, etc but does not mention causes or place responsibility, and promises a release when component manufacturers have responded.

So basically, the families have waited a year for the Air Blue Interim report, on the July 28 flight from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport to Benazir Bhutto International Airport and still have no satisfactory answers.

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Small Plane Crashed Near Corona Municipal Airport; 2 Injured

A small plane crashed near Corona Municipal Airport, California, on January 17th.

The single-engine plane had just taken off from the airport when the pilot noticed some issues and attempted to make an emergency landing.

There were two people aboard at the time; both were taken to hospital with moderate to severe injuries.

The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.

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Pilot Dies in Idaho Plane Crash

A small plane crashed in Bingham County, Idaho, on December 17th.

Authorities said the plane went down near Aberdeen Municipal Airport.

The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. He was identified as Daniel Angus, 42, of Aberdeen.

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