What: Kit plane en route from Niagara District Airport
Where: Niagara-on-the-Lake airport
When: Nov 18, 2012, 2:15 pm
Who: 2 aboard
Why: The two seat plane took off from Niagara-on-the-Lake airport, but had an immediate emergency. Pilots attempted to return to the airport.
They failed to make the runway, and crashed.
The pilot and passenger were both injured. They were transported to St. Catharines General Hospital.
A private Cessna 172 crashed near a golf course at the Crawford Bay Airport in British Columbia, Canada, at about 6:30 p.m. on August 30.
According to Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board, the plane crashed after the pilot executed a rejected landing and decided to take off again. “Something was not right on the landing and the pilot elected to abort the landing. During that takeoff from the aborted landing, the aircraft contacted trees and tragically crashed,” he said.
The aircraft landed in an upside down position and caught fire. However, the witnesses managed to pull out the pilot and his only passenger from the wreckage before it bursted into flames. The female passenger died in the accident while the pilot suffered burn injuries. He was taken to a hospital.
The RCMP, BC Coroner Services and the Federal Transportation Safety Board are looking into the cause of crash.
The plane was registered in Alberta.
On December 22, 2012 18:30, a Van’s RV-7A plane with two aboard was near Tito Teixeira aerodrome in Brazil when it crashed after the pilot lost control.
The single engine plane blew up as it was falling on Saturday night near the Ituiutaba Airport in Triangulo Mieiro. There was a pilot-instructor aboard and a doctor.
The engine failed shortly after takeoff and the plane crashed in a pasture 100 meters from the runway.
The crash is under investigation. This is the third small crash in the area this December.
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What: Aeroflot A332 en route from Havana to Moscow
Where: 320nm southeast of New York
When: Oct 8th 2009
Who: full plane
Why: While en route and still south east of New York, a German passenger became ill. The crew asked to divert to New York but instead landed in Toronto Canada.
They were not cleared to land in NY.
George’s Point of View
The report says that a crew “talking very good English” reported the medical crisis. Simply based on the way that is phrased, one might assume that perhaps that English wasn’t quite as well-spoken as the claim asserts. Or perhaps there may have been weather issues. Or traffic issues. (When does New York NOT have traffic issues?) Or perhaps we are simply living in a post 9/11 America.
At least, we are told that the German passenger who had suffered vomiting appears to be recovering nicely.
I am sure in the days to come, this non-event (after all, nothing seriously untoward happened) is something that will be investigated and published. It is too ripe an opportunity for U.S. detractors to miss aiming some kind of anti-American propaganda toward.
What: Auman T-51
Where: De Kalb, IL
When: Dec 11, 2012
Who: pilot
Why: After taking off from De Kalb Airport, the Auman T-51 developed engine trouble, losing altitude and emitting smoke.
Pilot James L Auman landed the plane in a field, then bounced and flipped. Plane and pilot both sustained substantial damage. Auman had to be extricated, then was taken by medical chopper to St. Anthony Hospital.
Royal Jordanian Airlines flight RJ 264 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Montreal airport in Canada, on March 16.
The flight, en-route from Chicago to Amman, was diverted after a 70-year-old Jordanian passenger became sick midair.
The Boeing 787 landed uneventfully and the sick passenger was immediately transported to hospital.
The flight resumed later on, with 224 passengers aboard.
