A light engine plane crashed in the Russian Urals, killing both on board.
According to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the two-seater RokoAero NG4 crashed at Pirogovo settlement, at about 1pm Moscow time on March 30.
The plane was owned by Izhevsk Flying Club. The company’s website reports that the pilot requested permission for landing. However, as he took a 180 degree turn, the plane crashed.
The victims have been identified as 35 year old instructor, Alex Surnin and a 39 year old student.
Emergency specialists are investigating the cause of accident.
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What: Cessna 152 owned by Basair Aviation College
a single-engine Liberty owned by Sydney Flight Training Centre Where: Flame Tree Street, Casula, in Sydney’s southwest When: 11.30am (AEST) on Thursday Who: Two fatalities: a woman instructor and her female student pilot.
On the Liberty, the 89-year-old male instructor and a 25-year-old male student pilot were unhurt Why: Plane clipped another light aircraft in mid-air. One plane managed to make it to Bankstown Airport. The other plane landed in a yard, destroying the back of the house and a pergola.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating.
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What: Aerocaribbean ATR-72-500 en route from Santiago to Havana Where: Guasimal, Sancti Spiritus Cuba When: Nov 4 2010 Who: with 61 passengers and 7 crew Why: The last flight to leave Santiago before the airport closed due to tropical storm Tomas disappeared from radio contact at 5:42 pm while over Guasimal not far from the Zaza Reservoir. The crew made an emergency call at 5:42. 40 cubans were aboard and 28 non-cubans (9 Argentinian, 7 Mexican, 3 Dutch, 1 French, 2 German, 2 Austrian, 1 Italian, 1 Spanish, 1 Venezuelan, and 1 Japanese).
A hospital worker said “The plane made several abrupt movements before crashing to the ground.” Rescuers hiked in through thick vegetation (using bulldozers to get through the vegetation to find the plane shattered and in flames and no survivors.
Tropical storm Tomas developed into a hurricane. Cuba declared a state of alert.
The ongoing investigation has not ruled that weather is the definitive factor because the storm had not reached Cuba at the time of the crash.
Cuban state airline Cubana de Aviacion owns Aerocaribbean. The flight normally flies twice a week from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Santiago de Cuba to Havana
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Two Cessna planes collided mid-air east of Fort McMurray in north-eastern Alberta, Canada, at around 8 p.m. on June 21.
One of the planes, a Cessna 185, landed safely at the Fort McMurray airport after the collision. The pilot, who was the only one aboard, remained uninjured.
The other plane, a Cessna 172, crashed in bushes. Both people aboard were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not yet been released.
The Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident.
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Four people flying from Ames to a Las Vegas New Mexico airport in a CESSNA
210L were injured when the plane crashed on landing on July 2nd 2014.
The critically injured pilot, James Fretham, was hospitalized with broken bones and spinal injuries. He is from Chanhassen, Minnesota, where the plane is registered. The injured passengers, his wife Elizabeth and two daughters Grace and Caitrin, have been released from a Santa Fe hospital
Reports say that Fretham had surgery on July 4.
The plane was about to land in cloudy weather, but Fretham had to pull up to avoid hitting a truck obstructing the runway. The plane crashed when a wing glanced the ground.
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What: Canadian built Twin Otter owned by Yeti Airlines Where: crashlanded at the mountainous Lukla airport in north-eastern Nepal in the Mount Everest region When: Wednesday morning Who: 18 people died in the crash, mostly foreign tourists from Germany and Australia: 12 Germans, including six women, four Nepalese and two Australian. The captain is the only survivor; he was airlifted to Kathmandu. There Swiss casualties reported turned out to be Australian. Why: Lukla airport, located 2,743 metres above sea-level has steeply-inclined runway and is considered one of the world’s most dangerous airports.
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