What: light aircraft
Where: Pretoria South Africa
When: Dec 18, 2009
Who: Pilot and passenger
Why: After takeoff, the plane failed to gain altitude and crashed into the ground in a ball of fire. Apparently the pilot tried to ditch in a stream.
There are no survivors.
Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six operated by Star Marinas crashed between Tinian and Saipan, North Marina Islands on Oct 5.
The four survivors of the crash were airlifted to the Commonwealth Health Center.
Three boats and a US Navy helicopter and 57 rescue personnel were part of the search and rescue of the Star Marianas flight that was missing.
There were three fatalities, a 29 year old Chinese man, a 26 year old Chinese woman and the pilot, a male Caucasian. The flight was reported lost at sea, but the wreckage indicated that: 2 of the bodies were still in the fuselage and one was outside the plane on the ground.
An earlier report announced the missing flight:
At approximately 3:15am local time on October 6, 2013 a Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six aircraft being operated by Star Marianas Air, Inc. which had departed from West Tinian Airport (Airport ID: PGWT) at 2:41am enroute to Saipan International Airport (Airport ID: PGSN) was reported as having been overdue for arrival.
A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites crashed in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The rocket flew straight up for ten seconds, then started to wobble.
Seventeen seconds into the flight, a booster shut down.
The rocket impacted the earth a mile from the launch pad. The rocket was unmanned. No one was injured but there were 600 tons of highly toxic fuel aboard. Communities close to the point of impact had to be evacuated. It remains to be seen how this will affect the Russian space program.
An Aeromexico plane collided with a service truck after landing in Los Angeles, California, on May 20th.
The incident happened when flight AM-642 from Mexico City, Mexico, was taxiing toward the terminal at Los Angeles airport.
The truck overturned due to impact. There were eight people aboard, including six men and two women; all of them were injured.
The Boeing 737-800 plane, carrying 149 people, sustained minor damage.
What: Heli-Usa helicopter
Where: Kauai, Hawaii
When: 03 10, 2007, 1:05 pm
Who: four fatalities, 3 injuries
Why: As a tour was ending, after experiencing hydraulic problems, a helicopter crashed at the the northwest end of Princeville airport a hundred yards from the terminal. A description of the wreckage indicated that the front of the helicopter was torn off, the tail was snapped off, and the rotors were broken. First responders attempted to save the four fatalities.
The pilot who had 10,000 hours on that helicopter died in the crash.
Four injured were taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital. One died en route.
Nine miles away….
What: Smokey Mountain Helicopters out of Delaware. It’s the parent company of Inter-Island Helicopter
Where: North shore of Kauai, Hawaii
When: 1:05 pm
Who: five aboard, one fatality, four injuries.
Why: The pilot heard a loud bang, and lost control of the helicopter, which fell down in a spiral formation on to a Hanalei campsite
The debris field is spread from the ocean to the beach. A dive team will be searching the ocean for the tail rotor, gear box and drive shaft which were flung afield. Witnesses extricated survivors out of the wreckage
Pictured: Donavia Boeing 737-4Q8
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Contact photographer Fabio Lorenzato
What: Donavia Boeing 737-400 en route from Chulman to Novosibirsk
Where: Chulman
When: Dec 4th 2009
Who: not available
Why: Flight rejected fast takeoff and was cancelled.
A training aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) crashed near an inter-city bus terminal in Yousuf Goth, Baldia Town, Karachi, at 12:05 p.m. on June 3, due to some unknown technical fault.
The PAF officials confirmed that both the pilots, Wing Commander Khurram Sammad and Squadron Leader Umair Elahi, lost their lives in the crash.
Two civilians, identified as Ali Akbar and Sajid Riyasat, were also killed in the incident. Three others suffered injuries and were taken to the hospital, however, they were released after a few hours.
The bodies, which were in parts and had sustained severe burns, were shifted to Civil Hospital, Karachi, for autopsies.
One of the witness Ali Ahmed said, “The aircraft was flying at a very low altitude before it crashed. It bounced off the roofs of several buses and broke through electricity poles.”
One bus was completely destroyed while four others got partially damaged. The engine of the aircraft is reported to have been on fire before it crashed. Fire fighters, however, reported in time and managed to control the fire before it could spread further.
PAF will provide adequate compensation for the loss of life and property and will fully cover medical expenses of the injured, as per its standard operational rules.
The Air Force Headquarters has formed a board to determine the cause of accident.
