What: Eolo AgustaWestland AW109SP
Where: Cerro Alpino, Mexico
When: July 28, 2012, 23:40
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: The businessman and son of Fidel Herrera left the town of Atlacomulco after a meal with the former governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto and died in a chopper crash.

Toluca Airport lost contact with the helicopter an hour prior to the accident.

The pilot Miguel Angel Rodriguez Lopez, co-pilot Rodolfo Caballero and the passenger, Armando Hinojosa-Garcia, were killed in the town of Juquipilco when the Augusta 109 chopper they were in crashed close to the Jiquipilco-Temoaya road, in the State of Mexico, North of Mexico City.

Search patrols located the wreckage early Sunday morning in a place known as “Hill of Alpine”

A Civil Aeronautics investigation is underway.

As always, we offer condolences to the families.

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The authorities said the single-engine plane crashed while it was attempting to land at Mesquite Airport.

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The accident is under investigation.

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Piper Crash in Oregon kills 2

What: 1955 Piper PA-22 single-engine plane en route to to Grants Pass
Where: Canyon Mountain on the hillside behind Forest Glen Senior Residence in southern Oregon
When: 9:30 a.m. Sunday
Who: Ernie Knigge, Elaina Knigge
Why: The plane crashed in a steep, rugged area in a stand of old-growth trees. The cause of the crash has not been determined. The couple co-owned the 1955 plane.

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Small Plane Crashes in Berks County Cornfield

A small plane crashed into a cornfield in Washington Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, on September 21.

The plane ended up in an upside down position near 1600 block of Route 100. According to a witness Tyler Moyer, “We heard the engine stall, and then it started back up… The farmer was still picking the corn. The farmer didn’t even notice it, and the dust was flying everywhere from the tractors and stuff,”

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Egypt Air Crashes Into Atlantic Ocean


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What: EgyptAir Boeing 767-366ER en route from New York to Cairo
Where: Atlantic Ocean
When: October 31, 1999
Who: 4 flight crewmembers, 10 flight attendants, and 203 passengers
Why: On October 31, 1999, the EgyptAir Boeing 767-366ER crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 60 miles south of Nantucket. It was en route from New York, to Cairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt. The flight departed JFK about 0120, with 4 flight crewmembers, 10 flight attendants, and 203 passengers. All 217 people on board were killed.?Visual meteorological conditions prevailed , which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan. NTSB determined probable cause to be the airplane’s departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the relief first officer’s flight control inputs. The reason for his actions was not determined.

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Helicopter Crashes While Filming Robbery


What: Record TV News helicopter
Where: Sao Paulo’s jockey club
When: February 10
Who: Pilot and cameraman
Why: News network’s Astar helicopter developed rear engine failure and careened to the grass of Sao Paulo’s jockey club. The pilot managed to avoid rush hour traffic on Marginal Pinheiros, and no one on the ground was injured. The cameraman Alexandre Borracha was conscious when on the way to the hospital, surviving with serious injury. The pilot Rafael Delgado Sobrinho was found slumped over the controls died on the scene. The accident was filmed by another news crew.

Pilot of the helicopter filming the crash incident was Globo pilot Dato de Oliveira, who followed and landed, and rushed to assist; he turned off the fuel pump and battery to avoid an explosion.

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Culebra Mountain Crash Update


What: Beechcraft Baron registered to a party in Canada en route from Pueblo to Santa Fe, N.M
Where: the crash site was found Sunday near Vermejo Peak in the Culebra mountain range near Las Animas County
When: around 10 p.m. Saturday.
Who: Two people died in the crash, Gerrit Maureau and his wife, Dr. Shiela Malm died when their twin-engine plane crashed after refueling in Pueblo.
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