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    Avianca Airlines Flight Returns to Sao Paulo due to Smoke in Cockpit

    Avianca Airlines flight O6-6304 had to return for an emergency landing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 23rd.

    The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Recife, Brazil, but had to turn back after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit.

    The plane landed uneventfully. All 156 people aboard remained safe.

    The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.

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    Four Die in Fiery Crash in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.

    On Feb 08 2013, a Centro Universitario de Aviación Cessna 172R Skyhawk #LV-GEU with four aboard took off from La Matanza – Club Universitario de Aviación for a student flight and crashed in Lomas de Zamora, BA Argentina.

    The crash site is a property located at 1500 meters from the intersection of Belt Road and Avenue Juan XXIII, former Black Road, in Lomas de Zamora, in a field next to the Lomas de Zamora federal shooting range.Two passengers were expelled from the plane, and two trapped inside.

    Ambulances struggling to get to the scene got lost because they had not established exact coordinates.

    Two doctors were flying the plane. The 38 year old was piloting, and the 44 year-old was the co-pilot. Two passengers were aboard, one 45 years old, and one 20 years old. The names have not been released.

    The cause of the accident is being investigated by ANAC and the police. Buenos Aires police personnel had custody of the outer perimeter of the crash site overnight.

    Eyewitnesses say the plane ignited in the air but a pilot who was flying over during the crash say it ignited on impact with the ground.

    Firefighters, police officers technicians, and the mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martin Insaurralde were at the scene of the accident.

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    Pilot Killed as Helicopter Crashes in Saskatchewan

    A helicopter crashed in a field in Kinley, Saskatchewan, Canada, on October 27.

    Authorities said the aircraft went down while it was heading from Calgary to Saskatoon.

    The 48-year-old pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash. His name has not yet been released.

    The cause of crash is being investigated.

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    3 Presumed Dead After Small Plane Crashes in Florida

    A small plane crashed into Lake Harney in Florida, on December 8th.

    The twin-engine Beechcraft plane was on its way to Orlando Sanford International Airport when it went down.

    There were three people aboard the plane, including the pilot Kamalesh Naik, 56, and the passengers Men Tao, 22, and Hou Xupeng, 23. All of them are presumed dead.

    The search for the bodies is underway.

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    Lion Air Compensation

    Lion Air is compensating the passengers of the plane that crashed in Bali on April 13. The 101 passenger (we don’t know if the 7 crew are included) is handing out $5600 to each passenger.

    Lion Air is working with Jasa Raharja, an Indonesian insurance company to cover the medical bills for five injured passengers. The insurance company is paying up to IDR 25 million ($2500) and the airline is covering anything in excess of that.

    Unofficial reports state the plane was flying low.

    Twenty-five people have yet to receive their compensation.

    The alcohol and drug tests of the crew, cockpit voice recorder, and the flight data recorder are still in process. No conclusions have been public on the cause of the accident.

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    No Survivors in Deadly Anniversary Flight


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    Contact photographer Martin Lidzba

    What: Polish Air Force Tupolev TU-154M
    Where: Smolensk
    When: Apr 10th 2010
    Who: 88 passengers and 8 crew
    Why: On approach to Smolensk North Airport in dense fog, the plane impacted a forest, coming to rest short of the runway. There are conflicting reports leading up to the decision to land at Smolensk (versus Minsk or Moscow), holding pattern, the number of approaches.

    Everyone aboard the flight was lost, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, the national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two presidential aides and three lawmakers.

    Partial list of those lost in the crash:
    1. Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland

    2. Maria Kaczynska, the president’s wife

    3. Ryszard Kaczorowski, head of Poland’s London-based government-in-exile during the communist period

    4. General Tadeusz Buk, Head of Polish Land Forces

    5. Leszek Deptula, MP

    6. Grzegorz Dolniak, MP

    7. Katarzyna Doraczynska, President’s Chancellery

    8 Janina Fetlinska, Senator

    9. General Franciszek Gagor, Chief of Staff

    10. Grazyna Gesicka, MP

    11. Przemyslaw Gosiewski, MP

    12. Mariusz Handzlik, Minister at the President’s Chancellery

    13. Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, MP

    14. Sebastian Karpiniuk, MP

    15. Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Head of Polish Navy

    16. Mariusz Kazana, Foreign Ministry

    17. Janusz Kochanowski, Poland’s Ombudsman

    18. Stanislaw Jerzy Komorowski, Deputy Defence Minister

    19. Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Foreign Minister

    20. Janusz Kurtyka, National Remembrance Institute head

    21. Tomasz Merta, Deputy Culture Minister

    22. Aleksandra Natalli-Swiat, MP

    23. Piotr Nurowski, head of Polish Olympics Committee

    24. Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of parliament

    25. Arkadiusz Rybicki, MP

    26. Slawomir Skrzypek, head of Poland’s central bank

    27. Wladyslaw Stasiak, head of Kaczynski’s Chancellery

    28. Aleksander Szczyglo, head of the National Security Bureau

    29. Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Deputy Speaker of parliament

    30. Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, MP

    31. Izabela Tomaszewska, President’s Chancellery

    32. Anna Walentynowicz, former Solidarity activist

    33. Zbigniew Wassermann, MP

    34. Wieslaw Woda, MP

    35. Edward Wojtas, MP

    36. Pawel Wypych, Minister and Kaczynski’s Chancellery

    37. Stanislaw Zajac, Senator


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