What: Nigerian Navy Agusta A109E
Where: Ogbia Creek, Bayelsa Nigeria
When: Dec 15, 2012, 1500 hrs
Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: A Nigerian Navy helicopter crashed in Bayelsa Nigeria. Among the fatalities is the governor of Kaduna, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa.

Several politicians had traveled to Bayelsa for the funeral of the father of Mr. Oronto Douglas, the President’s Special Adviser on Research and Documentation.

Also aboard was former national security adviser Gen Owoye Azazi. The rest of the casualties are governor’s aide, Dauda Tsoho and Warrant Officer Mohammed Kamal who is Azazi’s aide as well as the pilots, Commander Murtala Mohammed Daba and Lt. Adeyemi O. Sowole.

The helicopter crashed five minutes after it took off, between 3:30 and 4 pm around Nembe-Okoroba area. Witnesses say the helicopter nosedived, then was a crash, and the chipper burst into flames. There was a big burst of black smoke.

Search and rescue operation was performed by a combined team of personnel from Joint Task Force (OPS PULO SHIELD), Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force, NEMA and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps. The remains have been taken to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.

Another chopper with registration number 5NBOR carried other aides and security details to Port Harcourt without incident.

The crash is under investigation.

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On October 5th 2013, a de Havilland Dash Candada DHC-8 with six aboard left the city of Balboa, Panama, at 10:45 pm; it was over Acandi, Choco Province Colombia when it crashed on a drug interdiction mission.

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Reports say that the vehicle lost radio contact with the U.S.-sponsored multinational task force in Key West that runs the operation. The plane was equipped with surveillance instrumentation.


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The two wounded were transferred to Carepa in Antioquia and will be moved to the Military Hospital of Bogota at St Vincent hospital de Paul or the Hospital of Pablo Tobon Uribe.

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Family Lost in Swamp Crash


What: Roadside Ventures LLC Pilatus PC-12/47 en route to Kansas
Where: Tiger Creek Swamp area, Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida
When: June 7, 2012, 12:36
Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: After taking off from Fort Pierce, the plane returning the Bramlage family from Bermuda began having trouble at 28,000 feet, and crashed in a remote area in Florida in an area of the Tiger Creek Preserve reachable by helicopters and all-terrain vehicles. The remains of the pilot 45-year-old Ronald,his wife Rebecca, 15-year-old Brandon, 11-year-old Bo, and 8-yea- old Roxanne have been recovered. Thirteen year old Boston is missing. There is a gaping hole in the plane, and the NTSB and FAA is speculating that Boston may have been sucked from the plane while in the air.

Witnesses in the Babson Park area heard a loud noise and apparently witnessed mechanical issues. Some witnesses saw the plane “twirling” before it crashed; other witnesses saw the plane flip and fly upside down.

The recovery party says the debris field covers hundreds of acres and that the plane came apart in the air. The investigation is being conducted by the NTSB and the FAA, and the search for Boston continues.


Aircraft Pilatus PC-12 (single-turboprop) (PC12/G – track or photos)
Origin St Lucie County Intl (KFPR – track or info)
Destination Freeman Field (3JC – track or info)
Route LAL SZW (Decode)
Date Thursday, June 7, 2012
Duration 4 hours 36 minutes
Status result unknown (?) (track log & graph)
Distance Direct: 1,239 sm Planned: 1,253 sm
Scheduled Actual/Estimated
Departed 11:30AM EDT 12:05PM EDT
Arrival 03:10PM CDT 03:41PM CDT (?)
Speed 233 kts
Altitude 26,000 feet

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Virgin and Military Craft Loss of Separation


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What: Virgin Blue Boeing 737-700 en route from Williamtown to Melbourne
Where: Williamtown
When: Feb 2, 2011
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Medical Evacuation Flight Crashes in Somerville

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When: July 12, 2012, 7:45
Who: 7 aboard, 7 fatalities
Why: The pilot, co pilot and five passengers were killed when the plane crashed after takeoff. It was a Mauritanian airforce flight for Kinross Gold Corporation, on the way to the Tasiast gold mine.

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Lt. Ahmed Ould Mohamed Salem Ould Aaahi
Sergeant Ahmed Salem Ould Elhoudrama
Sergeant customs Embarek Born Pune
Customs Mohamed Ould
Hannon Ould Mohamed Ould Sid Ahmed
Cheikh Ould Ely Alrkad.

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