National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
September 17, 2011
NTSB LAUNCHES TEAM TO AVIATION ACCIDENT IN RENO, NEVADA
Washington, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board islaunching a Go-Team to an aviation accident that occurred yesterday afternoon at the Reno Air Race in Reno, Nevada.
Howard Plagens will serve as the Investigator-in-Charge of the team. NTSB Board Member Mark Rosekind is accompanying
the team and will serve as the principal spokesman during the on-scene phase of the investigation.
Public Affairs Officer Terry Williams is also accompanying the team; he can be reached on-scene at 202-557-1350.
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What: Local carrier FGUPKAP twin-engine Antonov An-28 en route from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yelizovo to Palana Where: Palana village, Russia When: Sept 12, 2012 12:28 p.m. Who: 12 passengers, 2 crew, ten fatalities Why: The plane was scheduled to land in Palana village, but lost contact with ATC and crashed in a cedar forest on a hill 10 kilometers away from the intended landing site. A thirteen year old boy who survived is now comatose. The three other survivors are in critical condition.
A recovery helicopter landed as close as possible to the wreckage; but rescue personnel had to navigate through rough topography to reach the wounded.
Originally nine bodies were found, and five injured people, but one child died of injuries.
FGUPKAP, the carrier is owned by the state. Minister of Health Tatiana Lemeshko Kamchatka participated in a conference regarding the crash, and reported on the status of the 4 surviving passengers. The ministry is sending September rescue personnel and doctors to Palana on September 13.
Weather conditions, human error or technical malfunction may be the cause. Officials announced that the families of the fatalities will be getting 200,000 rubles in compensation.
Five people are feared dead after a single engine plane crashed in Ridgeway Reservoir Colorado.
The incident happened in the south of Montrose at 1:50 pm on March 22, 2014. The plane was on its way to Montrose regional airport from Oklahoma. Investigators believe that none of the five passengers survived, although no victims have been found yet.
Rescue and search efforts are still in progress, whereas a team of divers is recovering the parts of plane from water. NTSB and FAA will be investigating the incident.
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On Sept 26, a United Airlines Boeing 737-924ER (WL), flight 1603, was en route from Houston to Seattle with 161 passengers and six crew when the pilot suffered a heart attack.
The first officer took over and diverted Flight 1603 to Boise, Idaho. A doctor and military personnel aboard the plane performed CPR on the Captain in First Class.
A pilot/trainer who was a passenger took the copilot seat as the co-pilot took the captain’s seat and made the safe landing in Idaho.
Capt. Henry Skillern, 63, was taken to Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise where he he died.
United flew in a pilot from San Francisco and then Flight 1603 continued to Seattle.
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On Feb 14, 2013, an hour into the British Airways (Boeing 747-400) Los Angeles to London flight, the crew smelled smoke in the cockpit. Fumes made the flight crew sick. The captain put on the oxygen mask as they diverted to Las Vegas, where they made a safe landing at 10:20 p.m. Thursday.
British Airways provided hotel accommodations for the passengers overnight, and alternative flights the next day.
British Airways says the fumes were not smoke-related. Early indications seem to be a ‘fault with the number three engine.’ Passengers were frustrated by perceived chaos and lack of information once they were on the ground in Las Vegas. Emergency medical services checked over the flight crew on landing; they were hospitalized.
Last week, a Heathrow-Philadelphia BA Boeing 777 with 158 passengers made an emergency landing in Canada after toxic oil fumes were reported on the flight deck. That plane made the unscheduled stop at Goose Bay, in Newfoundland, in temperatures of -30C.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279971/Boeing-747-Second-BA-jet-forced-make-emergency-landing-toxic-oil-fumes-leak-cockpit.html#ixzz2LCjZX6hC
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In George’s Point of View
It happens more frequently than one would expect that a plane has problems with fumes.
Fumes in a closed air system, fumes that sicken the flight crew–isn’t this something that needs to be investigated? It seems like healthy air–or at least breathable air–is an essential part of flying. It’s not like you’re going to have a happy landing if you’ve suffocated on the way, or if your pilot passed out on the flight. I don’t care if it is cheap aftershave, or de-icer burnoff–whatever it is, let’s hope they get to the root of this too-frequent problem once and for all.
A Paraclub Namur Pilatus PC-6/B2-H4 Turbo Porter out of Namur-Suarlée Airport crashed in Belgium in a field. Ten sky divers and a pilot were aboard when the plane lost height. No one survived.
Investigators found that three of the skydivers had open chutes and the wing of the plane was broken off.
Apparently the pilot lost control of the plane. A witness said a wing was torn from the plane, then the crash made a lot of noise. Emergency responders arrived to find the plane on fire 250 meters from Wohnhäusern der Ortschaft Marchovelette, a village and a few of the parachutists were alive.
The plane had been in use since November 1969.
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