What: unidentified Cessna
Where: Lake of Valencia, Venezuela
When: May 13, 2012
Who: unknown
Why: Witnesses say they saw a yellow and white cessna with blue stripes flying low crash into Lake Valencia and after an hour, sink.

Carlos Tovar, Denny Vera and Giovanni Montilla contacted authorities who are searching the lake for the plane. Civil Protection officials along with firefighters from Los Guayos, Guacara and National Guard troops, activated the rescue search the waters of Lake Valencia. No fuel or floating objects were discovered. Control del Aeropuerto Internacional Arturo Michelena did not report any lost planes.

The search Sunday ended at 6:00 pm and will continue on Monday.

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Plane Missing in Clayoquot Sound

A Hutch Air Cessna 421B Golden Eagle en route from Abbotsford International Airport to Tofino BC had one passenger and one pilot aboard when it went missing on December 14, 2013, at 14:25 local time.

The twin engine plane was expected at 2:50 pm. It was over Vargas Island on radar when it disappeared at the densely wooded island in Clayoquot Sound. A search of the west coast of Vacouver island by the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre Victoria has been implemented but has been hampered by fog, rain, low cloud cover and darkness over Tofino. Two search and rescue helicopters pulled out Saturday because of no visibility, and are continuing the search today. A crew is also on the island searching on foot.

JRCC Victoria is located at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt and is responsible for planning, co-ordinating, controlling and conducting aeronautical and maritime search and rescue (SAR) operations within Victoria’s Search and Rescue Region (SRR).

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Three Children aboard plane in Lake Erie Crash



A Maverick Air Cessna setting out for Ohio State University in Columbus took off from Cleveland-Burke Lakefront airport, and disappeared int Lake Erie. Three adults and three children were aboard. The passengers had been to the Cleveland Cavaliers game. Coast guard Search and Rescue is searching the lake.

The plane is registered to Maverick Air and operated by Superior Beverage Group. The plane lived in a hangar at The Ohio State University airfield.

Weather conditions make the search difficult.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/cleveland/search-underway-for-missing-plane-that-originated-at-burke-lakefront-airport/380458775

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Cessna Closing Plants in Ohio

Although one plant opened in Columbus in 2008 and had originally projected work for 5 years, three Cessna plants in Columbus will be closing in 6 to 24 months. Cessna broke the news to the last 315 employees in the Columbus plant.

Any work ongoing will be relegated to plants in Independence, Kan., and Mexico.

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#Rescue: Three Men in a Boat

seaexpressiiAfter the cargo ship they were in was forced to make an emergency landing, three Miamians were found floating in a boat in the Bahamas, fifteen miles from Bimini.

Pilot Ernie Martin had to land the Cessna 337 on the water when both engines lost fuel. He sustained a small cut that did not require hospitalization.

Passengers Daniel Puig and Javier Avino were aboard after a vacation in Great Harbor Key. Puig credits his seat belt for keeping him from going through the windshield.

All three were rescued by the Sea Express II, a Seacor Island Lines’ cargo ship.

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Plane Crashes House


Pictured: a Cessna 310R
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Cory W Watts

What: KA Aviation Cessna 310 en route from Gwinnett County airport to Sparta, Tennessee
Where: the intersection of Oracle and Walker Drive in Lawrenceville
When: Friday, October 30, 2009
Who: pilot James Wardlaw, 58, of Atlanta, and homeowner Judith Krichner, 62, both fatalities
Why: While en route, the plane crashed into the house of Judith Krichner. Both Wardlaw and Krichner died in the crash. The incident is under investigation.

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Piper Crashes in Chile


An Aero Hein plane in flight.

What: Aerohein Piper PA-31-325 Navajo en route from Melinka to Quellón
Where: Quellón Chile
When: Mar 1 2012
Who: 8 aboard, 7 fatalities
Why: On a 20 minute flight, ATC lost contact with the plane six minutes into the flight. Air Force and Navy planes searched where the emergency signal beacon issued a single alarm before the aircraft crashed into the sea.

The plane’s wreckage was located by passengers in a boat in the Gulf of Corcovado off Chiloe island on Piedra Blanca at the mountain’s base. Occupants of the stricken plane included a businessman, his son and company divers and pilot Ricardo Hein. The list of dead includes Richard Hein, Genaro Barrientos Barria, Christopher Barria, Carlos Muñoz, Juan Gonzalez de La Fuente, Onofre Uribe Soto, and Pablo Briceño.

Five of those aboard have been found.

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