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    Alaska Airlines Emergency


    What: Boeing 737-800 en route from Anchorage to Fairbanks
    Where: Anchorage
    When: 7:49 a.m.
    Who: 61 passengers and five crew members.
    Why:one of the plane’s two engines malfunctioned about 30 minutes after takeoff. Passengers described an “orange glow” outside the windows followed by vibration. (The event was alternately described as an “engine surge.” The crew “idled the engine” and the pilot returned to Anchorage for an emergency landing. Passengers debarked and were put on a 10:05 a.m. flight to Fairbanks.

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    Piper Cherokee Lost/Found in San Gorgonio Wilderness

    What: missing Piper Cherokee registered to Douglas Bowles of Hesperia
    Where: mountainside in the San Gorgonio Wilderness
    When: Flight disappeared Monday
    Who: four occupants: Douglas Bowles of Hesperia, and his passengers Joshua Chlebek, 28, David Helland, 60, and Oludare Akinwunmi, 29.
    Why: On 2:30 p.m. Monday a sheriff’s helicopter pilot spotted a wreckage. Searchers rappelled down to it; no survivors have been found.

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    Arkansas: Cessna Crash


    What: Cessna 177RG registered to Jerry L. Smith of Willow Springs, Mo.
    Where: Rich Mountain in rural Polk County near Queen Wilhelmina State Park, western Arkansas
    When: 2 p.m.
    Who: Jerry L. Smith
    Why: The aircraft appeared to have clipped some trees before plummeting into the right-of-way off Arkansas 88. Someone driving by saw the wreckage around 2:15 p.m. and called it in. The pilot died in the crash

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    Northwest Emergency Landing at Indianapolis

    What: Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of Northwest Airlines, flight 9E-2515/NW-2515 from Oklahoma City,OK to Detroit,MI
    Where: Indianapolis
    When: Tuesday (3 minutes later)
    Who: 26 passengers on board
    Why: When cabin pressure problems were indicated (possibly originating with the seal around the aircraft’s windshield) the plane had to proceed with an emergency landing at the Indianapolis airport, where the plane taxied to the gate and were able to disembark normally.

    What: Pinnacle Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of Northwest Airlines, flight 9E-2544/NW-2544 from Detroit,MI to St. Louis,MO
    Where: Indianapolis
    When: Tuesday (3 minutes earlier)
    Who: 18 passengers on board
    Why: Flight diverted when the window developed a crack

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    Italy’s Airport Shutdown

    • 100 airport employees are opposed to their new labor contracts, causing the cancellation of 39 Alitalia flights at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. Hundreds of passengers are stranded and spending the night at the airport.
    • Lines at Alitalia check-in counters at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport struggled with a backlog of hundreds of passengers who spent the night on the floor after the wildcat strike by some Alitalia workers
    • Rome’s Ciampino airport is closed for the second day, ever since the Ryanair jet had a run-in with a flock of starlings. At last report, the plane is still sitting on the tarmac unable to be moved.
    • 54 flights were cancelled At Milan’s airport, 4 in Naples and 4 in Sicily
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    Hawaii Crash Video

    Released by the Pentagon Channel: air traffic control recordings of fatal Hawaii Coast Guard helicopter crash.

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    Longtime Traffic Guy Paul Cavanaugh Survives Hard Landing, Broken Chopper


    What: CBS Sky 12 Bell Ranger III traffic helicopter
    Where: 1000 W. Industrial Avenue
    When: Tuesday November 11, 2008 at 6:11 a.m
    Who: Pilot, Takayuki Tanaka and television and radio traffic reporter Paul Cavanaugh, both transported to Bethesda Hospital with minor injuries.
    Why: After the pilot reported an engine problem, he attempted to land at a Boynton Beach industrial park. Witnesses said the helicopter”did not have full power.”

    The rear rotor assembly was cutoff at mid-shaft. The news organization calls this incident a “hard landing”

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    South American Geophysical Survey Flight DIsappears, Search Underway


    What: Chartered Dynamic Aviation geophysical survey flight ( twin-engine Beech King Air, N87V) on behalf of Canadian mining company Prometheus Resources Inc
    Where: Guyana South America near the border of Venezuela
    When: Saturday Nov 8
    Who: 3 men reported missing, including Pilot Wes (James Wesley) Barker, co-pilot, Chris Paris, 23, and Canadian Patrick Murphy, a geophysics technician
    Why: Cause is unknown but the search is currently underway although hampered by cloud cover. The plane departed Timehri, in western Guyana at 2:14 p.m. local time and was last reported at 3:06 p.m

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    Loganair Saab Emergency Landing on Isle of Man Airport

    What: Loganair Saab aircraft, operating for Flybe
    Where: Isle of Man Airport
    When: 10 November 2008
    Who: 19 persons onboard
    Why: Reported problems with the plane’s undercarriage-but the plane landed without incident. Roads around the airport were closed in accordance with safety directives.

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    Flock of Starlings Downs Ryanair Boeing in Italy


    What: Ryanair Boeing 737-800 flight FR4102 from Frankfurt
    Where: approached Rome Ciampino Airport at 7.56am
    When: Monday November 10 2008
    Who: two crew members and eight of the 166 passengers received medical treatment
    Why: After the both of the plane’s engine ingested a number of European starlings, smoke started pouring out of one of the engines and oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. As the plane was coming in to land, Passengers debarked via emergency exits and escape chutes. The landing gear sustained damage also. The pilots did not have the time or momentum to bypass a huge flock of birds encountered on landing.

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    Delaware: Helicopter Crash

    What: Rotorway Executive 162F experimental helicopter
    Where: north end of the airfield at Summit Aviation
    When: November 9, 2008
    Who: Amanda Randall, 51, of Fenwick Island
    Why: While flying a few feet off the ground, the helicopter flipped on its side. Randall sustained a non-fatal head injury.

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    A Founding member of the Innisfail Flying Club Dies in Crash


    What: single-engine Cessna 182 en route from Red Deer Regional Airport heading to the Innisfail Airport.
    Where: Red Deer, Alta
    When: Saturday 10:30 p.m.
    Who: Pilot Herluf Nielsen 61, from the Spruceview area, was the only person aboard.
    Why: There was heavy fog in the area. Nielsen left the airport around 10:30 p.m. and was reported overdue at the Innisfail Airport.

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  • Globe Crashes in Calaveras County

    What: single-engine Globe Swift (GC-1A) manufactured in 1946 in Texas en route from Rancho Murieta airport to Rancho Murieta airport
    Where: on the exposed dry lake bottom of Camanche Reservoir, Calaveras County
    When: Thursday.
    Who: Walter Guy Boeck, 68, of Rancho Murietta
    Why: The flight plan was to fly with another plane for a couple of hours and return to the airport. The other pilot reported seeing Boeck’s plane flying erratically and Boeck slumped unconscious over the controls and tracked him until he was low on fuel. The search for the missing craft began about 5 p.m. Thursday after eyewitnesses reported the aircraft going down over Lake Comanche . 9:30 a.m. Airborne searchers discovered the wreckage. Boeck’s body was discovered about 10:00 a m.

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    Pilot Training Video

    Pilots in training are put under the G force pressures they will experience in flight. Wait and see who handles it best!

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    NTSB Interview Regarding Gainesville Partenavia Crash

    What: Partenavia P.38 registered to Robert Valle of St. Croix.
    Where: Found short of the runway at about 7:40 a.m.
    When: 2:45 a.m Friday
    Who: 3 occupants killed in the crash
    Why: Under investigation. (See video)

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    Homebuilt Crash and Fatality in Virginia


    What: Private homebuilt kit plane that resembled a Cessna.
    Where: Covington Field in Spencer on a private air strip in Henry County just west of Blue Ridge Airport, near Virginia 58 and the Patrick County line.
    When: Friday afternoon 2:30 p.m
    Who: Pilot Jerome Tuttle, 71, of Stoneville, N.C. was taken to the Martinsville Hospital and died of his injuries.
    Why: The pilot was attempting to land on the private air strip when the plane crashed.

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    Piper Crashes in Australia


    What: Piper PA-31-350 Navajo en route from Moorabbin Aerodrome, east of Melbourne to Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast. The plane had stopped at Bathurst to re-fuel.
    Where: Bathurst Airport
    When: 8.30pm (AEDT) Friday November 7, 2008
    Who: Pilot Timothy O’Brien, 51, pilot’s girlfriend Jackie, 40; Senior Constable Erin Condon, 40, and her nine-year-old son Matthew
    Why: crashed shortly after takeoff from Bathurst. The plane exploded when it hit the ground and caused fires in the immediate area. The pilot tried to return to the airport but crashed 3 km shy. The families are in mourning.

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    The Question of Foul Play

    The big question: was there foul play involved in the crash of the Mexican governmental airplane that resulted in the death of José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Miguel Monterrubio, Arcadio Echeverría, Norma Díaz, Álvaro Sánchez, Gisel Carrillo, and several people in the vicinity of Paseo de la Reforma?

    The Mexican government is at war against the drug cartels and apparently the drug cartels had put a price on the head of Vasconcelos. The problem of figuring out the truth is exacerbated by the citizenry’s distrust; the Mexican government is not exactly known for disclosure. In fact, if the facts prove this was indeed an accident, how will people ever be convinced of it? Because no sign of any explosives were found in the wreckage; and the presumed cause of the crash is that the Lear Jet was adversely affected by turbulence from a large Boeing jet in front of it.

    What: Learjet 45 flown by the Mexican government
    Where: Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
    When: 04 NOV 2008
    Who:Passengers included:

    • Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, top aide to President Felipe Calderón.
    • José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos-former assistant attorney general and current head of the federal technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security.
    • Miguel Monterrubio, director general of social communications with the Interior Secretariat.
    • Arcadio Echeverría, coordinator of special events, office of the Interior Secretary.
    • Norma Díaz, director in the communications department of the Interior Secretariat.
    • Julio César Ramírez Dávalos, pilot.
    • Álvaro Sánchez, co-pilot.
    • Gisel Carrillo, stewardess.

    Why: At 18:45, although the aircraft was instructed to switch to the Tower frequency which the pilot acknowledged but never contacter Mexico Tower. The Learjet then crashed on the Avenida Reforma and caught fire. Several cars were destroyed and at least five people on the ground were killed.

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    Emergency Landing in Manchester

    What: Thomas Cook Airlines Flight TCX569K Airbus A320 en route from Manchester to Tenerife
    Where: touched down at Manchester Airport
    When: 12.15 pm Friday 7th November 2008
    Who: 180 passengers on board
    Why: A passenger is quoted as saying” “The captain made an announcement about the problems and the plane went silent. You could have heard a pin drop. It circled for around five minutes before landing. As soon as it did, there was a surge of chatter as everyone started talking.”

    After the engine malfunctioned just after take-off, the Airbus returned to the Manchester airport. Passengers were scheduled to leave at 17.15 pm on another plane.

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    Mexico City Fatal Crash Update


    See the original at Aviation Safety net
    Contact photographer Harro Ranter

    Update:Thursday investigators found the “black box” voice recorder; the data recorder with navigation information was recovered on Wednesday. The boxes will be examined in the US. Rumors abound that the crash was not an accident.
    Information released (In Spanish):

    What: Learjet 45 flown by the Mexican government
    Where: Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
    When: 04 NOV 2008
    Who:Passengers included:

    • Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, top aide to President Felipe Calderón.
    • José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos-former assistant attorney general and current head of the federal technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security.
    • Miguel Monterrubio, director general of social communications with the Interior Secretariat.
    • Arcadio Echeverría, coordinator of special events, office of the Interior Secretary.
    • Norma Díaz, director in the communications department of the Interior Secretariat.
    • Julio César Ramírez Dávalos, pilot.
    • Álvaro Sánchez, co-pilot.
    • Gisel Carrillo, stewardess.

    Why: At 18:45, although the aircraft was instructed to switch to the Tower frequency which the pilot acknowledged but never contacter Mexico Tower. The Learjet then crashed on the Avenida Reforma and caught fire. Several cars were destroyed and at least five people on the ground were killed.

    United States investigators have been called in to help quell the rumors that the flight was sabotaged by drug cartels. Two investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration began working at the crash site on Tuesday night and the NTSB sent a team to investigate. Due to a history of government cover-ups, Mexicans don’t believe the Mexican government will tell the truth about the cause of the crash.

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    Vegas Metro Helicopter Lands Safely


    What: Metro helicopter
    Where: vacant lot near Fremont Street and Bruce in Downtown Las Vegas.
    When: Nov 5, 2008
    Who: Unnamed officers and pilot
    Why:Witnesses saw the helicopter swaying back and forth before it landed safely. Pilots anticipated a problem and landed on the empty lot. Maintenance staff was able to do on site repairs to the part that controls the rotor speed so that the helicopter was able to take off, and return the helicopter back to the hanger where it landed safely.

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    Emergency Update: Plane for Sale

    What: Challenger II Special (described as a step up from ultralight aircraft)
    Where: south of the County Airport in a field at 695 Township Road 1275.
    When: 12:40 p.m
    Who: Pilot and plane owner Jeffrey K. Edmondson with 29 years of flying experience.
    Why: When Edmondson’s new plane’s engine decided to quit when he cut the throttle, Edmonson decided to quit the plane. (Since he did make a safe landing.) The plane has sensitive rudder controls which require a lot of practice, which hopefully the buyer will be able to get. Although Edmondson was in the process of registering the plane, it is now for sale.

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    Emergency Landing Commendation in Brisbane


    What: single-engine Cessna 172
    Where: Archerfield Airport, Brisbane
    When: 4.00 pm
    Who: instructor and student
    Why: landed on one wheel and skidded along the runway. The landing is being described as “near-perfect emergency landing ” and “best possible outcome” in spite of the fact that the Cessna’s undercarriage would not lower. Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) plans to investigate.

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    Emergency Landing Commendation in Brisbane


    What: single-engine Cessna 172
    Where: Archerfield Airport, Brisbane
    When: 4.00 pm
    Who: instructor and student
    Why: landed on one wheel and skidded along the runway. The landing is being described as “near-perfect emergency landing ” and “best possible outcome” in spite of the fact that the Cessna’s undercarriage would not lower. Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) plans to investigate.

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