• Fleet crashes as Propeller Falls Off

    What: 1930 Fleet # 2
    Where: Crash-landed in a field just east of Pheasant Run private airport east of 5782 Trask Road. Pilot was intending to perform a demonstration fly-by over a Pheasant Run private airport
    When: 6:30 pm Sept 17
    Who: Pilot, Michael Toman, 46 years old, was not injured.
    Why: After the plane took off, the propeller fell off and hit the runway; the plane then lost altitude as the pilot tried to find a safe place to land. The crash is under investigation.

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    International Boundary and Water Commission Casualties found near Tex/Mex Border.

    Update

    Senator John Cornyn–on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Border Security and Refugees subcommittee and the Armed Services Committee’s Airland subcommittee, former Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge– released a Statement regarding the International Boundary and Water Commission Plane Crash

    “Since the disappearance of this aircraft earlier in the week, all of us have been hoping and praying for a miracle. So it is with a profound sense of sadness to learn that the wreckage has been found, and that the lives of these four men have been lost. Commissioner Marin and Jake Brisbin Jr. were devoted public servants and proud Americans whose loss will be felt throughout the border region. Their hard work and commitment, along with that of Commissioner Herrera’s, reflected the spirit of goodwill and partnership that is shared by the United States and Mexico as we work together on our common goals. Their family and loved ones are in my prayers tonight as the entire border region remembers their lives and legacies, and mourns this tragic accident.”

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    What: Chartered Cessna 421
    Where: Border Patrol located the wreckage in a remote rugged section of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico, about 20 miles northwest of Presidio.
    When: The plane was reported missing after it did not land on time Monday in Presidio. It was found shortly after noon Wednesday
    Who: Found deceased: leaders of the U.S. and Mexican sections of the IBWC, Carlos Marin of El Paso and Arturo Herrera, of Ciudad Juarez, Mexicom, Jake Brisbin Jr., executive director of the Rio Grande Council of Government and pilot Matthew Peter Juneau
    Why: The group had traveled to inspect flooding conditions in Presidio and Ojinaga, an aerial view of the Luis Leon Reservoir. Cause of the crash is not known but the pilot had signalled a problem after taking off Monday from El Paso, Mexico.

    AP had inadvertently listed the passengers as deceased when the plane disappeared and optimistically attempted to retract the story, hoping the passengers would be found alive. Sadly, there were no survivors

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  • Pilot Bails out of SkyCatcher

    What: Two seater training Cessna SkyCatcher Model 162 scheduled to begin selling for flight training and personal use in 2009. This plane had been on 100 flights with more than 150 hours of flight time.
    Where: (BUTLER COUNTY, Kan)
    When: eleven o’clock Thursday morning
    Who: test pilot
    Why: The test pilot bailed out of the plane wearing a parachute

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  • Pocatello Emergency Landing

    What: private aircraft
    Where: emergency landing at the Pocatello airport
    When: Tuesday
    Who: Pilot
    Why: Fuel was reportedly leaking into the cockpit. Fire crews responded but the plane landed safely and there were no injuries.

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    Emergency Landing in Louisiana

    What: private Cessna
    Where: Emergency landing on a levee in New Orleans near Chalmette
    When: Wednesday 11:30 a.m.
    Who: The two pilots of the plane were picked up by Coast Guard helicopters flying a training mission over Lake Ponchartrain. No one was reported injured in the emergency landing
    Why: Pilots reported the engine trouble.

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    Fatal Plane Crash Near US/Mexican Border

    What: Cessna en route from El Paso, Mexico, heading for Presidio, Texas. Plane had been inspecting damage to a dam caused by a flood from the Conchos River.
    Where: northern Mexico in the desert near the Mexican border city of Ojinaga
    When: Monday
    Who: Four people died, including top U.S. and Mexican water officials: Arturo Herrera and Carlos Marin, executive director of the Rio Grande Council, Jake Brisbin, and the pilot, who was not identified
    Why: pilot had signalled a problem

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    Hercules Grounded

    What: RAAF Hercules during a training flight
    Where: near Richmond, north-west of Sydney
    When: Monday about 8.25pm (AEST)
    Who: No injuries
    Why: crew detected a fault with the nose-wheel–an “unusual” fault prompted an emergency landing. At 8.55pm the crew put in a mayday call but landed safely at the Richmond Base 20 minutes later. Subsequently, all 24 of the RAAF’s Hercules planes were grounded

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    Spanair Update

    Update
    Based on findings derived from the MD-82’s flight and cockpit voice recorder, the wing flaps of the Spanair airliner (that crashed killing 154 people) were not set for take off, and pilots were unaware of it because the warning alarm did not go off.

    The faulty valve that prevented the first attempt at takeoff was disconnected rather than repaired. Planes are allowed to fly for up to 10 days with the system involved disconnected.

    Newlywed Brazilian Ronaldo Gomes Silva, 25, and his Spanish wife Yanina Celisdibowsky had been living in the UK for three years. a month ago in Sao Paolo, Brazil, they got married; They had just gotten on a plane to visit the Canary Islands, where Yanina was going to meet her in laws for the first time.

    They got on the wrong plane. They were two of the victims of Spanair Flight JK5022.

    Juliao Alves da Silva, the groom’s father said: “I have lost my son and a daughter-in-law. I am destroyed.”

    I don’t even know these people and I am nearly inconsolable.

    • What: Spanair Flight JK5022, a 15-year-old MD-82 jet bound bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
    • Where: Madrid airport Terminal Four
    • When: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 2:45pm
    • Who: Carrying 166 passengers and nine crew, at the time of this writing, the number of fatalities had mounted to 154 people.
    • Why: The jet swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff. Spanish Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil (CIAIAC) is investigating
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    Rescue Pilot Rescued in NZ

    What: Skyline Aviation Robinson 44 Helicopter
    Where: 20 kilometres northwest of Napier
    When: Monday Sept 15
    Who: relief pilot for the service for five years
    Why:Pilot who flew into some overhead wires and crashed while while spraying blackberry farm, was trapped beneath the wrecked helicopter with a punctured lung, a broken arm and fuel burns. His condition is critical, and he is in intensive care in Hawke’s Bay Hospital

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    Southwest Airlines Lands Safely

    What: Southwest Airlines Flight 1206 Boeing 737 out of Midway Airport en route to to Hartford, Conn
    Where: emergency landing at the South Bend Regional Airport
    When: 10 p.m. Sunday
    Who: more than 100 passengers (132 passengers and five crew members)
    Why: crew smelled smoke in the cockpit. South Bend mechanics checked out the plane and the flight continuwith an arrival time of 3:15 a.m. EDT

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    Emergency Landing in San Bernardino County

    What: small plane en route from Reno, Nev. to El Centro
    Where: private airstrip in alongside Interstate 15 near Stoddard Wells San Bernardino County
    When: Monday
    Who: Pilot not named.
    Why: Plane lost power at 7,000 feet, The pilot was intending to land at Southern California Logistics Airport but detoured to the private landing strip. The pilot made an emergency without landing gear, slid on the belly of the airplane with no fire, no hazards, no fuel leaks and no injuries

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    4 die in South Carolina Lear Jet Crash


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    Contact photographer Michael Carter

    What: Learjet N999LJ owned by Global Exec Aviation en route to Van Nuys, Calif
    Where:
    When: departed shortly before midnight Friday
    Who: carrying six people Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles — died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured
    Why: air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane was traveling at least 92 mph, its minimum takeoff speed, when the crew thought the tire burst The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence, crossing a five-lane highway and ending up on an embankment in flames.The plane was heading to Van Nuys, Calif.

    In serious condition is Travis Barker, who was the drummer for the band Blink-182. Barker was one of the two people wounded when the Learjet 60 crashed on a highway and caught fire.

    Listed in critical condition is Adam Michael Goldstein otherwise known as celebrity disc jockey DJ AM. He reportedly saved his own life by jumping from the burning plane while it was skidding down a runway.

    Joseph M. Still Burn Center said they both suffered second- and third-degree burns

    Aircraft (FAA)

    Manufacturer: Learjet Inc
    Model: 60 Search all Learjet Inc 60
    Year built: 2006
    Serial Number (C/N): 314
    Mode S Code: 53372425
    Aircraft Type: Fixed wing multi engine
    Amateur-Built: No
    Number of Seats: 11
    Number of Engines: 2
    Engine Type: Turbofan
    Engine Manufacturer and Model: P&w Canada PW305A

    Owner (FAA)

    Registration Type: Corporation
    Owner: Inter Travel And Services Inc
    Address: Irvine, CA 92614-2594
    United States
    Region: Western-Pacific

    Status (FAA)

    Certification Class: Standard
    Certification Issued: 2007-11-16
    Air Worthiness Test: 2006-12-14
    Last Action Taken: 2008-08-11
    Current Status: Valid
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    Russian Crash kills 88


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    Contact photographer Karev Valentin

    Update
    Monday Russian forensic scientists began using DNA testing to identify bodies and relatives visited the site; some were taken to the hospital in shock.

    What: Aeroflot Nord Boeing 737-500 Flight 821, en route from Moscow to Perm. The 737 had been leased by Aeroflot from Dublin-based Pinewatch Limited from late July until March 2013.
    Where: Crashed just outside the airport but inside the Perm, Siberia city limits. (conflicting reports say the plane landed in either a swamp or a ravine.) It missed an apartment block.
    When: 3:40 a.m. Sunday
    Who: Eighty-two passengers — including seven children and six crew members. Multiple nationalities were on the flight, including nine from Azerbaijan, five from Ukraine, and one each from France, Switzerland, Latvia, the United States, Germany, Turkey, and Italy,
    Why: Bolshoye Savino Airport air traffic control lost communication with pilots at at about 3,600 feet just before landing about 3:10 a.m The crash also disabled a section of Trans-Siberian railway. The weather was described as “mediocre.”

    • Crises centers for relatives were set up in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo-1 airport and in Perm.
    • The airline pledged to pay “compensation on obligatory accident insurance in full, which would make up to two million rubles (some 80,000 dollars) per victim.”
    • In 2007, 33 Russian aviation accidents that left 318 dead, raising concern over Russia’s civil aviation. Experts blame faults in the training of and aging fleets.
    • Transport Minister Igor Levitin will be leading the investigation.
    • A witness said “It was burning while still in the sky and it looked like a falling comet.” The plane hit the ground sharply — at a 30 or 40 degree angle.


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    Flight record of the downed plane:
    (Detailed records from http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b737-25792.htm)
    Boeing 737 – MSN 25792
    Airline Aeroflot-Nord
    Status : Active
    Registration : VP-BKO
    Airline Aeroflot-Nord
    Country : Russia
    Date : 2004 – Codes 5N AUL Callsign : dvina
    Web site : http://www.aeroflot-nord.ru
    General information & flightlog

    Serial number 25792 LN:2353
    Type 737-505
    First flight date 20/08/1992
    Test registration
    Flights recorded

    Operators of the aircraft
    Delivery date | Airline | Registration | Remark
    08/09/1992 Braathens LN-BRW
    24/09/1992 Xiamen Airlines B-2591
    12/03/1993 China Southwest Airlines B-2591
    01/03/2003 Air China B-2591 Stored 03/2008
    29/05/2008 Aeroflot-Nord VP-BKO

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    Three Dead in Australian Crash

    What: Kenny-owned helicopter took off from Bellburn airstrip
    Where: Purnululu National Park The airstrip abuts a bush camp in the World Heritage-listed Purnululu, about 55 kilometres by air from the township of Warmun.
    When: on Sunday
    Who: three young women and their Queensland pilot killed when a helicopter crashed. Pilot Christian Cartigue, and passengers Jessica May Cousins, 19, and Sarah Louise Thomas and Whitney Pinney, both 20.
    Why: Rugged terrain in the remote Kimberley location is hampering recovery


    Photo from http://www.smh.com.au/

    Jessica Cousins inset, Sarah Thomas … both died in the crash.

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    Cessna Crashes in Wichita Falls

    What: single-engine Cessna
    Where: front lawn of a church WICHITA FALLS, Texas
    When: Sunday morning
    Who: opthalmologist Dr. Jeffrey Harrington of Wichita Falls.
    Why: Harrington was believed to have been practicing landings at Kickapoo Downtown Airport when the Cessna apparently lost power and crashed fatally near Woodhaven Baptist Church.

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    Ryanair Emergency Landing in Dublin

    What: Ryanair flight from Dublin en route to Stansted
    Where: Dublin Airport.
    When: Thursday just minutes after take-off.
    Who: 148 passengers disembarked without injury.
    Why:Emergency landing, The back of the plane struck the runway in Dublin as it took off. Passengers could smell smoke but the oxygen masks were inoperable. The pilot returned to the airport as a precaution.

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    Emergency Landing near Vancouver

    What: two-passenger Piper Cherokee on a training flight
    Where: emergency landing in Pitt Meadows marsh adjacent to the Swan-E-Set golf course
    Who: Delta flight instructor and student from Canadian Flight Centre
    Why: The engine of a school plane failed as the plane heading toward Delta’s Boundary Bay airport Vancouver. Thanks to the instructor, the plane landed safely with no injuries

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    American Eagle Emergency Landing

    What: American Eagle flying from St. Louis to Minneapolis
    Where: Quad Cities International Airport, Rock Island County, Illinois,
    When: Saturday night
    Who: 23 passengers and 3 crew members
    Why: 20 minutes after takeoff, smoke appeared from behind the cockpit and filled the cabin with smoke. Passengers were transferred to a Northwest flight that left the airport at six Saturday night.

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  • Misdemeanor Is Par for the Course

    65-year-old Robert Kadera wasn’t drunk on March 1 when he landed his single-engine ski plane onto the seventh fairway at Marriott’s Lincolnshire Resort, but the judge is holding him accountable for the landing because it was deliberate; it was not an emergency landing; it was deliberate effort to keep his son from being late to a tennis lesson.

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    Restored Plane Lands without Landing Gear

    What: Restored Thunder Mustang
    Where: Nampa Airport, Idaho
    When: 10:59 a.m Fri Sept 12
    Who: Only the pilot was aboard.
    Why:No fuel leaking, no other hazards. Pilot did not lower the landing gear. When the propeller hit the ground some wood components splintered.

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    St Pete Emergency Landing

    What: twin engine plane crash
    Where: South part of runway 39 at the St Pete – Clearwater Airport.
    When: The plane went down shortly after midnight/early Friday morning.
    Who: Two women with non-life threatening injures are being treated at separate hospitals.
    Why: The landing gear was damaged and the plane landed in a grassy area by runway 39.
    The steering gear in the plane hit the pilot in the face. High winds from Hurricane Ike may have played a role in the crash.

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  • Fatal Crash in Wisconsin. Three lost.

    What: Cirrus SR22 owned by BlueSky Taxi, a Chicago area charter service. Flight departed from Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee at 5:46 p.m.
    Where: a half-mile southwest of northern Wisconsin’s Lakeland Airport.
    When: 7:13 p.m. Thursday
    Who: three people on board, ages 61, 50 and 40, all killed. The pilot was from Chicago and his name has not been released. The two passengers from Milwaukee were Jon Schlagenhaft, 50, and Curt Stern, 40, were from Milwaukee.
    Why:According to witnesses, it appeared that the plane was trying to land and may have missed the first approach and was coming back for a second one, There was kind of a misty rain that may or may not have been a factor.

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  • Alaska Crash Passenger found

    What: Super Cub en route to a destination 40 miles east of Talkeetna
    Where: Talkeetna Alaska
    When: The plane crashed Wednesday afternoon. Dinello’s body was found at the crash site Thursday, and the search cancelled due to weather.; The passenger (a hunter) was found on Friday five miles from the crash site. He was suffering from hypothermia, an ankle injury and burns to his legs and arms.
    Who: 48-year-old Big Lake pilot Frank Dinello
    Why: Crash is under investigation.

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  • Cessna Forced Landing off Coast of Belize

    What: Tropic Air Cessna Caravan
    Where: The emergency landing occurred 20 feet off the coast of Belizean Beach, Belize
    When: 9:40 a.m. minutes after taking off from the Municipal Airstrip
    Who: Skillful landing by experienced pilot 33-year-old Roy Bradley prevented fatalities. The four Texans en route to Philip Goldson International Airport (PGIA) were Jonathon Brady, Lindsay Brady, David Yorke and Gay Yorke.
    Why: The engine quit, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in the Caribbean Sea. Tropic Air says that the Cessna had a six month old engine.

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  • Helicopter Lands Safely in St. Pete

    What: six-seat American Eurocopter AS350 used by News Channel 8, St. Petersburg
    Where: Tierra Verde
    When: September 11, 2008
    Who: Pilot/reporter Judd Chapin and photographer Cliff McBride
    Why: After a warning light come on indicating hydraulic problems, the helicopter landed safely at Albert Whitted Airport in St. Petersburg for repairs.

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