A small plane crashed near Hesperia Airport, California, on March 7th.
Authorities said the ultralight plane went down near the north end of the airport.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the accident.
He was later identified as Robert Alexander, 55, of Hesperia, California.
The incident is being investigated.
What: Precision Ag & Seed Services Beechcraft
Where: Topeka, Kansas
When: 22-APR-2011
Who: 4 fatalities
Why: A family of four missed the approach to Philip Billard Municipal Airport. Witnesses to the crash say they heard the engine sputter.
The plane was flying too low as it made a go-around to make a second landing pass. The plane was a Beechcraft built in Kansas.
The young Scott city couple and their daughters were making an Easter trip when they crashed. The victims names were released: Richard Dylan Spencer, 35; Amy Beth Spencer, 34; and their daughters, Chase Spencer, 7, and Ansley Spencer, 5.
All of these aviation crashes that involve deaths are terrible; but somehow it hits home sharper when it is a young couple with their two small children.
Rest in peace Spencers.
PSA Airlines flight AA-5446 had to make an emergency landing in Albany, New York, on August 10th.
The plane flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Virginia, was on final approach when the crew declared an emergency due to smoke in the cabin.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
On July 5, 2014 at around 1600 hours, a private skydiving school was planning a tandem jump from a height of 4000 meters with beginner jumpers harnessed to experienced instructors (opening the parachute at 1700 feet) but instead the exercise met tragedy.
The twin engine Piper PA-31P pressurized Navajo skydiving plane crashed, and was damaged beyond repair in an accident near Czestochowa, Poland. The plane was new to the skydiving school, purchased in May. Witnesses who lived in the village where it crashed said that the plane was flying very low, then listed to one side before it crashed.
Twelve people were aboard the plane. Only the forty year old pilot survived but is in serious condition in a hospital in Czestochowa. The survivor is conscious and breathing without assistance, but has multiple injuries. Firefighters, three emergency helicopters and three ground ambulances responded to the scene and a team of seven investigators from the public prosecutors office secured the area and established a base of operations at the Cz?stochowa-Rudniki Airport (Aero Club of Czestochowa) from which the plane took off and where the crew was planning to land. The cargo plane does not have passenger seating but is built to fly skydivers, and is run by a parachute school.
Experts say it is unexpected for a twin engine plane to have a crash like this, as it can fly on one engine.
The ten seat twin engine Piper was full—perhaps too full—of skydivers when it crashed into a stand of trees in an uninhabited area just outside of the village of Poplar in Silesia. Some of them tried to parachute out but apparently all were burned. Those aboard included the pilot, one of the owners of the company, three instructors, three customers, and four students. The plane caught fire after impact in Topolów near Czestochowa, Poland.
Firefighters arrived at the scene at 16:20, and pulled three people from the plane before it caught fire. The remainder of the bodies were retrieved after the fire, charred beyond recognition.
Two pilots died in the crash of the experimental Bell Helicopter 525 Relentless at 11:45 today. The names of the two pilots killed in the crash have not been released.
The helicopter crashed 45 miles south of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The FAA is en route, and the NTSB is investigating.
Read more about the Experimental Bell 525 Relentless Next Generation Helicopter here
The Bell 525 Relentless, featuring the ARC Horizon flight deck system, provides unparalleled crew situational awareness through the use of a fully integrated avionics flight deck coupled with an advanced fly-by-wire flight control system, resulting in enhanced safety levels and mission capabilities.
What: Moremi Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan en route from Xakanaka Airstrip to Pom Pom Camp Airstrip
Where: Xaxanaka (Botswana)
When: OCT 14 2011
Who: 12 aboard, 8 fatalities
Why: A Moremi Air Cessna crashed in Botswana in the Okavango Delta soon after takeoff. Fatalities include the pilot and seven tourists. Four Swedes, two Brits, and two French were burned beyond recognition. One of the twelve people aboard actually jumped out of the plane while it was in the air, to avoid the fire, and that individual died at Maun Airport.
The four who survived include two Botswanan officials of the Department of Road Transport and Safety, and a french couple treated at Delta Private Hospital in Maun. The husband had burns, the wife was unhurt. One of the vehicle examiners, Bernard Lottering, kicked out a window when the plane landed, then facilitated his colleague’s exit.
The crash is under investigation.
Moremi Air Charters has grounded their fleet.
Hawaiian Airlines flight HA3 had to return and make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on May 18.
According to an airline spokesperson, the plane was en-route to Honolulu when the crew noticed a cockpit indicator light that showed an open fuel jettison valve. The captain then declared an emergency and turned back towards LAX.
The A330 plane landed uneventfully. There were 290 passengers and 10 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
On landing, it was found that the valve was closed.
