What: Helicopter en route from Fifth Avenue Terminal Where: San Diego Bay When: August 22, 2010 6:20 p.m Who: Pilot Why: When his helicopter suffered power loss, the helicopter pilot attempted landing on the Coronado Bridge. Persons on the bridge were in fear of a bridge collision, but those on the bridge need not have worried; the helicopter ended up instead in San Diego Bay.
Flotation devices kept the helicopter from sinking, and harbor police rescued the pilot. Rescuers needed every moment as the the pilot canopy was “broken in around him” which I take to mean he was pretty well entrapped. After retrieving the pilot, he was treated at UCSD Medial Center.
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A First Class Flyers LLC Cirrus SR22 with four aboard took off from Grand Bahama International Airport shortly after 11am Sunday morning November 10, 2013. Officers of the Royal Bahamas Marine and Police responded to the scene.
The plane had experienced engine trouble prior to the crash.
The plane crashed a few miles off the coast of Grand bahama Island. The names of the four Americans were not released immediately, but now the fatalities were reported as Fishers businessman Tony Wishart and Cindy Mierzwa from northern Indiana and Glen and Leslie Steiner from Arizona.
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What: Egyptair Airbus A320-200 en route from Cairo to Kuwait Where: Egypt When: Dec 3, 2012 Who: 90 aboard Why: We have avoided this report for as long as possible, but finally decided to get it out of the way, since our mailboxes and emails are FULL of reports of: “Snake on a plane forces emergency landing”
“Cobra Forces EgyptAir Flight to Make Emergency Landing”
“Flight Crew Finds reptile”
“Real Life Snake on a plane”
“Egyptian Cobra Bites Akram Abdul Latfi, Egypt Air Passenger”
“Cobra upgraded to First Class on Flight**”
Here’s the story: Akram Abdul Latif who was aboard this Egyptair flight was bitten by a snake. Actual snake on a plane, not the terrible movie. The Jordan Times says the snake was a cobra and that Latif owns a reptile shop where he was taking it. The snake had gotten out and the pet shop owner was bitten in the hand while trying to return the snake to the carry-on (as so many are theoretically and realistically bitten while trying to get anything back in the bag.)
The flight was diverted to Al Bahr Al Ahmar where first aid was administered to the man, and apparently none to the snake, who died. Actually, the snake did not die; it apparently was with Latif when he was refusing medical treatment. Some of the reports infer Latif was allowed to bring the snake to his shop in Kuwait. Without a crystal ball, I can’t say whether or not reports will be full of “Kuwait Reptile Store Owner Jailed for Smuggling” but according to “Newsfix” the cobra was corralled and confiscated by the cops. No one indicates if the snake was returned to Latif, or if a snake license, fine or a “snake coralling fee” was levied.
One can not help but picture the plane landing, a bouncer tossing Latif, his bag and beast out on their respective keisters*, the plane closing up and zipping down the runway before Latif can get back on.
* For the sake of the paragraph, we are endowing both the snake and the bag with honorary keisters, as they are not provided their own by nature.
** Honors for the best title of an article about the snake on a plane
*** The snake photo is clipped from the youtube video
**** No snakes were harmed in the writing of this article
*****[insert your own] Etc.
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What: small, single-engine experimental Nadiq, a fixed-wing, single-engine plane Where: Sandy Creek township, near Miller Road in Venango County When: July 24 2010, 11:25 a.m Who: fatalities: 57-year-old David Wagner, of Clairon, and former Clairon County commissioner 54-year-old Rob Carbaugh, of Seneca. Why: Crash in the woods of Sandy Creek
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What: Marion County Sheriff’s helicopter returning from a call in the southwest area of Marion county Where: Ocala Airport When: Saturday 10/10/2009 Who: Sheriff’s Office pilots Peter Rogers and Michael Turner Why: While returning from a call, the helicopter lost power. They managed to land at Ocala airport.
A twin-engine training aircraft crashed into a warehouse at 5300 Allen K Breed Highway in Lakeland, Florida, on the morning of January 22.
The accident happened at around 10 a.m. after the plane departed from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. The crash caused an explosion and fire.
A student and an instructor were aboard the plane when it crashed; both of them were killed. They were later identified as 41-year-old Gregory Todd Geng from Hudson and 62-year-old Terry Lee Butt of Winter Haven.
There was no one inside the building at the time of accident. The warehouse belongs to Key Safety Systems, a designer, developer and manufacturer of automotive safety systems.
The plane was a Piper Apache registered to Tailwheels Inc., of Lakeland.
The NTSB and the FAA are investigating.
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