A Europe Airpost Fokker F27 owned by Miniliner made an emergency landing at Charles-de-Gaulle airport after a left propeller flew off on takeoff. ??
The propeller chopped a hole in the fuselage and flew off to parts unknown.
Officials are hoping to recover the lost propellor blade. Gendarmerie Transports Aériens are providing a recovery number if it is found: 01 48 62 17 00
As this was a freight flight, there were no passengers aboard. None of the crew were injured. ( The occupants were listed as three crew.)
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What: Tentara Nasional Indonesia-AU (Air Force) Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M Where: Jakarta Indonesia When: June 21, 2012, 15:00 hrs. Who: 7 aboard Why: The flight was engaged in maneuvers when it crashed into a Jakarta neighborhood in the Rajawali housing complex (the Air Force Eagle Complex, at Halim Perdanakusuma airport.). It is reported that everyone aboard the flight except the co-pilot died in the crash. The co-pilot survived; and several people inside the buildings also died on the ground. A fireball erupted in the neighborhood. Some residents were hospitalized with burns.
Major Flight Heri Setiawan (captain pilot), Sergeant Major Simulanto, Sahroni Flight Lieutenant, Captain Agus Supriyadi Engineering, Purwo First Sergeant, Master Sergeant Wahyudi (Engineering Squadron 021) were confirmed killed in the crash.
Skies were clear at the time of the accident.
The names of the victims who were in the housing were not released. Video below
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What: Mexicana Click Fokker 100 en route from Mexico City to NEW LAREDO Where: Monterrey When: Feb 11 2010 Who: 96 passengers (one site reports 29 passengers and 4 crew) Why: The Mexicana Click made an emergency landing in Monterrey when it developed a fault in the undercarriage. It apparently made a safe landing, with no emergencies although it appear one individual may have been suffering from hysteria. Rescue crews were on hand. Other flights were cancelled.
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Air France 447 went down over the Atlantic in 2009.
The fly-by-wire A330 incorporates technology that prevents the airplane from entering a stall, but during a complete loss of airspeed information, however, the system reverted to manual control.
The final report said said the pilots were “completely surprised” by technical problems experienced at high altitude and engaged in increasingly de-structured actions until suffering “the total loss of cognitive control of the situation.”
CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation has been recorded said pilots generally manually manipulating the controls for only three minutes:one minute and 30 seconds each for take-off and landing.
“We are moving towards automated operations where the pilot isn’t even permitted to fly. That means the first time in your career you will ever feel what an aircraft feels like at 35,000 feet is when it’s handed to you broken.”
A passenger flight from Juba to Wau in the South Sudan landed, “missed the line,” and colliding with a fire truck. Seven or eighteen may have survived to be hospitalized but media reports vary wildly, from no injured to no survivors. Seven to eighteen people were reported hospitalized. Forty passengers and five crew were aboard. Russian databases say South Supreme operated two Antonov 26s EK-26310 and EK-26804, one of which is in storage) and one L-410 5Y-DAD.
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What: Algerian Air Force CASA C-295M Cargo Plane en route from Paris to Algiers Where: Saint-Germain-du-Teil, near Avignon, France When: Nov 9 2012, 3:45 pm. Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities Why: The Algerian Cargo plane crashed in Southern France near the village of Trelans, killing two military personnel and four civilians.
Firefighters recovered the remains of four civilians and two soldiers from the burning wreckage.
14 vehicles from Lozere carried 25 firefighters; and from Aveyron six vehicles brought 25 firefighters. An Air Force helicopter also assisted.
The research departmemt of the Paris Air Police and the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie de Rosny-sous-Bois were dispatched to determine the cause of the crash.
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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent was shot at a Terminal 3 checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport.
Swat responded. Los Angeles Police Department put LAX on tactical alert. An evacuation of the airport followed. All planes with flights heading to the airport were held at their points of origin.
The incident began at 9:30 a.m. at Terminal 3 at LAX. A twitter from John Fostrom said that “a lax colleague walks closer to see what is going on and TSA person runs at him with look of terror. Colleague turns to me and says run!”
A gunman with a rifle fired shots in Terminal 3. A twenty-nine year old man was shot in the leg at 9:30 a.m. and someone else was also wounded.
The gunman was taken into custody alive.
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