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Utah Compassion Flight Crashes, 2 fatalities
What: Aero Med LLC AMD CH2000 Alarus
Where: Nephi Utah
When: August 30, 2012, 4 p.m.
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: Returning to Nephi Municipal Airport, the plan crashed on approach at 4 p.m.. The two aboard died on impact. The impact area was in the area of highway 132. Weather may have been involved, as it was storming at the time. After impact, there was a fire.
The fatalities were identified as Robert Marion Lamb, 45, of Utah County and Peter John Mrowiec, 58, of Ontario, Canada. Either one could have been flying.
Robert Lamb, a flight instructor, had been aboard while Peter Morwiec was trying to earn five hours of flight training to fly the plane home. Mrowiec was intending to purchase the plane.
According to Lamb’s wife who asked why he was going, since he wasn’t getting paid and didn’t know [Mrowiec]. he said, “If I was stranded and couldn’t get home, I would hope someone would help me.”
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Qantas Engine Shut Down; Safe Singapore Landing
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What: Qantas Boeing 747-400 en route from Singapore to Melbourne
Where: Singapore
When: Dec 17th 2009
Who: 354 passengers and 19 crew
Why: While en route, the outer right engine surged. Passengers reported bangs and vibration, and flames.
The crew shut down the engine and returned to Singapore on the remaining 3 engines, where they made a safe landing.
The flight was delayed for a day. It is not reported if this plane completed the route or if an alternative plane was used.
A Little Bit of Safety Research
Worried about where to sit on a plane? It’s safer in the back, not on the window, and closer to an exit. Do I consider where I sit on a plane? You bet I do. This is what the research says on plane safety:
- The cheap seats are the safer seats. Sit at the rear of the plane if you want to have better odds in surviving a plane crash. New York Post
- The United States General Accounting Office report on aviation safety (Advancements Being Pursued to Improve Airliner Cabin Occupant Safety and Health) indicates that floor retention— the ability of the aircraft cabin floor to remain intact and hold the passenger’s seat and restraint system during a crash—as critical to increasing the passenger’s chances of survival” but the same report says “The front part of the airplane was destroyed, including the floor; most of these seats separated from the airplane, killing or seriously injuring the occupants” and does not outrightly indicate that a safer location is farther from the cockpit. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0433.pdf
- Popular Mechanics considered 36 years’ worth of NTSB reports and seating charts and concluded it’s safer in the back of the plane.
- Greenwich University (London) Professor Ed Galea, Director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group suggests survival can depend on proximity to an exit, aisle seating, and getting off the plane within 90 seconds. University of Greenwich
- As plane crashes are classic “unpredictable events” theoretically the best location is unpredictable. However more aviation crashes have forward impact, which necessarily makes front proximity less safe. This MSN article leans on Galea’s research. MSN Travel