Flight Aware
What: Flight academy (leased) Cessna 172S Skyhawk en route from Daytona Beach airport to Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and back to Daytona.
Where: Smyrna Beach Florida
When: Feb 16, 2010
Who: Pilot and student
Why: A Norwegian student and an instructor crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Canaveral National Seashore, near Bethune Beach in New Smyrna Beach, Florida in a leased Cessna Skyhawk, at about 6:30 pm. The plane was seen falling into the ocean 20 miles from the airport, 200 yards from the beach. The aircraft submerged before rescuers could reach the craft, and pieces of it are in the water.
Pictured: a Aerospatiale AS-350BA Ecureuil
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Contact photographer Joost De Wit
What: Mountain Lifeflight Aerospatiale AS.350 Ecureuil en route from Renown Medical Center, Reno to Susanville, CA
Where: 29 miles northwest of Reno, Lassen County, CA
When: NOV 14, 2009
Who: 3 aboard
Why: After delivering a patient to a Reno Medical Center/hospital, the helicopter crashed and was destroyed by fire while on the way to its home base.
What: Air Methods Corp Eurocopter AS-350 en route from a hospital in St. Joseph, MO
Where: a field a mile north of Midwest National Air Center. Missouri
When: April 26, 2011, 7 pm
Who: 3 crew and one patient
Why: The St. Joseph Missouri medical chopper was on the way to Liberty Kansas about to refuel at Midwest National Air Center in Mosby when it went down in a Clay County field. There is no indication what went wrong that caused the crash and skies were reported to be clear. The wreckage is reported to be mangled. According to the video below the wreck might have been a failed landing, hitting the skids, then flipping.
There were no survivors. The crew lost in the crash were Randy Bever, Flight Nurse, 47, of Savannah, Mo., Chris Frakes, Flight Paramedic, 36, of Savannah, Mo. and James Freudenberg, Pilot, 34, of Rapid City, Sd.
The name of the 58-year-old female passenger has not yet been released.
The helicopter was certified in 2005, good until 2013. Key Equipment Finance Inc. out of Boulder, CO.holds the lien and it was being operated by LifeNet, a subsidiary of Air Methods Inc. of Englewood, CO.
The NTSB is investigating.
Two Southwest Airlines jets rolled into each other at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Washington, on September 28.
The aircrafts were being prepared to be towed to gates when the nose and fuselage of one collided with the wing of the other.
No one was injured in the accident.
The aircrafts were taken out of service.
A small aircraft crashed in Cañada de Praes area of Pilar de la Horadada, Alicante province, Spain, on May 10.
The small plane was going to Murcia from Vinarós when it started to lose altitude. The pilot decided to make an emergency landing at a large piece of land.
The plane flipped over onto its roof while landing. Both the people on board, the pilot and a passenger, managed to get out of the wreckage without any injuries, except for minor cuts and bruises.
The local police and Guardia Civil reached at the scene of the accident.
A military helicopter crashed in Dand-e-Ghori district of Baghlan province, Afghanistan, on October 9th.
The helicopter was supplying a military base when it caught fire and crashed.
There were eight people aboard at the time, including five crew members and three army soldiers; all of them were killed in the crash.
Afghan defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said the accident happened due to a technical issue.