A small plane crash-landed in a field near Vernon airport in British Columbia, Canada, on December 23.
Authorities said the plane experienced engine failure shortly after it took off from Vernon airport.
According to Vernon’s fire captain Chris Robinson, “The pilot landed in the field just next to the airport. There was just a bit of damage to the plane.”
There were two people aboard including the pilot and his passenger; both of them suffered minor injuries.
Southwest Airlines flight WN-3641 had to return and make a safe emergency landing at McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 7th.
The Boeing 737-700 flying to Cleveland, Ohio, had to return due to an unreliable airspeed and the altitude.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Retrieval of the Lao Airlines plane that crashed in the Mekong river on a go-around has been hampered by primitive conditions. The plane has only been in service since March 2013.
The plane encountered a strong gust of wind, its nose lifted, then the ATR-72-600 impacted near Done Kho Island. Although the accident was on the 19th, and investigators have detected signals from the flight data recorders, rustic conditions, poor visibility and turbulent river eddies have prevented recovery of the black boxes. Divers have had to use ropes in the muddy water.
Forty-four victims had been recovered from the swollen river in Laos. The bodies have been subject to significant drift, due to the forceful currents.
Four crew, the Cambodian captain, plus 16 Laotians, seven French travellers, six Australians, five Thais, three South Koreans, two Vietnamese, and one national each from the United States, Canada, Malaysia, China and Taiwan were aboard.
This is Lao Airlines first fatal crash in 13 years.
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What: Empresa de meios aereos Kamov Ka-32A11BC
Where: Lagoa de Vale de Figueiras, Portugal
When: Sept 3, 2012
Who: 2 aboard
Why: While filling a bucket during a firefighting expedition, a Air Media Company (EMA) chopper in Lagoa de Vale de Figueiras, Portugal went down.
The two aboard were injured. There were no fatalities. The two firefighters have been hospitalized.
The helicopter had been engaged in fighting the fire in Ourém which has been raging for 24 yours.
Allegiant Air flight 514 had to return and make an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 1.
The Boeing 757, heading to Fresno, California, had to be turned back after the pilot reported possible left engine fire.
The plane landed safely and no one was hurt.
A single-engine Cessna 182 crashed near Owen in central Wisconsin at around 11 a.m. on January 26.
The plane, carrying the pilot, Mark Siegwart, 27, of Hammond, Indiana, Nathan Smoot, 41, of North Pole, Alaska and Martin Siegwart, 56, of Boon, Michigan, was flying from Hammond, Indiana when it went down.
According to Clark County Sheriff Greg Herrick, “Nathan and Mark were friends and were flying the recently purchased plane back to Alaska from the Griffith Airport in Hammond, Ind…Along the way, they stopped in Cadillac, Mich., and picked up Mark’s father who was accompanying them on the trip.”
According to the pilot, the aircraft began to ice up and lose altitude. He was attempting an emergency landing on a road when it crashed.
Martin Siegwart was pronounced dead at the spot, while Mark and Nathan were injured. Both of the injured were shifted to hospital where the authorities confirmed that Nathan was later discharged while Mark was in stable condition.
On January 23, 2010, there was fog at the time of takeoff and visibility was a half-mile. Gary Bradford and his passenger Drago Strahija were killed when Bradford’s plane crashed in a neighborhood eight minutes from the Aurora Municipal Airport.
The Doyles, the family in whose yard the plane crashed are suing the pilot’s widow. On April 5, the Doyle family will face Gary Bradford’s estate in court.
Rita Bradford and her deceased husband owned ENS Corp., a Florida IT firm. At the time of the crash, he had owned the plane for three months after 98 hours of instrument experience, and 52 hours of flight instruction in seven days.
The meat of the suit is that the Doyles say the pilot did not properly inspect, maintain or know how to land the Cessna.
When the Cessna crashed in the Doyle’s yard, the plane did not strike the house, but debris started a fire in the north side of the garage.
