A small plane crashed in Tehachapi, California, on November 19th.
Authorities said the single-engine Cessna 152 plane went down in the Capital Hills area of Tehachapi.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash.
The FAA and the NTSB will investigate.
Skywest Airlines flight OO-5336 made an emergency landing in San Francisco, California, on April 18th.
The plane was heading to Portland, Oregon, when the crew reported an issue with windshield heating and decided to return.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
A small plane crashed in Medina County, Texas, on April 15th.
Authorities said the plane went down in a brushy area near the Bexar-Medina county line.
The pilot, who was the only one aboard, was killed in the crash.
The incident is being investigated.
A skydiving plane crashed at East Georgia Regional Airport in Swainsboro, Georgia, on August 25th.
The plane was carrying five people when it went down.
Four people were killed in the crash. They were identified as Staff Sergeant Aliaksandr “Alex” Bahrytsevich, 31, of Raeford, NC; Justin Duff, 42, of Statesboro, GA; Andrew Swenson, 23, of Daytona Beach, FL; and Chris Eldridge, 42, of Rincon, GA.
The fifth occupant of the plane, identified as William Middlebrooks, suffered injuries and was taken to a hospital.
The plane was owned by The Jumping Place Skydiving Center in Statesboro, Georgia.
A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing at Lambert St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, on the morning of February 24.
The MD-11 was en-route from Memphis to Minneapolis when a warning light indicated fire on-board. The plane was then diverted to St. Louis where it made an uneventful emergency landing at 6:15 a.m.
All 4 people aboard the plane exited through emergency slide. Authorities said one of them was examined by medics for possible injuries sustained by using emergency slide.
According to FedEx spokesperson Scott Fiedler, the aircraft’s fire safety suppression system got activated and sprayed foam inside a container. The investigators are looking into the cause of incident.
A private plane made an emergency landing at Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport in Maryland, on November 22.
Authorities said hydraulics failure forced the pilots of the Cambridge-bound plane to divert.
The plane landed safely. All four people, including two pilots and two passengers, remained unhurt.
Pictured: A S-Air British Aerospace BAe-125-700B (only because we couldn’t find the original
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actual plane involved
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What: S-Air Hawker-125 Executive Jet en route from Vnukovo airport in Moscow to the Minsk international airport.
Where: Minsk
When: October 26, 2009
Who: Two passengers and three crew
Why: The Russian business jet crashed Monday night into a swampy area near Minsk while on approach to the airport. 5 are confirmed dead, including CEO of the S-Air airline, Marat Romashkin. A sixth passenger was supposed to aboard but missed the flight.
The plane failed it’s first landing and disappeared off radar. The wreckage was 2.5 miles from the airport.
The S-Air fleet includes Yak-42D, Tu-134, Yak-40, Hawker-125-700B and Hawker-125-800B planes.