A small Cessna crashed into Lake Pontchartrain near the New Orleans Lakefront Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana, on the night of August 27th.
There were three people onboard out of whom a woman was rescued and taken to hospital.
Two missing persons are still being searched for.
United Flight 4412 had to return and make an emergency landing at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 13.
The plane departed at 10:13 p.m. and immediately turned around and landed back uneventfully at 10:20 p.m.
No one was injured.
Airport authorities said they were not sure what caused the emergency landing.
What: Eurocopter group Eurocopter AS 532AL Super Puma
Where: La Palud-sur-Verdon, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
When: July 25, 2012, 13 h 40
Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: In the village of La Palud-sur-Verdon, a Eurocopter group helicopter crashed, killing the six men aboard, including employees of Eurocopter. The newly assembled chipper was en route to the Albanian army when it apparently “caught a EDF power cable.”
Two of those aboard may have been Albanian. Climbers were dispatched to assist with the recovery.
What: Cessna 172R Skyhawk
Where: Tooele County-Wendover Airport – Kenv Utah
When: June 1, 2011
Who: 4 fatalities
Why: The pilot of the Cessna was making a fuel stop at Wendover airport when he ran into difficulty, termed “a tough crosswind landing.” He approached for touchdown, bounced and turned north to make a second pass, and crashed 400 feet north of the runway. The four men aboard died in the crash.
Wind is considered to be a factor in the crash.
The names of those aboard the flight are Lincoln Marshal Dastrup, 57, of Salt Lake City, Chad A. Wade, 38, of South Jordan, Justin Michael Yates, 37, of Lehi, and Harish Parashar, 53.
A small plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Amagansett, New York, on June 2nd.
The incident happened when the Piper PA-31 Navajo plane was carrying four people, including the pilot Jon Dollard, 47, famed Hamptons home builder Ben Krupinski, 70, his wife, Bonnie Bistrian Krupinski, 70, and their grandson, Will Maerov, 22.
As of June 3rd, only two bodies had been recovered. However, all four occupants of the plane are presumed dead.
The National Commission on Safety Transportation announced that the Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia seven months did so as a result of pilot error. All 45 Aboard were fatalities.
Indonesian authorities claimed that the plane functioned adequately and there were no malfunctions of safety gear.
The fact that the pilot digressed from the route, and that the (foreign) pilots were not well aware of the mountainous terrain may be behind part of the decision. As a demonstration flight, the pilots were probably encouraged to make dramatic maneuvers at a terrible price.
Thirty-eight seconds prior to the impact, cockpit instruments issued a warning saying “pull up, terrain ahead”. Later the warning “avoid terrain” was issued six times, but the instruments were turned off because the crew assumed there was a problem with the database.
Officials said that “The crew was not aware of the mountainous area surrounding the flight path,”
The Jakarta radar service was incapable of informing flight crews of minimum safe altitudes.
The Russian pilots, while experts, were not intimate with the Indonesian topography.
Six minutes after takeoff, the pilot and co-pilot requested Jakarta ATC for permission to drop from 3,000 meters to 1,800 meters on the scheduled half-hour flight. Six minutes later, the plane struck Mount Salak.
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An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Toledo Express Airport, Ohio, on December 17th.
The plane heading from Chicago, Illinois, to Baltimore, Maryland, was diverted due to a mechanical issue.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
