What: Ukraine Ministry of Defense Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatross
Where: Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
When: Sept 22, 2012
Who: 1 fatality
Why: In Chuguev, a combat trainer aircraft L-39 crashed on the runway. The student pilot who was flying the plane when it crashed died at the scene.
The pilot was a third year student and had completed 71 flights.
The incident is under investigation. Use of L-39 planes has been suspended pending the investigation.
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What: Polish Air Force Tupolev TU-154M
Where: Smolensk
When: Apr 10th 2010
Who: 88 passengers and 8 crew
Why: On approach to Smolensk North Airport in dense fog, the plane impacted a forest, coming to rest short of the runway. There are conflicting reports leading up to the decision to land at Smolensk (versus Minsk or Moscow), holding pattern, the number of approaches.
Everyone aboard the flight was lost, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, the national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two presidential aides and three lawmakers.
Partial list of those lost in the crash:
1. Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland
2. Maria Kaczynska, the president’s wife
3. Ryszard Kaczorowski, head of Poland’s London-based government-in-exile during the communist period
4. General Tadeusz Buk, Head of Polish Land Forces
5. Leszek Deptula, MP
6. Grzegorz Dolniak, MP
7. Katarzyna Doraczynska, President’s Chancellery
8 Janina Fetlinska, Senator
9. General Franciszek Gagor, Chief of Staff
10. Grazyna Gesicka, MP
11. Przemyslaw Gosiewski, MP
12. Mariusz Handzlik, Minister at the President’s Chancellery
13. Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, MP
14. Sebastian Karpiniuk, MP
15. Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Head of Polish Navy
16. Mariusz Kazana, Foreign Ministry
17. Janusz Kochanowski, Poland’s Ombudsman
18. Stanislaw Jerzy Komorowski, Deputy Defence Minister
19. Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Foreign Minister
20. Janusz Kurtyka, National Remembrance Institute head
21. Tomasz Merta, Deputy Culture Minister
22. Aleksandra Natalli-Swiat, MP
23. Piotr Nurowski, head of Polish Olympics Committee
24. Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of parliament
25. Arkadiusz Rybicki, MP
26. Slawomir Skrzypek, head of Poland’s central bank
27. Wladyslaw Stasiak, head of Kaczynski’s Chancellery
28. Aleksander Szczyglo, head of the National Security Bureau
29. Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Deputy Speaker of parliament
30. Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, MP
31. Izabela Tomaszewska, President’s Chancellery
32. Anna Walentynowicz, former Solidarity activist
33. Zbigniew Wassermann, MP
34. Wieslaw Woda, MP
35. Edward Wojtas, MP
36. Pawel Wypych, Minister and Kaczynski’s Chancellery
37. Stanislaw Zajac, Senator
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A crop dusting helicopter, owned by Gomes Farm Air Service, crashed in a field near Salinas in California, at around 9 a.m. on June 20.
FAA spokesperson Allen Kenitzer confirmed that the pilot of Bell 47-G5 helicopter was killed in the crash. He was identified as the co- owner of Gomes Farm Air Service, Frank Gomes Jr.
The cause of incident is being investigated by the FAA.
A Colombian Air Force transport plane crashed near Codazzi, Colombia on July 31, 2015.
The accident happened when the Airbus CASA-235 plane was en-route from Palanquero Air Base to Barranquilla via Valledupar. Air Force Authorities said the pilot reported engine failure shortly before the crash.
All 11 people aboard the plane were killed.
It is believed that the weather conditions were poor at the time of crash.
What: Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II
Where: Nr. 12th Street and 34th Avenue Sun Villas, Vero Beach Florida
When: Mar 5 2010
Who: pilot and student pilot
Why: While on a Paris Air training flight, the flight crashed near a canal and within 50 feet of homes. Both the pilot and student pilot were seriously injured and trapped inside the plane. The extrication took 90 minutes, after which one was taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, and the other was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce.
The plane’s owner is a New York surgeon who leases the piper to Paris Aviation.
The passengers were in communication with the rescue team during the rescue, but were in serious condition on transport.
A small plane crashed in Carroll County, Maryland, on August 18th.
Authorities said the wreckage was found in an open field near Baugher Road in Westminster.
There were two people aboard at the time; both were killed in the crash. They were later identified as the pilot Michael Kilpatrick, 62, and his passenger Robert Johnson, 56.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
A Cessna 150 crashed in the front yard of a house in Granville County neighbourhood, North Carolina, late on August 28.
The plane departed at 6:13 p.m. from Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky and was on its way to Elizabeth City Regional Airport in North Carolina, when it clipped some tress and went down in bushes in the front yard of the house at 3002 Krogen Court, Granville County.
Raleigh-Durham International Airport officials reported that they were informed about a plane having problem at about 11:05 p.m., but the connection with the plane got lost. The wreckage of the plane was located at 12:30 a.m. Friday.
The pilot was injured and was taken to Duke Hospital where his condition is believed to be stable.
The residents of the house were sleeping at the time and did not hear any noise. The homeowner Ashley Bartlett said, “I don’t think the reality of it set in until we were leaving the scene and driving to the hotel. It could have been catastrophic.”
The aircraft is registered to Ethan Leggett of Pewee Valley, Kentucky.
The NTSB is investigating the cause of crash.
