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.

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Cessna Crash-landing w/o landing gear

What: Cessna en route from New Haven to Tampa
Where: Tampa Executive Airport,
When: November 4, 2009
Who: pilot and passenger pilot Margaret Davidson, 81, and her husband Donald Davidson, 82,
Why: The plane crashed when the front landing gear failed . the plane slid to a landing on its belly and broken gear.

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One Fatality in Mexican Lake while Tourism Video Filming Underway, No Academy Actors Involved.

What: Gobierno del Edo de Michoacan Bell 407
Where: lago Zirahuén Mexico
When: Sept 18, 2012
Who: 5 aboard, 1 fatality
Why: The Helicopter was filming a promotional tourism video when it crashed in Lake Zirahuen. Four aboard were injured. There was one fatality.

The aircraft became entangled with a tension wire, used as ziplining.

Despite the rumor, no members of the cast of “The Academy’ television show were aboard. The rumor appeared apparently after tweets immediately following the accident.

The injured were reported as Enrique Barragán, Carlos Vela, Pablo Gabriel Angulo and Luis Fernando Gutiérrez. Daniel Martinez was initially reported as missing, then later as a fatality.

THe helicopter is owned by the State of Michoacan.

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Peruvian Police Chopper Crashes

What: Policía Nacional del Perú Mil Mi-17 helicopter en route from Mazamari to Satipo
Where: Peru
When: May 9 2012
Who: 1 fatality, 18 injuries
Why: While attempting an emergency landing on the banks of the Tambo River after one of the helicopter blades broke off in flight, the police chopper crashed near the native community of Bethany. Satipo is in the valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers.

Officer Rodolfo Leon was flying when it crashed. He was the sole fatality; eighteen passengers were injured on the crash.

The injured will be hospitalized in Lima.

The police had been engaged on an anti-drug trafficking mission.

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Pilot and Student Emergency Landing


What: Sierra Academy of Aeronautics Cessna 152 en route from from Castle Airport in Atwater
Where: Lambing Ranch to the south west of Turlock Lake east of Waterford
When: flight left airport at 9:30 a.m. (Landing occurred 40 minutes into the lesson, and 10 miles from the nearest airport)
Who: Instructor Ken Kwan and student pilot Daniel Yang
Why: The engine quit at 2,000 feet and falling at 500 feet/minute; and there was smoke in the cockpit. The Instructor landed the plane with no engine power. There were no injuries. After mechanics examined the plane, authorities said the plane experienced “catastrophic engine failure” when a rod went flying through the engine block.

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Airlink Crash in Durban


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What: SA Airlink JS41 en route from from Durban to Pietermaritzburg
Where: Durban
When: Sep 24th 2009
Who: 4 people, (3 crewmembers) and a woman working on the ground at the school perimeter, have been airlifted to local hospitals. The captain is critical, the other 3 with serious injuries.
Why: The plane had smoke coming from its engines, lost height after takeoff.

The crew called Mayday and reported engine loss and smoke. They attempted an emergency landing in the field in front of a school and impacted the fence surrounding the school.

Preliminary examination apparently shows the hand engine was operating under full power and the left engine failed.

George’s Point of View

The fact that anyone at all survived this indicates that the emergency landing was a success.

However, maintenance is suspect.

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2 Pilots Lost in Albatross at Boulder


What: Aero Vodochody L39 Albatross on training flight
Where: west of Boulder City Airport
When: May 18, 2012, 12:30
Who: Two fatalities
Why: When Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn talked about the training flight, he said, “It landed flat; it pancaked into the desert.
After the plane crashed, the engine was still running and caught fire, burning the rear end of the aircraft.” Two of the jets had taken off in tandem but only one issued a Mayday and crashed. The jet’s tail and most of its body are still intact.

The flight took off from Boulder City Municipal Airport.
Emergency responders included Metro Police and Boulder City police and firefighters.

According to the Las Vegas Sun the registered owner of the plane, Walter Woltosz of LA, was not aboard.

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