A Cessna 180 aircraft went down on a dirt road near Boca Raton Airport in Florida, at around 12:45 p.m. on October 12.
The accident happened when the aircraft was on its way from Columbus Metropolitan Airport, Georgia, to Boca Raton Airport.
There were 2 people aboard at the time of crash. Both of them escaped with only minor injuries.
The aircraft is registered to John Dukesherer of Michigan.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
A single-engine Cessna 170 collided with an experimental plane in the skies over a lakebed near Wabuska in Lyon County of Northern Nevada, at around 8 a.m. on October 12.
According to Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, the accident happened during an informal fly-in event which was held over the weekend at the dry lake bed.
The pilots of both the aircrafts were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not yet been released.
No injuries were reported and it is believed that the planes did not have any passengers.
The FAA is investigating.
A US Air Force fighter jet caught fire after crash landing in a field near Broadgate in Weston Hills, Spalding in Lincolnshire, UK, at around 3:30 p.m. on October 8.
The incident happened when the F-15D aircraft was on a training flight after taking off from RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.
The US Air Force confirmed the incident and said that the pilot had ejected. He was taken to RAF Lakenheath hospital with minor injuries.
According to the Base commander Colonel Robert Novotny, “We don’t know what caused the crash…We’re just fortunate we got our pilot back and this crash didn’t cause any more damage.”
An air tanker, belonging to California Fire Department, crashed while fighting the Dog Rock Fire near Arch Rock in Yosemite National Park, northern California, on October 7.
The Cal fire department confirmed that the single-seater S-2T aircraft went down at around 4:26 p.m. near an entrance to the Yosemite National Park.
The pilot of the air tanker was killed in the accident. He was later identified as Geoffrey “Craig” Hunt, 62, of San Jose.
Chief Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire director said, “We continue to mourn the tragic loss of Craig…We know wildland firefighting is an inherently dangerous job, but Craig made the ultimate sacrifice.”
A medical helicopter, on its way to United Regional Health Care, Wichita Falls, Texas, went down just a few blocks away from its destination, shortly before 2 a.m. on October 4.
The Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter crashed when it was transporting a patient from Waurika, Oklahoma to the North Texas hospital.
There were 3 crew members, including a pilot, a flight and a paramedic, aboard the aircraft, along with the patient.
The authorities confirmed that the patient lost his life in the accident, while the crew members sustained serious injuries. The pilot is admitted in United Regional Health Care where his condition is believed to be serious but stable. The paramedic and nurse are being treated at a burn unit in Dallas, however, both of them are in critical condition.
The incident is being investigated.
A private chartered helicopter crashed into waters near light house at Flamborough, East Yorkshire, England, at about 1:40 p.m. BST on September 16.
The accident happened after the helicopter took off from an airfield near Edinburgh and was scheduled to land at Humberside Airport for refueling before flying further to its destination near Retford, Nottinghamshire.
The Humberside Police confirmed that dead bodies of 2 men were recovered following a recovery operation. The names of deceased have not yet been released.
The police also said that the Air Accident Investigation Branch will conduct investigation to determine the cause of crash.
A small Robin DR400 aircraft crashed, shortly after taking off from the Divaca sports airport in southern Slovenia on September 14.
There were 4 people aboard the plane including the pilot. According to police spokesperson Anita Leskovec, “Three people were killed and one is in serious condition. We can’t confirm their identities yet.”
The aircraft belonged to a local Aero club near Ljubljana.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
A single-engine biplane went down and flipped over, while making an emergency landing, in a vacant field in Oceanside, California, at about 11:30 a.m. on August 5.
According to the FAA, the engine of the Pitts Biplane failed midair after it took off from Carlsbad’s McClellan-Palomar Airport. The pilot was attempting to divert it to Oceanside airport when it went down in a nearby field.
There were 2 people aboard at the time of incident; Lance Murray, the pilot and Daniel Harabagiu, his passenger. Both of them suffered only minor scratches.
The FAA and the NTSB is investigating the incident.
An MD 500 helicopter crashed west of Township Road 188 in Liberty Township of Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, at about 4:45 p.m. on July 29.
Leo Boucher, 50, pilot of the crashed helicopter suffered life threatening injuries and is being treated at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. Boucher works for South Carolina-based Rotor Blade.
The Ohio Highway Patrol post at Marysville rules out use of any alcohol or drugs by the pilot.
The helicopter was equipped with an aerial saw and was deployed for tree-trimming and brush-clearing for a bike path. Apparently the pilot lost control of the helicopter and crashed into the tree line.
The crash remains under investigation by the FAA.
On July 10, a Cessna 206 en route from Tamaulipas to Veracruz with seven aboard crashed in eastern Mexico has killed four people and injured two. The fall of the plane did not affect the residents of the town. No cause has been reported for the plane failure.
The pilot reported engine failure at 22:18 to Veracruz ATC around the time the plane disappeared from radar..
The wreckage is being recovered at Rancho Coralillos in the town of Alto Lucero. The remains of four people were found aboard the plane. (Number varies.) Two injured have been named as Sergio Rage Marrón and Jorge Arturo Velázquez Amorringa.
The number of fatalities has been raised to five. The bodies inside the plane were burned, and difficult to identify.
The injured were taken to a private hospital in Veracruz.
The passengers had been going to a sport fishing competition.
The Secretary of Civil Protection and the Municipal Civil Protection and a navy Mi17 helicopter responded to the scene.
The pilot of an amateur-built fixed-wing Raven powered by a Lycoming engine was killed when he crashed into Long Island Sound eight miles north of Mattituck Inlet, on July 7, 2014. The pilot was alone aboard the plane. Divers recovered his body from the Sound and is in the custody of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
The submerged plane was still floating around noon, and a tow boat has been scheduled to tow it to Mattituck. Emergency responders included Coast Guard Station New Haven, rescue personnel, Suffolk County police marine unit and Southold EMTs, Jamesport Fire Department and Riverhead police.
A seaplane pilot witnessed and reported the plane going down about 9:30 a.m. Initially his Cessna was incorrectly reported as being the one that went down.
An investigation is underway.
The National Transportation Safety Board today denied a petition for reconsideration of its findings in the investigation of the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800.
The petition was filed in June 2013 by a group called The TWA 800 Project. Petitioners claimed a “detonation or high-velocity explosion” caused the crash.
“Our investigations are never ‘closed’,” said Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart. “We always remain open to the presentation of new evidence.”
Before responding to the petition, NTSB staff met with the petitioners’ representatives and listened to an eyewitness who described what he saw on the night of the accident. After a thorough review of all the information provided by the petitioners, the NTSB denied the petition in its entirety because the evidence and analysis presented did not show the original findings were incorrect.
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Ex-Brazilian football hero, Fernando Lucio da Costa, 36, who led Internacional to Copa Libertadores and World Club Cup victories in 2006, died in a helicopter crash in central Brazil on June 7.
The helicopter had five people on board at the time of crash and none of them survived.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Twitter, “I am saddened by the death of Fernandão, a hero to all Internacional fans and all lovers of football….On the field he was world champion, off the field he was an example of a man of character.”
Fernandao played for the Porto Alegre club 190 times and scored 77 goals.
A Cessna Caravan crashed and burned near Bethel, Alaska with two pilots aboard and no passengers. Derrick Cedars and Greggory McGee were confirmed as pilots. The plane operated by Hageland Aviation flew out of Bethel airport, and crashed at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Troopers aboard a National Guard Blackhawk confirmed the crash with an aerial overview of the large debris field and burning wreckage.
Tuesday evening, rescuers were aboard a helicopter that flew to Three Step Mountain to the wreckage, perhaps recover the remains. The NTSB is investigating.
Hageland had five crashes since 2003.
The Cessna had 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada engines.
Metars at the time of the crash were
PABE 090153Z 36014KT 10SM R19R/3000VP6000FT CLR M07/M17 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP114 T10721167
PABE 090053Z 36013KT 10SM CLR M07/M16 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP115 T10721161
Decoded:
Location: PABE
Day of month: 09
Time: 01:53 UTC
Wind: True direction = 360 degrees, Speed: 14 knots
Visibility: 10 Statute Miles
Temperature: -07 degrees Celsius
Dewpoint: -17 degrees Celsius
QNH: 29.86 inHg
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Wind: True direction = 360 degrees, Speed: 13 knots
Visibility: 10 Statute Miles
Temperature: -07 degrees Celsius
Dewpoint: -16 degrees Celsius
QNH: 29.86 inHg
Dennis Monroe, 65, and Josepha Sardinas, 70 died in a Van’s RV-7 plane crash while filming the airplane scene in a a low budget zombie movie in Bellevue Florida. The experimental kit plane circled for an hour over a 20-acre field before it crashed near Monroe Airpark in Summerfield/Belleview. The passenger was filming the pilot as the pilot banked (turned) and the engine quit. The plane went down, impacting nose first in a back yard in the 1700th block of Southeast 140th Street. The plane did not catch fire.
The accident occurred on Sunday. The plane will remain in the back yard until NTSB investigators arrive on the scene. The NTSB is expected to use the film footage in lieu of a CVR which is not required on this type of small homebuilt plane.
Dennis W. Monroe was piloting at the time of the accident. He was Belleview Public Works Director for 26 years.
*Plane built by PAUL T COWDREY
A 1951 Cessna L19 “Bird Dog” crashed in Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, on Sunday, March 23,
The plane owned by Advertising Air Force fell into the water 300 to 400 yards south east of the Bayboro Harbor Coast Guard Base.
The 36 year old pilot, Robert L. Gilchrist, was uninjured. The coast guard reported that a good Samaritan managed to pull the pilot from the cockpit of the crashed plane. There were no other passengers on board.
A light plane crash in Queensland, Australia, killed five persons on March 22, 2014.
The Cessna 206 plane took off from Caboolture Airport, located north of Brisbane. The plane crashed and caught fire shortly after the take-off, killing two skydiving customers, two instructors and one pilot at the scene.
According to the police, the family members of the deceased watched the plane, as it crashed and burnt.
The plane was owned and operated by a local skydiving company ‘ Adrenalin Skydivers Bribie’.
A private Cessna airplane crashed on Friday, March 21 before noon, behind Lowes in Palatka, Florida.
The incident happened in Putnam County in between Gainesville and Jacksonville. Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the possible cause of the crash.
The pilot, Richard Carrara, 73 and a passenger, Malcolm Clevenstine,, 71 were critically injured. They were taken to the nearby hospital. Malcolm Clevenstine, 71, died Friday at Shands Gainesville Hospital.
A chopper crash near a tourist spot in downtown Seattle killed all two passengers while setting several cars on fire.
The chopper belonging to KOMO news channel was crashed in a busy street after it attempted to take off from the news station’s helipad located nearby.
Emergency responders found two dead bodies in the helicopter wreckage. Three other people were injured as the crash set their cars on fire. According to the spokesman of Seattle Fire Department, one of the injured was in serious condition.
Some events that happened today:
On December 12, 2013 at 7L45 a.m., a MHS Aviation Sikorsky S-76C #9M-STE had eight aboard when the flight encountered bad weather. They were flying to identify oil and gas exploration sites when weather forced them to ditch in the sea 159 kilometers off the coast of Bintulu.
The helicopter was leased from MHS Aviation by Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas.
The two pilots and six oil workers aboard were rescued by a passing ship. Apparently there were no fatalities, and no specific reports of injury. They were hospitalized in Miri.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is investigating.
The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has not released whether or not the helicopter was recovered from the ocean.
On July 15, 2013, at about 0930 hours, a vintage MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft of IAF crashed on Monday while landing at Uttarlai Airbase in western Rajasthan. The pilot who was flying the plane died in the crash.
The Indian Air Force fighter crashed while landing at Uttarlai Air Base, Rajasthan. The pilot had been on a routine training flight. The pilot failed to eject from the plane.
A Court of Inquiry will be investigating.
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On July 4, a North-Way Chrysler Motors Ltd. Cessna 182 Skylane with three aboard was near Griffith Island in Georgian bay and flipped as the pilot was trying to land at an island airstrip but came to rest 220 meters short of the runway. All three aboard succumbed to fatal injuries.
The float plane crash occurred off the south end of the Griffith Island. The fatalities were family members 45, 52 and 72.
A Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre out of Trenton, On circled the downed plane. Three ambulances were on standby at Big Bay dock.
When assistance arrived, the plane was upside down and partially submerged. The Grey County OPP, Bruce Peninsula OPP and Cape Croker police marine units attended, along with Grey and Bruce County paramedics, Inter Township firefighters, Owen Sound firefighters and the Ministry of Natural Resources were dispatched to the scene. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s air division arrived Friday.
Comoros’ L’Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie de l’Union des Comore has released their final report.
Final BEA Report below
Final report (French)
A helicopter failed to return from a flight on May 24 2013 in Missouri. The flight took off at 5:45 p.m.
The Lucas Oil Products-owned helicopter was located crashed, and two people died in the crash.
The NTSB will arrive on site Sunday to begin the investigation. The pilot was flying passenger 21-yearold Missouri State University student Catalina Richard around the perimeter of a Lucas Oil Speedway event. The pilot’s name has hot been released as of this posting.
The helicopter crashed in rural Cross Timbers Missouri.
