An armed forces reconnaissance aircraft crashed near an airport in Fayoum, Egypt, on September 21.
The authorities said that the accident happened due to technical malfunction.
According to Army Spokesman Mohamed Samir, 6 people were killed in the crash while one was seriously injured.
Minister of Defence, Sedki Sobhi, ordered the formation of an investigation committee to determine the cause of the crash.
A World War II, T28-C single-engine plane crashed in a large field at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) in Halifax County, Virginia , at about 5 p.m. on September 19.
The witnesses saw the plane flying low over the field before it went down.
Two people, including the pilot and his passenger, were killed in the accident. Their identities are not yet known.
No one was injured on the ground.
The owner and CEO of VIR, Connie Nyholm said, “We deal with the possibility of motorsports incidents every day… Motorsport is a dangerous sport. We are fully prepared to deal with it. We have never experienced something like this.”
The FAA and the NTSB have been informed.
A Hurricane ultralight plane crashed during at attempt to land at the Monroe County Airport in Bloomington, Indiana, at about 12:45 p.m. on September 18.
There were 2 men aboard at the time of crash; both of them were killed. Their identities have not yet been disclosed.
According to Indiana State Police Sgt. Joe Watts, one of the men reported a mechanical issue to the Monroe County Airport control tower shortly before 1 p.m. and sought permission for landing. “While approaching the airport from the north traveling south, the plane lost altitude and crashed into a small shed and wooded area behind a residence. The plane was immediately engulfed in flames and there were no survivors,” he said.
The police and the FAA are investigating.
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The Beechcraft 300LW Super King Air aircraft, carrying a businessman Gustavo Deutsch and his wife, crashed into a house and then rammed into another property, both of which were uninhabited.
The authorities confirmed that both Gustavo and his wife were killed in the crash.
Gustavo was the ex-president of Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas (LAPA), an airline company which is now defunct.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
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The incident happened after the plane took off from the South Albany Airport with a flight instructor and his female student aboard.
The authorities confirmed that both of them died in the accident. According to Detective Sergeant Adam Hornick with the Bethlehem Police, “The plane struck the rail car that was stopped on the tracks and then came to a rest immediately next to it.”
The instructor identified as Al was working as flight instructor at the South Albany Airport for the last 13 years. The identity of the female student has not yet been released.
The FAA and the NTSB will investigate.
A small commercial plane, registered as HK-4755 PA 34 Navajo, crashed 10 kilometers from the urban centre of Puerto Santander in the Amazon jungle, Colombia, after 3:00 p.m. on September 6.
The incident happened after the aircraft took off from Araracuara Airport, Southern Colombia, and lost communication with the air traffic control while flying over Florencia, Caqueta.
The plane was carrying 10 people, including 8 passengers and 2 crew members, at the time of accident; all of them were killed. Gustavo Ortega, Risk Management coordinator of Colombia’s southern department of Caqueta said, “The 10 people died on impact.”
A statement released by the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority said, “The airplane was found, broken apart and burned, 10 km (6 miles) from populated areas in the municipality of Puerto Santander, Amazonas department.”
The accident is under investigation
A MiG-31 fighter jet crashed around 25 kilometres away from Armavir town of southern Russia, at 7:38 a.m. on September 4.
According to the authorities, the right landing gear of the aircraft did not function when the pilot tried to land during a training. After multiple attempts, the jet ran out of fuel and the chief flight controller directed both the pilots aboard to fly to a safe location and bail out.
The Russian Defense Ministry officials confirmed that nobody was hurt in the crash. They also said that there was no ammunition on the plane.
A MiG-21 Fighter Jet belonging to Libya’s air force turned upside down and crashed in the Libyan city of Tobruk on September 2.
The plane went out of control and crashed, in a residential area, during a military event which was held to honour the pilot of another plane that crashed last week in Bayda city.
Three people, including the pilot, died in the crash while 9 others were injured.
According to security officials, the plane crashed due to hydraulic system failure.
A single-engine Piper PA 46 crashed a few hundred yards northwest of the runway of Erie Municipal Airport, Weld County, Colorado, at around 11:40 a.m. on August 31.
The accident happened when the six-seater plane, which took off from Centennial Airport, was attempting to land Erie Municipal Airport.
The plane was carrying 5 people and a dog at the time of accident; Erie authorities confirmed that all of them were killed.
The FAA and the NTSB are jointly investigating the reasons of crash.
A single-engine Cessna 177 crashed in Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil, on August 30.
The aircraft was heading to the city of Londrina when it developed some engine problem and crashed in a residential area.
Two of the four people aboard died on the spot, one suffered serious injuries while the fourth person survived with minor injuries.
The injured were taken to a local hospital. No one on the ground suffered any loss.
The cause of crash is not clear at the moment.
A Russian-built Antonov An-12 Ukrainian cargo plane crashed near Algeria’s Tamanrasset airport, at 2:40 a.m. local time, just 3 minutes after takeoff on the morning of August 30.
The plane, carrying 7 people, was transporting oil equipment from Glasgow, Scotland, to Equatorial Guinea and had a layover at Tamanrasset.
Algerian transportation ministry confirmed that no one aboard the plane survived the crashed. The identities of the victims have not yet been released.
Rescuers responded at the crash site in the mountainous southeastern Algeria, about 15 kilometers south of the airport, immediately after the crash.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
A private Cessna 172 crashed near a golf course at the Crawford Bay Airport in British Columbia, Canada, at about 6:30 p.m. on August 30.
According to Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board, the plane crashed after the pilot executed a rejected landing and decided to take off again. “Something was not right on the landing and the pilot elected to abort the landing. During that takeoff from the aborted landing, the aircraft contacted trees and tragically crashed,” he said.
The aircraft landed in an upside down position and caught fire. However, the witnesses managed to pull out the pilot and his only passenger from the wreckage before it bursted into flames. The female passenger died in the accident while the pilot suffered burn injuries. He was taken to a hospital.
The RCMP, BC Coroner Services and the Federal Transportation Safety Board are looking into the cause of crash.
The plane was registered in Alberta.
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.
A twin-engine medical transport plane crashed and caught fire near the Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds at about 6:45 p.m. on August 27.
The accident happened shortly after the plane took off from Las Cruces Airport and was on its way to Phoenix, Arizona, with a patient and 3 crew members on-board.
The crash killed all 4 people aboard. They were identified as the pilot, Freddy Martinez, 29, of El Paso, the patient, Fredrick Green, 59, of Las Cruces, a flight paramedic, Tauren Summers, 27, from El Paso and a nurse, Monica Chavez, 35, of El Paso.
Some witnesses reported that the plane was flying at a low altitude before it went down.
The aircraft was owned by Harlingen, Texas based Amigos Aviation Service.
The FAA is investigating the cause of accident.
A single-engine Cessna 172R airplane crashed and caught fire in suburban Richmond Heights around Cleveland, Ohio, at about 10 p.m. on August 25.
The accident happened shortly after the plane took off from Cuyahoga County Regional Airport with 4 students of Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University on-board. A spokesman for the NTSB, Peter Knudson, said that the plane was apparently coming back to the airport when it crashed.
All 4 people aboard were killed in the accident. The victims were identified as Lucas Marcelli, 20, of Massillon, Ohio; Abraham Pishevar, 18, of Rockville, Maryland; John Hill, 18, of St. Simons, Georgia, and the pilot, William Felten, 20, of Saginaw, Michigan.
According to an Ohio State Highway Patrol official, the plane was rented for 4 hours by Felten.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
An ultralight plane offered for sale crashed during its test flight at Lowell Airport, Vergennes Township, near Lowell, Michigan, at about 11:30 a.m. on August 24.
Kent County sheriff’s Sgt. Russ Larson confirmed that a New Mexico man who was taking the test flight in the aircraft owned by a local resident, was killed in the crash. He was identified as Bryan Bowker, 67, of Edgewood.
Authorities said that the plane successfully took off and landed once but crashed during a second take off attempt. Jeff Ostrander, who runs a flight school at Lowell Airport, said, “He had been doing some practicing with the aircraft, taxing up and down the runway to become familiar with the ground handling characteristics…I think what probably happened is a narrow dynamic stall where in the wing is held at such angle to the wind that no longer provides normal lift and airplanes do not fly in that condition.”
The FAA is investigating the crash.
A single engine Navion aircraft crashed near the summit of Atigun Pass in northern Alaska, before 1:45 p.m. on August 24.
Clint Johnson, the NTSB Alaska Region chief, said on Monday, “Four individuals on board, injuries ranged from serious to critical, and they were medevaced last night.” Johnson said the initial information revealed that the pilot was taking his 3 passengers on a cruise flight from Fairbanks to Bettles, Deadhorse, Barter Island and then back to Fairbanks. The authorities believe that the passengers were from Canada.
The cause of crash is not known at the moment. “Whenever the pilot’s health allows, we want to be able to talk to him to get it first-hand what exactly took place. However his injuries are probably not going to allow us to do that for probably the next couple of days,” Johnson said.
The NTSB is investigating.
A single-engine Cessna 177 plane skidded off the runway and crashed into trees during landing at Cedar Mills Marina Airfield in Grayson County, Gordonville, Texas, on August 23.
The accident happened when the plane was en-route from Lake Dallas to Sherman, with 2 men and 2 women aboard. The Department of Public Safety trooper Mark Tackett said that the pilot reported issues during landing.
All 4 people aboard the plane suffered injuries of varied degrees. Two of the injured were airlifted to Medical Center of Plano while the others were transported to Wilson and Jones Hospital in Sherman. Their identifications have not yet been released.
According to the FAA records, the aircraft is 47 years old and is registered to an address in Aubrey.
A six-seater Mooney aircraft crashed on Loyalist Parkway just west of Trenton, Ontario, Canada, shortly after 9 p.m. on August 17.
The Pilot who was the only person aboard survived with minor neck and back injuries. He was taken to Trenton Memorial Hospital. The plane, C-GAWJ, was registered out of Toronto.
The plane damaged hydro lines before it hit the road section and demolished its front engine compartment, wings and tail.
There are unconfirmed reports that the pilot attempted to avoid a crash landing into the Bay of Quinte and instead chose to land on the section of highway.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
A two-seater American Super Decathlon aircraft crashed in a cornfield in Leflore County about 4 miles west of Greenwood, Mississippi, at around 7 p.m. on August 16.
Two Leflore County men, 71 year-old Grady Perkins of Greenwood, and 44 year-old Matt Weldon of Sidon, survived with injuries. They were airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
According to Perkins’ wife, he was a licensed pilot and was giving flying lessons to Weldon. They were practicing emergency landings when the single-engine plane lost power and went down.
Weldon, who suffered severe but non life-threatening injuries, managed to call 911. Ambulances and Leflore County sheriff’s deputies located the airplane in time to save them.
The plane is registered to Steve Jennings according to FAA records.
The FAA is investigating the crash.
A single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area about 3 miles northwest of Ranger in rural Central Texas around midnight on August 16.
The accident happened after the small plane took off from Cook Canyon Ranch Airport near Ranger with a 3-member family aboard.
All 3 people lost their lives in the crash. Fred Biddle with the Texas Department of Public Safety identified the victims as John C. Weaver of Granbury, his wife, Debra S. Weaver and their daughter, Courtney A. Weaver from Plano.
Lunsford also said that the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
A small, two-engine plane crashed a few kilometers outside of Puerto Lempira, in the La Mosquitia region of Honduras, sometime in the evening of August 16.
The incident happened when the plane was carrying valuables to a bank in Puerto Lempira from Goloson International Airport, La Ceiba.
All 4 people aboard died in the crash. The victims included 2 crew members and 2 security guards.
The cause of accident is not clear at the moment.
A chartered Ambulance New Brunswick plane crashed in a wooded area near the airport on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, shortly after 5 a.m. on August 16.
According to the Ambulance New Brunswick spokesperson, the accident happened when the Atlantic Charters plane was returning to Grand Manan after dropping a patient at Saint John Regional Hospital.
The Piper PA-31 aircraft had 4 people aboard; 2 of them, including a pilot and a paramedic died in the crash. Two others, including a second pilot and a registered nurse survived with severe injuries.
The deceased paramedic was later identified as William Mallock of Grand Manan, an employee of Ambulance New Brunswick.
The identity of the deceased pilot who worked for Atlantic Charters has yet to be disclosed.
Capt. Liam Mather from the Defense department confirmed that one survivor was taken to Grand Manan Hospital, while “the other one’s injuries were determined to be too extensive for treatment at Grand Manan so the Cormorant helicopter assisted with a Medivac to Saint John Regional Hospital.”
The interim president of Ambulance New Brunswick, Paul Ward, said in a statement, “We are devastated by this incident.”
The cause of accident is under investigation.
A single engine Cessna 150 plane crashed just about 200 yards off the runway at Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Charleston County, South Carolina, at about 11:36 a.m. on August 14.
According to Mount Pleasant Town Councilman Ken Glasson, both people aboard the plane died in the crash. They were later identified as the flight instructor Graham Borland, 33, of North Charleston and his student Matthew Gaither, 20, of Johns Island.
The plane was registered in the name of Hanger Aviation Inc. of Johns Island.
The accident is under investigation by the FAA and the NTSB.
Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, 49, has been confirmed dead after his campaign plane, a Cessna 560XL, plunged into a residential neighbourhood in the port city of Santos, Brazil, on August 13.
According to the authorities, the 12-seater plane could not land in Guaruja due to bad weather after which, the air traffic control lost contact with it. It then crashed near a gym in a residential area of Santos, sending smoke clouds in the air.
City Hall press officer Patricia Fagueiro confirmed that all 7 people aboard the plane, including Eduardo Campos, 2 pilots, a press advisor and campaign photographer, died in the crash.
It is not yet clear if anyone on the ground was injured in the crash.
President Dilma Rousseff said in a statement, “The whole of Brazil is in mourning.”
