A Royal Thai Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed in Khok Samrong district of Thailand’s central Lopburi province, at around 3 p.m. on February 20.
The accident happened when the plane was participating in missile-launch training drill.
According to Lopburi governor Thanakom Chongchira, “The pilot could not eject himself out of the plane in time.” Rescue teams found his body in the wreckage.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
A vintage Tiger Moth plane crashed on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, on December 28.
The biplane, operated by Gold Coast-based Tiger Moth Joy Rides, went down shortly after taking off from an airstrip in Norwell.
A 58-year-old sightseer from New South Wales was killed in the crash. The 21-year-old pilot, who was the only one aboard sustained injuries and was airlifted to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
The accident is under investigation.
On Jan 14, 2013, six people—pilot Marcelo Rodríguez, two instructors and three parachutists—were aboard a Cessna 205 during a parachute flight in Punta el Este, Uraguay.
When the engine lost power, the pilot made a forced landing and flipped. No fatalities were reported. The injured include Uruguayans, two Argentine women and one other. The injured were treated on the scene by mobile emergency units and then transferred to medical centers in Maldonado and Punta del Este.
Pictured: Image on Tedd’s Flying Adventures website
What: Tedd’s Flying Adventures Airborne Outback XT-912 SST Tundra micro-light aircraft
Where: Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
When: April 21, 2010 9:36 a.m.
Who: Pilot Tedd Robert Hecklin, owner of Tedd’s Flying Adventures in Kailua-Kona and passenger Kathryn Grace Moran of Kailua-Kona
Why: While en route, witnesses report seeing the wing of the Airborn Edge “fold.” Then the plane descended and impacted Kealakekua Bay. Local tour boats hurried to retrieve both aboard, and those aboard attempted CPR but both victims had sustained fatal injuries.
Remember Air France Flight 4590— Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris to JFK—the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde supersonic transport (SST) in Paris? A hundred passengers and 9 crew died.
A piece of debris ruptured a tire, debris going 310 mph struck the wing led to a tank rupture. Engines one and two lost power on ignition. To make a long story short, the terrible conundrum ensued that the plane was going too fast to stop, unable to ascend, and on fire even before it took off. The plane crashed into the Les Relais Bleus Hotel killing everyone aboard and five in the hotel.
In France, the French court may be on the road to overturning the verdict against Continental Airlines. Opening arguments were heard in an appeals court in Versailles to consider the U.S. carrier’s request to purge the involuntary manslaughter verdict of 2010. Some of the “not guilty” findings may also be overturned.
Air Macau flight MX-882 had to return and make an emergency landing at Macau International Airport, Macau, on July 11th.
The Airbus A321-200, en-route to Bangkok, Thailand, had to return due to an unusual odour aboard.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
On April 16, 2013, a Pearl Coral-owned de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth with two aboard crashed in Modimola Dam in Mmabatho in South Africa.
The training flight crashed into the water witnessed by a cattle herder near the dam.
When boats arrived to search, it was dark, and too late to search.
Initially, the occupants were assumed to be the pilot and an assistant; and it is assumed this was a trainer from Mafikeng Airport. The cause of the crash is unknown.
Police divers found the instructor in the water. The student pilot’s body was trapped inside the plane which was submerged in water with only its tail visible.
The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating.
Update
The fatalities were named by police as instructor Marthinus Steyn, 54, and student pilot Narco van Straaten, 23.
