What: Turkish Air Force Cessna T-37C Tweet
Where: Aegean Sea off the coast of Güzelbahçe, Turkey
When: July 14, 2011, noon
Who: 2 aboard
Why: The Turkish Airforce flight fell into the Aegean Sea, killing both the pilot and passenger. The Cessna is normally used for training. The flight took off from the Jet Base Flight Training Center but it has not been released if this was a training exercise. The pilot and passenger have not yet been recovered.
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What: United Nations/Georgian Airways Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-100ER en route from Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport (FIH) to Kisangani (FKI) and Entebbe (EBB), Uganda and back.
Where: Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport (FIH) Congo
When: 04 APR 2011 2 pm local time
Who: 29 passengers 3 crew
Why: On the final leg of the flight, the plane crashed in rainy weather. The pilot attempted a landing in heavy rain, and broke in two. There were some who initially survived who were taken to Biamba Marie Mutombo hospital in the town of Masina, which is fifteen minutes from the Kinshasa airport. Twenty UN workers were aboard. The plane ignited on contact.
One person survived the crash according to a UN Farhan Haq spokesman.
* A second source said the plane was a Fokker 834.
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Cuban Flight Crashes; All aboard are Lost
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What: Aerocaribbean ATR-72-500 en route from Santiago to Havana
Where: Guasimal, Sancti Spiritus Cuba
When: Nov 4 2010
Who: with 61 passengers and 7 crew
Why: The last flight to leave Santiago before the airport closed due to tropical storm Tomas disappeared from radio contact at 5:42 pm while over Guasimal not far from the Zaza Reservoir. The crew made an emergency call at 5:42. 40 cubans were aboard and 28 non-cubans (9 Argentinian, 7 Mexican, 3 Dutch, 1 French, 2 German, 2 Austrian, 1 Italian, 1 Spanish, 1 Venezuelan, and 1 Japanese).
A hospital worker said “The plane made several abrupt movements before crashing to the ground.” Rescuers hiked in through thick vegetation (using bulldozers to get through the vegetation to find the plane shattered and in flames and no survivors.
Tropical storm Tomas developed into a hurricane. Cuba declared a state of alert.
The ongoing investigation has not ruled that weather is the definitive factor because the storm had not reached Cuba at the time of the crash.
Cuban state airline Cubana de Aviacion owns Aerocaribbean. The flight normally flies twice a week from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Santiago de Cuba to Havana
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Nordwind Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Antalya
Nordwind Airlines flight N4-1768 made an emergency landing in Antalya, Turkey, on August 16th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Monastir, Tunisia, to Rostov-on-Don, Russia, was diverted after the crew noticed an engine issue.
The plane landed safely. All one hundred and fifty people aboard remained unharmed.
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Pilot Dies after a Microlight Aircraft Crashed at Caernarfon Airport
A Microlight aircraft crashed on the runway at Caernarfon Airport in Snowdonia, North Wales, United Kingdom.
The accident happened at about 6pm on May 15. According to a North Wales Police spokesperson, “A 55-year-old male – thought to be inside the aircraft at the time of the collision – was taken to hospital with serious injuries and was sadly later pronounced dead.”
The cause of the accident is being investigated by the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB).