A small plane crashed near Ohkay Owingeh Airport in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, on March 11th.
The single-engine Remos GX light sport airplane went down around 50 feet from the outer fence of the airport.
There were two people aboard the plane, including the pilot Karen Ann Young, 46, and the co-pilot Thomas Spickermann, 47; both of them were killed in the crash.
The FAA is investigating.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-4162 made a safe landing at Erkilet International Airport, Kayseri, Turkey, on August 11.
The Boeing 737-800 flying from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey, had just landed when its main brakes locked up resulting in tire burst.
The plane was damaged.
No one was injured.
What: Beechcraft A36 Bonanza en route from Pontes e Lacerda to Santa Fé do Sul
Where: Caceres, Brazil
When: 14-JAN-2012, 8 am
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: A plane piloted by Antonio Carlos Lopes do Amaral (Carlos Lopes Antonio Amaral) 57, former president of the Mato Grosso state legislature crashed in Mato Grosso in torrential rain, killing all three aboard. The crash site was a ranch located 12 miles from downtown Caceres, Site Sao Paulo, San Francisco community. Also killed were Vitório Quarentão and João Batista Paulo do Carmo.
Local witnesses heard the engine sputter or fail three times before it went into a tailspin and fell into a marshy area.
The wreckage shattered, and it appears that DNA testing will have to be used.
Amaral has sister in Caceres, businesswoman Maridalva Vignard Amaral, owns a radio station. The family said Amaral’s body and his friend Victor will be transferred to Santa Fe do Sul via plane and taken to counter Pontes e Lacerda.
A team from the Department of Civil Aviation will be arriving in Caceres to start investigating the cause of the accident. Amaral leaves a wife and three children. John was single.
The plane is registered to Air Martins School of Civil Aviation.
American Airlines flight AA-1296 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Denver, Colorado, on February 27th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from San Diego, California, to Chicago, Illinois, was diverted after it was hit by severe turbulence.
The plane landed safely. There were 166 passengers aboard at the time; 2 of them were taken to hospital.
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What: Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Atlanta,GA to Seattle,WA
Where: Kansas City
When: Dec 15th 2011
Who: 163 aboard
Why: The flight was well underway when passengers and crew smelled smoke in the cabin.
Pilots diverted to Kansas City Missouri, where they made a safe landing.
A KING 5 News employee was a passenger aboard the flight and posted on twitter that everyone was ok.
The problem was repaired, and the plane was re-boarded, continuing on to its destination.
TAM airlines changed the number of flight JJ3720 after a renowned clairvoyant Jucelino Nobrega da Luz predicted that a plane having this number would crash.
Jucelino Nobrega da Luz told the officials that flight JJ3720, scheduled to take off from Sao Paulo to Brasilia on Wednesday, would crash on the main Paulista drag of Sao Paulo due to engine problems. He says he had also predicted the deaths of Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna and Princess Diana.
TAM airlines authorities considered it an “indispensable information”, and changed the flight number to JJ4732.
FedEx Federal Express flight FX-684 had to return and make an emergency landing in Rochester, New York, on October 21st.
The Boeing 767-300 plane took off for Memphis, Tennessee, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a suspected flaps issue.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 2 crew members aboard at the time; both of them remained safe.
