On January 11, 2013 at 10:10 a.m., an Australian Lightwing GR 912 was in Yorktown Tasmania. The plane, an ultralight, took off and nosedived in a vineyard next door to the airport, killing the sixty-five year old pilot.
The cause of the crash on a West Tamar property off Bowens road, just north of Launceston has not been determined.
The Beaconsfield police responded to the scene.
A small plane crashed at Mansfield Municipal Airport, Massachusetts, on February 23rd.
The Cessna 172 plane was carrying an instructor pilot and his student when it went down and caught fire.
Both occupants of the plane were killed in the crash. They were identified as Sydney Miti, 31, of Waltham, and Julian Lattermann, 18, of Dover.
PICTURED: a Eurocopter AS350B2
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Contact photographer Michal Nowicki
What: OmniFlight American Eurocopter AS350B2 medical helicopter en route from Charleston to Conway
Where: 63 miles southwest of Conway, S.C
When: 2308 PM, ET on Friday, September 25, 2009
Who: 3 person crew:p ilot, flight nurse and paramedic
Why: The helicopter had dropped off a patient at about 9:35 p.m. Friday in Charleston. Thunderstorms were in the area at the time of the crash. The weather was described as “convective.”
A chartered plane crashed in Mumbai, India, on June 28th.
The 12-seater plane was carrying four people when it crashed into a construction site in Ghatkopar area.
Five people were killed in the crash, including four occupants of the plane and one pedestrian.
Authorities said one other person was injured.
A passenger plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan, on September 9th.
The incident happened when the plane flying from Juba was attempting to land in Yirol.
Nineteen people were killed in the crash. Four others suffered serious injuries and were shifted to a hospital.
June 16, 2013
A Piper Cherokee N9160Q, on a flight from Honolulu to Maui declared mayday with engine problems three miles from the airport at 5:40 p.m. and made an emergency landing on Maui, Hawaii a quarter-mile down the beach from Pakele Place.
Witnesses said the plane “was 50 to 75 feet in the air, rocking the wings and his engine was off.” None of the four men aboard were injured. The passengers were in Maui after playing in a U.S. Tennis Association tournament on Oahu. The plane sustained some damage. A local described firemen, police, rescue crew and tennis players traipsing through their house from the crash scene near the beach.
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An Indonesian military plane crashed into a mountain in Papua province of Indonesia, on December 18th.
The Hercules C-130 plane took off from Timika, Papua, and was preparing to land in Wamena, Papua, when it went down.
There were 13 people aboard the plane, including 3 pilots and 10 passengers; all of them were killed in the crash.
