What: microlight
Where: Silver-on-Sauldre, Soyers Field
When: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009
Who: pilot and passenger
Why: The ultra-light crashed and burned in the field, killing the pilot and passenger. There were no eye-witnesses, but people described hearing the engine “cough” just prior to crashing. The pilot and passenger have not been identified, but they are said to be Belgian.
The type of ultralight has not been released.
Envoy Air flight MQ-3322 had to make an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, on May 22nd.
The plane flying from Chicago, Illinois, was descending toward Sioux City when the crew declared an emergency, reporting an engine problem.
The plane landed safely. There were 46 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
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What: Wells Fargo Dassault Falcon 20D en route from Santa Domingo to Miami
Where: 11 miles East of Grand Inagua Bahamas
When: Dec 18 2009
Who: 2 pilots
Why: The plane crashed into the sea 11 miles east of the Bahamas. No details are know.
A small plane crashed near Moanalua Freeway in Mapunapuna, Hawaii, on June 30th.
The Piper PA28 plane was carrying three people when it went down under unknown circumstances.
All three occupants of the plane sustained serious injuries, and were taken to a trauma center.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed near the Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, on March 14th.
The F/A-18F Super Hornet plane was performing a training flight when it went down.
There were two aviators aboard, including the pilot Lt. Cmdr. James Brice Johnson and the weapons systems operator Lt. Caleb Nathaniel King; both were killed in the crash.
The incident is being investigated.
A small plane crash landed on a grassy area along Farm-to-Market Road 3350, outside Pleasanton city in Atascosa County, Texas.
According to the Department of Public Safety, the incident happened shortly before 7 p.m. on June 16 when the pilot of Cessna 414 was attempting to land at Pleasanton Municipal Airport.
There were 6 people on board at the time of the accident; all of them sustained minor injuries.
Authorities confirmed that the twin engine plane was on a chartered flight from Dallas’ Addison Airport to Pleasanton Municipal Airport.
On Feb 2, 2013, a Robinson R44 with four aboard was en route on the campaign trail from Concepcion to Asuncion when it crashed in bad weather, south of Concepcion Paraguay near Puerto Antequera, in the Chaco region.
The pilot’s last message was at 9 p.m. local time, when he said that they were changing course due to a storm. The control tower then lost contact.
The pilot, two body guards and Lino Oviedo, a presidential candidate was killed in the crash.
A search arm of the national police rescue team found the burnt corpses of those aboard the plane on February 3rd, a day after they were reported missing and disappeared from radar. Troops of the Search and Rescue Service, composed of staff of the Air Force and the Volunteer Fire Department assisted in the search.
Witnesses who saw the crash site said that the helicopter “disintegrated.”
Oviedo was a retired general who assisted in overthrowing Alfredo Stroessner in 1989; he died on the anniversary of the coup.
