What: Russian-built Yak-52 stunt plane flying from Archerfield Airport on Brisbane’s southside
Where: off South Stradbroke Island, Jumpinpin Australia in south-east Queensland. Wreckage was found after a significant search in about 20 metres of water
When: Sunday Aug 31 12.30pm AEST
Who: veteran pilot Barry Hempel and 20 year old passenger. The pilot and passenger are missing.
Why: no reasons listed; crash is under investigation
What: Experimental Ultralight aircraft en route from Rowan County Airport to High Rock Lake,
Where: a field close to Shaw’s Mobile Home Park
When: Sept 30, 2012, 6 p.m.
Who: pilot
Why: The ultralight ppeared to stall out shortly before impact. Cecil Dwayne Brown, of West Second Street, in Faith, died in the crash. His remains were recovered within two hours of the accident.
The plane apparently impacted power lines, causing an immediate outage.
A small plane crashed in Ile district of the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, on October 3rd.
The An-28 plane was heading from Almaty to Shymkent, Kazakhstan, when it went down.
There were five people aboard at the time, including two doctors and three crew members; all of them were killed in the crash.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
What: Golden Wings Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six
Where: Haifa Israel
When: April 14, 2011
Who: 4 fatalities
Why: On a training flight, the Piper developed unspecified engine problems, so that the pilot requested an emergency landing on the Air Force Technical School landing strip.
On return to the airport, the pilot attempted an emergency landing but brushed treetops on approach, and crashed. A flight instructor 65-year-old f David Bechor, and three students including Mustafa Amin Darawsheh and Moshe Bensel were killed in the crash.
Witnesses say the plane “dropped like a stone…a loud blast…explosion and black smoke”
When the rescue teams arrived, the plane was engulfed.
Yitzhak Raz is heading the inquiry.
What: Beechcraft A65 Queen Air en route from Basco, Batanes to Tuguegarao in Cagayan
Where: Cagayan province in northern Luzon, Philippines
When: Nov 29, 2010, 1:30 pm
Who: 13 aboard
Why: Pilots Captain Agustin Jose and Captain Benedict Dela Cruz manned the Beechcraft when both of the engines stopped at 300 feet. They crashed along the Cagayan River in Barangay San Vicente in Iguig town around 1:30 p.m. The flight skidded through a corn field into the Cagayan River shallows, landing 19 kilometers from the airport where it was was scheduled to gas up.
The plane landed on water, and like another flight we all remember, everyone got out of the plane and stood on the wings. Rescue arrived via boat within 20 minutes.
Passengers included Rustom Hontonia, Jack Castaño, Jovani Pahodpod, David Batan, Benedict John Acebes, Mae Jane Agcaoili, Harold Agito, Kate Vallentes, Mika Horkajo, Hana Horkajo and Yale Mark Elep. Agito, Acebes and Pahodpod are Boy Scouts. (Elementary students and their teachers were traveling to a Philippines activity in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur. ) Mika and Hana were five and three years old.
No one was hurt in the crash, which is under investigation.
On March 15, 2013, an Era Helicopters LLC Sikorsky S-76A with three board crashed just before noon in Cameron Parish Louisiana in a remote area of swampy/muddy pastureland with only four-wheeler access.
The helicopter had taken off from Lake Charles Regional Airport. Emergency services responded to the scene, but access was limited to 4 wheel vehicles.
The helicopter was on a maintenance test flight with the pilot and two mechanics aboard. The fatalities were listed as the pilot, William R. Croucher, 69, of California; and two mechanics: Michael Lee Tyree, 55, of Iowa, La., and Timothy Lloyd Goehring, 41, of Sulphur, La.
Era helicopters normally provides transport to oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, but this flight was reported as a maintenance flight.
THe FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
Era Helicopter’s statement:
“We deeply regret this unfortunate accident and we will use all of our resources to support the families of those involved. Our review will continue in concert with the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, which has jurisdiction over this matter”
KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News
A Piper PA-32 plane crashed near Cuba Municipal airport in Missouri, on June 14.
The plane crashed in a wooded area when the pilot Jeffrey B. Hansen of St. Charles was en-route to Creve Coeur Airport, St. Louis, with his dog. Both of them were killed in the crash.
According to Missouri authorities, the pilot texted his family, about 5 minutes before crash, that his plane had hit turbulence.
The FAA is investigating.
