Passengers rescued after Antarctic plane crash

National Science Foundation officials refused to release any details when a charter aircraft was severely damaged in a crash near Mount Patterson on Thursday. The Canadian-owned charter plane was returning from dropping global positioning system units and seismic sensors.

The 10 passengers were marooned on the west Antarctic ice sheet for 20 hours before two Twin Otter aircraft from the United States McMurdo Station completed a rescue.

Piper Malibou Crash In British Columbia

Three people have been killed in a small plane crash in Canada's western province of British Columbia. The Piper Malibou, a single engine aircraft, went down Friday evening, after the pilot reported he had lost engine power. The plane was en route from Salem, Oregon, to Springbank, Alberta.

2 killed in Chibougamau plane crash

Two men were killed this morning when a a small twin-engine airplane crashed on landing at Chibougamau - Chapais airport, 700 kilometres north of Montreal. The plane burst into flames at the end of the runway. The men inside were badly burned so it was impossible to confirm their identity without forensic testing.

Float-Plane Crash Northwestern Ontario

A float-plane crashed on Kearns Lake, a remote lake northeast of Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. The body of veteran pilot Ron Gibson was found Friday afternoon when police and military searchers located the submerged aircraft. Police said there was no one else on board.

B-24J Liberator Crash Site Found

The remains of nine US servicemen have been found at a site in Germany where an American plane crashed during World War II, military officials announced today. The men were aboard a B-24J Liberator that departed North Pickenham, England, on July 7, 1944, on a mission to bomb a German aircraft factory near Bernburg, Germany. The plane was last seen by US aircrew members near Bernburg.

After the War captured records revealed that it had crashed near Westeregeln, about 20 miles northwest of the target in what later became the Soviet sector of Germany. In 2001, a group of German citizens interested in recovering wartime relics and remains learned of a potential crash site south of Westeregeln. Later, the group found the site and uncovered human remains from what appeared to be two burial locations. The remains and other personal effects, including identification tags, were turned over to US officials. In 2003, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team combed the crash site and recovered additional remains along with identification tags and nonbiological evidence.

The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office identified the servicemen as: First Lieutenant David P. McMurray, of Melrose, Mass.; First Lieutenant Raymond Pascual, of Houston; Second Lieutenant Millard C. Wells Jr., of Paris, Ky.; Technical Sergeant Leonard J. Ray, of Upper Falls, Md.; Technical Sergeant Hyman L. Stiglitz, of Boston; Staff Sergeant Robert L. Cotey, of Vergennes, Vt.; Staff Sergeant Francis E. Larrivee, of Laconia, N.H.; Staff Sergeant Robert J. Flood, of Neelyton, Pa.; and Staff Sergeant Walter O. Schlosser, of Lake City, Mich.; all were in the US Army Air Force.

10 dead in Cessna 208 crash

Ten people on board a single engine Cessna 208 that crashed in in the Cascade mountains have been killed, officials confirmed. Seven bodies were found in the wreckage and the other three people still missing are also believed dead. The names of the nine skydivers and their pilot have not yet been released.
The Cessna 208 turboprop was returning from a skydiving meeting at Star, near Boise, Idaho, on Sunday evening to Washington state. Based on radar and a hunter's report of seeing a plane flying low and then hearing a crash, the search was focused on a steep, densely forested area near White Pass, about 45 miles west of Yakima.

The National Transportation Safety Board will begin an investigation on Tuesday.

Zenith 250 Crash In Ottawa Canada

The pilot walked away without injuries after his two-seater plane crash-landed in Ottawa's east end. Paramedics were called after the home-built Zenith 250 landed nose down in a wooded area east of Green Creek Drive and west of Rockcliffe Parkway around 11:40 a.m. Monday.
The pilot, who was flying alone, reported that the plane lost power after taking off from Rockcliffe Airport, about four kilometres west of the crash site. Ottawa police are investigating the incident.

Piper Crash In Virginia

A family of 3 was killed when their single-engine Piper crashed just outside Shenandoah National Park. The Piper made in 1964, departed from Georgia bound for Winchester and went down in a wooded area near Syria. Authorities today are still removing the wreckage from the remote area. The National Transportation Safety Board and state police are investigating the cause of the crash. Federal Aviation Administration authorities called state police after they lost contact with the aircraft Thursday night. The wreckage was discovered yesterday afternoon.

Antonov-12 Crash Democratic Republic of Congo

At least five people were killed in a cargo plane crash in the eastern town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday. This is just the latest in a rash of crashes in the central African state. In August, a cargo plane crashed in Kamina, in Katanga province, killing 14 people.

In Fridays crash the Russian-made Antonov-12 plane, carrying a cargo of palm oil, crashed after overshooting the runway. It burst into flames, killing all five Russian crew aboard. Debris was scattered across the field and small explosions prevented rescue workers from approaching the site.

The plane was operated by local Galaxy Kavatsi airlines. It was making a stopover on a flight from the capital Kinshasa to the town of Bukavu in neighboring South Kivu province.

SNJ-2 Crash In Virginia

A World War II-era vintage SNJ-2 crashed on the edge of a runway at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach at 12:25 p.m. as he was prepping for an air show

The aircraft, veered toward a wooded area just off the runway and then began to drop "like a pancake," said witness Marylou Atwell, a plane enthusiast from Wilmington, Del.

The plane was part of a nine-pilot team that flies six SNJ-2 planes, which were used to train Allied pilots in World War II. Only about 10 of them are left in the world, according to the Web site, which says the team is the "only World War II civilian squadron flying today.

Lancair Columbia Crash

A single-engine Lancair Columbia crashed near a remote Kern County Calif airport and exploded into flames, killing a family of six. The family had flown from Santa Monica Airport to Kern Valley Airport, where the plane crashed Friday upon approach, said a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Lancair Columbia was consumed in a grassfire sparked by the crash, reported shortly after 5:40 p.m., but the one-acre blaze was quickly contained.

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were handling the investigation into the cause of the crash. Witnesses said the aircraft appeared to stall.

Beech Bonanza Crash Cherokee National Forest

A Beech Bonanza crashed on Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest shortly after leaving Elizabethton. Craig Clark, of Elizabethton; Randall Walp, of Chattanooga; Victor "Jim" Osborne, of Morristown; Leon Rosko, of Sevierville; and Booth, of Unicoi, all were killed in the crash.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the accident.

PC-9 trainer crash in Thailand

Two Thai Air Force pilots were killed when their PC-9 trainer plane crash-landed Thursday morning in central Thailand's province of Nakorn Pathom.The single-engine two-seater crashed into the runway at Air Force training base in Khampaeng Saen district, 60 km northwest of Bangkok, at about 8:50 a.m. (0150 GMT), according to local newspaper the Nations' website.

Outback Wiz Crash In New Mexico

A OUTBACK WIZ AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE ONE PERSON ON BOARD WAS FATALLY INJURED, 9 MILES FROM TAOS, NM.

Antonov AN-32 crash in Africa

Lubumbashi - Officials say nine people were killed and two seriously injured after a AN-32, owned by local airline GLBC, crashed in the south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday.
Nicaise Nunakuny, a local official at the site of the crash in Kongolo, 650km from the Katanga provincial capital of Lubumbashi, said two of the eight Congolese passengers on board had been rescued.
The three crew members, One Russian and two Ukrainians were killed.
"The aircraft took off normally from Kongolo, but encountered engine problems. It tried to turn around, but under conditions of a strong back wind and poor visibility, the overloaded aircraft clipped the tops of trees and went down about 3km from the runway. It then caught fire.
The Russian-made Antonov plane was heading to Goma, 500km to the north-east.

Light aircraft crash Austrailia

A Plane carrying skydivers flipped while attempting an emergency landing near the Gold Coast today, but no one was seriously injured
The light aircraft crashed near a grass airstrip on Pimpama-Jacobs Well Road, at Jacobs Well, about 11am (AEST), police said.
The pilot was taking two skydivers and two instructors for a jump when he reportedly lost power to the aircraft, forcing him to attempt an emergency landing on muddy ground near the runway.

Robin R2120 Crash In NZ

The two-seater Robin R2120 went down about 4pm yesterday during a flight from Christchurch to Mount Cook.

Hot-air balloon crash in B.C.

A hot-air balloon burst into flames and plummeted into an RV park, killing two people in British Columbia Canada.

Cessna 210 crash in NJ.

A Cessna 210 made in 1978 crashed in Old Bridge NJ on Sunday. The plane was approaching the runway for landing when the engine cut out. The pilot was able to start the engine again in the air but the engine cut out a second time. He tried to land in an open field, but ended up crashing into a fence and a concrete barricade. Old Bridge police arrived at the scene to find the two passengers out of the plane and uninjured. The aircraft was badly damaged, and leaking fuel.

Cessna 210 crash

Two passengers were uninjured when their Cessna crashed in Old Bridge NJ on Sunday. The plane, was approaching the runway for landing when the engine cut out. The pilot was able to start the engine again in the air but the engine cut out a second time. The pilot then tried to land in an open field, but ended up crashing into a fence and a concrete barricade. Police arrived at the scene to find the two passengers out of the plane and uninjured. Compton's 1978 Cessna 210 model aircraft was badly damaged, and leaking fuel.

Russian Su-24 crash

A Russian Sukhoi-24 plane crashed in the Khabarovsk territory during a training flight on Thursday. The pilots ejected safely and the crash did not cause any damage or fatalities on the ground.

According to preliminary data, failure of the plane’s onboard power supply system was the main cause of the emergency.


The Su-24, is a frontline bomber, was developed by the Sukhoi design bureau in the early 1960s. It went in service with the Soviet Air Force in 1974. It is intended for delivering missile and bomb strikes round-the-clock and in any weather condition. It has a crew of two.

Light Plane Crash In Northwest Florida

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office says a pilot and three passengers were injured Wednesday afternoon in a small plane crash. It happened at the Ruckel Airstrip near Niceville around 4:13 p.m.The sheriff's office says two people were airlifted to a hospital and the other two were taken to the hospital by ambulance.The Federal Aviation Administration will arrive at the crash site today to investigate.

Cessna 182R Crash in Wyoming

A Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182R being used to search for a missing Wyoming teenager crashed and burned in the Bighorn National Forest, killing all three people on board. A spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration, says the plane went down Monday evening and was destroyed by fire. The pilot of the plane last made radio contact with another pilot in the area at about 4 p.m. Monday. The Civil Air Patrol is a nonprofit U.S. Air Force auxiliary organization that performs 95 percent of the nation's inland search and rescue operations

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters Crash Iraq

Fourteen U.S. soldiers died Wednesday when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said. The dead were all members of the Army's Task Force Lightning and included four Black Hawk crew members and 10 passengers. The helicopter crash was apparently not the result of an attack. The crash occurred near Kirkuk. Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were on a night operation when one of the aircraft crashed. Initial indications are that the aircraft experienced a mechanical malfunction. There were no indications of hostile fire.

Ormond Beach Florida Small Plane Crash

A pilot suffered serious burns on Sunday after the plane he was piloting crashed in Ormond Beach Florida. James Hall was piloting the single-engine plane at about noon when it crashed at the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport. The plane was completely destroyed, but Hall was able to escape the wreckage. FAA investigators are attempting to determine the cause of the crash. I have no info on the make and modle of the plane.

Thorp T-18 Crash In Florida

Two people died when a single-engine Thorp T-18 made a crashed in a grass field. Federal aviation officials, who are looking into whether mechanical failures, pilot error or both led to the crash. Early reports suggested that Scott Schlander, 40, tried to return to the runway after takeoff when he sensed a problem with the engine. The Thorp T-18 aircraft is classified "experimental" by the Federal Aviation Administration .

Beech Bonanza Crash in Florida

Three men involved with a minor plane crash at Clearwater Airpark Saturday morning walked away with only minor injuries. The plane, a Beech Bonanza, had just lifted into the air when it teetered, came back to the ground and slid across the runway. However the FAA reported that the plane had just taken off and was attempting to return when it lost control on landing and crashed into a fence and a pond.

The plane is a six-seater, single-engine 1984 Beech Bonanza registered to Plane Stuff Too Inc. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash

Squamish, British Columbia, Cessna 172 Crash

One person is dead and three people are being treated for injuries, after a small aircraft crashed in the Squamish area.The Cessna 172 left from pitt meadows Saturday afternoon bound for Squamish.It went down between the north end of Indian Arm and Squamish along the Indian River.

The three survivors, have been taken to Vancouver General Hospital. One is listed in critical condition. No names have been released.

Queensland Australia, Small Plane Crash

The wreckage of the missing eight-seater Fletcher single engine plane was discovered on a ridge in the Cardwell State Forest yesterday morning. The plane was last seen leaving Ingham on Thursday afternoon. The plane was bound for Tully, about an hour's flight away.

An extensive search for the plane included seven helicopters, three planes, police maritime rescue and dozens of State Emergency Service (SES) and civilian volunteers.

The 34-year-old pilot died in the crash. The accident is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

Small plane makes hard landing in Massachusetts

A small plane made a hard landing at Siasconset, in heavy fog on the southeastern part of Nantucket Island near Low Beach Road in Massachusetts between 8:30 and 8:45 p.m. EDT. Both the pilot and his wife were taken to the hospital for observation. Serious injuries were not reported.

The plane was equipped with a parachute, and it appears the parachute had been deployed before the crash, according to Lieutenant Jerry Adams of the Nantucket police department.

Police cordoned off the area and about a dozen emergency vehicles responded to the incident. Numerous residents reported a loud noise which they mistakenly believed to be an explosion.

Penfield New York Cessna 172N Crash

A four seat, float equipped Cessna 172N, built in 1978 crashed just after taking off from Southpoint Marina in Penfield New York. Arlene Salac, a spokeswoman with the Federal Aviation Administration, said the circumstances of the Thursday crash were unknown. The pilot was not in contact with air traffic control, which is not unusual when not flying near Greater Rochester International Airport. Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said the plane was taking off from the bay toward the southeast when it crashed. Witnesses said it did not appear to be gaining proper altitude before it banked sharply to the left and flew into the ground, bursting into flames, between Empire Boulevard and Irondequoit Bay.

Friends of the men identified them as Michael J. Barclay, 50, of Rush, and David B. Finger III, 57, of Perinton. No one on the ground was injured.

Small plane crash near Winnipeg

A small plane crash killed its pilot 10 kilometres north of the Town of Stead. Just northeast of Winnipeg Canada. RCMP said the man was the plane's only occupant but did not release his name, age or hometown, pending notification of next of kin.
A whitness saw a small, four-passenger plane spiral towards the ground near Highway 59, about 1.5 kilometres away. "I heard a plane. It sounded like it was in trouble. The engine was hissing and sputtering and then I saw it go down and start spiraling. Then I lost sight of him and heard a thunk. It was the sound of pulling a plunger out of something but very loud."
Emergency crews are on scene but RCMP are not releasing a statement.
Officials are awaiting the arrival of the Transport Safety Board of Canada.

Plane crash in Alaska kills two

Two men failed to return from a sheep-spotting flight in Alaska on Monday. The men were in the air to scout for Dall sheep on what they expected to be a 30-minute flight, when they failed to return.

Rescue squadrons at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks and Kulis Air National Guard Base in Anchorage were alerted about 5 a.m. Thursday. Searchers from Eielson found a downed aircraft with two bodies aboard later Thursday. The crash scene is in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The single engine Maule crashed at 4,000 feet on a mountainside.

5 people killed in small plane crash in Alaska

Five people were killed Thursday night when a small airplane crashed north of Ketchikan in southeast Alaska. There were four survivors in the crash, including a 2-year-old girl. Three of the four were to be transported to hospitals in the mainland U.S. for further treatment of burns. Information about the fourth survivor was not immediately available.

E-2C Hawkeye Crash Off Virginia Coast

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard are searching today for three missing aviators that were aboard a Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft that crashed off the Virginia coast last night.
The Navy says the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft crashed about 11 p.m. yesterday after taking off from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.

The Hawkeye is from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 120, based at the Norfolk Naval Station. The squadron trains pilots and naval flight officers before they are assigned to operational fleet squadrons.

The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an all-weather, aircraft carrier-based tactical Airborne Early Warning aircraft. It is powered by 2 turboprop engines. The E-2C Hawkeye normally carries a crew of 5, including two pilots and three naval flight officers.

The Hawkeye's comparatively low mishap record makes it one of the Navy's safest planes. Since 1980, the Hawkeye has had 12 "Class A" mishaps, which involve either a fatality, total loss of the plane or at least $1 million in damage.

The last fatal crash of a Hawkeye was in 1993, when an E-2C went into the Ionian Sea off the coast of Italy, killing all five crew members. The plane had monitored air drops of relief supplies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and was on its way back to the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. In 1992, all five crew members were killed when a Navy E-2C crashed into the Atlantic near Puerto Rico during a routine training flight. A Florida-based Coast Guard E-2C caught fire and crashed near a U.S. naval station in Puerto Rico in 1990, killing all four men aboard.

The Navy is investigating.

New Mexico Crash

Two people have been found dead in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in northeastern New Mexico last evening, according to New Mexico State Police.
The plane went down about 7:20 p.m. Wed between Mosquero and Trementina. The area is roughly 50 miles east of Las Vegas.

Submarine to probe French Polynesian plane crash site

The French interior ministry says the government has decided to send the ship Ile de Re to the site of last week’s plane crash in French Polynesia. The Ship equipped with a small submarine, is part of efforts to recover the wreck of the Air Moorea Twin Otter which is in about 450 meters of water and believed to still have six bodies inside. The French authorities have also asked the US to send a large ship to Moorea to help in the recovery of the plane and its voice recorder.
It’s not known what caused the plane crash which killed 20 people

CH-47 Chinook Helicopter Crash Near Baghdad

Five U.S. service personnel were killed when a CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter crashed during a routine flight west of Baghdad on Tuesday.

The U.S. military said the CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed near its al-Taqaddum air base outside Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, while conducting a "routine post-maintenance check flight". There was no indication whether it was shot down. An investigation is under way.

Indian Army Recovers Remains From 1968 Air Crash

An expedition of the Indian Army, code named Operation Punaruthan - III, has had some sucess with the retrieval of the bodies of missing soldiers of a 1968 plane crash. The remains of three soldiers, who were killed in the AN 12 aircraft crash 39 years ago near the Chandrabhaga peak, were recovered by the army expedition from the inhospitable terrain of the Lahaul valley in Himachal Pradesh, a glaciated area at an altitude of over 17,500 feet near the Chandrabhaga Peak. The bodies of the three soldiers were recoverd on the 9th August after a detailed search of the area lasting approximately five days.

On February 7, 1968 an AN-12 aircraft of the Indian Air Force had taken off from Chandigarh, on a routine logistics sortie with 102 persons on board. The aircraft hit the towering 6264-meter high Chandrabhaga Peak due to bad weather. There were no survivors of the crash and a detailed search of the area could not find the remains of the aircraft. The aircraft with its 102 passengers were declared missing.

It was only in July 2003, that an expedition from the Manali Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports to Chandrabhaga Peak discovered the wreckage site. Amongst the wreckage, the team also found the remains and documents of Pioneer Beli Ram. Subsequent to the discovery of the wreckage, the Indian Army has been launching expeditions every summer to recover bodies of the lost soldiers. However, these operations had not yielded any positive results during the past three attempts.

RAF Puma Helicopter Crash Aug 8th

Three people have died and several others have been injured in the crash of a RAF Puma helicopter crash in North Yorkshire. Police said two of the deaths were confirmed at the scene, the third in hospital.

The crash took place at about 2100 BST on Wednesday in woods to the west of Catterick Garrison army base.

"We watched this helicopter quite rapidly go straight up into the air and it didn't sound right, It sounded like the engine was misfiring or something - it was making a hell of a racket. "This helicopter went onto its side and then shot off. "I didn't hear no bangs or nothing. I didn't see no flames or anything like that at all." said Andrew Pavey a Local resident.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said that a board of inquiry would investigate the cause of the crash.