tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17210744657933528522011-11-27T15:15:20.329-08:00Aviation History & News about Air Crashes and Disastersbriannoreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721074465793352852.post-27640706443156382152008-09-17T07:20:00.000-07:002008-09-17T07:23:05.233-07:00

Investigators have said the Spanish airliner that crashed at Madrid airport last month killing 154 people did not have its wing flaps set for take off.The pilots were unaware that the flaps, which provide extra lifting power, had not been deployed because a cockpit warning alert did not go off.The findings are based on information from the MD-82's flight and cockpit voice recorders and contained

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A senior official has said that the death of former Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 was not due to any technical fault. "It was not a technical problem," Investigator Naseem Ahmad said in response to a question at a workshop on Thursday regarding the crash of a C-130 Hercules military aircraft in 1988 that killed Gen Zia, US Ambassador Arnold Raphel and

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A plane crash in the Surinamese forest has left all 19 passengers and crew dead.The twin-engine aircraft operated by Surinamese carrier Blue Wing airlines, crashed yesterday morning as it approached an airstrip in the Benzdorp mining region.

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Two U.S. Marines were killed in a plane crash on Chandler Mountain in Steele last Friday. Maj. David Yaggy, and 2nd Lt. Alexander Prezioso were killed when the T-34C Turbomentor training plane they were flying crashed into the side of Chandler Mountain at about 2:45 p.m.The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

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Aviation experts believe a pelican or other seabird could have caused the ultralight plane crash that killed two men crash off a Gold Coast beach. The bodies of the two men were recovered on Wednesday, after the wreckage was finally found 20 metres below the surface.Police expect to salvage the wreckage on Friday - the seats, engine and a steel part are all that remain.

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Police have found just a few pieces of a plane that crashed off a Gold Coast beach, but heavy seas and strong winds continue to disrupt the search for the aircraft's two occupants.Gold Coast pilot Garry Sweetnam, 49, and passenger Andrew Mitchell, 33, of Murwillumbah in northern NSW, were on board when their twin-seater plane plunged into the ocean 500 metres off Narrowneck beach on Friday. About

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Eight people died today after a light airplane crashed into a playing field on the outskirts of the Chilean capital, Santiago. All six passengers in the plane were among the dead. Two more people died on the ground. The passengers included two policemen and four students.

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The Arizona Skyfest will not take place this year because of a lawsuit over a 2006 airplane crash. A spokesman for the Arizona Skyfest, announced that the Prescott Air Fair Association will cancel its 2008 air show because of a wrongful death lawsuit that names the organization as being partly at fault for an October 2006 airplane crash.The crash, which occurred about 16 miles northwest of

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Nine people were on board a Bell 212 Helicopter when it crashed about 3 p.m. Thursday. The chopper went down about 18 kilometres west of Golden BC. The helicopter, registered to Purcell Helicopter Skiing Ltd., was flying at 2,500 metres just before the crash.Search and rescue crews have recovered the body of the helicopter pilot. Two people, a guide and a staff member, were taken to hospital. Six

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A Pakistani Army helicopter crashed yesterday in the country’s northwest, killing three generals and five other soldiers. The aircraft went down in South Waziristan, a area that has been the scene of intense fighting between Pakistani forces and armed rebels. Initial reports indicated the crash occurred due to a technical fault in the helicopter. The pilot had reported an unspecified technical

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All on board survived, when a Boeing 727 carrying more than 150 people crash-landed in a bog in eastern Bolivia on Friday. Bad weather had turned it away from its destination and it was trying to reach another airport. The plane was on a flight from the Bolivian capital, La Paz, to the northern city of Cobija. The plane's flight engineer said it was a mechanical failure.

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A military plane carrying officers home from a flight-safety conference crashed in a forested area in northwestern Poland, killing all 20 people on board. The crash occurred as the plane was about to land on Wednesday evening. The aircraft, a Spanish-built CASA C-295M military transport plane, was about three kilometres from the airstrip when it clipped some trees on its approach and crashed in a

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Investigators are trying to determine why both engines of a British Airways plane did not respond just before it crashed at Heathrow Airport. The Co-pilot managed to make a hard landing, or a soft crash, depending on your point of view, just inside Heathrow's fence after the malfunction.

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Namibian officials are investigating a plane crash that killed six people, including five Israelis.The Cessna registered to a local aviation company Atlantic Aviation, crashed after it attempted to perform an emergency landing. It was headed for Etosha Pan national park in northern Namibia. Eyewitnesses said the plane burst into flames soon after crashing.

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Two F/A-18 fighter aircraft from the US navy's fifth fleet have crashed in the Persian Gulf. The US navy said that the fighters crashed "during operations" and three air crew were "in good physical condition" after ejecting from the fighters and being rescued by teams from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. The aircraft were providing close air support in Iraq when they crashed."

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A Venezuelan airliner belonging to Transaven Airlines crashed in the Caribbean en route to Los Roques. The Czech made LET-410 went down at 9:48 a.m. local time after reporting that both engines had failed. The fate of the 14 people aboard isn't known.The L410 is very successful Czech commuter which was first built in response to Soviet requirements, but has sold widely around the globe.

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Investigators with the N.T.S.B are investigating the single engine Cirrus plane crash on Sunday that killed the the only person on board. The plane went down in large field at 11:30 in the morning.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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 showThe 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,

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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A Plane carrying skydivers flipped while attempting an emergency landing near the Gold Coast today, but no one was seriously injuredThe 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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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