Several Plane Crashes

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France:


Six occupants of a private plane which crashed into the Mediterranean off the north-west of Corsica are recovering in hospital after a rescue operation. They were rescued from the sea after six hours in three to four metre waves. Their Cessna plane suffered motor failure over the Gulf of Porto shortly after taking off from the aerodrome at Tavaria in the south-west of the island yesterday afternoon, heading for Cannes.


The pilot radioed that he was going to try a forced landing in the sea and the plane disappeared from radar screens a few moments afterwards. Both military and emergency services vehicles were mobilised, including two helicopters, a plane and a boat. A helicopter pilot said afterwards: “The rescue was hellish – at night-time with four metre waves.” The occupants had managed to put on lifejackets and had got out of the plane, which sank shortly after landing in the sea.


They then set off flares. The security expert at Tavaria aerodrome said the pilot was experienced and was used to doing the trip to Cannes. However the expert said that he had suggested the group leave later, due to poor weather conditions, including strong winds. “They said one of them had to pick his granddaughter up from school so they preferred to get off. I wouldn’t have if it had been me.”

They are having guidance problems 2012 here we come

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2 Military Planes Collide, Coast Guard Searching for Pilot Off Charleston Coast

posted 10/15/09 11:29 pm


Pilot sought after 2 F-16s collide off SC coast
Charleston, S.C. - Two F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing collided in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday near Myrtle Beach, S.C. The aircraft, from Shaw AFB, were participating in night training maneuvers.

The aircraft carried one person each. One F-16 was able to land safely at Charleston AFB, S.C. The pilot is being examined by Air Force medical personnel. The location of the other F-16 and its pilot is unknown at this time. A search is underway involving the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and aircraft from Charleston AFB.

Missing is Air Force Capt. Nicholas Giglio of the 20th Fighter Wing of Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. Giglio’s F-16 collided with a second F-16 at approximately 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Shaw AFB contacted the Coast Guard to assist in the search for the missing pilot. 4 Interact:
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Currently involved in the search are:

An HH-65C Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Savannah, Ga.

The Coast Guard Cutter Yellowfin, an 87-foot patrol boat from Charleston

A Coast Guard Station Georgetown, S.C., small boat

A Coast Guard Station Charleston small boat

A C-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft from Air Station Clearwater, Fla.

Coast Guard units have been searching throughout the night, which included a C-130 fixed wing aircraft, a small boat and Coast Guard cutter.

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Netherlands:


Two people were killed this morning in the crash of the Pilatus PC-12/47E aircraft on which they were flying, near Weert, Netherlands. The aircraft ditched into a field next to a farm, catching fire immediately after the impact. Some eyewitnesses said they saw smoke coming out from the airplane, that would have suddenly lost altitude before inexorably finishing nose-down on the ground. Debris from the aircraft have been thrown way far from the point of impact, showing its violence.


The two victims have already been identified: they are Paul Evers (57-year-old) and Henk Hendriks (60), respectively director and administrator of the liquors factory Alko International. Police and aviation authorities are currently on the site to carry out surveys.

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Philippines:


Four people aboard a private plane were killed when the aircraft crashed into a warehouse and burst into flames in Las Piñas City past noon Saturday. Witnesses said they saw smoke coming from the DC-3 aircraft owned by Victoria Air minutes before it hurtled down onto the former bus terminal at Villa Fidela Subdivision in the village of E. Aldana around 12:30 p.m. The vintage cargo plane left the old domestic terminal in Parañaque at 11:56 a.m. and was on its way to Palawan when it crashed into the residential area, said Roberto Uy, chief operating officer of the Manila International Airport Authority.


"Nakita ng tanod ko na umuusok na yung eroplano at mababa na, halos dumidikit na sa poste. Tumama yung left wing sa poste tapos bumagsak, tapos maya-maya sumabog na," said Rudy Garcia, barangay captain of E. Aldana. Firetrucks and rescue teams from all over Metro Manila rushed to the site to put out the fire that lasted until 2:15 p.m. Six drums of aircraft fuel carried by the plane may have contributed to the blaze. Alhough 15 houses on San Francisco Street behind the warehouse were damaged due to the blast, no other casualties were reported aside from the four male victims. "As per the flight manifest, seven people were listed but we confirmed that only four boarded the plane. These were the pilot, co-pilot, a mechanic and a passenger," said Jose Sablan of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

Sablan, who chairs the CAAP's Aircraft Accident Investigation and Inquiry Board, said they withheld the victims' identities from the media pending notification of the victims’ next of kin. Burnt debris of the two-propeller plane scattered all over the warehouse and the grassy lot. A large part of the empty warehouse's roof was burnt. "Based on our impression of the scene, the pilot led the aircraft to a clear area to land. But it's still aligned to the runway," Sablan said. He said the plane, often used to transport fish, was on a regular flight—not a test as broadcast media had reported—but did not have any cargo.



"They may have intended to pick it up from Palawan," he added. Warehouse caretaker Glenda Gallano said she was sweeping dirt on a nearby concrete pavement when the plane suddenly crashed. "Pagbagsak, umusok ng makapal tapos sumunod na yung apoy. Hinabol ako ng apoy kaya nagtatatakbo na ako. Inisip ko yung mga anak ko kasi naglalaro sila kanina dun; buti na lang wala na sila dun," she said, still shaking. Gallano said she was thankful for escaping unscathed since her family lived in the warehouse, which was formerly a bus terminal until it was foreclosed by Security Bank years ago. Sablan said it was difficult to speculate on what caused the crash.

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France:


A regional official in western France says four people died when their small tourist aircraft collided in midair. Eleonore Lacroix of the Charente-Maritime regional government said the dead included a 20-year-old woman who was piloting a Cessna with the help of a flight instructor who was instructing her remotely from the control tower of a nearby airfield.


The pilot of the other aircraft, also a Cessna, and his two passengers also perished in Saturday’s collision, at the Rochefort airfield. Lacroix described local weather conditions as "ideal." An investigation into the collision has been opened. Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau, who was in the region for a conference, visited the scene of the accident.

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United Arab Emirates:

At least two people were killed in a crash of an aircraft in the United Arab Emirates near the Sharjah Airport on Wednesday. The crash was not in a residential area of the emirate, one of seven members of the UAE federation. A Dubai-based television said earlier that the aircraft was a crgo plane and that its six-member Sudanese crew had been killed in the crash.

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Tennessee:

A pilot from Powell, Tennessee suffered fatal injuries when his small plane flying with three passengers on board skidded off the runway. The airplane crashed into a tree after it ran off the runway on Sunday, October 18, 2009, announced United Press International. Police identified the pilot as 66-year-old Doyle R. Chadwick, who attempted to land into a small airport when the aircraft, identified as a single-engine Piper PA28, continued to slide off the runway and onto the grass strip crashing into a tree near Oliver Springs, Tennessee, reported news sources.


Emergency medical services (EMS) arrived at the scene to transport the injured to a local hospital to be treated by doctors and nurses. Medical officials have not release the injured passengers names as of yet. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokeswoman, Kathleen Bergen, reported the small plane attempted to land, the wheels hit the grassy strip, and did not stop until it crashed through a tree. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also planned to look into the crash to determine the cause. Other information gathered about the aviation accident revealed the aircraft was registered to Oak Ridge Flyers Inc, an elite aviation club.

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South Carolina:


A small plane crashed shortly after departure and burst into flames early Wednesday morning, killing four people aboard. It appears the plane climbed above the trees then descended and crashed into a wooded area near the Summerville airport, not far from the South Carolina coast, the sheriff's office said. Investigators found four people dead in the wreckage of the twin-engine Piper PA-23, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. The plane, which seats six, crashed around 6:20 a.m. and was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at the scene in a rural area northwest of Jedburg, Dorchester County Administrator Jason Ward said. Investigators were hindered by the flaming wreckage and "charred foliage" at the scene, and identities of the victims haven't been confirmed.


"That will probably have to be done by dental records due to the severity of the accident," Ward said. One of the victims was found beneath some of the wreckage, Ward said. Debris was spread around an area several yards wide at the crash site, and the wrecked plane was apparently upside down, he said. A call to the Dorchester County coroner's office was not immediately returned. Stella Bazzle, who lives about a half-mile from the crash site, said the plane's motor was roaring and didn't sound right as it passed near her house. "It was kind of a funny noise, a grinding noise, almost like a train type of thing," Bazzle said.


Then Bazzle, 66, heard what sounded like two explosions, the first one bigger than the second. She said she didn't see any flames. The crash site is off airport property, and the airport is located in a rural area about 25 miles north of Charleston with a few homes, some farm land and industrial sites. The 1976 plane was registered to Peter Radding of North Charleston, FAA records show. A woman who answered the phone at his home said Radding was flying out of the area Wednesday. She declined to comment further. Radding's neighbor, Jim Deaton, said the man and others planned to stop in Florida, pick up more passengers, then head to the Bahamas.

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Arizona:


A U.S. Air Force spokesman says an F-16 fighter was forced to make an emergency landing at a municipal airport northwest of Phoenix on Thursday after its engine failed. Luke Air Force Base spokesman Justin Oakes says the two-person crew of the jet were unhurt after what he termed a "hard landing" at the Wickenburg Municipal Airport about 40 miles northwest of Phoenix.


The Air Force base in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale is the world's largest F-16 training base. Oakes says the jet came in short of the runway but damage to the aircraft hasn't yet been determined. A cause of the engine failure will be investigated

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Virginia:


A Navy spokesperson confirms one person has died and several others were injured in a chopper crash onboard a naval vessel Thursday evening. Capt. Cate Mueller of the U.S. Navy said the accident happened just before 8 p.m. Thursday, 20 nautical miles off the coast of Fort Story. Capt.


Mueller says two Army helicopters were performing joint Army/Navy training exercises on the USNS Artic, a sealift command ship, when one of the choppers crashed. The Navy says at least three people were injured and taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital by the second chopper involved in the training. Capt. Mueller could not say which branch of the military the injured and deceased belonged to.

What the hell is going on?

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Louisiana:


Two people were killed and several others were injured when two small aircraft collided over Buhlow Lake in central Louisiana on Saturday afternoon. The crash happened near Pineville Municipal Airport in Pineville around 2.30 p.m. central time, according to Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “It happened roughly a half mile off the runway,” Lunsford said, who said the planes came down in woods nearby. A total of four people were on board the planes when they went down, two of them, both on the same plane, were killed in the crash.


The two people on board the second aircraft were airlifted to a local hospital with serious injuries. One of the planes was a 1965-build Cessna 150F aircraft, which was registered to Thomas Oleary from Deville, Louisiana, according to official FAA records. The second plane, also a Cessna 150F but build in 1966, was registered to Lawrence L. Newell from Marksville, Louisiana. It was not immediately confirmed those people were actually onboard the aircraft when they crashed. Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.

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Texas:


A Navy T-34 plane with two people aboard has gone missing off the Texas gulf coast. U.S. Coast Guard officials said an air traffic controller at Corpus Christi's naval air station lost contact with the crew about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday. The single-engine, propeller-driven trainer aircraft was last reported near Port Lavaca. The Coast Guard has dispatched a helicopter, jet and boats to search for the plane. Port Lavaca is about 75 miles northeast of Corpus Christi.

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Coast Guard: Plane Collides With Military Helicopter


Posted: 10:51 pm PDT October 29, 2009
Updated: 1:50 am PDT October 30, 2009

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. -- The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said.

A pilot reported seeing a fireball in the vicinity of the suspected crash site, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.

The crash was reported at 7:10 p.m., about 15 miles east off San Clemente Island, Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer Allyson Conroy said.

Cpl Michael Stevens, a spokesman for the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, confirmed an AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter had gone down, but he had no further information. He said it belonged to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing stationed at Camp Pendleton.

The Coast Guard plane was believed to be a C-130, a long-range surveillance and transport, fixed wing aircraft that is used to perform a variety of missions. Seven people were on board the C-130 and two people were aboard the helicopter, Gregor said.

The Coast Guard said it sent three cutters and diverted an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to the area to search for survivors, while the Navy sent four vessels and multiple helicopters.

Earlier this week, it was an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter that collided with a UH-1 helicopter over southern Afghanistan, killing four American troops and wounding two more, a Marine spokesman said.

San Clemente Island is the southernmost of the eight Channel Islands located 68 nautical miles west of San Diego. The Navy has owned and trained at San Clemente Island since 1934, according to the island's Web site. Naval Air Station, North Island is responsible for the island's administration

Whats the time period of all that incidents/crahses?

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Brasil:


A Brazilian military transport plane with 11 passengers on board has disappeared over the hard-to-access jungles of Amazonia, the country's Air Force said on Friday. According to the Air Force's press release, the Cessna C-98 plane, carrying mostly doctors from Brazil's National Health Fund, took off on Thursday morning from an airfield in the northern state of Acre heading to the neighboring state of Amazonas, and later disappeared from radar screens.


The Air Force immediately launched a rescue operation, involving two H-60 Blackhawk helicopters and a C-105 search-and-rescue plane, but attempts to locate the missing aircraft have been unsuccessful so far. The doctors from the missing plane were reportedly vaccinating people from indigenous tribes in the region. The C-98 is a variant of Cessna 208 Caravan, a U.S.-made single turboprop engine, fixed-gear short-haul regional airliner and utility aircraft, which is used by the Brazilian Air Force as a military transport plane.

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Western Australia:


A Qantas 737-800 from Adelaide carrying 110 passengers landed safely this morning at Perth Airport with an incapacitated captain in the cockpit. Flight QF583 left Adelaide about 6.50am (local time) and touched down in Perth at 7.30am. An emergency was declared by the co-pilot and air traffic control vectored the aircraft onto the longest runway 21/03. After touch down the aircraft came to a halt on the runway and a tug was required to tow it to Perth’s Qantas domestic terminal.

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of these are Military Crafts?????

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2 Dead After Plane Crashes Into Atlanta-Area Home
House Destroyed


POSTED: 2:37 pm EDT October 30, 2009
UPDATED: 6:11 pm EDT October 30, 2009

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- A small plane crashed into an Atlanta-area house and burst into flames, killing the pilot and a woman in the house.

The husband of the woman who died was in the house at the time of the crash Friday, but managed to escape.

Capt. Tommy Rutledge of Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Service said the male pilot was alone in the twin-engine Cessna. The victims' identities weren't released.

Authorities responding to 911 calls shortly after 1 p.m. Friday found the house engulfed in flames. Rutledge says the two-story house was leveled.

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the plane took off from Gwinnett County Airport and was headed to Sparta, Tenn.

Fire crews were spraying water on the rubble several hours later to extinguish hot spots.

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Alert as six faint on board plane
Ambulance staff were called to treat six passengers at Heathrow airport after they fainted while on a British Airways flight from the US.

None of those assessed needed hospital treatment and all were able to continue their journeys, the airline said.

London Ambulance Service was asked to meet the flight from Newark at Terminal Five at 0650 GMT on Saturday.

Emergency services teams initially wore protective suits as it was unclear what had caused the passengers to faint.

A British Airways spokeswoman said: "A handful of passengers on the aircraft fainted during the flight.

"As a precaution, medical services met the aircraft."

An investigation is under way into what caused the passengers to faint.

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A Russian Interior Ministry plane with eleven crewmembers on board crashed on takeoff in Yakutia in the Far East, six bodies have been recovered, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Sunday. A spokesman for the ministry's regional center said an Il-76 Candid strategic airlifter fell and caught fire about three kilometers from Mirny airport.

"There were seven crewmembers, as well as four members from a replacement crew, on board. The plane was heading for Irkutsk. As of now, six people whose bodies have been recovered are believed to be dead," the spokesman said. He said a search for the others is underway.

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Poland:


Three Polish border guards were killed when their helicopter crashed on the Belarussian side of the border, fire-brigade rescuers said on Sunday. "The wreckage of a border-guard helicopter that disappeared last night with three officers on board was discovered on Sunday morning in Belarus some 200 metres (yards) from the (Polish) border," reported regional fire-brigade spokesman Marcin Janowski. He said the cause of the accident, which occurred during a routine patrol of the border in the north-eastern corner of Poland, was not immediately known.

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Delta Flight Returns to Airport After Bird Strike
Monday, November 02, 2009


PHOENIX — Authorities say a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Utah has safely returned to Phoenix after one or more birds hit the aircraft.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says Flight 1232 took off from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around 8:40 a.m. Monday on its way to Salt Lake City.

He says the MD-90 hit one or more birds "a considerable distance" from the airport, and the pilot declared an emergency. The plane landed at Sky Harbor at 9:01 a.m.

Delta spokesman Anthony Black says 127 passengers and five crew members were aboard. No injuries were reported.

Gregor says bird strikes happen daily and pilots are trained to deal with them.

In January, a US Airways flight crash-landed in the Hudson River after hitting a flock of birds over New York. All 155 people on board were pulled to safety.

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Arizona:

Authorities say a medical helicopter has crashed on Arizona’s San Carlos Indian reservation during a training flight and both people aboard are seriously injured. There were no patients on the flight. The pilot of the Eurocopter AS 350 lost control while trying to land at San Carlos’s Cutter airport around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor tells KSAZ Fox Channel 10 in Phoenix.


Bureau of Indian Affairs spokesman Warren Youngman says both people aboard were hospitalized with serious injuries. A spokesman for Native Air’s parent company, Joel Hochhalter, tells KPNX-TV the training helicopter is not configured for medical transportation. Calls to the FAA and BIA went unanswered early Thursday morning. The reservation is about 60 miles east of Phoenix.

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Russia:


There were 11 people on board the Pacific Fleet's Tu-142 plane that has crashed off Russia's Pacific coast, an Air Force source in the Far Eastern Military District said on Saturday. A Tu-142M3 Bear-F plane reportedly went down during a combat training flight around 21:19 local time (11:19 GMT) on Friday some 20 kilometers (12 miles) offshore in the Tatar Strait, which separates mainland Russia from the island of Sakhalin. "According to latest data, the Tu-142 plane, which has crashed during a training flight, had 11 people on board," the source said, adding that the military authorities had a full list of the personnel on board the plane.


According to preliminary data, the crash was caused by a technical failure. The remains of the plane were located on Saturday morning by several ships and planes at the depth of about 44 meters (144 feet). "There are pieces of debris on the surface, which could be the remains of the fuselage and the interior of the plane," a local emergencies official said. The search for the missing crew members is underway, although the rescue officials fear they have most likely died in the crash.

"Taking into consideration the circumstances of the crash, we could presume all military personnel on board the Tu-142 plane to be dead. However, the rescue operation will continue until the last hope to find the survivors is gone," a Russian military source said. He added that the Russian Navy will deploy, if necessary, the newest Pantera and Kalmar robotic deep-water rescue vehicles to recover the plane's on-board recording devices.


Tu-142M3 is a Russian maritime reconnaissance/anti-submarine warfare (ASW) turboprop aircraft. It is a modified version of the Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber. According to open sources, Russia's Pacific Fleet has at least eight Tu-142M3 aircraft in service.

Wasn't there a billion ton ejection from the sun due to hit soon?

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New Zealand:


A Cessna aircraft has crashed in the grounds of an Auckland high school. The fire service said it received a report of the crash at Macleans College, Bucklands Beach in eastern Manukau this afternoon. There was one person on board the aircraft but there are no reports of any injury. Emergency services are now at the scene.

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California:


Authorities say three people are dead after a vintage helicopter hit power lines, crashed and caught fire in San Bernardino County. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the Piasecki PV-18 took off from Adelanto Airport at 8:30 a.m. Saturday headed for Riverside. All three people aboard were killed when the helicopter crashed a mile south of the airport. Adelanto is a Mojave Desert city about 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles.


Investigators from the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene. There was no word on the cause, and identities of the dead were not immediately released. The helicopter is a vintage military aircraft built in 1951. FAA records show the owner is Joseph William Pike of Victorville. A message left at a number listed for Pike was not immediately returned.