UK Crash Landing

What: £40,000 two-seater Ikarus C42 FB
Where: UK: Runway at Pine Trees Farm, off Hall Lane near Bitteswell.
When: 2.30pm
Who: pilot Gordon Higgins
Why: Difficulty in maintaining an accurate approach speed in the very gusty conditions. Mr Higgins attempted to take-off again to avoid a collision but the aircraft was unable to clear a tall hedge

Double trouble in Rochester NY

What: United Airlines (United Express) regional Jet flying from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to Providence,
Where: Greater Rochester International Airport.
When: July 16, 10:20 am
Who: 71 passengers (including 4 crew)
Why: Smoke in cockpit. (Turned out to be faulty air conditioning. The unit was replaced and the plan rescheduled.)

What: Military cargo jet
Where: Greater Rochester International Airport.
When: July 16 11:30 am
Who: 2 passengers and crew
Why: The pilot noted hydraulic problems. The flight landed safely but the plane will require repairs before being allowed to return to flying.

Arrestor Blocks Save Lives

Chicago -Friday , July 18, 2008 A Mexicana Airlines eAirbus A320 originating from Juarez International Airport in Mexico City overshoots the runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport but an arrestor bed of lightweight concrete blocks at the end of a runway stops the plane

Flight 802 was arriving from Mexico City and one flight attendant was injured. However, none of the 145 passengers on the flight were injured, even though crosswinds forced Flight 802's nose gear off the runway.

The fire department says 142 people were evacuated from the plane, although Mexicana Airlines said there were 145 passengers and crew aboard.

The arrestor bed was installed "probably in the past year." O'Hare Runway 22L closed Friday following the emergency landing.

Mexicana Airline operates 15 daily flights to O'Hare.

This non-fatal emergency landing occurred exactly one year and a day after the tragic TAM Linhas Aéreas overran the end of runway 35 at the Sao Paulo Congonhas Airport, killing 6 crew members, 162 passengers, and 18 persons on the ground.

Revisiting the news

One Year Ago. Today.

Let's look at the numbers.

How many lives does one person impact? It is a huge number.

Think about it. Before you're out in the world, just getting through school, you know well over a thousand people. You meet people every day, through work, through church, through hobbies, through life.

So what does it mean to the world when a hundred and ninety nine people are suddenly gone?

There's a hole in the fabric of life, and it's one that no patch can fix.

The tam air crash is one that left parents without children.

It left children without parents.

It is a tragedy that stole sisters and brothers.

It stole the lives of children and grandchildren who will never be born.

Standing around courtrooms and boardrooms, there will be companies that talk about catastrophic loss of life--but those are only words.

What of those children who wake in the night, and cry for parents they will never see again? What of the wives and husbands who won't wash a shirt because it still bears the scent of their other half, who won't fluff a pillow because it still bears the shape of someone who will never sleep in that bed again?

There is no measure for the loss of a life. What is the measure of the loss of a hundred and ninety-nine lives?

You are gone, but not forgotten.

NTSB REPORT:

DCA07RA059
On July 17, 2007, at 21:54 UTC, an Airbus A320-233, Brazilian registration PTMBK, serial number 789, operated by TAM Linhas Aéreas overran the end of runway 35 at the Sao Paulo Congonhas airport upon landing. The airplane was on a scheduled domestic flight from Porto Alegre, Brazil. The airplane departed the runway to the left side near the departure end and crossed over a road prior to impacting a cargo depot and gas station. The end of the runway is on elevated terrain approximately 80 meters above the surface of the road. The 6 crew members, 162 passengers, and 18 persons on the ground suffered fatal injuries. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and fire.

This accident is being investigated by the Brazilian Aeronautical Accident Prevention and Investigation Center (CENIPA). The NTSB is assisting as state of manufacture of the IAE V2527 engines, and is providing flight data and cockpit voice recorder readouts at the request of the CENIPA Investigator in Charge.

Let Us Not Forget The Day

BRAZIL'S WORST-EVER AIR DISASTER

Is it just one year ago?

199 Dead in Sao Paulo Crash

199 people were killed in Brazil's worst plane crash, a product of a country with an inadequate air travel network that has been plagued by havoc.

Witness Paulo Carol imagined he was at the set of a Hollywood disaster film when right in front of his taxi, an airplane crossed six lanes of the Avenida Washington Luis. He and his passengers fled on foot.

The Airbus A-320 operated by the Brazilian airline TAM skidded off the runway after touching down-- and collided with cars and through a gas station before slamming into a TAM maintenance building. 180 deaths were passengers on the Airbus jet. More deaths included Tam employees in the building.

Luiz Santos who barely escaped the explosion, said "The airplane was coming right at me. I could hear the sound of the engines and then it exploded." His windows and the back end of his truck were shattered, but Santos and his passenger escaped.

Flight JJ 3054 left Porto Alegre at 5:16 p.m. and landed at Congonhas two hours later. The plane apparently touched down too far down the runway.

Accidents have made flying in South America dangerous to contemplate. Flight controllers are overworked, underpaid and untrained, and rely on aging and defective radar technology in the Amazon.

In September, a Gol airlines Boeing 737 collided with a private jet over the Amazon, killing 154. That investigation is ongoing.

The country's air travel infrastructure has been unable to keep up with Brazil's fast economic growth.

Helicopter Crashes in Arkansas; Two dead.

What: 1965 Hughes 269B registered to Ozark Mountain Helicopter and leased to leased to Show Me Power Co-op of Missouri. The helicopter was on a routine aerial survey/ inspection mission of the power lines and power system in the area of the Norfork Dam
Where: Baxter County Arkansas, Salesville/Norfork area (Jordan, Arkansas). The area was accessible only by all terrain vehicles.
When: Jul 15, 2008 between 9-9:30 a m
Who: Helicopter pilot James Dean Evertsen, 57, of West Plains, Missouri, and his passenger, Randall J. Arthur, 51, of Marshfield, Missouri was employed by Show-Me Electric co.. Neither man survived the crash
Why: As the helicopter descended, it clipped Entergy lines. The FAA arrived first; the NTSB is expected to arrive and begin their investigation tomorrow.

Creve Coeur Crash

What: small single-engine plane (experimental aircraft)
Where: in a cornfield near the Creve Coeur Airport
When: 07/14/2008 around noon
Who: unnamed pilot
Why: unknown. Plane flipped over during the crash. Pilot uninjured.

Chile Crash Kills 8 Adults and one Baby

General Hugo Pena co-ordinated the retrieval efforts of the crash in Chile in the outskirts of the southern Chilean city, Puerto Montt, 1,058 kilometres south of the capital Santiago.

The plane came down In a scrub area during windy, rainy weather and came to rest just past a cluster of several hundred houses in a wealthy neighborhood.

Sergio Galilea, governor of Los Lagos region went public with information earlier but aviation official Francisco Rogel (and others) will be continuing the investigation.

The 10 person capacity plane is a small Beechcraft 99A two engine passenger plane, owned by a company called Aerocord. There were nine individuals on board, including the pilot. All were fatalities.

The eight adults and one child were identified online by Patagonia Times as Gastón Alvarado Alvarado, his two-year-old son Maximiliano Alvarado González, Arsenio Rosales Zúñiga, Marcela Orellana Jara, Roberto Saavedra Araya, Claudio Fernández, Hernán Gallardo Palma, Nelson Clieb and Óscar Aguayo, the pilot. We offer condolences to the families in their time of grief.

The plane took off from La Paloma airstrip for its original destination, the Island of Melinka but it never arrived.

Five kilometres north-west of the airport, the plane fell from the sky. Witnesses on the ground reported seeing flames on the plane’s left wing before it crashed and burst into fire in a barren area (scrubs)

Further investigation is planned by aviation authorities to determine the cause of the crash.

This is the 3rd plane crash in southern Chile in the past few weeks.

On July 1 a Chilean Air Force plane crashed into a mountainside near Cochamó (Region X), killing all three crew members. The Twin Otter aircraft was on an instructional flight in the Los Lagos region when it ran into a set of power lines and careened into the side of a mountain (PT, July 3).


Three weeks earlier, July 9th, a Patagonia Airways flight went missing. Four days later, the downed plane was located. All nine of the plane’s passengers survived. The Cessna 208’s pilot survived the accident but died two days later – before rescuers arrived.

Official Accident description

• Status:Preliminary
  
• Date:10 JUL 2008
  
• Time:10:30
  
• Type:Beechcraft 99A
  
• Operator:Aerocord
  
• Registration:CC-CFM
  
• C/n / msn:U-145
  
• First flight:1971
  
• Crew:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
  
• Passengers:Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
  
• Total:Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
  
• Airplane damage:Destroyed
  
• Airplane fate:Written off (damaged beyond repair)
  
• Location:near Puerto Montt (Chile)
  
• Phase:Initial climb (ICL)
  
• Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger
  
• Departure airport:Puerto Montt-Marcel Marchant Airport (SCPF), Chile
  
• Destination airport:Melinka Airport (SCMK), Chile
  
• Narrative:Crashed and burned shortly after takeoff.
  

Mitchell Georgia plane crash and fatality

What: cropduster
Where: a field near Pelham
When: 10:00 AM Saturday morning
Who: 62-year-old Gifford Flynt
Why: his crop duster crashed in Fred B. Hand's pecan field just off Highway 93. Cause unknown. Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating

Montreal Crash

What: two-person seaplane
Where: Ste. Marthe 75 kilometres west of Montreal.
When: Sat July 12 1:20 pm
Who: no injuries
Why: under investigation

Bogota Crash on July 7

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What: Centurion Air Cargo Kalitta B742 registration N714CK took off runway 31L getting airborne at 3:58am local time.
Where:
When:
Who: 8 people on board. A woman from the farmhouse survived, but her husband and son were the only fatalities. Crew was transported to a Madrid, Colombia hospital.
Why:Twenty seconds after liftoff the crew radioed an emergency call stating, that engine #4 was on fire. The airplane initiated a left hand turn as by the published engine out procedure. Radio contact got lost afterwards. The airplane hit the wires along the highway triggering sparks, before it hit a farmhouse.

Plane crashes in Chile

What: Beechcraft 99A from La Paloma airstrip, headed for Melinka island
Where: 1,000 km south of capital Santiago, Chile, about 500 metres off a wealthy neighbourhood of Puerto Montt.
When: Thursday
Who: All nine passengers were killed.
Why: Witnesses say something was shaking in the plane’s left wing. The cause is not known.

Cessna 172 Emergency Landing in Ventura County

What: Cessna 172, originating from Santa Monica airport
Where: Tierra Rejada Valley field east of the 23 Freeway
When: 4:45 p.m. Wednesday
Who: Pilot and passenger were able to exit the plane without major injuries
Why: Not available. The plane flipped over while making an emergency landing.

emergency landing

What: Northwest Airlines DC-9 flying out of Minot
Where: Minot International Airport
When: 7/11/2008
Who: 76 passengers and four crew members on board.
Why:40 miles out of Minot the airplane experienced engine problems. Pilots shut down the engine and turned the plane around to land at Minot International Airport

Northumberland Helicopter Crash

What: Helicopter
Where: Cloverdale Marsh, Northumberland County, Virginia 5 miles south of Chesapeake Beach, Va.
When: July 11, 1:00 pm
Who: two passengers, currently not identified, They were transported to the Middlesex County Airport in Topping, Va., where they were turned over to awaiting EMS personnel for treatment.
Why: Virginia State Police, the Northumberland Sheriffs and the coast guard investigated and the NTSB will take over the investigation.

Bay Area Crash Update

What: Schweizer 269 helicopter
Where: Sheridan Road near Interstate 680
When: 12:30 a.m. July 4
Who: fatalities: Eugene Khenson, 39, from Santa Clara and Antony B.J. Zani, 27, from Palo Alto
Why: Crashed after clipping power lines.

Note:
The helicopter was destroyed in the crash and the men died at the scene. Their names were just released.

RAF Emergency landing on Playground

What: 2-tonne Chinook
Where: in Stoke by Clare, Suffolk
Who: 3 airmen
Why: Chopper hit a bird which caused the engine to catch fire.

After the Chinook landed, the 3 crewmen got out and asked locals for directions.

Another Chinook landed in the vicinity to deliver a mechanic. Both helicopters successfully returned to their base at RAF Wattisham.

Delta Emergency Landing

What: MD-88 -Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta
Where: Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport
When: Jul. 10, 2008
Who: 97 people on board
Why: Pilot shut down an engine and declaring an emergency. Engine temperature was above normal. The problem was caused by an oil leak.

Note: The flight landed safely and no one was injured

Missouri Crash with injuries

What: Cessna Skymaster
Where: Taney County Airport.
When: Sunday
Who: Owner/pilot Gary Grandpre and wife
Why: lost power during takeoff; briefly airborne before falling back to the runway and blowing out a tire, then skidding 800 feet and off the end of the runway.

Fact:
* the second Skymaster crash in the past month

Does Skymaster design make it more difficult to fly if you lose power?

Fatal Plane Crash in Tennessee River

What: Amphibian Freedom S-100 and the tail number is N4450E. A light sport aircraft made by Colyaer registered to LSA Arrow of Tanner.
Where: near Lucas Ferry Road in the Tennessee River in Limestone County.
When: 2:30 pm
Who: James Don Langford of Huntsville, age 61 and Anthony Kane Baker from New York, age 65.
Why: no information available

Border Control Emergency Landing

What: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Cessna Citation jet
Where: Grand Forks airport
When: 9 a.m.
Who: Customs agency did not release how many people were on board the plane
Why: Smoke in the cabin

Second American Airlines Emergency in a week

What: Flight 1767 MD-80 was bound for Palm Springs, Calif
Where: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
When: 2:30 p.m
Who: There were 123 passengers
Why: pilot noticed a problem with equipment that helps keep the plane stable

Kalispell Plane Crash

What: small passenger plane
Where: in a horse corral south of the Kalispell City Airport near Ashley Creek.
When: early Tuesday afternoon
Who: two unnamed passengers were pulled (alive) from the wreckage
Why: No information available.

Mexican crash kills US Pilot, copilot survives

What: USA Jet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC 9
Where: Saltillo Airport in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, 200 miles south of the United States-Mexico border.
When: Sunday, July 6,
Who: pilot Lon McIntosh. Co-pilot Chris James survived but is hospitalized.
Why: plane struck power lines during its descent.

Emergency Landing near Lancaster airport

What: Beechcraft V35B Bonanza single-engine fixed-wing plane that can seat up to six people and is distinguished by its V-tail design. The plane that crashed was manufactured in 1972. registered to Franklin B. Becker of Phillipsburg, N.J.
Where: Warwick Township cornfield near Lancaster Airport.
When: 3 p.m
Who: unnamed pilot
Why: Lost power when pilot switched fuel tanks for landing

BOGOTA Columbia Crash

What: 747-200 cargo plane
Where: near Bogota
When: Monday
Who: 8 crew members survived, 3 fatalities, including a 14 year old boy sleeping in the house where the plane crashed
Why: a fire in one of the plane's jet engines

Update

• one member of the American crew remains in critical condition
  
• Joseph Kendall is under observation with a head injury and has had his spleen removed
  
• three other crew members remain hospitalized
  
• Steve Szynkowski had spinal surgery
  
• four crew members have been treated and released
  
• This is the 2nd Boeing 747 operated by Kalitta Air to crash in six weeks.
  

Delta MD-88 Emergency Landing

What: Delta Airlines MD-88
Where: GSP
When: Tuesday evening
Who: 96 passengers
Why:one of the plane’s engine was suffering an oil leak.

This seems to coincide with a new FAA directive.

The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering U.S. airlines to conduct safety inspections to look for cracking on overwing frames on certain MD-80 series aircraft.

American Airlines Emergency Landing

What: Flight 1257 MD-80 owned by American Airlines out of Indianapolis.
Where: Little Rock Arkansas
When: just after 3:30 p.m
Who: The 127 passengers and five crew
Why: Smoke in the cockpit caused the pilot to report an emergency and have a safe landing in Little Rock National Airport.

The light haze of smoke dissipated after the pilot shut down the cockpit's electrical system and depressurized the plane's cabin and depressurized. The plane has been taken out of circulation. Passengers were placed on a second plane but ironically, this plane was one of 56 that had to to be diverted because of storms.

Missing Piper Cherokee

What: small Piper Cherokee in Carbon County
Where: 40 miles from Price near the Green River
When: 12:40 p.m
Who: unknown
Why: The crash site has not been located yet

Experimental Plane Fatality in Broward County

What: Single-engine experimental Lancair aircraft using a 400-horsepower high-performance Corvette engine, taken from a car.
Where: North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines. Landed on a fence separating North Perry Airport from nearby tennis courts.
When: 6 pm
Who: pilot Douglas A. Pohl
Why: There was engine trouble immediately after takeoff, then the plane crashed and burned. The plane has a history of a fuel delivery problem (c. about a month ago)

*Update Authorities believe the pilot was trying to return to the runway when the plane clipped a fence surrounding a nearby tennis court. A witness said "He was at 50 feet, wing stalled, started coming over to the left hand, the left side and after that he just kept coming on around. He was upside down and came straight down.""

Careflight Chopper Makes Emergency Landing

What: St. Mary's Careflight
Where: Fruita Monument high school
When: 11 o'clock
Why:drop in hydraulic pressure

* Note: Mechanics added hydraulic fluid and the helicopter was flown to St Marys where it received an inspection.

Sky Harbor Emergency Landing

What: Gulfstream Jet
Where: Sky Harbor Airport
When: Monday afternoon
Who: Not listed.
Why: Emergency called due to a blown tire. After 30 minutes circling to burn off fuel, when landing, the right-rear landing gear smoked and shredded. The nose gear hit the tarmac.

Emergency Landing for Obama

The Midwest Airlines chartered MD-80 carrying Barack Obama to Charlotte, N.C. was diverted to Missouri for an emergency landing. Press secretary Jen Psaki, Obama said "Well, you know, anytime a pilot says something's not working the way it's supposed to, you make sure you tighten your seat belt. Everything seemed under control... the pilots knew what they were doing."

The emergency was that an emergency slide located in the tail cone of the plane deployed while the plane was in flight.

Alternative travel arrangements were made for Senator Obama to reach his destination.

The National Transportation Safety Board plans to investigate.

Helicopter Missing in Japan

What: Helicopter
Where: disappeared off the coast of Japan's Aomori prefecture
When: Sunday July 6
Who: An announcer and a cameraman from the Asahi Broadcasting Aomori and other passengers

Fayette County Crash and Fatality

What: Cessna owned by Vectair USA
Where: Rossville, Tennessee near Knox Road and Highway 57, 15 miles from the Olive Branch Mississippi airport
When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday
Who: 48-year-old FedEx pilot Ward Severts of Boise, Idaho--a vet recently returned from Afghanistan
Why: Authorities discovered the crash after receiving a "mayday" call from the plane.. National Transportation Safety Board will be in Fayette County tomorrow to start their leg of the investigation.

Copenhagen Emergency Landing

What: Boeing 737-300 Norwegian Air Shuttle
Where: Kastrup Airport
When: Saturday
Who: 120 passengers
Why: Engine malfunction. Observing a high oil temperature, the pilot turned off the left engine and made an emergency landing at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport. There were no injuries.

Passengers returned to Oslo later Saturday on another flight

7th Fatality Precedes Memorial Service

What: Bell 407 helicopter operated by Air Methods out of Englewood, Colo.
What: Bell 407 helicopter operated by Classic Helicopters of Woods Cross, Utah.
Where: Flagstaff Medical Center
When: Sunday
Who:Air Methods: 3 fatalities, including a patient;
Classic Helicopters: 3 fatalities plus one critical injury-- pilot, paramedic and patient died. Flight nurse in critical condition
two emergency ambulance ground crew suffered burns. Names not released.
Why: Flagstaff Medical Center doesn't have flight controllers.

* UPDATE- On Friday afternoon, the only survivor of the crash, James Taylor, was taken off life support and died some time later. Taylor was a registered nurse at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City.

A memorial service for the people who died in the collision is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Pine Mountain Amphitheater in Flagstaff. It will be open to the public and media.

Emergency Landing off of Seal Beach

What: single engine plane
Where: on the water off Seal Beach
When: Friday
Who: the pilot
Why: Not available

The pilot was towing a banner when he landed on the water off of the coastal community south of Long Beach. His specific emergency is not known.

British Plane Grounded For Curry

What: British Airways jet,
Where: emergency landing in Belgrade
When:
Who: All passengers were evacuated via emergency chutes
Why: poison gas, alternately described in the media as "horrible" and "a sickening smell"

* Note- after crews examined the plane for poison gas, it turned out to be a broken container of curry spices.

Helicopter fatalities in Alameda County

What: Schweizer 269C helicopter owned by Quadrus Inc., a catering and conference center in Menlo Park
Where: Sheridan Road between Fremont and Sunol
When: 12:32 a.m
Who: fight instructor and student were killed
Why: Aircraft hit 60,000-volt power transmission lines and caught fire. Cloudy weather conditions but not raining.

After hitting the electrical wires, power lines were knocked into traffic lanes, and the burning helicopter ignited a 5 acre grass fire.

Go-round go round

The go round--resulting from heavy traffic-- is a maneuver practiced in US airports. Just how safe is it?

Middleton Piper Crashes

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What: PA-28 Piper
Where: Newport
When: Thursday evening
Who: 3 occupants: Charles Thompson (flight instructor). Pamela Lancaster (a Newport bed and breakfast owner), and Keith Ulich (her husband pilot who was getting his license) Ulrich is the only survivor, and he is in critical condition in a local hospital.
Why: PA-28 Piper engine failed

777 survives Emergency Landing in Milan

What: Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration AP-BHX
Where: landing at Milan's Malpensa Airport en route from Paris CDG airport to Lahore, via Milan
When: on Jul 2nd 2008
Who: 80 passengers on board
Why: unspecified damage in clear air turbulences

Siberian crash kills 9

What: Mi-8 helicopter operated by civilian airline UT-Air
Where: Oil-rich Yamalo-Nenets region of northwest Siberia
When: Wednesday
Who: 16 people were on board including 3 crew members; nine fatalities
Why: No cause listed. helicopter caught fire after crashing en route from the city of Noyabrsk to the Varginskoye oil field.

Emergency landing

What: single-engine 1980 Beechcraft A36 Bonanza on approach to Pontiac Municipal Airport
Where: Livingston County on Interstate 55 southbound at milepost 214 1/2 near Dwight.
When: 5:52 p.m
Who: pilot Larry D. Kerr, flight instructor, Robert M. Jones and passenger, Robert S. Deckerd
Why: engine problems during its approach to Pontiac Airport

The plane suffered minor damage to the right wing after it struck a mile marker. Two semi-trailer truck drivers stopped traffic so that the plane could land safely.

Oakland Plane crash-landing

What: Cessna 172, part of the Flying Vikings, based at the Hayward Executive Airport
Where: in a vacant lot about 30 feet from the West Grand Avenue ramp to the bridge toll plaza,
When: 12:50 p.m. Monday
Who: pilot Richard Liu and traffic reporter, identified as Alan Brooks,
Why:oil pressure plummeted and the motor seized up

KCBS radio traffic reporter and pilot forced to crash land in a quarry when the plane fails. No fatalities

Yet Another crash in the Sudan

What: Ilyushin Il-76 cargo jetliner belonging to Ababiel
Where: Less than half a mile from Sudan's Khartoum International Airport.
When: after takeoff
Who: 4 Russian crewmembers killed
Why: under investigation. Plane appeared to have careered across a major road and exploded in an open space near an office building

• The crash is the fourth Sudanese air crash, and the second one this week.
  
  
• Friday a Juba Air Cargo Antonov An-12 crash killed seven of 8..
  
  
• Twenty-seven including two Southern Sudanese ministers were killed in another crash.
  
  
• Sudan Airways lost a plane at Khartoum International, with at least 30 dead. Sudan Airways was grounded over safety failings.
  

Helicopter Strikes Power Lines and Burns

What: Schweizer 269 helicopter owned by a San Mateo-based company
Where: Sheridan Road between Fremont and Sunol
When: 12:32 a.m
Who: fight instructor and student were killed
Why: Aircraft hit power lines and caught fire. Cloudy weather conditions but not raining.

The burning helicopter ignited a 5 acre grass fire.

Emergency landing: O'hare airport

What: Nippon Airways Boeing 777 cargo plane
Where: O'Hare airport
When: 12:15 p.m.
Who: No injuries
Why:engine malfunction (Possibly birds in the intake) Prior to landing, the plane dumped its fuel over Lake Michigan

Medical helicopter collision:

What: Bell 407 helicopter operated by Air Methods out of Englewood, Colo.
What: Bell 407 helicopter operated by Classic Helicopters of Woods Cross, Utah.
Where: Flagstaff Medical Center
When: Sunday
Who:Air Methods: 3 fatalities, including a patient;
Classic Helicopters: 3 fatalities plus one critical injury-- pilot, paramedic and patient died. Flight nurse in critical condition
two emergency ambulance ground crew suffered burns. Names not released.
Why: Flagstaff Medical Center doesn't have flight controllers.

Vegas Crash

What: single-engine Piper Cherokee en route from the North Las Vegas airport to Byron, Calif.
Where: Las Vegas Nevada
When: 2:45 p.m Saturday
Who: 4 people. Four Oakley residents, including a candidate for Contra Costa County supervisor (Erik Nunn and wife) and their neighbors Michele and Craig Wilson.
Why: Struck power lines.under investigation by the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board. Subsequent wildfire burns Spring Mountain Recreation Area

• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/29/BAKA11HA3Q.DTL
  
• http://halfwaytoconcord.com/erik-nunn-dies-in-nevada-plane-crash
  
• http://claycord.blogspot.com/2008/06/eric-nunn-dies-in-nevada-plane-crash.html
  
• http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6236203

Alabama Crash

What: twin-engine plane bound for for Gulf Shores on the Alabama coast
Where: north Alabama, near Jasper
Who: Jasper car dealer, his wife and son, and an Iowa woman -- 19-year-old Lauren Brue of West Des Moines, a student at the University of Alabama, all fatalities
Why: n/a

Helicopter Crash: Guatemala

What: Departing from Guatemala City bound for the northern jungle region of Peten
Where: north of the Guatemalan capital, near the small town of Senahu
When:
Who: All four people aboard the aircraft were killed, including Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez, deputy interior minister, Edgar Umana, the plane's pilot and co-pilot.
Why:Bad weather

Emergency Landing: Alabama

What: Single-engine, four-seat plane
Where: En route from Destin . Eight miles from refueling in Gadsden, Ala.
When: n/a
Who: Pilot Lexington Police Officer Don Evan, and wife, Rick Paynter, and Paynter's wife
Why: vibrations, and there was a smell of burnt oil

Crash: Oceanside Updated

What: 2006 Cessna 172S four-seater based at Montgomery Field in San Diego and had initially flown to Long Beach; and apparently headed back when it crashed. The craft is registered to San Diego Flight Training International Inc., which is owned by San Diego City Council candidate Phil Thalheimer.
Where: more than a mile off of the coast of Oceanside. En route-flew from Montgomery Field in Kearny Mesa to Long Beach Airport
When: June 22. Reported at 5:11 p.m
Who: 3 Mexican citizens on board, passenger with a broken leg transported to hospital, search for the other two passengers called off at 9:00 because of heavy fog; all young pilots in training. The dead were pilot Alejandro Jimenez-Zatarain and passenger Rodrigo Navarro. The San Diego Union Tribune learned the names through Oceanside Department of Harbor and Beaches and a California Public Records Act request after authorities refused to release the information.
Why: Preliminary investigation has shown that the pilot may have been unable to get out of a spin that he had intentionally entered. Not known.

Emergency Landing: Ohio River

What: Small, privately owned aircraft
Where: Emergency landing on the Ohio River near Carrollton, Kentucky,
When: Late Wednesday morning
Who: Glen Moorman and two passengers
Why: Unknown problem currently under investigation.

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Cessna Crash on Kent Island

What: white 2001 Cessna 172SP Skyhawk
Where: Kent Island, Bay Bridge Airport in Stevensville in Queen Anne's County
When: 5:30 p.m
Who: Pilot, Matthew Parrish Partovi, 42, of Annapolis and passenger David James Miller, 23,
Why:skidded off the runway while landing. FAA has not published a report yet.

Piper emergency landing

What: 1959 Piper
Where: on U.S. Highway 191 north of Vernal. The incident occurred just north of Steinaker Reservoir
When: 8 a.m. Wednesday
Who: Bart Hyde, 45, of Layton, was flying the plane with his son 17-year-old Austin Hyde
Why:The results of the NTSB report have not been released.

Injuries were not due to landing but to collision with semis hauling gravel. The pilot had injuries to his face and the passenger had an injured arm.