Emergency: Northwest flight 332

What: Northwest flight 332 B-757 flying from Los Angeles to Detroit
Where: Las Vegas
When: Monday May 12 2008 Time: 1610
Who:
Why: 3-foot-by 2-foot section of the wing flew off and struck the plane's horizontal stabilizer. Possibly related to hydraulics. But in the last ten years, the NTSB only investigated one other similar in-flight incident on a US Airways plane. Following that incident, US Airways inspected the wing panels on all of their 757s and found similar issues. The FAA says the wing panel fastening system on the 757 was redesigned in the1980s after repeated problems.

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: NWA332 Make/Model: B757 Description: B-757
Date: 05/12/2008 Time: 1610
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Minor
LOCATION
City: LAS VEGAS State: NV Country: US
DESCRIPTION
NWA FLIGHT 332 DIVERTED TO LAS VEGAS DUE TO A MISSING PANEL AND HYDRAULIC
ISSUE. POST FLIGHT INSPECTION REVEALED A PANEL 3 FT X 2 FT CAME OFF THE
RIGHT WING AND STRUCK THE HORIZONAL STABILIZER. LAS VEGAS, NV
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
WEATHER: UNK
OTHER DATA
Activity: Business Phase: Descent Operation: OTHER

FAA FSDO: LAS VEGAS, NV (WP19) Entry date: 05/13/2008

Piper Super Cub makes emergency landing

What: Piper Super Cub aircraft
Where: Wasaga Beach, County Road 92
When: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Who:Pilot and passenger
Why:lost power to its propellor in mid-flight

What: Mi-8 helicopter taking employees of Ukrainian gas company headed for an offshore drilling rig.
Where: KIEV, Ukraine, Black Sea
When: Monday 0630 GMT April 28, 2008
Who: 19 dead, 1 survivor (survivor may have died of injuries, insufficient data)
Why: Apparently pilot error. While trying to land helicopter's tail hit the Tavrida platform.

Med Flight Helicopter crash

What: American Eurocopter EC13 Med Flight helicopter
Where: La Crosse Wisconsin after dropping off a patient at medical facility
When: 10:48 p.m. Saturday
Who: surgeon, nurse and pilot surgeon Darren Bean, nurse Mark Coyne and pilot Steve Lipperer.
Why:Helicopter appeared to have struck a hill or some trees.


Slideshow of crash photos

Helicopter Crash: Alberta

What: Bell 206 Jet Ranger
Where: 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of Calgary, Alberta
When: Tue, May. 13, 2008
Who: Pilot, 2 passengers and pedestrian; Pilot: Edward William Kyle Heeb, Passengers: Dirk Bentley Rozenboom, Robert William Lehmann; pedestrian:Isiah Otieno,
Why: Engine cut out and it fell 98 feet. Cause is under investigation.

Crop Dusting Fatality

What: 1995 Air Tractor, model AT502B Crop dusting plane
Where: Wheatley in St. Francis County Arkansas
When: Wednesday May 14
Who: Pilot Michael Poe of Forrest City, Arkansas. Poe's father died during a plane accident in 2005.
Why:Plane lost power and went down nose-first pilot was dropping fertilizer on a rice field. Federal Aviation Administration is investigating

Plane lands on another plane

In Denton Texas, a white piper was coming in for a landing, and landed piggyback on a small red that was waiting to take off. The small airport has no control tower. Pilots are supposed to announce their locations on a special radio frequency.



Pix here



Video here

Emergency Landing: Brandon Twp.

What: Four-seat, single-propeller Archer plane
Where: Clarkston Lakes Mobile Home Park in the 3900 block of Azela Court. Brandon township
When: May 13, 2008, 5:11 p.m.
Who: pilot
Why: drop in fuel pressure

Emergency Landing: Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing

What: Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing
Where: Prague's Ruzyne international airport
When: 1400 local time, 21 minutes after taking off from the Czech capital for Oslo.
Who: 131 passengers
Why:alarm signaled fire in plane's auxiliary power unit

Emergency Landing: Air Transat Emergency Landing

What: Air Transat flight 477 quarantined on the runway
Where: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
When: March 5th 2008
Who: (2 children 6 adults
Why: 245 passengers and nine crew members cleared, 8 sick passengers )-all family members who had eaten together earlier.

Emergency Landing: Shannon Airport

What: A British Airways Boeing 747 from Heathrow Airport to San Francisco
Where: Shannon Airport
When: April 5
Who: 347 people aboard ( 328 passengers)
Why:Emergency concerning the hydraulic system

Emergency landing: Shannon Airport

What: The Continental Airline flight en route from Barcelona to the US
Where: Shannon Airport
When: May 9 2008 5:00
Who: 135 people
Why: engine trouble

What: United Airlines Flight 232 Denver to Chicago.
Where: Sioux City, Iowa,
When: July 18, 1989
Who: 184 survivors of 296
Why:No. 2 engine failed.


http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1054864.html

Emergency Landing: Fed Ex Kalamazoo

What: Small Cessna 208 Fed Ex plane carrying cargo from Traverse City to the Gerald R. Ford Airport in Grand Rapids
Where: Kalamazoo, MI
When: 8:45 p.m May 9 2008
Who: Pilot
Why: Pilot advised that several warning lights activated and the engine lost power.

Emergency Unplanned Landing in Lake Travis

What: For-hire Helicoptor with inflatable landing gear
Where: Lake Travis, Austin Texas
When: Saturday, May 10 2008
Who: 2 passengers
Why: Capsized after Its rotor touched the water

Emergency Landing: Memphis International Airport

What: Delta Flight 4230
Where: Memphis International Airport
When: April 8 2008
Who: 75 passengers
Why: Engine trouble. (Witness reports flames from left engine)

Emergency Landing: Fargo, N.D

What: Compass Airlines flight 2040 Embraer 175 out of Minneapolis
Where: Fargo, N.D
When: Thurs May 8 2008 10:44 p.m. A.M.
Who: 72 passengers 4 crew
Why: Fire broke out in a bathroom on board. (electrical)
Details: From 30,000 feet to touchdown in eight minutes



Video link: http://www.kxmb.com/video.asp?ArticleId=236622&VideoId=19607

For More Details:

• http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=5826f4f0-3288-4c2d-8e54-3ba4afb3c6bd
  
• http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByFlight.do?airlineCode=CP&flightNumber=2040&departureDate=2008-05-09&utm_source=airlineInformationAndStatus&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=co-op
  
• http://wcco.com/local/flight.bathroom.fire.2.718732.html
  
• http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3829031
  

Two Crashes: Louisville KY

Back yard Crash in Louisville KY.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/NEWS01/804080425/1008/NEWS01

Who: Richard Shenk
What: Cessna 210 Centurion
Where: East Louisville neighborhood
When: May 4
Why: Under Investigation

* Note regarding details:
We have been notified that these are two different crashes. (See comment below.) In the crash in the video there was no fire and the plane took off from a nearby airstrip. The Courier journal article about Shenk states his flight originated in Colorado and he was severely burned. We thank our readers for keeping us on target.

Emergency Landing: Luray

What: Piper Saratoga single engine
Where: Near Luray Caverns Airport
When: May 6 around 6:30 p.m
Who: Pilot, Carroll Sanders, Jr., from West Point, and passenger Myrna Titus, of Harrisonburg, were not injured in the landing.
Why: Engine trouble

Emergency landing on water

Emergency landing on water. No details. View at your own risk. We assume no sunbathers or fish were harmed while filming.