Cracked Windshield in Philly

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Contact photographer Brad Harris
What: US Airways/PSA Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 50-seat commuter jet registration# N246PS en route from Philadelphia to Wilkes-Barre
Where: Philadelphia International Airport.
When: Mar 3rd 2009
Why: The cockpit window cracked at 13000 feet so the plane returned to the airport to land safely.

Air Traffic Controllers Audio Released

4 Marine Corps officers have lost their jobs. 9 individuals are being disciplined. The audio is damning, but who does it damn?

What: F/A-18 Military Jet from the carrier Abraham Lincoln landing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramir
Where: San Diego neighborhood
When: DEC 8
Who: the pilot, who was part of a training squadron, ejected. He had been aiming the plane at a deserted canyon to avoid homes and the 805 Freeway. 4 Individuals in the house are dead. The pilot has been transported to Balboa Naval Hospital
Update: F/A-18 Crash in San Diego

Tallahassee: Update on Plane Cockpit Fire

What: Delta Connection carrier Canadian Regional Jet 200 Flight 5563 Registration 830AS Destination Atlanta
Where: Tallahassee Regional Airport
When: 02/28/2009
Who: 47 passengers
Why: At the Tallahassee Regional airport at the gate, the pilot reported a fire in the cockpit.

Delta Cockpit Fire

Safe Belly Landing in Canada

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Contact photographer Gary C. Orlando
What: Perimeter Swearingen SA-226TC Metro, registration C-FSLZ en route from from Sainte Therese Point to Winnipeg Canada
Where: James Richardson International Airport
When: 3 March 2009 12:15 p.m.
Who: 2 crew members, 8 passengers
Why: The landing gear would not go down, so the crew had to take a belly landing. There were no injuries.

Airport safety

German Airbus Flies to Seattle on One Engine

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Contact photographer Anne Deus
What: Lufthansa Airbus A330-300, registration D-AIKE en route from Frankfurt/Main to Seattle,WA
Where: Seattle Washington
When: Sunday, Mar 01, 2009
Why: When the pilot reported the loss of power in one engine, the flight assumed a lower altitude and continued on one engine to Seattle to land without a problem an hour later.

Flight Aware

Cabin Pressure Issue on Boeing 757

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Contact photographer Michael Brazier
What: Boeing 757-200, G-LSAA operating a Charter flight LS2113 en route from Manchester Airport to Taba, Egypt
Where: Athens
When: Monday afternoon Mar 2 at 3:40 p.m
Who: about 192 passengers
Why: The flight made "a controlled, rapid descent" when the pilot noted a problem with the cabin air pressure. About half a dozen passengers--including a child--were taken for medical evaluation. A Boeing 757-200, G-LSAH from Manchester was sent to pick up the marooned travelers.

Piper Emergency Landing in Jerez

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Contact photographer Paulo Carvalho
What: Piper PA-28-161 Warrior III registration EC-IYU en route from JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA
Where: two miles northwest of the JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA runway 20
When: 8. FEB-2009
Who: pilot
Why: A pilot's training flight was interrupted at 1:30 when he had to make an emergency landing two miles from the airport. He was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.

Canadair Emergency Landing at Santander-Intl

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Contact photographer Alejandro Hdez Leon
What: Canadair BOMBARDIER CRJ-200ER registration EC-IKZ en route from Madrid to Santander-Intl
Where: Santander-Intl
When: 24. Feb.2009
Who: 44 passengers, 4 crew
Why: One engine apparently flamed out on approach. Another report said both engines flamed out and one was restarted. The CL-600-2B19 Regional jet made a safe landing on runway 11.

Mooney Crash on the Roy Hayer Memorial Speedway

Pictured: a Mooney M-20E
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Contact photographer Tony Zeljeznjak
What: MOONEY M20E registered to David Michaud
Where: on the west side of Rio Linda airport, Sacramento Ca, Roy Hayer Memorial Speedway
When: 02/28/2009
Who: 2 on board were fatally injured
Why: The Mooney M2OE crashed on the west side of Rio Linda Airport . On crashing on the speedway, the plane caught fire. The plane's owner, Dave Michaud, was an on-call reserve deputy, formerly a C-5 Flight Engineer in the 301st Airlift Squadron at Travis.

Update: Turkish Boeing Crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport

Minutes before the Turkish Airlines Boeing crashed at at 10:26 am, a Northwest Airlines Boeing 757 landed, leaving behind a trail of "wake turbulence." Just as a speedboat moving in water leaves a dramatic ripple of water, a jet leaves a deadly invisible "wake" behind. If this is indeed what happened to the Turkish Airlines jet, then the control tower is at fault for scheduling the flights too close together. (The Turkish Airlines jet was following only four miles behind.) Records show that the Northwest flight landed at 10:24 a.m.



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Contact photographer Joop Stroes - Global Aviation Photography
What: Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 (TC-JGE) Flight 1951 en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam.
Where: Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
When: 10:40 a.m. Wednesday Feb 25
Who: 135 passengers on board; eight crew members. (numbers vary)
Why: The plane crashed as it approached the runway to land. Witnesses say the approach was too low and the pilot tried to go higher to avoid crashing into the A-19 (hwy.) The wreckage is in three pieces lying in a field next to the runway; emergency crews are tending injured passengers on site. The cockpit was intact, adn the fuselage broke at the wings.There was an immediate report of one fatality which was later denied. There were at least 20 injured and at least 50 survivors. Another report estimated the majority of the passengers are injured. (Sorry the numbers don't mesh, but this is the news as it came in--) There was no fire. Fights to and from Schiphol were suspended temporarily after the crash.

The number of deceased has been increased to 9.

More than 80 suffered injury.

25 suffered "serious" injury.
6 are hospitalized in critical condition.

Numbers corrected (again): 127 passengers 7 crew.

According to various passenger accounts, prior to the crash, twelve minutes to the scheduled landing, the plane was flying low, and an announcement was made that the plane was landing. (No announcement was made that the plane was in an emergency.) Immediately on landing, those who were able left the plane, and when there was no fire, they went back in and pulled the others out, especially in the front of the plane, where there was screaming. Outside help arrived within 20-25 minutes.

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Louisiana Cessna Crash Kills 3 from Mississippi

What: Cessna 182 en route from Slidell, La., to Marksville, La.
Where: in a wooded area west of Independence, La., near the town of Albany.
When: went down just before midnight Friday Feb 28, 2009
Who: Passengers were 39-year-old Tabitha Dolbare, of Vancleave, Miss.; 39-year-old Glyn Ray Johnson, of Gautier, Miss.; and their son Nelson Dolbare, 13, of Vancleave.
Why: After the plane disappeared from radar about 11:50 p.m., Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office received phone calls that they heard an engine sputtering and a plane crash. The plane crashed in a heavily wooded unpopulated area not long after takeoff. Rescuers had difficulty getting to the wreckage and were assisted in their search with the use of thermal imaging equipment and a search light.

Saab Lands with Stuck Landing Gear

Pictured: Carpatair Saab in flight
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Contact photographer Bogdan Pop
What: Carpatair Saab 2000 en route from the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, to Timisoara in Rumania
Where: emergency landing at Timisoara International Airport in Western Romania
When: Feb 28, 2009
Who: 51 people-47 passengers, 4 crew.
Why: Six miles from the airport, the crew discovered that the plane's landing gear was stuck. After the flight circled for two hours burning fuel, the plane landed safely on the main landing gear on a 200-yard long bed of foam. No injuries were reported.

Carpatair vice-president Dan Andrei is reported to have said, "When it landed, the plane came down on the side wheels; it braked sharply and at a low speed it came on its front belly, while the front landing gear remained stuck."


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Homebuilt Crash in Torrance

What: TOLAND S/THORNBURGH J TWIN 503SL Glider owned by SURE FLIGHT INC
Where: Torrance Airport
When: 02/27/2009
Who: Two men were injured in the crash
Why: The homebuilt "experimental class"ultralight was taxiing on a ramp at Torrance Airport when it clipped a parked aircraft and went airborne up to approximately 100 feet; the flight crashed off the runway fatally injuring at least one passenger.

Fokker 100 Loses Tire, Lands Safely in Montenegro

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Contact photographer LuckyStar
What: Montenegro Airlines Fokker 100 en route from Podgorica Montenegro to Rome
Where: emergency landing in Podgorica Montenegro
When: Friday Feb 27
Who: 33 people on board (28 passengers 5 crew)
Why: The plane took off for Rome at 8:55 a.m but when a wheel on the left side of the main undercarriage fell off, the crew dumped fuel in the Adriatic sea (or Skadarsko Lake), and returned to Podgorica thirty minutes later for a safe landing.

Helicopter Crashes in Africa

What: bright-orange helicopter
Where: between the Carnival City Casino and the Rondebult offramp, (beside the road) Boksburg
When: 10.30am
Who: two injured were both men aged between 30 and 40.
Why: The crash is under investigation. Witnesses say the helicopter "fell like a rock."

One was treated by ER24 and taken to Glynnwood Hospital in Benoni; the other suffered head injuries and was treated by paramedics; he was placed on advanced life support and ported to the Netcare Union Hospital in Alberton.

Boeing 737 Emergency Landing in Volgograd

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Contact photographer Snorre - VAP
What: Orenburg Airlines Boeing 737-400, registration VP-BGQ en route from Volgograd (Russia) to Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt)
Where: emergency landing at Domodedovo Airport
When: Thursday, Feb 26th 2009
Who: with 142 passengers, 7 crew
Why: On takeoff, the plane hit a runway edge light with its inner left main gear tire which resulted in destruction of the inner tire and hydraulics. The flight spent two hours burning fuel and eventually landed at Volgograd.

Is this the same plane described here, as being
"Boeing-747 passenger liner en route from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates to Orenburg." ?

OR is it the flight described as flying from Volgograd (Russia) to Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) ?

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No incident in Miramar

What: Navy FA-18 fighter jet doing flight operations
Where: MCAS Miramar
When: Tuesday night 9 p.m
Why: When the jet ran low on fuel, the pilot was directed to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which meant flying over Allied Gardens. The sight and sound of a jet flying low over the neighborhood brought back a panicked response, a reminder of an identical jet which killed people on the ground a few months ago in University City. Although the jet landed safely, the still-recovering neighborhood was catapulted back into a terror response--although the jet was completely in control the entire time.

Without wanting to sound too harsh, one hopes that San Diego recalls there is a military base and planes will be flying there when need be. There was no actual incident. Should they have ditched the jet in the bay rather than safely fly over? Then someone would have been complaining about the cost of a ditched FA-18. Be happy.

Emergency Outback Landing

View from a Cessna 172S Skyhawk SPIn Flight in Australia's Northern Territory,
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Contact photographer Stuart JR
What: Cessna 182 on an inspection
Where: Northern Territory outback.
When: Wednesday night feb 25
Who: Pilot and passenger
Why: The Cessna's pilot made an emergency landing when the plane experienced emergency problems. Rescue crews found the stranded pilot and passenger and flew them by helicopter to Elliot; the passenger was taken to Elliot Health clinic with a facial cut. The pilot was uninjured.