Five people were injured. Two passengers and one flight attendant were taken to area hospitals in Reno for treatment. A warning had been issued earlier that day by the National Weather Service informing that a strong winter storm moving into the region would potentially cause dangerous flying conditions and extreme turbulence.
The pilot was killed. A nearby house, the site of a Super Bowl party, bore the brunt of the crash and subsequent fire. Four people were killed.
Two others were taken to the hospital for burn injuries and one of the firefighters injured his ankle while responding to the emergency. Lion Air Flight JT , carrying passengers, six crew members and two pilots, crashed into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia.
All people aboard the plane, including several children, were killed in the tragedy. According to AirNav Indonesia, the agency that oversees air traffic control, Suneja did not indicate that there was an emergency.
Fifteen Marines and a Navy corpsman are dead following a Mississippi KCT plane crash that occurred in the northern part of the state during a transportation flight. Some of the military service members on board have been identified publicly by friends and families, but the military has yet to release a full list of names.
It is believed to be the worst Marine plane crash since Passengers aboard an Aeroflot flight from Moscow were left with serious injuries after their plane encountered heavy turbulence about an hour before they were scheduled to land in Bangkok on May 1.
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Also killed in the tragic international plane accident were team coaches, journalists and other guests. This month in Alaska, two fatal plane crashes claimed the lives six people. On August 13, the pilot of a small plane was killed when his plane crashed near Birchwood Airport in Chugiak. Then weeks later on August 31, two small planes collided in western Alaska, killing five people. Investigators are piecing together what caused both crashes. Authorities are currently investigating two fatal plane crashes that occurred in the state of Alaska in recent days.
The first crash happened on April 8, just south of Juneau. The second, an Anchorage plane crash, was just reported today. A Tennessee helicopter crash killed five people on Monday afternoon. The fatal crash was reported at around p.
A SkyLife medical helicopter transporting a patient to a central California hospital crashed in heavy fog on Thursday night, killing all four people on board. Officials say the medical helicopter was transporting a patient from Porterville Municipal Airport to the San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, a flight that should take roughly 10 minutes under normal circumstances. It took officials roughly 90 minutes to reach the site of the crash, as fog and darkness hampered search and rescue attempts.
At around p. The pilot, along with the flight nurse, flight paramedic, and the patient were all confirmed dead at the scene by emergency responders. The victims have not been identified, pending notification of next of kin. The company has been providing air medical transportation for critically ill trauma and medical patients since SkyLife transports an estimated 1, patients annually from airports in Fresno and Visalia.
Officials have said the SkyLife helicopter was staffed by a seasoned flight crew that had been working together for some time.
The company is still working to inform the families of all the victims. A mid-air collision between a U. Air Force F Fighting Falcon and a Cessna killed the passenger and pilot of the smaller single-engine airplane.
The fatal crash was reported on Tuesday morning at around a. The pilot of the fighter jet, Major Aaron Johnson, safely ejected from his aircraft and did not sustain any serious injuries. Witnesses reported seeing the F broadside the small plane, causing debris to rain down onto an RV park. No injuries were reported on the ground, but the Cessna was demolished in the crash. According to Yahoo! Military officials said at a press conference that the fighter pilot was practicing instrument approaches into Charleston Air Force Base at the time of the collision.
Major Johnson was in communication with Charleston air traffic controllers during the training exercise. On Wednesday, Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury told reporters that a search team had found the body of year-old Michael Johnson, who was a passenger aboard the Cessna. The body of his year-old son, Joseph, is still missing. Joseph was reportedly flying the plane when the collision occurred. At this time, it is unclear if Joseph Johnson had filed a flight plan, though Berkeley County officials said Johnson indicated that he and his father were flying to Myrtle Beach.
Investigators expect to issue a preliminary report in about a week. A full report could take up to a year to complete. The Germanwings crash, which killed Lubitz and others, is now being widely reported as a murder-suicide. He was later allowed to return to his training after his suitability had been reestablished. Flight QZ and its people onboard disappeared from radar on Sunday morning after the pilots asked air traffic controllers to change their altitude amid bad weather.
Controllers denied their request, citing heavy air traffic. Three of the six bodies were recovered and brought aboard an Indonesian navy ship. The bodies were reportedly swollen with no life jackets on. Soon after the first six were discovered, other search teams began reporting more and more bodies floating off the coast of the island of Borneo.
The French media has reported that upwards of 40 bodies have been recovered, though according to CBS News, that report has not yet been confirmed. The bodies were found after search and rescue teams located red, white and back debris believed to be from the plane itself. Search crews also reported seeing a large shadow underwater, which they believe to be the downed aircraft.
Families of those on QZ congregated in Surabaya could only look on in horror as Indonesian television showed images of the first body being removed from the Java Sea waters. Some family members went into hysterics upon seeing the graphic footage.
A team of police and forensic specialists from the Netherlands and Australia have finally reached the site Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash. Efforts to reach the MH17 crash site had been delayed for several days as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military continued in the wake of the tragedy.
At least 10 soldiers in the Ukrainian military were killed in an ambush led by pro-Russian separatists not far from the MH17 crash site. The ambush came only a few hours before the foreign investigators arrived, at a time when both sides had agreed to a cease-fire around the crash site. The foreign investigators are expected to begin their work by retrieving more human remains as well as collect the belongings of victims. According to the Guardian, the precise number of remains left at the crash site is still unclear.
Flight had at least people onboard when it departed from a Burkina Faso airport bound for Algeria. Air Algerie has confirmed that 50 of the passengers are French citizens. The six-person flight crew are all citizens of Spain.
State Department officials have said they are not aware of any Americans on the flight. Authorities believe the MD plane went down between the towns of Kidal and Gao amid a heavy thunderstorm. According to USA Today, the search for the downed plane presents a problem, as the area has been plagued with separatist violence.
As of now, French forces — including two fighter planes — are canvassing the area aiding in the search for the missing aircraft. There were 54 passengers and 4 crew onboard. Due to heavy rains caused by a typhoon, the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing in an airport located in Xixi Village.
The year-old aircraft, according to the CAA, was reported to have been experiencing technical failures which prevented the plane from properly landing. Officials are saying that 47 people were killed and 11 were hospitalized with severe injuries. Typhoon Matmo caused 30, homes to lose power, while producing astonishing winds of up to 67 miles-per-hour.
Grabovo, Ukraine — According to US intelligence reports, it appears that Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Boeing passenger airplane over eastern Ukraine on Thursday. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was at 33, feet, on its way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam with people onboard, when it was shot down. It crashed near the town of Gravobo. Efforts to begin an unbiased, independent investigation have been hampered by the militants near the crash site.
Civil aviation authorities need access to the crash site to ensure a proper investigation is conducted. The grieving family members should not be left in the dark. It is no benefit to anyone to fail to keep them from understanding the truth. Four friends, including billionaire Lewis Katz, were killed on May 31, , when the Gulfstream G-IV they were flying in, crashed during take-off at the airport in Bedford, Massachusetts.
The group was flying back to New Jersey after attending a fundraiser in Boston at the home of author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The two pilots and a flight attendant also perished in the crash. The NTSB reports that a witness stated that the plane never left the ground, before crashing and catching fire.
Aerial work denotes the operation of aircraft for specialised services, such as agriculture, construction, photography, surveying, observation and patrol, search and rescue as well as aerial advertisement. Between and , the number of persons killed in Aerial work accidents involving aircraft registered in EU Member States fluctuated between 8 and The death toll in was 18 persons In , half of the 18 fatalities registered occurred in Sweden, due to parachute drops.
This accident led to a considerably higher number of fatalities in than the year annual average, although the actual number of accidents with fatalities was in line with the year average. General aviation aeroplanes and helicopters consists of all civil aviation operations other than commercial air transport and specific types of aerial work operations. General aviation has two sub-categories: operations with aircraft with a maximum take-off mass MTOM above kg and under kg.
General aviation is the category where most accidents occur. In most years, most of the fatalities recorded in air transport are registered in this category. An exception was the year , when a high number of fatalities were recorded in commercial air transport due to the Germanwings crash mentioned above. In , there was only one person killed in general aviation accidents involving EU-registered aircraft with a MTOM above kg.
Since , fewer than 10 fatalities were registered every year from accidents on EU territory involving such large aircrafts registered in the EU. This peaked in , where 9 fatalities were registered in such accidents. For light general aviation, i. This category includes, in addition to smaller aeroplanes, balloons, dirigibles, para- and motorgliders, microlights and small helicopters. In the period , there was not a single fatality due to accidents involving aircrafts registered in Luxembourg and Malta Table 1.
Over the same period, there were twelve further EU Member States where the number of fatalities in accidents involving aircrafts registered in the country on the EU territory was 10 or less. In commercial air transport, there were fatalities in accidents with aircrafts registered in the EU, with the Germanwings accident in March accounting for deaths alone.
In the same period, 68 persons were killed in connection with aerial work in accidents involving EU-registered aircrafts on EU territory. Over the period , the most serious accident related to aerial work was the aforementioned accident in in Slovakia. As small aircraft were involved, such accidents often occur in the country in which the aircraft is registered. However, in the other aviation categories, differences between the country of registry of the aircraft and the country of occurrence of the accident can be higher.
Similar to Figure 3 on fatalities in commercial air transport on EU territory , Table 2 details the number of fatalities for the period to that occurred on the territory of the individual EU Member States, regardless of the country of registration of the aircraft involved. On The FAA subsequently mandated that aircraft lavatories be equipped with smoke detectors and automatic fire extinguishers.
Within 5 years, all jetliners were retrofitted with fire-blocking layers on seat cushions and floor lighting to lead passengers to exits in dense smoke. Planes built after have more flame-resistant interior materials. Lightning flashed around the plane at feet, and the jetliner encountered a microburst wind shear—a strong downdraft and abrupt shift in the wind that caused the plane to lose 54 knots of airspeed in a few seconds. Sinking rapidly, the L hit the ground about a mile short of the runway and bounced across a highway, crushing a vehicle and killing the driver.
The plane then veered left and crashed into two huge airport water tanks. On board, of people were killed. Only one wind-shear-related accident has occurred since. Upgrade: Engine safety improvements. United Airlines flight was en route from Denver to Chicago on July 19, when the engine in the tail of the DC suffered engine failure, severing the plane's hydraulic lines and rendering the plane virtually uncontrollable.
What followed for people aboard was a horrific ordeal as the captain, Alfred Haynes, struggled to land at a nearby airport. As it crash landed, the widebody craft cartwheeled off the runway and caught fire, and it was considered something of a miracle that passengers aboard survived.
The NTSB later determined the accident was caused by a failure by mechanics to detect a crack in the fan disk that ultimately was traced back to the initial manufacture of the titanium alloy material. The accident led the FAA to order modification of the DC's hydraulic system the plane was already being phased out by many airlines and to require redundant safety systems in all future aircraft, and it changed the way engine inspections are performed.
As Aloha Flight , a weary, year-old Boeing on a short hop from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, leveled off at 24, ft. Miraculously, the rest of the plane held together long enough for the pilots to land safely. Only one person, a flight attendant who was swept out of the plane, was killed. The National Transportation Safety Board NTSB blamed a combination of corrosion and widespread fatigue damage , the result of repeated pressurization cycles during the plane's 89,plus flights.
In response, the FAA began the National Aging Aircraft Research Program in , which tightened inspection and maintenance requirements for high-use and high-cycle aircraft. When US Air Flight began its approach to land at Pittsburgh on September 8, , the Boeing suddenly rolled to the left and plunged feet to the ground, killing all people on board.
The plane's black box revealed the rudder had abruptly moved to the full-left position, triggering the roll. But why? USAir blamed the plane. Boeing blamed the crew. It took nearly five years for the NTSB to conclude a jammed valve in the rudder-control system had caused the rudder to reverse: As the pilots frantically pressed on the right rudder pedal, the rudder went left. And, in response to conflicts between the airline and the victims' families, Congress passed the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act, which transferred survivor services to the NTSB.
Although the FAA took anti-cabin-fire measures after the Air Canada accident, it did nothing to protect passenger jet cargo compartments—despite NTSB warnings after a cargo fire in which the plane managed to land safely. It took the horrific crash of ValuJet into the Everglades near Miami on May 11, to finally spur the agency to action.
The fire in the DC-9 was caused by chemical oxygen generators that had been illegally packaged by SabreTech, the airline's maintenance contractor. A bump apparently set one off, and the resulting heat started a fire, which was fed by the oxygen being given off. The pilots were unable to land the burning plane in time, and people died. The FAA responded by mandating smoke detectors and automatic fire extinguishers in the cargo holds of all commercial airliners.
It also bolstered rules against carrying hazardous cargo on aircraft. It was everybody's nightmare: a plane that blew up in midair for no apparent reason. After painstakingly reassembling the wreckage, the NTSB dismissed the possibility of a terrorist bomb or missile attack and concluded that fumes in the plane's nearly empty center-wing fuel tank had ignited, most likely after a short circuit in a wire bundle led to a spark in the fuel gauge sensor.
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