April 4, 2016 - BANGLADESH - At least 30 people mostly farmers were struck and killed by lightning in
the last 10 days at different parts of the country as nor'westers
started to hit since last month.
The frequency of the storms (Kalboishakhi) usually rises in April and
May, and the deaths from lightning could go up significantly if
precautions are not taken properly. This seasonal storm is typically
accompanied by lightning.
The maximum 13 people were killed by lightning on Thursday in
seven districts. Most of the victims were farmers working on the field.
Of them, three teenagers were killed in Munshiganj and two each in
Faridpur, Kishoreganj, Bagerhat and Manikganj districts.
Earlier, two people were killed on March 30 and five on March 28 during
nor'westers at different parts of the country. Six others, killed on
March 27, include three schoolboys of Netrakona.
Reports say three farmers were struck by lightning and killed while working on a salt field at Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department broadcasts early warning of the impending thunderbolt.
On May 6, 2013, at least 24 deaths by lighting were reported from different districts.
In 2011, a total of 179 people were killed by lightning - 58 getting
killed in the month of May alone. During April and May the following
year, lightning killed a staggering 152 people.
In the wake of rise in lightning strikes, Bangladesh Red Crescent
Society (BDRCS) has started awareness campaign on social media,
especially Facebook, to bring down the number of deaths and injuries
from lightning.
Urging not to panic during a storm accompanied by lighting, the BDRCS
suggests that people stay away from tall trees, electric pillars and
towers, and take shelter under a concrete ceiling. Touching corrugated
iron sheets (tin) or metals during lighting may claim lives.
People stuck in cars due to storms can also avoid casualty by not touching its metal body.
Being near water bodies including ponds and rivers can be fatal during a lightning, the BDRCS says.
It asks people to not use or switch off electronic items including
phones, laptops, WiFi, cordless phones and landphones when lighting
strikes frequently. - Dhaka Tribune.
April 4, 2016 - TANZANIA - Two residents of Ikwiriri District in Coast Region died while two others
escaped with serious injuries after being struck by lightning.
The incident occurred yesterday around 1pm at Umwe Kati in Ikwiriri when watching a movie at a makeshift pavilion.
Confirming the tragedy, Rufiji District Commissioner Nurdin Babu named
the deceased as Haji Lupango, 17, and Adam Kitumbi, 6, both residents of
Umwe Kati in Coast Region.
According to the district Commissioner, those who sustained injuries are
Salum Makuka and Zuberi Mkono, who are admitted to Mchukwi Hospital in
Ikwiriri.
"There was a huge thunder accompanied by lightning that struck the pavilion in Ikwiriri," Mr Babu said.
When contacted for comment, medical officer at Mchukwi Hospital
Rashid Omari said he received four people who had been struck by
lightning.
Dr Omari said two of them had already died.
He said after examining the injured (Makuka and Mkono) he discovered
that they were in critical conditions, a situation that compelled him to
transfer them to Mchukwi Hospital.
Lightning may be seen and not heard when it occurs at a distance too
great for the sound to carry as far as the light from the strike or
flash.
On earth, the lightning frequency is approximately 40-50 times a second or nearly 1.4 billion flashes per year. - All Africa.
One person died, five people were injured
after a small plane crashed into a car on Interstate 15 North near State
Route 76, near San Diego, California, on Saturday, April 2, 2016.
Courtesy of Torrence Jenkins
April 3, 2016 - EARTH - Here are the latest incidents of plane crashes across the planet.
A small plane that made headlines when it landed safely on a Southern California freeway years ago crashed on the same stretch of road Saturday, slamming into a car and killing a woman in the vehicle.
Five others, including the pilot and his passenger, were injured in the crash on a stretch of Interstate 15 that has been the scene of several emergency landings.
Witnesses said the single-engine plane appeared to be having problems before it banked and came down, California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Parent said. One man said he didn't hear the plane's engine as it passed overhead.
The Lancair IV landed on its belly and skidded about 250 feet before striking the rear of a black Nissan Altima sedan that was stopped on the shoulder of the road in San Diego County near Fallbrook. The driver of the car had pulled over to synchronize the Bluetooth device on his phone, Parent said.
The impact crumpled the back of the car, fatally crushing Antoinette Isbelle, 38, of San Diego in the back seat and injuring three others in the vehicle, authorities said.
"The plane went completely into the trunk and pushed the rear bumper almost into the rear passenger seat," said John Buchanan, spokesman for the North County Fire Protection District.
Pilot Dennis Hogge, 62, and his female passenger suffered major injuries, Parent said. The driver suffered moderate injuries, and his other two passengers were expected to survive their injuries.
The plane was once owned by major league catcher Matt Nokes, who made a noteworthy landing on busy I-15 when the engine quit on its second flight on Feb. 18, 2000.
Aamiah Grant posted this photo to Twitter on April 1, 2016 showing a plane which crashed onto the 15-N.
Emergency personnel investigate the scene of plane crash, Saturday, April 2, 2016 in Fallbrook, Calif. Photo: Don Boomer/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP
Nokes guided the high-performance $500,000 plane to a smooth landing and safely taxied off the road without injuries.
Nokes went on to fly the plane every day for five years without incident before selling it. He said it had been rebuilt several times since he sold it.
"It was crazy," Nokes told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Everything worked out so beautifully. It was almost a humorous thing. Unfortunately, it doesn't always turn out that way."
When Nokes heard about the crash, he unsuccessfully tried to reach Hogge. He didn't realize Hogge had been injured.
He described Hogge as a good man, an outstanding pilot and a master plane builder.
"It's just horrible to hear about," said Nokes who spent 11 years in the majors, mostly with the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees.
The stretch of freeway is no stranger to unusual landings. Parent said he's aware of three other planes that have come down on that stretch of freeway about 50 miles north of San Diego in the past decade.
Nokes said the freeway is a popular route for flying because there are fewer flight restrictions than along the Interstate 5 corridor.
The crash caused major backups throughout the day on the freeway that runs from the Mexican border through Las Vegas and Salt Lake City to Canada. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. - FOX News.
Pilot seriously injured in Gippsland plane crash in Australia
A pilot has suffered spinal and chest injuries in a light plane crash in Gippsland, in Victoria's east.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash, on Upper Maffra Road in Newry, at 12.45pm.
The pilot, a man aged in his sixties, has been flown to the Alfred Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
He was the only person on board the ultra-light plane.
It's understood the plane clipped power lines and landed in a paddock. - The Age.
Small plane crashes in Gloucester County
A small plane overturned in a field in Gloucester County April 2, 2016 (Photo: Hagen Forsman)
A small plane crashed into a field in South Harrison Township Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
The private plane overturned, but the pilot had only minor
injuries, according to the Gloucester County emergency
communications center. He was not taken to the hospital.
The crash was reported near Monroeville and Lincoln Road around 4 p.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane flipped after it
landed while the county emergency response center described the incident
as a crash.
"The plane experienced an engine-related problem," the FAA said in a statement.
FAA officials and police were investigating. - NJ.
Student pilot survives plane crash near Salmon Arm
Image Credit: Shuswap Search and Rescue
A pilot is safe and doing well after a small plane crash near the Salmon Arm Airport Friday night.
John Schutt with Shuswap Search and Rescue says members were called out around 9:30 p.m.
He says a Cessna 152 went down into the East side of Mount Ida.
Schutt says a search plane and ground crews were sent out to find the plane and were able to determine its location.
Schutt wouldn't comment on why the plane went down. - CFJC Today.
3 killed in plane crash in Mexico
Primero Mining Corp.today confirmed that a plane crash resulting in three fatalities has occurred close to its San Dimas mine in Mexico.
"This tragedy has impacted every person
at Primero deeply and we send our deepest condolences to the families,
friends and colleagues of the deceased," stated Ernest Mast, President
and C.E.O. "All survivors are being treated for their injuries, and we
will provide support to the affected families to help them through this
difficult time. The Company will cooperate fully with aviation
authorities to determine the cause of the accident." - Market Wired.
Pilot remains hospitalized after plane crash in New Mexico
A small passenger plane sits off the runway after being flipped by the wind on Thursday at the Shiprock Airstrip.(Photo: Daily Times file photo)
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that the federal agency was notified of the crash and has started an investigation.
"The NTSB investigator determined he did not need to go to the scene," spokesman Chris O'Neil said. "He is doing what's called a desk investigation."
O'Neil said a final report will be released once the investigation is complete.
Tumminaro, a licensed airline transport pilot, was practicing a "touch and go" landing procedure in a single-engine Cessna when a gust of wind flipped the aircraft onto the paved airstrip, according to a Navajo Police Department press release.
Tumminaro, 67, was transported by helicopter to San Juan Regional Medical Center, the release states. A passenger, Ryan Arroyo, did not report injuries, but he was also transported to the Farmington hospital.
Werbner said Friday that Arroyo, 33, is no longer at the hospital.
Arroyo said in an interview Thursday the two men departed from their hometown of Durango, Colo., that morning on a sightseeing trip.
Navajo Division of Transportation spokesman Carl Slater said Friday that a review of records indicated there had never before been a crash at the Shiprock Airstrip. Slater said the airstrip reopened on Friday.
New Mexico State Police are continuing to investigate the crash, according to press release issued Friday. - Daily Times.
Pilot killed in air force plane crash in Jordan
A Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) pilot was killed and another was injured when their Hawk aircraft crashed early Thursday during a training mission, according to an army statement.
The statement by the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army identified the killed pilot as Major Muath Bani Fares and the injured as Captain Sharaf Al Tafour.
The statement did not give details on the reason of the crash.
Bani Fares was 33 years old and married with three children. He is from the village of Ashrafiyah in the Koura District in Irbid, some 65 kilometres north of Amman, Ahmad Thyabat, a resident of the same village, told The Jordan Times.
He will be laid to rest on Friday in his hometown, Thyabat said, adding the father of the fallen pilot is a retired major general and a former assistant to the director of the Public Security Department.
The man said residents of the entire district of Koura were saddened by the tragic news. - Jordan Times.
Small plane crash near Clinton, B.C.
Image Credit: Contributed
A pilot from the Pacific Flying Club has walked away after the single
engine plane he was piloting crashed this morning in the Cariboo.
The incident happened in the Meadow Lake Road area between Clinton and 70 Mile House.
Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board says it appears the crash was caused by a mechanical issue in the Cessna 172.
"First information is that the pilot reported some problems and was
trying to land the aircraft. He is okay, and has been taken to hospital
to have a look at any bumps and bruises," said Yearwood.
Yearwood says the Pacific Flying Club is based at the Boundary Bay
Airport in the Lower Mainland, and the man was en route to Vanderhoof.
Yearwood adds the TSB plans on interviewing the pilot before releasing the damaged aircraft. - CFJC Today.
Man killed in Ilembe District plane crash
IPSS Medical Rescue
The light aircraft crashed in a sugarcane plantation near Glendale in the Ilembe District a little earlier this morning.
Unconfirmed reports from the scene suggest the microlight struck power lines in the area.
IPSS Medical Rescue's Paul Herbst says the pilot was fatally injured.
"It
seems like a microlight aircraft has gone down. Unfortunately, the
pilot sustained serious injuries and was declared dead on arrival.
Search and Rescue parties are also here to try and get him out to the
nearest main roads," he said.
Emergency services say
the microlight spraying crop was being flown by a single occupant. The
South African Civil Aviation Authority will investigate the exact cause
of the crash. - ECR.
Plane crashes into sea near Tel Aviv beach, 2 injured
A small aircraft trying to make an emergency landing seemed to forget
that it wasn’t a floatplane and landed in the Mediterranean Sea near
Metzizim Beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
The pilot reportedly radioed a mayday to nearby Sde Dov Airport so
it could land there, but somehow lost control of the plane and crashed
into the water.
Video footage of the incident, which occurred on Sunday
afternoon, shows the small plane slowly sinking in the water after the
crash, which probably wouldn't have happened if it crashed in the
buoyant Dead Sea.
WATCH: Plane makes emergency landing in sea off Tel Aviv.
Two people on board the plane, a 57- and 47-year-old
described as fully conscious, were rescued by witness who swam out,
according to Israel National News.
A police rescue boat then arrived at the scene and took them to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center for minor injuries.
Two bystanders were treated at the scene with minor shoulder injuries sustained during the rescue. - RT.
April 3, 2016 - PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES - Two people have died and 30 suffered injuries when an Amtrak
train collided with a backhoe on the tracks and a car derailed near
Philadelphia, officials said.
Service has been suspended along the
Northeast Corridor in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
There were 341 passengers and seven crewmembers on board Palmetto train 89 at the time of the incident, which took place in Chester, Delaware County.
“This morning, Amtrak Train 89, operating from New York to Savannah, Georgia, struck a backhoe that was on the tracks and derailed the lead engine south of Philadelphia,” the Amtrak spokesman said, adding the cause of the crash is now being investigated.
Amtrak is a partially government-funded US passenger railroad service, which operates over 300 trains on a daily basis on 34,000 kilometers (21,300 miles) of track, connecting more than 500 destinations in 46 American states and three Canadian provinces.
On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak train from Washington, D.C. to New York derailed and crashed in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring over 200 others. - RT.
April 3, 2016 - THAILAND - A tourist bus hit by a train in Nakhon Pathom in Thailand Sunday, leaving 30 injured and three people dead.
The impact occurred as the double-decker bus was slowly
crossing the tracks and a speeding train crashed into it, causing the
bus to spin out of control.
WATCH: Train crash in Thailand.
The video shows the impact from two separate camera angles, revealing the intensity of the crash.
The
bus was taking a group of workers from a factory west of Bangkok to the
island of Koh Samui for a holiday, according to a local police officer.
The three dead were Thai nationals.
Road accidents are a common in Thailand.
WATCH: Dashcam footage captures the moment a midsize car traveling in the slow lane on the highway is rear ended at tremendous speed by a black Mercedes-Benz last week.
A study by University of Michigan ranked Thailand’s roads as the second most dangerous in the world. - RT.
April 3, 2016 - FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - Florida's Palm Beach County saw 1,700 lightning strikes in just two
hours during Tuesday's storms, according to the National Weather
Service.
April 3, 2016 - INDIA - In a saddening incident,five including three women were killed
and six injured in lightning strikes at different places in Mayurbhanj
district on Friday.
Of them two died and six were injured due to the natural calamity while
undertaking obsequies in a pond at Badapeta under Sadar block.
Three women each at Gudialabandha village under Badasahi block,
Budurubani under Udala block and Sarbana under Kaptipada block died of
the lighting strike. - Mumbai News.
April 1, 2016 - EARTH - Thirteen people were killed and 19 others injured by lightning in eight districts in Bangladesh yesterday and the day before. Meanwhile, lightning bolt hit house in Uganda killing two children.
Lightning strikes kill 13 in 8 districts of Bangladesh over 2 days
Thirteen people were killed and 19 others injured by lightning in eight districts yesterday and the day before.
In Comilla, two brick kiln workers were killed and 17 others injured as a thunderbolt hit them at Bakhornagar village in Muradnagar upazila yesterday afternoon.
The deceased are Al-Amin, 30, son of Bashir Miah, and Mohammad Ali, 25, son of Dilu Miah of Majlispur area in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila.
The incident took place when they were working at the brick kiln, reports UNB.
In Narayanganj, lightning killed two teenage boys and injured a young man at Char Kishoreganj Mollarpara in Sonargaon upazila.
The deceased were identified as Anik, 15, and Ferdous, 17, residents of the area.
In Netrakona, an elderly man was killed as he was struck by a thunderbolt at Noapara village of Sadar upazila in the evening.
The deceased was identified as Abdul Khaleque, 50, of the village.
In Brahmanbaria, the muazzim of Noahati Mosque at Shilail village of Sadar upazila was killed by a lightning strike around 2:00pm.
In Faridpur, a schoolboy, Md Hasan Mollah, 16, son of Javed Mollah, was struck by lightning at Khrishanagar village of Sadar upazila at noon. He died instantly.
In Bagerhat, two day-labourers were killed and another was injured as thunderbolts hit them at Kamla village in Morelganj upazila yesterday noon, reports our correspondent.
The deceased are Kalipad Majumder, 50, son of Binod Majumder of Kumarkhali village, and Rafiqul Islam, 25, son of Abdul Aziz of Ghorgota village.
In Munshiganj, two boys were killed by lightning at Mollahpara in Char Kishoreganj under the district at noon.
The deceased are Anik, 15, and Ferdous, 17, of the area, reports our correspondent.
In Mymensingh, two people were killed in lighting in the district on Wednesday, reports our correspondent.
The victims are Nurul Islam, 45, son of late Hanif Mandol of Koyerchala village in Phulbaria upazila, and Lutfa Akhtar, 28, wife of Rukon Uddin of Ullahpara village in Nandail upazila. - Daily Star.
Lightning bolt hits house in Uganda, 2 children die
The incident occurred in Mbogo zone, Kikyusa sub-county in Luweero
district, when Simon Katumba's house caught fire that killed Emelda
Nakafeero, 3 and Kelvis Kiyimba, 2.
Shock gripped residents of Kikyusa town in Bamunanika when lightning
struck a shop where there were 30 jerry cans of petrol inside sparking
off a fire that killed two children and seriously injured their mother.
The Savannah Regional police spokesperson Lammeck Kigozi on Thursday
identified the two dead children as: Melda Nakafeero a 3-year-old female
years and Kevin Kiyimba a male aged two years.
Their mother Jennet Namugaya (24) was rushed to Mulago hospital after she sustained severe burns on her body.
Police fire fighters, who were deployed from the Savannah regional
Police headquarters in Luweero town to stop the fire, suffered the wrath
of residents who pelted with stones, furious at them for delaying to
react.
They however managed to stop the fire from spreading to neighboring buildings.
It is the third time in a period of five years, that a similar catastrophe is hitting the area.
In July 2011, a herdsman Murekambanzi Karibwami a resident of Nakabiito
village in Kikyusa lost seven high breed cows after lightning struck his
kraal.
Earlier in the same month, lightning had struck a man and his dog in Kikyusa town, killing the dog instantly. The man survived.
Kigozi warned residents against risky businesses like selling petrol in
jerry cans which he said exposed families to fire accidents. - New Vision 30.
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vehicles - Record rainfall in Peru, flooding in Rio de Janeiro - Loud
booms of unknown origin shaking homes - Strongest earthquake so far in
2016 hits Indonesia - Meteors lighting up the night sky - Yet another
'1-in-1,000-years' rain event flooding central and southern US - Heavy
snow in Mexico - A year's worth of rain in one day flooding Persian Gulf
states...
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Five members of one family died in the crash on their way to a funeral. AP
March 29, 2016 - EARTH - Here are the latest incidents of plane crashes across the planet.
Canada plane crash on Quebec island kills seven people
Seven people have died after a small private plane crashed on an island off the east coast of Quebec.
Authorities said the plane crashed as it approached Iles-de-la-Madeleine Airport amid heavy winds and snow.
Jean Lapierre, a broadcaster and former Canadian transport minister, and members of his family were among the victims.
Mr Lapierre, who was 59, worked as a political analyst for CTV and other Canadian media outlets.
One of those networks, TVA, said Mr Lapierre's wife, two brothers and sister died in the crash. They were travelling to the funeral of Mr Lapierre's father.
He also served as a member of parliament from 1979 to 1993 and again from 2004 to 2007.
Former Prime Minister Paul Martin said: "He was a very good political analyst, he was one of the best, but he was also a superb political figure in this country and it was a great privilege to work with him."
Officials with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada travelled to Havre aux Maisons Island in the Magdalen Islands to determine the cause of the crash.
The twin-engine turboprop plane had left Montreal's St Hubert Airport on Tuesday morning. - BBC.
Su-25 strike aircraft crashes in Russia’s Far East
A video has been posted online showing a Sukhoi Su-25 ground-support
fighter jet crashing in a residential area during a training flight in
Russia’s Far East some 70 kilometers from the Chinese border.
The jet is seen suddenly going down over buildings and a plume of
black smoke rises above the crash site. The pilot managed to eject and
is safe.
There were no reports of casualties on the ground, but two
barns have been destroyed.
The close-support aircraft, (NATO reporting
name Frogfoot) took off from Chernigovka military airfield on a practice
mission, but due to engine malfunction it lost speed, altitude and hit
the ground.
The pilot managed to divert the aircraft from residential
dwellings.
An F-16 fighter crashed during takeoff at Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan, the US military confirmed. The pilot ejected safely and is
being evaluated for injuries.
The crash site has been secured and an investigation is underway, the US military said in a statement.
The jet was assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, and crashed around 8:30 p.m. local time. The cause of the crash remains unknown. The pilot’s name was not released.
Bagram Air Base, the biggest US military installation in Afghanistan, is about 30 miles (50km) north of the country’s capital, Kabul.
The most recent F-16 crash was in January, involving a jet from the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
Last July, Iraqi Air Force General Rafid Mohammed Hasan died in a training accident in southern Arizona, also piloting an F-16.
Designed in the 1970s by General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin), the F-16 "Fighting Falcon" was originally an air superiority fighter, but has since been adapted for ground-attack missions.
The US Air Force has stopped buying new F-16s but continues to operate the plane and export them to US allies. Its successor, the F-35 Lightning II, is still a long way from operational capability, as the US military struggles to overcome a litany of technical and software problems. - RT.
Pilot injured in a weekend plane accident in Marathon, Texas
The pilot and sole occupant of a single-engine plane was injured
Saturday in Marathon when his aircraft crashed near a motel.
(Source:
Facebook/Marathon Volunteer Fire Dept.)
The pilot injured in a weekend plane accident in Marathon has been
identified as Gilbert Jones, the Brewster County Sheriff's Office said
Tuesday.
Jones was immobilized and transported to Big Bend Regional Medical Center with "serious injuries" after his aircraft crashed Saturday afternoon near Marathon Motel, north of Highway 90, according to Chief Deputy Ryan Skelton.
Dispatch received a call about the incident at 4:26 p.m.
Jones was the sole occupant of the plane, officials said.
Hospital personnel confirmed Tuesday he was no longer listed as a patient.
The cause of the accident remained undetermined and under investigation Tuesday morning.
Skelton said the single-engine plane flown by Jones was an experimental aircraft and had not been registered with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Marathon Volunteer Fire Department officials reported finding the aircraft lying on its roof when they arrived at the scene.
Jones survived a previous plane accident approximately one year ago, in a location "not far" from Saturday's crash site, according to officials. - News West 9.
A flight instructor killed and a man remains in critical condition the day after a small plane plunged from the sky while taking off at a West Virginia airport, flipped over and caught fire
Yeager Airport spokesman Mike Plante said the injured person, who has
not been identified, underwent surgery after the incident on Saturday
and remains in the intensive care unit.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday began its investigation into what caused the crash that killed the flight instructor and sent the airport into mourning.
"There's a natural bond between pilots and aviation people," he said. "It's a small and specialized community who shared that kinship of flight. When we lose someone, it's a reminder of an old saying in aviation: There are wonderful, amazing machines. But they are unforgiving of imprecision, neglect or mechanical failure."
The Cessna 172 Sky Hawk four-seat plane took off just after noon Saturday, Plante said. It was airborne when it careened back down and smashed beside the runway nose first. It then toppled over onto its back and caught fire.
Dozens of firefighters, medics and police responded, extinguished the fire and extracted the two passengers around 40 minutes later, Plante said. Both were severely injured and taken to the hospital, where the woman later died.
She has not been formally identified. Local media reported the victim as Brenda Gilland Jackson, a flight instructor. Joe Beam, manager of Skylane Aviation which owned the plane, confirmed Jackson had perished.
"She just loved to fly," Beam said.
She started flying as a teenager more than four decades ago, according to story the Charleston Gazette-Mail wrote when she received her instructor's certificate in 2009. But life took a different turn, she got married and had a family and stayed on the ground for 25 years. Her husband died and, in 2009, she started taking lessons again. She fell in love with her flight instructor and married him, the newspaper reported.
She told the newspaper that getting her license was a "dream come true" and said she loved to fly because it made her feel free.
Beam, whose Charleston-based company headquartered at the airport, offers services like aerial photography, site surveys and flight instruction. He said he met her when she returned to aviation. She worked for herself and rented planes from him to take up her students.
It remains unclear what caused the plane to fall from the sky.
Dan Boggs, an air safety investigator at National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference Sunday that a preliminary report will be published within a few weeks. The final investigative report will take several months to complete.
Representatives from the Cesna, the airplane manufacturer and Continental, the engine manufacturer, were also on site aiding with the investigation, Plante said.
Plante said it was the airport's first fatal crash involving a fixed-wing aircraft in more than 30 years. - ABC.
Crews respond to plane crash at Lake County Regional Airport
Crews are responding to a plane crash at the Lake County Regional Airport Tuesday.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Bobby Hawkins tells 8News that a call came
in around 11:40 a.m. saying that a plane was about halfway down the
airport’s runway and went into the woods.
Officials say one person was on board a private jet when it crashed. That person is expected to be okay.
Small plane crash under investigation in Pittsylvania County
Virginia State Police received a call about a plane making a crash landing in Pittsylvania County at 4:38 p.m. on Sunday.
The small passenger plane, located near Martinsville Highway and Long
Circle in the community of Cascade, was flying from Charleston, S.C.,
to Baltimore, Md., when the pilot began experiencing problems with the
aircraft losing power, according to state police.
WATCH: Plane crash investigation.
The pilot, Stephen C. Lloyd of Lexington, S.C., declared an emergency
and immediately began seeking a place to land. As the 1970 Piper
PA-23-250 Apache made its descent, police say the wing hit the trees and
the plane overturned onto its roof.
Lloyd was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor injuries, while the three passengers on board were not injured.
The FAA and NTSB have both been notified and the investigation remains ongoing at this time. - WSLS.
Small planes crash in North Texas
Two small planes crashed Saturday in separate incidents in Denton and Erath counties.
On Saturday afternoon, a plane went down along the western shore of Lewisville Lake.
The wreckage of a small plane is loaded on a truck after crashing in Lake Dallas on March 26, 2016. (Photo: Thomas Costley / WFAA)
Small planes crashed in Erath and Denton counties on March 26, 2016.
(Photo: WFAA)
The crash site near Lakeview Marina in the community of Lake Dallas is less than a half-mile from Lakeview Airport.
According
to initial reports, two people were aboard the aircraft, but their
conditions are not available. The cause of the crash is under
investigation.
Hours earlier, in an unrelated incident, another small plane ran out of fuel and crashed in Stephenville.
The
Texas Department of Public Safety said a father and son were on their
way back from Dallas. They were airlifted to a Fort Worth hospital with
serious injuries, but both are expected to survive. - WFAA.
Four die in small plane crash at airport in Osaka
The wreckage of a Mooney M20c single-engine aircraft that crashed on a taxiway at Yao Airport in Osaka Prefecture on Saturday is seen in this photo. | KYODO
The Osaka Prefectural Police and the transport ministry are
investigating Saturday’s fatal plane crash at Yao Airport as a case of
professional negligence resulting in death.
According to the ministry and the airport, a four-seater Mooney M20C bound for Yao left Kobe Airport at 4:03 p.m. but crashed while attempting to land at about 4:20 p.m., killing all four occupants.
The plane went down in a grassy area near 1,490-meter-long Runway A, one of two runways at the airport, and burst into flames after the pilot told the air traffic controller he was aborting the first landing attempt.
It apparently encountered trouble climbing to make the second landing attempt, officials said.
The police are investigating the cause of the accident and attempting to identify the victims, who they believe were all men.
The ministry said the pilot was Yasushi Nishimoto.
The cockpit of the 7-meter-long, 10.7-meter-wide plane was destroyed in the crash and the fire extinguished at around 4:40 p.m., police and firefighters said.
Visibility was good at the time, and the wind speed at 4 p.m. was 5.4 kph.
The Japan Transport Safety Board said it will send two investigators to the airport.
The plane received its last airworthiness certificate in May 2015 after clearing the government’s mandatory annual safety check. It was registered in 1997.
Yao Airport is in a residential district about 15 km southeast of Osaka Station. It is used mainly as a base for aerial surveys, pilot training and sightseeing rather than regular flight services.
The U.S. military returned the airport to Japanese control in 1954, and it began mainstream service in 1960.
Television footage showed that the plane incurred heavy damage from the crash, which nearly tore off the tail and broke its wing tips. - Japan Times.
Cobb County man killed when plane crashed into South Carolina swamp
A Cobb County man was killed in a plane that crashed into a swamp in South Carolina Thursday.
Walker
Heste -r, 59, of Marietta, was on board the small plane when it went down
in the area of the Pee Dee River outside Columbia.
A Cobb County man was killed in a plane that crashed into a swamp in South Carolina Thursday. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
A small plane
that went missing around 10:15 a.m. along the Pee Dee River, off of
Highway 52 North, crashed in a swampy area, Chesterfield County Sheriff
Jay Brooks said.
Brooks said the pilot was killed and that nobody else was on the plane.
Officials
said a helicopter flying over the scene found some wreckage in a swampy
area of the Pee Dee River and Brooks said an eyewitness saw the plane
go down in the river.
Officials had trouble getting to where the wreckage was because of how remote the area is.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash. - AJC.
March 29, 2016 - BANGLADESH - Seven people were killed by lightning in Panchagarh, Habiganj, Jamalpur, Mymensingh and Comilla districts yesterday.
A man was killed and his wife injured by lightning at Banglabandha village in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh yesterday morning.
The deceased was identified as Ramjan Ali, 40, of the village, reports our Thakurgaon correspondent.
Locals said a thunderbolt struck Ramjan and his wife Jyotsna Banu, 35, when they were standing on their veranda during heavy rain. Ramjan died on the spot.
Jyotsna was admitted to Panchagarh Sadar Hospital.
In Habiganj, a minor girl and a man were killed as thunderbolt struck them in Madhabpur and Sadar upazilas of the district in the afternoon, reports our Moulvibazar correspondent.
The deceased are Mim Akther, 8, daughter of Safiqul Islam of Joypur village in Madhabpur, and Ajman Miah, 40, son of Sattar Miah of Chandpur village in Sadar upazila.
Officer-in-Charge Mullah Monir Hosain of Madhabpur Police Station and OC Md Nazim Uddin of Sadar PS confirmed the incidents.
Away in Jamalpur, lightning killed a woman at Beergaon village in Bakshiganj upazila of the district in the morning.
The deceased was identified as Rezena Begum, 40, wife of Moulavi Hossain of the village, reports our correspondent.
Locals said a thunderbolt struck Rezena while she was cooking at her kitchen during rain. She died on the spot.
According to our Mymensingh correspondent, a freedom fighter was killed by lightning in Balipara area under Trishal upazila of the district.
The victim, Ataur Rahman, 65, was commander of Muktijoddha Sangsad's Balipara Union unit, reports our correspondent.
Police and family sources said Ataur was struck by thunderbolt when he was working at his field around 7:00am. He died on the spot.
In Comilla, two people were struck by thunderbolts during heavy rain in Daudkandi and Titash upazilas of the district in the afternoon, reports our correspondent.
The deceased are day labourer Babul Miah, 21, son of Abdul Kader of
Noakhali district, and Russel Mollah, 20, son of Islam Mollah of Moutupi
village in Titash upazila.
Of them, Babul was struck by lightning when he was lifting sand at
Charamahmuddi village in Daudkandi upazila. He died on the spot. - Daily Star.
March 28, 2016 - BANGLADESH - Three madrasah students were killed as a streak of lightning struck them
at Ghagra in Purbadhala upazila of Netrakona district on Sunday night.
The deceased were identified as Masum, 15, a resident of Agia village,
Rafat, 15, of Giriasha village, and Masum, 15, of Ghagra Charpara
village.
All of them are students of Ghagra Chourasta Fazil Madrasah,
according to a news agency report.
Abdur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Purbadhala Police Station, said the
trio was struck by the thunderbolt around 9:00pm as they went out of the
dormitory of their madrasah to respond to the call of nature, leaving
them dead on the spot. - Financial Express.
The wreckage of the crashed Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981
March 26, 2016 - EARTH - Here are the latest incidents of plane crashes across the planet.
Flydubai Boeing crash in Rostov-on-Don kills all 62 on board
Flydubai flight FZ981 has crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don killing all 62 passengers and crew on board. The flight was en route from Dubai and crashed during its second landing approach amid poor weather conditions.
Air-traffic control and local emergency services confirmed that the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed near the runway during a second approach in conditions of poor visibility.
“According to preliminary data, the Boeing 738 crashed in poor visibility conditions, some 50-100 meters left of the runway,” the source said.
A video recorded at the crash site reveals the Boeing-737-800 disintegrated on impact. Tiny pieces of the aircraft are scattered over a large part of the runway at Rostov-on-Don’s airport.
An eyewitness, Arina Kozlova, who was driving near Rostov-on-Don Airport at the time of the crash, said the blaze from the explosion was so bright it was like having dawn in the middle of the night.
CCTV camera footage posted on YouTube claims to have captured the moment of the explosion as the aircraft impacted the ground. However, its authenticity could not be immediately verified.
All crew and passengers on board the plane were killed in the crash, according to the regional Emergencies Ministry.
“During the landing approach a Boeing-737 crashed. It had 55 passengers on board. All of them died,” a regional spokesman told TASS.
There were 55 passengers and seven crew members on board FlyDubai flight FZ981, Victor Yatsutsenko, head of EMERCOM National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC), confirmed during a press statement in Moscow. Seventeen were foreign citizens.
“Eleven of the 55 passengers were citizens of foreign states and their names have already been identified. Six of seven crew members were also citizens of foreign states,” Yatsutsenko said.
Ten of the 23 flights, scheduled to arrive at Rostov-on-Don, were canceled while three others landed in Krasnodar. The remaining 10 due in will also be redirected to Kransodar.
WATCH: Boeing 737-800 jet crashed near the runway.
“The plane, according to preliminary data, crashed during the second approach,” the source told Interfax.
Spokesman for the southern bureau of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Oksana Kovrizhnaya, has put forward two versions of the crash: “Pilot error in deteriorating weather conditions or a technical failure,” she said. - RT.
Private plane plunges into Sao Paulo downtown, killing 7 on board & injuring 1 on ground
A small private plane has slammed into two buildings in a
northern suburb of Sao Paulo, killing seven people on board, and
injuring one person on the ground, according to Brazil’s emergency
services.
The plane crashed at
around 3:20pm local time (6:20pm GMT), shortly after taking off from
Campo de Marte airport, authorities have announced. All six of the
aircraft’s passengers as well as the pilot were killed in the accident.
According
to local fire department officials, only one person inside the
buildings which had been struck by the aircraft was injured, while the
rest were evacuated safely.
WATCH: Plane crash in Brazil.
The seven seater CA-9 model plane belonged to
the former CEO of a mining company named Vale, Roger Agnelli. According
to Brazilian Globo Newspaper, the businessman was killed on board the
aircraft. - RT.
2 UAE pilots killed after Saudi-led coalition plane crashes in south of Yemen
Two pilots from the United Arab Emirates have been killed after their fighter jet crashed while taking part in Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen. The jet reportedly came down as a result of a technical fault near the southern city of Aden.
Hani Al-Yazidi, director of the Buraiqa district in northern Aden, said the local authorities had found the wreckage of a Mirage fighter plane after it crashed into a mountain, Reuters reported.
The Saudi state news agency SPA stated that a “technical fault” was responsible for the crash. Earlier, the authorities from the United Arab Emirates had confirmed that one of its planes was “missing.”
"The Supreme Command of the Armed Forces announced today that a fighter jet taking part in the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia ... in Yemen was missing," the statement read, according to AFP.In December, a Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 fighter jet taking part in airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen crashed in southern Saudi Arabia.
“A pilot from the Bahraini contingent participating in the coalition survived after the fall of his F-16 plane in the Jizan region this morning due to a technical malfunction,” Reuters reported, citing a statement on the Saudi state news agency.
A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states began a military campaign a year ago in an attempt to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and to prevent the Houthi rebels from taking complete control of Yemen.
The Houthi rebels are loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In February, human rights group Amnesty International stated more than 3,000 civilians have died, which include at least 700 children. In excess of 5,600 people have been injured, while upwards of 2.5 million have been displaced. - RT.
Columbia River plane crash claims 2 Vancouver residents
The yellow pin indicates where a plane was
believed to have crashed into the Columbia River Wednesday afternoon.
(U.S. Coast Guard)
A trip to the mouth of the Columbia River meant to bring closure instead ended in tragedy.
Vancouver residents John McKibbin and Irene Mustain are presumed dead after an airplane believed to be McKibbin’s was seen crashing into the Columbia River near Astoria, Ore., just before 4 p.m. Wednesday. The two had planned to scatter the ashes of Mustain’s late husband, Terry Mustain, a Vietnam veteran of the Air Force and a pilot, near the mouth of the Columbia. Wednesday would have been Mustain’s 69th birthday.
McKibbin was a private pilot and one of Clark County’s best-known citizens of the past four decades. He is a former Clark County commissioner and real estate developer, with a long list of local civic duties, accomplishments and awards. Most recently he was head of Identity Clark County, a civic group.
Sheriff Tom Bergin of Clatsop County, Ore., confirmed the incident to The Columbian on Thursday.
“We believe it is Mr. McKibbin,” he said.
Irene Mustain’s death was confirmed by her eldest son, Michael Mustain, and her pastor, Steve Briner of the First Evangelical Church in Vancouver. According to Briner, Mustain was a member of the church for more than 20 years and just last week spoke to the congregation about the upcoming flight.
The two were last seen at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when they took off in McKibbin’s plane from Pearson Field in Vancouver, said George Welsh, a pilot and friend who helped McKibbin restore the antique plane he was piloting.
About 3:50 p.m., the U.S. Coast Guard received reports of a private plane crash landing in the Columbia River east of the Astoria-Megler Bridge, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross, a Coast Guard spokeswoman in Seattle.
The cause of the crash is unclear. Bergin said the weather was “a little stormy” but overall a decent day. The National Weather Service reported the weather at the nearby Astoria airport was slightly overcast with very light precipitation and sustained winds of 17 mph with gusts of up to 28 mph. Visibility was four miles at around the time of the crash. - Columbian.
IDF general dies in plane crash in northern Israel
IDF Brig.-Gen. Munir Amar, 47, was named as the
pilot who died Friday when the light plane he was operating crashed
into a mountainside in the North near the Misgav region.
Amar
served as the head of the COGAT Civil Administration in the West Bank
and previously served as a former battalion commander in the
predominantly Druze "Herev" Brigade.
Amar was manning a private civilian flight when the crash occurred.
His aircraft departed from Haifa and crashed about a quarter of an hour after takeoff.
After
the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) reported lost contact with the
aircraft in the Lower Galilee region, police began searches for it.
According to initial reports, Amar was alone in the plane.
Less than an hour later the aircraft was located on the southern side of Mount Kamon.
Magen
David Adom reported that there was no ground vehicle access to the site
of the crash, and that Air Force personnel arrived on foot to the
downed plane. - JPost.
1 killed in Chesterfield Co. plane crash
Investigators with the FAA are trying to determine why a small experimental aircraft crashed in Chesterfield County.
Deputies say the pilot 59-year-old Walker Hester of Atlanta was killed instantly.
Hester is well-known in aviation circles, he's a Navy Veteran and flew Boeing 777's commercially with Delta before he retired.
Deputies with the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office learned about the crash from a farmer who witnessed it.
"After
an extensive search and help with a helicopter some debris on the
Pee Dee river in some of the thickest swamp in the County," said Sheriff
Jay Brooks.
"Started a search with boats on foot and 4-wheelers, and the plane was located in a couple of hours."
Brooks
says the farmer told him the aircraft clipped a power line and went
straight down crushing the cockpit and killing the pilot instantly.
Hester kept his experimental aircraft at the Cheraw Airport and would often make the commute to get some hours in flying. - WCNC.
Former 'Bachelor' contestant killed in plane crash
The female pilot who was killed after the ultralight aircraft she was
flying crashed in Hawthorne was a former contestant on "The Bachelor,"
Erin Storm.
The Airborne XT-912, a glider-like three-wheeled craft with a rear engine, crashed around noon Monday in the 3600 block of 120th Street near the Hawthorne Municipal Airport.
Storm's friends gathered on the beach in Venice Tuesday night to share stories about someone they all loved.
Storm's
Facebook page says she was a pilot at an aircraft training facility
based at Hawthorne's airport, right near where she crashed.
"Erin
Storm was the most beautiful, amazing human being I've ever known. She
was the brightest light. She touched everybody's lives," said Donna
Trousdale, a friend.
Storm's friends are crushed by her untimely
passing. She was engaged, had set a date for her wedding and just bought
the dress she'd be wearing to walk down the aisle.
Fans of "The
Bachelor" may remember Storm from her brief time on season 12, the
"London Calling" year with British bachelor Matt Grant.
Storm's friends now hang on to the love of their friend, knowing inside that her spirit still soars.
"She impacted all of these lives tremendously. She was a gift to all who knew her," Trousdale said.
A single engine plane crashed in a field near 33 E Corkscrew between Lewiston and South Bay, Florida on March 25, 2016 (Allen Eyestone / The Palm Beach Post)
One person was flown to a hospital Friday morning after a small plane crashed in a field near the city limits, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
Firefighters responded to a site along Corkscrew Boulevard
just before 8 a.m., said Capt. David Toohey, Fire Rescue spokesman. The
person who called 911 removed the pilot from the plane.
The pilot was
the only person on board. The pilot was first taken to a nearby hospital before being flown to a trauma care hospital, Toohey said.
The crash did not cause a fire, and no fuel leaked from the plane, Toohey said. - PBP.
4 rescued after small plane crashes at Mineta San Jose International Airport
A small plane made an emergency landing at Mineta San Jose International
Airport this afternoon and the four people on board are uninjured, an
airport spokeswoman said.
The four people on board that small
plane are very lucky. It could have ended so much worse, had it not been
for the pilot's skillful handling of a collapsed landing gear.The plane
took off from the airport in San Jose and was headed to Boeing's
headquarters in Washington state, but the pilot noticed something was
wrong.
The plane is an Italian made Piaggio P-180 Twin Turbo
Prop. The pilot called the tower at around noon, shortly after he took
off.
"The call initially came in as an aircraft having
difficulty with its landing gear," said San Jose Fire Department Capt.
Christian Salcido.
More specifically, the pilot said a part of the landing gear may have collapsed. - ABC7.
Qantas pilot Paul Whyte, feared dead in Byron Bay plane crash, hit water at 200km/h
A Qantas pilot is feared dead after the light plane he was flying off
the Byron Bay coast this week crashed into the ocean at nearly 200km/h,
say air traffic controllers who monitored the plane's final movements.
Paul
Whyte, a first officer with Qantas, had rented the Cessna 172 aircraft
from the Northern Rivers Aero Club in Lismore on Monday afternoon and
was flying solo over the ocean when the plane disappeared off the radar
about 11 kilometres north-east of Byron Bay.
Police immediately launched a search for the single-engine aircraft but could find no trace of the wreckage or Mr Whyte, from Lennox Head. Expert
medical advice suggested that Mr Whyte could not have survived beyond
midday on Tuesday as a result of water temperature and sea conditions at
the time.
A NSW Police spokeswoman said Mr Whyte's suspected
death was not being treated as suspicious, but the circumstances
surrounding how the plane crashed remained a mystery.
Captain
Richard Tobiano, Qantas' chief pilot, confirmed the missing man worked
as a first officer with Qantas, but said he was flying the light
aircraft in a personal capacity at the time. - SMH.
Light aircraft crash in Co Longford
Two investigations are continuing into a light aircraft crash in Co Longford, which claimed the life of the pilot.
William Hillick, who was in his late 40s, died when his plane went down at Abbeyshrule airfield yesterday evening.
Residents along the Longford-Westmeath border said the single-person
aircraft had been involved in aerobatic manoeuvres throughout the
afternoon, before it went down near the airfield at around 5.30pm.
Mr
Hillick, a businessman who lived near Killucan in Co Westmeath, was
well known in Mullingar and Dublin and had only acquired the aircraft
for use in the last few weeks.
The Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) of the Department of
Transport, Tourism and Sport is leading the investigation, while
gardaà have also launched a probe.
"Activities at the accident
site will include recording of the wreckage and general area, interviews
with eye-witnesses and recovery of wreckage and documentation to the
AAIU wreckage and examination facility at Gormanston, Co Meath," the
AAIU said in a statement.
"The investigation continues and a final report will be issued in due course." - RTE.
Air Force Academy roommates killed in plane crash
Two men killed when their twin-engine plane crashed during takeoff at
a small Tampa airport have been identified as business partners
and Air Force Academy roommates.
The Cessna was engulfed in flames
after the crash Friday at Peter O. Knight Airport. Friends and
relatives identified 54-year-old Louis Caporicci of Tampa as the pilot
and 55-year-old Kevin Carreno of St. Petersburg as the passenger.
Federal Aviation Administration records show that both the victims were experienced aviators.
Caporicci was a retired Air Force colonel. After finishing his service, Carreno continued to recruit for the Air Force Academy.
The airport closed after the crash and reopened Saturday.
National
Transportation Safety Board investigators say another plane took off at
the same time but it wasn't clear whether that contributed to the
crash. - AFT.
Teen Pilot, Girlfriend Survive Emergency Landing on Golf Course
Two high school seniors are recovering from various injuries after their
rental plane experienced engine failure and crashed on the way home
from a spring-break vacation.
Certified pilot Christian Dell, 17, and his girlfriend, Nicole Klusner,
18, of Andover, Kansas, had saved up their money to rent a small
aircraft for a few days of fun in Nashville, Tennessee.
The nearly two-hour journey home Friday was smooth sailing until the
last leg of the flight. "It just started spluttering and it ultimately
failed," Dell said.
Klusner said, "I didn't know what to do or what was going on. The first thing I thought about were my parents."
"I was just looking at him [Dell], trusting he knew what to do and praying to God that we were going to be OK," she added.
Indeed, Dell's emergency training kicked in as he missed Kansas homes
and power lines, and dodged trees, eventually crash landing the plane on
the 14th hole of a golf course.
Residents who saw the rough landing ran to the rescue, getting both
teens out and off to the hospital where they were treated for
concussions and head injuries. - ABC.
Pilot Dies in Fiery Plane Crash in Hawthorne
A small plane was destroyed and engulfed in flames when it crashed on a
busy street in Hawthorne upon takeoff from the Hawthorne Airport.
The pilot of an ultralight plane was killed in a fiery crash soon after takeoff from the Hawthorne Municipal Airport Monday.
Employees from Best Drilling and Pump, Inc., were working on tanks across from the site when an ultralight aircraft with a female pilot on board crashed around noon directly in front of them on West 120th Street.Byron Mayes said he's still trying to process what happened just a few feet from where he was working."All of a sudden, my partner started yelling, 'Watch out, there's a plane coming!' and it looked like the plane veered up, lost control and hit a couple feet away from the truck, a couple feet away from us," Mayes said.
Mayes said he and other employees ran over to the burning aircraft and pulled the pilot, whose legs were on fire, out of the plane before they got to the fire extinguishers.
"Our first thought was getting her out, making sure she was OK," he said.A cloud of black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky just minutes after the crash. Aerial video showed pieces of the plane scattered on the street near a large tree. - NBC.
Four people survive crash-landing that ripped light plane apart at Tooradin, south-east of Melbourne
Four people have had a lucky escape after a light plane crashed on landing at Tooradin Airfield. Picture: Christopher Chan.
Four people have minor injuries after their light plane crashed near the South Gippsland Highway at Tooradin.
The plane lost control after it was coming into land at the Tooradin Airfield about 1pm, authorities have advised.
Police say a strong gust of wind tipped the plane on its edge and it then careered into three other aircraft.
“It's clipped a couple of the other parked
planes and it's come to rest as we can see behind us in a fairly untidy
shape,” Acting Inspector Paul Bruders said.
Witnesses said the plane tumbled a number of times before it came to rest on the airfield.
“A cartwheeling plane came down the runway, hitting other planes,” one witness said.
A
five-year-old girl was among the four occupants of the plane, along
with the pilot, Stephen Hammond, and passengers Rachel Lehrer and Nathan
Hammond. - 9news.
2 Killed in Small Plane Crash at Tampa Airport
Two people died in the fire after a plane crash on Davis Islands in Tampa on Friday morning.(Photo: Tampa Police Department via the Tampa Tribune)
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board began an
investigation Saturday to determine what caused a small plane to crash
at Peter O. Knight Airport on Tampa’s Davis Islands, killing the pilot
and passenger.
The airport was closed after the twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed at about 11:30 a.m. Friday. It reopened Saturday evening
The
plane was engulfed in flames when firefighters were called to the
scene, and was completely destroyed in the crash. The names of the two
dead people, who were taking off from the airport and headed to
Pensacola, had not been released by Tampa police. The pilot is believed
to be a local resident, said Paul Cox, a senior air safety investigator
with the NTSB.
Cox said he expected a preliminary report on the
crash would be released in 10 days or less, but the full investigation
could take up to one year to complete.
“At this point we’re just gathering the facts,” he said.
Another
plane was taking off at about the same time as the Cessna 310, but
investigators don’t know if it had any role in the crash, or if that
plane’s pilot saw anything significant, Cox said.
“Whether the
accident occurred coincidental or as a cause of, I don’t know yet,” he
said. “You can’t just jump to a conclusion right at the beginning.”
Investigators have not spoken with the other pilot or taken witnesses’ statements yet, Cox said.
Wreckage
could be seen Saturday next to Runway 18, which runs north and south at
the north end of the airport along Seddon Channel.
Officials
planned to spend Saturday collecting evidence from the crash scene and
taking photographs before the wreckage ultimately is taken to a storage
facility in Jacksonville, but were delayed by rain in the early
afternoon. - PNJ.
Plane crashes onto Tallgrass Country Club golf course; two teens hurt
Authorities check out a plane that crashed on the 14th hole at Tallgrass Country Club on Friday afternoon. Fernando Salazar The Wichita Eagle
Nikki Womack was talking with her daughter in their front room Friday
afternoon when they saw a plane fly very low over their neighbor’s
house.
She ran to the back window just in time to see the plane crash on the 14th hole at the Tallgrass Country Club behind the house.
“I thought maybe it would flip, but it just hit real softly, pretty much,” she said. “It kind of bounced up” as it scraped through a sand trap and came to rest just short of the green.
Womack ran outside to see whether she could help, dialing 911 on the way. The occupants of the plane were two teenagers.
“A younger male got out first, and he was bleeding from the top of his head, but he was talking and looked me in the eye,” she said. “And then a girl got out behind him and she was bleeding and her eye was pretty damaged, but she was talking and walking.
“I said ‘lay down, lay down,’ so they both laid down, and I had 911 on the phone and I said ‘911’s on their way, you’re OK, you didn’t hit any houses, just lay there, it’s OK, nobody else is hurt. Just wait for them to get here.’ ”
Wichita Police Lt. Paul Duff said the pilot was a 17-year-old male and the passenger was an 18-year-old woman. He said the plane was en route from Nashville, Tenn., to Jabara Airport, which is just northeast of the crash site. - Kansas.
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Microlight plane crashes into field in Middle Stoke, Rochester
The aftermath of the crash. Picture: Max Williams
A pilot who died after a microlight plane hit a pylon and crashed into a field near Rochester has been identified.
The
56-year-old man from Essex was pronounced dead at the scene in Burrows
Lane, Middle Stoke after his aircraft came down at 4.15pm yesterday.
Emergency services arrived to find the plane engulfed in flames, and firefighters used foam to put it out.
The
Kent Fire and Rescue crew were joined on the scene by police, ambulance
teams, UK Power Networks and the Aircraft Accident Investigation
Branch.
A spokesman for the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch said they were looking into the incident.
Witness Max Williams was parked in nearby Upper Stoke talking on his phone when he watched the tragedy unfold.
The
22-year-old, of Heron Way, Lower Stoke, said: "I was watching the plane
thinking 'if that's coming in to land it's definitely going to have an
accident' as the runway was about 200 yards to the right of where the
plane was heading. - Kent Online.
