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Discussion in 'Jet Aviation Discussion' started by Jet News, Dec 29, 2012.

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    Taiwanese authorities launched an investigation into the crash of a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane in which 48 people were killed with the weather expected to be a factor in the inquiry. The plane, a 70-seat ATR 72, crashed on Wednesday evening near the runway while trying to land on the small island of Penghu, west of Taiwan, after a typhoon had passed earlier in the day. The aircraft had 54 passengers and four crew on board. Two of the dead were French, the French foreign ministry said, and 10 people were injured and taken to hospital.

    The leaders of rivals China and Taiwan both offered their condolences over the deaths. Taiwan's civil aviation authorities said the weather had been suitable for flying. "There were nine flights on the same route between 2 pm and 7 pm yesterday. Only the TransAsia flight crashed," said Jean Shen, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. "The weather reports showed it was totally OK for landing," she said, adding that authorities were not ruling anything out. "We can not say for sure what went wrong at this point. The flight safety committee has opened an investigation."

    The flight data and voice recorders had been found and officials would begin examining them later in the day, she said. Alison Kao, a TransAsia spokeswoman, said the weather could have been a factor but the airline was not jumping to any conclusions before the investigation. The aircraft took off from the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung, heading for Makong airport in the Penghu islands, but it crashed just short of the runway on its second attempt to land during a thunder storm. No one on the ground was hurt. Airline seats and life jackets were strewn around the crash site and the roof of a nearby building was destroyed. Victims' families were heading there, officials said. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou said in a statement all of the island's people were grieving. "Today is a very sad day in the history of Taiwan aviation," Ma said.

    China's president, Xi Jinping, who is on a Latin America tour, felt "deeply grieved" after learning of the casualties, the mainland's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said in a statement, according to media. The mainland and Taiwan have been rivals for decades, with the mainland regarding Taiwan as a renegade province, though commercial relations have grown in recent years.

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    Typhoon Matmo hit Taiwan on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong wind. It later passed the island and headed to China and was downgraded to a tropical storm. Taiwan has had a poor record for aviation safety over the last two decades, though it has improved recently after the government tightened safety measures. TransAsia had been involved in eight "incidents" since 2002, including this latest one, according to data on the website of the Aviation Safety Council. It had a fatal accident in 2002 when a cargo plane carrying two pilots crashed into the sea. TransAsia and bigger rivals, China Airlines and Eva Airways, have been facing pressure from higher energy prices and increasingly popular budget airlines.

    (Reuters)
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    Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of the Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed all 116 people on board, French officials said. Investigators at the scene of the crash in northern Mali concluded the airliner broke apart when it hit the ground, the officials said, suggesting this meant it was unlikely to have been the victim of an attack. "French soldiers who are on the ground have started the first investigations. Sadly there are no survivors," French President Francois Hollande told reporters. A column of 100 soldiers and 30 vehicles from the French force stationed in the region arrived early on Friday morning to secure the crash site near the northern Mali town of Gossi and recover bodies, a Defence Ministry official said. Hollande said one of the flight data recorders had already been recovered and would be analysed quickly.

    "The plane's debris is concentrated in a small area, but it is too early to draw conclusions," Hollande said of the wreckage of the plane carrying 51 French nationals that crashed near the border with Burkina Faso, from where it had taken off. "The are theories, especially the weather, but I'm not excluding any theory." Aviation officials lost contact with flight AH5017 at around 01:55 GMT on Thursday, less than an hour after taking off for Algeria, following a request by the pilot to change course due to bad weather. "The aircraft was destroyed at the moment it crashed," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RTL radio.

    Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier said the strong smell of aviation fuel at the crash site and the fact that the debris was scattered over a relatively small area also suggested the cause of the crash was linked to weather, a technical problem or a cumulation of such factors. "We exclude - and have done so from the start - any ground strike," Cuvillier told France 2 television. Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was due to visit the crash site later on Friday. France deployed troops to Mali last year to halt an al Qaeda-backed insurgency and has about 1,600 soldiers there predominantly in the northern city of Gao.

    Other than the French nationals, Burkina Faso authorities said the passenger list included 27 Burkinabe, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, five Canadians, four Germans, two from Luxembourg, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukranian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian. Spanish private airline company Swiftair, which owned the plane, said the six crew were Spanish. It confirmed in a statement on Friday that the wreckage of the plane had been found in Mali without survivors, adding it was too early to talk about the causes of the accident.

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    Clearly has not been a very good week for aviation in general... another fatality.

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    A man was killed and his daughter seriously injured when they were struck by a 1972 Piper Cherokee making an emergency landing on Caspersen Beach in in Englewood, Florida. Witnesses say the Cherokee landed just feet from the water’s edge, with the wing potentially extending over the water, as the 36-year-old father and his 9-year-old daughter were walking along the beach Sunday afternoon. The 57-year-old pilot and his 60-year-old passenger were not injured during the landing.
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    A United Airlines Boeing 777 made an emergency landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Tuesday night after a small fire broke out in a galley on the aircraft. The landing was one of two that came in a span of about three minutes, according to the CBC. The network reports that an Air Canada Boeing 767 headed from Montreal to Frankfurt made an emergency landing in Halifax "about two minutes later ... due to a medical emergency on board."

    As for the United incident, it occurred on Flight 999 as it was en route from Newark to Brussels. It had 293 passengers and 13 crew members on board, according to The Chronicle Herald of Halifax.
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    Malaysia has declared a national day of mourning on August 22, when 16 bodies from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, downed over eastern Ukraine last month, are due to arrive from the Netherlands. The government said it would decide next week if the day will also be a public holiday, with the closure of public offices and financial markets. Twenty-four of the 43 Malaysians on the flight have been identified by Dutch investigators almost a month after the airliner carrying 298 people was downed on July 17.

    "The names of the victims will be released on the day they are brought back to Malaysia," Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin told reporters. "As for now, it is a national day of mourning, not a public holiday. We will discuss with the cabinet about this matter." Authorities say that 15 of the 16 bodies to be brought back are those of Malaysians, while the last is a Dutch national, whose remains have been requested to be buried in Malaysia. At least two Malaysian women on board are known to have been married to Dutch citizens. Of the 43 Malaysians aboard the flight, 15 were crew and two were infants.

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    The plane that was involved in the crash was a Cessna Citation XL



    Reports say the crew aborted a landing in poor weather after a flight from Rio de Janeiro. They were attempting to head for an alternate when the crash occurred about 35 miles from Sao Paulo. All seven aboard the jet died, including the pilots, a reporter, a photographer and two campaign aides. (FLYING)
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    A sad aviation event is being reported in Grand Bahama this afternoon where we at Bahamas Press can confirm that an aircraft has crashed landed and all persons onboard have perished. BP agents now on the ground at the crash site confirm four persons crash landed just 5 miles near Freeport in a mangrove area off Grand Bahama Island. Police had received initial information from Grand Bahama control towers confirming that a twin engine Cessna aircraft, travelling from Morgan Beach Central Florida enroute to Freeport Grand Bahama sometime around 10:30 am crash-landed some five miles in waters northwest of Freeport Grand Bahama.

    At this hour teams from BASRA, The Police and the Defence Force are working together with Coast Guard officials and are attempting to make recovery efforts at the crash site. The plane’s debris are situated across shallow waters, which is making recovery difficult.
    The Cessna aircraft had taken off Monday from Ormond Beach Municipal Airport in Florida and was heading to Freeport, Bahamas when it crashed. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Gabe Somma of the US told reporters authorities have located debris in the water and are searching for any sign of the four people who were aboard the aircraft. A Coast Guard helicopter is assisting the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and local volunteers in the search.
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    A six-seat Piper PA-46 crashed in Erie, Colorado, around noon on Sunday as it was approaching the Erie Municipal Airport in the northwest corner of the Denver metropolitan area, killing five people aboard. The airplane was returning from a flight to Centennial Airport in the southern part of Denver, the local 9NEWS station reported. The pilot has been identified as Oliver Frascona, a real estate lawyer who lived at the Erie Airpark. Also in the Malibu Mirage were Frascona's girlfriend, her three sons and a dog. All aboard died in the crash. (FLYING)
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    A small plane crashed minutes after take-off in Colombia's southern jungle on Saturday, killing all 10 people aboard, the country's civil aviation agency said. "The plane was found, broken apart and burned, 10 km (6 miles) from populated areas in the municipality of Puerto Santander, Amazonas department," the agency said in a statement. The Air Force was carrying out the effort to retrieve the bodies of the eight passengers and two crew members, who were travelling to Florencia, the capital of Caqueta department. The aviation agency said there was little chance of finding survivors.

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    The fatal crash of a United Parcel Service cargo plane at an Alabama airport last year resulted from pilot errors that caused it to clip trees and hit the ground just short of the runway, the NTSB said on Tuesday.
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    The U.S. Navy has identified Lt. Nathan Poloski, a 26-year-old from Lake Arrowhead, California, as the pilot who was presumed killed in a collision between two F/A-18C Hornets over the Pacific Ocean on September 15. Poloski was declared presumed deceased after the two Hornets collided during a routine flight off the USS Carl Vinson, the Navy said. A 2009 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Poloski was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron VFA 94 in Lemoore, California.
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    Royal Jordanian A340 clips Delta at JFK

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    While, not quite a jet, certainly did make a spectacular crash. The Nasa Antares 130 rocket that was intended to deliver supplies to the ISS never made it pass a couple seconds of flight after lifting off. It lost lift and crashed onto the pad and exploded.