Jet Aviation Casualties

We (Airbus) regret to confirm that Flight 1354, an A300-600F operated by UPS was involved in an accident in Birmingham, Alabama.

Apparently...more problems were happening than previously thought if this link is to be believed.

http://www.wave3.com/story/23139002/faa-records-show-past-safety-problems-for-ups-plane

United has issued the following statement: “During routine overnight maintenance, the nose gear of a 767 collapsed while parked at a gate. No passengers were on board at the time, and there were no injuries. The aircraft has been removed from service while we perform a full review.”

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More on the UPS cargo plane A300-600F that crashed...

http://news.yahoo.com/ill-fated-ups-jet-autopilot-seconds-crash-234540961.html

The pilot of a small plane that crashed into two Connecticut homes this month, killing him, his son and two children, told airport personnel just before the crash he had "visual contact" with the airport and was preparing to land, according to a preliminary report. The pilot, Bill Henningsgaard, and his 17-year-old son, Maxwell, were on a trip on August 9 to visit colleges when the plane crashed into a Connecticut neighbourhood as it approached Tweed-New Haven Airport. The two other victims, 13-year-old Sadie Brantley and her one-year-old sister Madisyn Mitchell, were inside one of the houses at the time of the crash. The mother of the two girls, Joann Mitchell, was home at the time but was not injured. The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said there were gusty winds of up to 22 mph and limited visibility at the time of the crash.

"It's just far too early to know what caused this crash and often it is a combination of factors. It may take up to a year to make that determination," said NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson. Less than two minutes before the twin-engined propeller plane struck the homes, Henningsgaard, a retired Microsoft executive, told the air control tower he could see the runway and was preparing to land, the report said.

The plane, which had taken off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, was less than a mile from the runway at 11:20 am when it suddenly became inverted, according to the report. The report cites an interview with a student pilot who was driving eastbound nearby on Interstate 95. "The airplane was inverted and travelling at a high rate of speed, nose first, towards the ground in the vicinity of where (the airport) was located," the witness, who was not named, was quoted as saying.

(Reuters)

Air New Zealand Bombardier Q300 landing successfully with a stuck nose gear. Well done, pilot! but look at the emergency response! Good on them too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8Ip9dU2CM

Another Air New Zealand incident with stuck gear...this time a Beech 1900 with all 3 gear stuck...belly landing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZvNmt57rE

A United Airlines flight with 116 passengers onboard made an emergency landing after engine failure.

Check out this picture of a B747 Pullmantur's wing stuck between two street lamps at Madrid airport last Sunday, on September 1st, 2013. Yes the aircraft is in Saudi Arabia's livery because it was leased to them from Pullmantur I believe.

From Airbus Twitter...

More on it here in case you haven't heard about it since yesterday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/09/travel/thai-airways-skids-off-runway/index.html

It has been their second incident in 2 weeks. The other was with one of their A380s that encountered heavy turbulence.

Not sure which airline this was but shows fire from the starboard engine it appears...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EVVRH2eJ4Q4#t=15

A Mooney M20 aircraft nearly clipped several cars on its way to crashing into trees in proimity to Route 50 in Bowie, Maryland, according to eye-witnesses. The accident occurred around 3:45 in the afternoon on Labor Day afternoon. A number of drivers pulled over to assist those aboard the downed airplane. All three individuals in the Mooney sustained serious injuries, and two had to be extracted from the airplane at the crash site.

A small light aircraft landed on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago after it experienced mechanical problems.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/77503820/Video-Small-plane-lands-on-Lake-Shore-Drive

Unfortunate events here

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57604922/united-jetliner-makes-emergency-landing-in-boise/

Pilots of a TAM Airbus A319 did not cope effectively with unreliable airspeed indications after the aircraft collided with a plastic banner being towed by a hot air balloon, blocking four air data sensors. The aircraft struck the banner at 12,000ft after taking off from Rio de Janeiro on 17 June 2011, as it flew the standard PORTO 6 departure from Santos Dumont airport.

Nigerian authorities have confirmed that a regional aircraft has crashed during take-off from Lagos, Nigeria. Photographic evidence from the scene depict the aircraft being an Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia. It was operating an internal flight to the city of Akure, according to updated information from the Nigerian airspace management agency NAMA. It had originally indicated that it was heading for Benin.

Six persons on board the Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop that crashed recently appeared to have survived. The aircraft crashed after take off from Lagos, during a private charter flight to Akure. The aircraft had departed from the domestic wing of Lagos's Murtala Mohammed airport, says Nigerian aviation minister Stella Adaeze Oduah, with 20 on board including the crew.

Remember that Asiana 777 that crashed-landed in SFO.

Apparently the two pilots that crashed the plane will return to service, however, as ground crew. That's quite a demotion!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/pilots-on-asiana-s-crashed-plane-return-to-work-as-ground-staff.html

Nigeria's aviation minister has caused outrage by calling air crashes inevitable acts of God, as she sought to deflect criticism of her record after the country's second deadly accident in 15 months. Stella Oduah was speaking to journalists at the presidential villa on Monday, three days after sixteen people were killed in a small passenger plane that crashed shortly after take-off outside Lagos airport's domestic terminal. In June last year, a Dana Air flight crashed into a Lagos apartment block, killing 163 people in the country's worst airline disaster in two decades.

An investigation has yet to reveal the cause.

"We do not pray for accidents but it is inevitable... We do everything to ensure that we do not have accidents, but it is an act of God," she said. "We do not speculate on the cause of accidents." Oduah later qualified her comment, saying that everyone from baggage handlers to regulators, airlines and management shared responsibility for passenger safety and that a preliminary report into the latest crash should be out in a couple of weeks. But Nigerian newspapers and Twitter exploded with angry responses. Former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode was quoted in Vanguard local daily as calling for her resignation.

The Punch newspaper quoted popular blogger Japheth Omojuwa as saying: "If God is in charge of safety in the aviation sector, we are then duplicating roles by paying a salary (to the minister)... When you start passing the buck to God, then the time has arrived to pass on your resignation letter." The belief that fatal accidents are acts of God, or of malevolent spirits, is common in Nigeria and many other African countries. Air crashes are relatively frequent in Africa's second biggest economy, where a sophisticated financial sector and large professional class depend on flights, although safety improved a lot in the years just before the Dana crash.

(Reuters)