Plane Crashes

Updated 29 minutes ago 6-29-19 Multiple Vid's
All 10 people aboard a plane that crashed into a hangar at Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, Sunday morning have died, according to an official with the National Transportation Safety Board.

A twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air crashed just after 9 a.m. Sunday, killing two crew members and eight passengers on board, NTSB Vice Chair Bruce Landsberg said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane had just taken off for St. Petersburg, Florida, when it crashed into the private hangar. There was no one inside the hangar at the time of the crash, but two aircraft, a helicopter and a jet were damaged, Landsberg said.
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The aircraft that crashed was destroyed by the fire, according to a statement sent out by the FAA. The hangar took damage from the impact of the crash and the fire after the fact.

The airport was closed for about 45 minutes after the crash, but operations then resumed as usual.

Investigators said the preliminary crash report would be completed in about two weeks, but it could take longer to complete the "heavy lifting."

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The aircraft had apparently changed hands recently, but it was previously owned by a charter company based in Chicago, Landsberg said.

Dallas County was helping the city of Addison set up a family assistance center for people affected by the crash, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. The center is staffed with chaplains, counselors and other mental health and support workers, he said.

"It's a horrible, sad, shocking thing to lose a family member like this," Jenkins told The Associated Press. "So we're doing whatever we can to comfort them."

NTSB investigators arrived at the airport around 7 p.m. Sunday. They asked that anyone who witness the crash or has video of it to email them at witness@ntsb.gov.

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Emergency services have rushed to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, as a plane prepared for an emergency landing with damaged landing gear. The plane later landed safely.

More than 100 ambulances were scrambled to the scene on Monday afternoon, as the airport announced its highest emergency level.
The plane circled over the airport to shed fuel. It later landed safely, with no injuries reported.

The Electra Airways Boeing 737-400 series aircraft departed Cologne in Germany at 11am local time on Monday. Shortly after takeoff, ground crews in Cologne discovered debris from a blown out tire left behind on the tarmac.




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Body found in London garden of stowaway who fell from Kenya Airways jet

July 1, 2019 - The body of a man thought to have been a stowaway who fell from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight on its way into Heathrow Airport has been found in a garden in London, police said on Monday.

London’s Metropolitan Police said they were called to a home in Clapham in south London on Sunday after the body was found. A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out and the man has not yet been identified.

“At this point, police believe the man was a stowaway and had fallen from the landing gear of an inbound Kenya Airways flight to Heathrow Airport,” police said in a statement.

“A bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment once it landed at the airport.”

Body found in London garden fell from Heathrow-bound plane from Nairobi
Body found in London garden fell from Heathrow-bound plane from Nairobi
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A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, according to police. (AP/2015 File Photo)

LONDON: A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, landing in a south London garden, police and airline officials said Monday.

The Metropolitan Police force said the body of an unidentified man was found in a residential garden in south London’s Clapham area on Sunday, and it’s believed he fell from a plane.

He has not yet been identified. Police said a post-mortem would be held to determine the cause of death.

Kenya Airways said police traced the body to its Nairobi-London flight. A bag, water and food were discovered in the plane’s landing-gear compartment after it landed.

The airline called the death “unfortunate” and said it was cooperating with British and Kenyan authorities.

Stowing away in a plane’s undercarriage is exceptionally dangerous. Experts believe roughly three-quarters of stowaways do not survive because of the extreme cold and lack of oxygen as the plane reaches cruising altitude.

Though not common, stowaways have in the past plunged to the streets of London as planes lowered their landing gear. In September 2012, a 30-year old from Mozambique, Jose Matada, died after falling from the undercarriage of a Heathrow-bound flight from Angola.
 
BOSTON: A fire aboard a Virgin Atlantic flight headed to London forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Boston.
Massachusetts State Police said in a news release that the crew extinguished the fire, which a preliminary investigation says probably started with a phone charger that ignited in a passenger seat.

Virgin Atlantic plane makes emergency landing in Boston after fire on board
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An Airbus A 330-300 plane from Virgin Atlantic landing at the Miami International Airport. (Shutterstock)

July 05, 2019 - All 217 passengers on Flight 138 from New York as well as the crew were safely evacuated after landing. One passenger refused treatment for a smoke-related complaint.

A Virgin Atlantic statement says the flight was bound for London’s Heathrow Airport.

It was the second unusual landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Thursday. Earlier, an American Airlines jetliner from Chicago declared an emergency when a cockpit light indicated an unspecified potential mechanical problem as it approached the city, but the plane landed without incident.
 
Billionaire US coal magnate & 6 others die in helicopter crash off Bahamas . . .
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A wealthy West Virginia coal mine owner, his daughter and five others died when their helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Bahamas en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The helicopter crashed near the island of Walker’s Cay, local media reported on Thursday. Aboard were Chris Cline, a billionaire mining entrepreneur from West Virginia, his daughter, and five other people a helicopter mechanic from Florida. The helicopter was reportedly returning to Florida due to the possible illness of someone on board.

Cline founded Foresight Energy in 2006 to focus on high sulfur and high Btu coal, earning Bloomberg’s endorsement as “the New King Coal” for his success in the industry, and sold most of his stake in the company for $1.4 billion in 2015. Cline died with an estimated net worth of $1.8 billion. He had two sons and two daughters and had dated Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods’ ex-wife, after divorcing his second wife.

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice confirmed reports of Cline’s death on Twitter. The two had worked together at Pioneer Fuel before Cline started his latest venture.
 

Boeing makes $100 million pledge for 737 MAX crash-related support
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is pictured at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition fair (LABACE) at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo

Boeing Co said on Wednesday it would give $100 million over multiple years to local governments and non-profit organizations to help families and communities affected by the deadly crashes of its 737 MAX planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The move appears to be a step toward repairing the image of the world’s largest planemaker, which has been severely dented by the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane in March just five months after a similar crash of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.

The two crashes killed a total of 346 people.

Boeing is the target of a U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation into the development of the 737 MAX, regulatory probes and more than 100 lawsuits by victims’ families. The multi-year payout is independent of the lawsuits and would have no impact on litigation, a Boeing spokesman said.

The $100 million, which is less than the list price of a 737 MAX 8, is meant to help with education and living expenses and to spur economic development in affected communities, Boeing said. It did not specify which authorities or organizations would receive the money.

Many of the passengers on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight were aid workers or involved with health, food, or environmental programs. “If the money is spent on furthering the work of the people on that airplane it would be money well spent,” said Justin Green, a New York-based attorney representing several of the Ethiopia crash victims.

But he said the fund would not affect his clients’ courtroom strategy: “What families really want to know is why this happened. Could this have been avoided?”

Anton Sahadi, a representative of relatives of the Lion Air crash victims, said the families appreciated the $100 million fund but it did not mean they would stop lawsuits. “We will continue to fight for our rights in the courts,” he said. “Boeing is doing this to build their image back.”

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Ethiopian crash families criticize Boeing over donation plan
FILE PHOTO: American civil aviation and Boeing investigators search through the debris at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 12, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

The families of victims of an Ethiopian air disaster on Thursday criticized Boeing's plan to donate $100 million to unspecified charities and communities affected by two crashes, saying it was too vague and that families should have been consulted first.
 
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Passengers Heard ‘Boom’ Before Delta Flight 1425 Engine Failed in Flight [VIDEOS]
Updated Jul 9, 2019 at 8:05pm Snip: 5-7 minute Read
Passengers on Delta Flight 1425 on Monday, July 8, 2019, are saying that the flight had to make an emergency landing because something flew into an engine, causing it to fail. The pilots and crew were able to make a safe, emergency landing and no one was injured. But passengers are voicing concern that Delta may be downplaying what happened. Business Insider reported that Delta later confirmed the left engine had failed, after initially saying the flight was diverted as a precaution. You can see videos shared by the passengers and learn more about what happened below.

The flight left Monday at 12:348 p.m. from Hartsfield-Jackson International, heading for Baltimore-Washington International. But about an hour into the flight, it diverted and made an emergency landing after reporting an issue with an engine.

Delta did not initially confirm that an engine failed. In a full statement emailed to WRAL, a Delta spokesperson said: “The flight crew of Delta flight 1425 from Atlanta to Baltimore elected to divert to Raleigh, N.C., out of an abundance of caution after receiving an indication of a possible issue with one of the aircraft’s engines. The flight landed without incident and customers will be re-accommodated on an alternate aircraft.”

Passengers say it was more serious than Delta originally indicated and they were told on the flight that an engine was out.

Here is a video shared on Twitter that seems to show a metal part of some sort bouncing inside the engine, possibly causing the issue. Twitter user @RAREsheis said she did not take the video below herself, but she was on the flight. She said the video was airdropped to her from another passenger. She wrote: “Dear @delta since you guys are not releasing what happened to our flight yesterday, flight 1425 Atlanta to Baltimore which made an emergency landing in Raleigh, maybe this video will help the investigation. A piece of the plane flew into the engine and caused it to fail.”

Other passengers on the flight are confirming what @RAREsheis said happened, and other passengers on the flight have also said they received the same video from the passenger on the plane. Here’s a photo of something in the engine during the flight, from the video she shared:


One video was shared on Facebook by Becca Montouth but was later taken down. Users in a professional pilots discussion forum said they took the following screenshot from that original video. They advise that anyone who sees this happening should not stay and take a video but should get away from the engine and perhaps try to move a couple rows forward of it.




Easyjet Airbus A320 (OE-IVI on #EJU8868 to Gatwick) and a KLM 737-800 (on #KL1699 to Madrid) were damaged in a ground collision during push-back at Amsterdam-Schiphol Intl Airport (EHAM). Both aircraft were withdrawn from service for inspections. @Schiphol @ytekedejong



 
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About two dozen people were injured when an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Australia hit heavy turbulence over the Pacific Ocean. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Honolulu airport.

The flight AC33 experienced heavy turbulence on Thursday and was forced to turn back, requesting an emergency landing at Honolulu airport. While the landing itself went smoothly, a number of people, including one crew member, were injured in the turbulence

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The number of injured was initially put at 25, but was later bumped up to 35.

Many of the people received head and neck injuries, CTV News reported, citing a source. Such injuries indicate that the passengers were basically flung out of their seats when the aircraft hit the ‘bumpy’ spot above the Pacific.

The affected people are being examined by medical personnel, an Air Canada spokesperson told the channel.

We are currently making arrangements for the passengers including hotel accommodations and meals in Honolulu, as well as options for resumption of the flight,” the spokesperson said.

The plane, a Boeing 777-200, has reportedly had around 270 passengers and 15 crew members on board.

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Flights at Gatwick Airport were suspended for about two hours due to an issue with its air traffic control systems.
Twenty-eight flights were cancelled and 26 diverted to other airports after the problems began at about 17:00 BST.
The airport said it had experienced a problem in its control tower.

Flights are still delayed by an hour or more, with cancellations expected throughout the evening, Gatwick said.

The effects were felt at airports across Europe, with many inbound flights to Gatwick cancelled and others expected to be delayed by about three hours.

Passengers due to travel to or from the airport have been advised to check for updates with their airline.

EasyJet said Gatwick was operating at a "reduced rate" and apologised for the disruption, which it said was "outside of our control".
A spokesman said the airport aimed to return to a full schedule on Thursday without delays, adding: "The ambition is it should run as usual."

Colin Franks, who was due to board an EasyJet flight to Palma, Spain, at 18:00 said he was "trapped between the boarding gate and the air bridge".

He said the plane's pilot had spoken to passengers, adding: "He said they had been given a provisional [take off] time of 10pm.
"At the moment, everybody is talking to one another and it's quite cheery. There are a lot of children here."

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In December flights were suspended for 30 hours after drone sightings, causing chaos for 140,000 passengers.
A senior Sussex Police officer said the airport was not prepared for an attack by more than one drone. (:whistle:)
 


Magnicharters flight 801 was forced to return to Puerto Vallarta after incident on takeoff this 14 July 2019.
The Boeing 737-300 (reg. XA-UUI, built 1995) to Mexico City safely returned to land at Puerto Vallarta (MMPR), Mexico following a birdstrike in engine #2 after take-off.


 
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British and Lufthansa Airways have abruptly suspended flights to Cairo, Egypt. It might be due to a rash of beheadings and suicide bombings and general unrest near airports?

British Airways suspends flights to Cairo for seven days
Exterior of Terminal 1 is pictured at Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, July 21, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
British Airways and Lufthansa abruptly suspended flights to Cairo from Saturday over security concerns, but giving no details about what may have prompted the move.

Air France, Emirates maintain Cairo flights after British Air suspension

Air France <AIRF.PA>, Emirates and Etihad Airways are continuing to operate flights to Cairo after British Airways and Lufthansa <LHAG.DE> suspended services to Egypt's capital.


Two killed in suicide bombing, four beheaded in Egypt's North Sinai, sources say
CAIRO July 18, 2019 - A suicide bombing killed at least two people in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there, security and medical sources said.


The victims of the bombing were a civilian and a member of the security forces, the sources said.

An Egyptian military spokesman said in a statement that security forces killed the bomber before he reached a checkpoint, which was his intended target. The spokesman confirmed that a member of the armed forces was killed after the bomber’s explosive belt detonated.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack via its Amaq agency, saying five members of the security forces were killed or injured.

Islamist militants, some linked to Islamic State, are active in the Sinai Peninsula, and security forces launched a major operation there in February last year.

Thursday’s bombing took place at a car park in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, near the border with the Gaza Strip, a security source and a medical source said.

Separately, two security sources said four headless bodies were found in an empty street in the North Sinai town of Bir al-Abd on Wednesday. Their families had reported that the four men, aged 23 to 51, had been kidnapped, the sources said.

A security source and three residents said that militants stopped several cars before taking five people away and forcing them to lie down on the ground. They killed four and kidnapped the fifth, the security source and the residents said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the beheadings via the Amaq agency, saying the four were spies for the Egyptian military. A security source said the security services were trying to find and identify the perpetrators.

The Egyptian military, which launched its campaign in Sinai after a jihadist attack in November 2017 on a mosque in which hundreds of worshippers died, says hundreds of militants have been killed in the campaign.
 
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PHOENIX — A 14-year-old is dead and four other teens were critically injured after a dump truck and car collided in Phoenix Sunday morning.



Police say, rescue crews were called to the scene near 51st Avenue and Thunderbird Road around 4:40 a.m.

Police say a Hyundai was traveling southbound on 51st Avenue and ran a red light at Thunderbird Road. The driver, a 16-year-old boy, collided with an eastbound garbage truck driving through the intersection on a green light.

After the collision, the cars crashed into two trees nearby. The two vehicles came to a resting point and the garbage truck tipped over on top of the Hyundai.

Glendale and Phoenix fire crews arrived on scene and began lifesaving efforts. One passenger from the Hyundai, a 14-year-old girl, was pronounced deceased at the scene. Another 14-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy, and two 16-year-old boys were transported to the hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries, authorities say.

The garbage truck driver, a man in his 50s, suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to Phoenix police.
Impairment was not a factor, police say, however, speed and failure to yield may be contributing factors to the crash.

British and Lufthansa Airways have abruptly suspended flights to Cairo, Egypt. It might be due to a rash of beheadings and suicide bombings and general unrest near airports?

By hatem maher Jul 21, 2019, 2:18 PM ET
British Airways' abrupt decision to suspend flights to Cairo for seven days is not related to security concerns at the Cairo airport, an official at the airline told ABC News on Sunday.

"We have no concerns over security at Cairo Airport. The decision is purely related to the airlines," said Sherif Barsoum, British Airways' regional director. "The British team that inspected the airport last week found nothing alarming; it was a positive visit."

The British government issued a travel warning for Egypt on Saturday citing a “heightened risk of terrorism against aviation." British Airways and German carrier Lufthansa suspended flights to Cairo as a security "precaution." British Airways flights were suspended for seven days, while Lufthansa flights were scheduled to resume on Sunday.
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"There’s a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation," the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said in a statement on Saturday. "Additional security measures are in place for flights departing from Egypt to the UK. You should co-operate fully with security officials at airports."
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European safety agency issues alert for the Airbus A321neo due to ‘excessive pitch’ anomaly. (link: http://breakingavnews.com/2019/07/19/european-safety-agency-issues-alert-for-the-airbus-a321neo-due-to-excessive-pitch-anomaly/) breakingavnews.com/2019/07/19/eur…





 





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Fuel shortage - cancellations of flights:

Fuel supply outage disrupts flights at Amsterdam airport
Passengers and staff wait at Amsterdam Schiphol airport during an outage at the airport's main fuel supplier that kept dozens of flights on the ground, in Amsterdam, Netherlands July 24, 2019.  REUTERS/Anthony Deutsch

Passengers and staff wait at Amsterdam Schiphol airport during an outage at the airport's main fuel supplier that kept dozens of flights on the ground, in Amsterdam, Netherlands July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Anthony Deutsch

Air traffic to and from Amsterdam Schiphol airport was seriously disrupted on Wednesday because of an outage at the airport's main fuel supplier that kept dozens of flights on the ground.

AMSTERDAM July 24, 2019 - Air traffic to and from Amsterdam Schiphol airport was seriously disrupted on Wednesday because of an outage at the airport’s main fuel supplier that kept dozens of flights on the ground.

A fault in the systems of Aircraft Fuel Supply, a third-party company that controls the supply of fuel to aircraft, meant at least 70 planes could not be provided with the fuel they needed to depart.

“Almost 180 flights have been canceled by airlines,” the airport said early on Wednesday evening, adding that the amount of incoming flights had been reduced to one third of normal capacity.

Airline Air France-KLM said it expected problems to persist on Thursday, possibly leading to more cancellations then.


The only planes able to take off were those that still had enough fuel in their tanks upon arrival in Amsterdam, a Schiphol spokeswoman said.

“Aircraft Fuel Supply are working hard to find a solution, but as yet it is unclear how long this will take”, she added.

Wednesday was one of the busier days in the summer holiday period at Schiphol, Europe’s third largest airport in number of passengers per year.
 
Second report within a week that "technical problems" are causing delays in Heathrow and Gatwick airports.

Air traffic control problems causing delays at London Heathrow and Gatwick
FILE PHOTO: Aircraft come in to land and take off from Heathrow airport in London, Britain, October 30 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Flights are being delayed at Britain's two busiest airports, London's Heathrow and Gatwick, following technical problems at the main air traffic control center for southern England, air traffic authorities said on Friday.

“We have a technical problem with a system at the Swanwick Air Traffic Control which is causing some flight restrictions. We are doing all we can to fix it as soon as possible,” Britain’s NATS air traffic control service said.

Eurocontrol, NATS’ pan-European equivalent, said the outage was causing a high level of delays at Heathrow and Gatwick, though they appeared to be easing.

British Airways to resume flights to Cairo on Friday
FILE PHOTO: British Airways logos on aircraft tail fins at Heathrow Airport in west London, Britain, February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

British Airways, part of International Airlines Group <ICAG.L>, will resume flights to Cairo following a week-long suspension over security concerns, the airline said on Friday.
 
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