Plane Crashes

Meridian Air An-12 cargo aircraft crashes in Northern Greece, killing its 8 crew
From RT
The plane that crashed in Greece was carrying 11.5 tons of Serbian defense products to Bangladesh
17 July 2022, 10:24
Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovich said that the Ukrainian An-12 aircraft that crashed in Greece was carrying 11.5 tons of defense products from Serbia to Bangladesh.

AP He said this at a briefing at the Serbian Ministry of Defense.

“The plane that crashed in Greece at night, An-12, was carrying 11.5 tons of our defense industry products for Bangladesh. All eight crew members, unfortunately, died, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier it was reported that an aircraft of the An family crashed west of the city of Kavala in eastern Greece.
 
Mystery Ghost airplane
flying across Europe and then crashes in the Baltic Sea


‘Ghost flight’ crashes into Baltic Sea​

A private jet with four on board has supposedly flown across half of Europe with no one in the cockpit, according to the media

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Swedish authorities have launched a major search-and-rescue operation

after a private jet crashed into the sea off the coast of Latvia, Swedish and German media report. The jet, which took off from southern Spain on Sunday, reportedly flew over several European nations with supposedly no one in the cockpit, according to the media reports.

The private jet, identified by the German tabloid Bild as a US-made Cessna aircraft, was heading from the southern Spanish city of Jerez to Germany’s Cologne. According to the media, at least six people were onboard, including a pilot, a man, a woman and a young girl. Their identities have not been made public so far.

The pilot reported some “air pressure issues”

in the cockpit soon after takeoff but the jet continued its flight, according to Bild. Air traffic control officers lost contact with the aircraft at some point as it was over the territory of southern France, according to the media. French and Spanish fighter jets were then scrambled to check up on the plane.

According to Bild, the fighter jets’ pilots, who discovered the private aircraft still flying, failed to spot anyone either in the cockpit or in the cabin. Yet, they allowed the jet to continue on its course. The private aircraft did not land in Cologne and continued its flight northeast.

Another fighter jet was scrambled from a German base in Rostock, according to Bild. Its pilot also failed to find out what was happening on board, although the military aircraft escorted the private jet up to the north-eastern German island of Rugen, the paper added.

According to the Flightradar24 monitoring website, the “ghost flight” as it was already being dubbed by some media, maintained a steady altitude of 11 kilometers and a speed of around 670 kilometers per hour for most of its flight. After it had flown over the southern tip of the Swedish island of Gotland, it started losing both speed and altitude before eventually disappearing from the radars over the sea northwest of the Latvian city of Ventspils.

The Swedish Maritime Administration and the nation’s coast guard sent a helicopter and an airplane to the potential crash site. A Stena Line ferry was also diverted to assist in the rescue efforts, the Swedish media reported.


“There is no hope for survivors,”

Johan Ahlin, a Maritime and Air Rescue Center official, told the Swedish media, adding that “the crash was only a matter of time.” The Swedish Maritime Administration also said that “small pieces of wreckage and oil slicks” on the water were found at the potential crash site.

The circumstances surrounding the “ghost flight” remain largely a mystery. It is not the first such incident, though. In June, an unidentified aircraft managed to fly over several European nations without approval before its crew vanished without a trace.

In the June case, however, the plane that took off from Lithuania safely landed at an abandoned airfield in Bulgaria. Its crew managed to flee the scene and remain unidentified. Officials in several countries were closely following the flight, with the US, Hungarian, and Romanian air forces sending military jets to escort it at various points. The escorts broke off when it entered Bulgarian airspace, though.
 
More about the plane crash in the Baltic Sea
5 Sep 2022

For once, this is an article referred from the Swedish leading mainstream newspaper DN.se. Translated it reads following:


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Aircraft with four on board crashed in the Baltic Sea

Drones are deployed on Monday morning to find the downed private plane with four people on board that crashed into the sea off Latvia. The plane was supposed to have landed in Cologne but continued through Swedish airspace towards the Gulf of Riga.

- The fighter pilots who went up from Germany and Denmark could not see anyone in the cockpit, says Johan Wahlström at the Swedish Maritime and Air Rescue Centre.

The private plane, an Austrian-registered Cessna 551 built in 1979, took off from southernmost Spain at 14.57. According to German Bild, the pilot had received an indication of a problem with the cabin pressure and lost contact with air traffic control somewhere over northeastern France. The paper says that in addition to the pilot, there was a man, a woman and their daughter on board.


As the plane passed Cologne airport
where it was due to land, air traffic control tried to contact the pilot but received no reply. Instead, German fighter jets were sent up and then Danish ones as the plane continued on a straight course out over the Baltic Sea. None of the pilots could see anyone in the cockpit, according to the Maritime and Air Rescue Centre. After passing Cologne, it continued over the German island of Rügen just before 7pm on Sunday. It entered Swedish airspace a short while later, passing south of Gotland and continuing towards the Gulf of Riga.


At 19:35, the plane began to lose altitude and speed.
A few miles off the coast of Latvia, the plane also began to turn sharply. Shortly before 20:00, the plane disappeared from the Flightradar website.

Just before 8pm, the JRCC reported that the plane had disappeared from radar. Later, a Swedish rescue helicopter found wreckage and an oil slick in the water. The crash site is about 4 miles northwest of the Latvian city of Ventspils.

- The site of the accident has now been confirmed. What the next step is is up to Latvia, says Johan Ahlin at JRCC.


At 20:00, the Swedish rescue helicopter
was 15 minutes from the suspected accident site, but then had to go to Ventspils in Latvia to refuel. Latvia had then officially taken over the rescue operation. A few minutes after 21:00, the Swedish operation was interrupted when two Swedish Coast Guard aircraft left the area.

The Latvian Maritime Rescue Centre confirms to DN that it has taken over the search. In an email to DN, the Latvian rescue management writes that they have a total of eight aircraft and ships deployed in the search.

"First on the scene were two of the Swedish Coast Guard's aircraft and the ferry M/S Urd from Stena Line," writes the Latvian Rescue Centre. Urd sails between Nynäshamn and Hanko.

As late as 00:30 on Monday night, no trace of the aircraft had been found by the Latvian aircraft and vessels: - "But wreckage and oil were found early and we know the exact location as well as the time of the crash."

On Monday morning, a specially-equipped drone from the European Maritime Safety Agency in Estonia was deployed in the search. The Swedish Armed Forces are also taking part in the work, but will not comment until their job is completed.

- What I can say is that we are in control and we are doing everything we can," says Lotta Börjesson, on-call communicator at the Swedish Armed Forces. Similar incidents have happened before, but they are rare, says aviation expert Jan Ohlsson. One of them is a drop in cabin air pressure.

- If you don't have proper cabin pressure on board, you gradually lose consciousness without realising it, says Jan Ohlsson.


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Some images

i gathered from the Internet according to the airplane type (Cessna 551 built in the year of 1979)

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Here is the data of the plane

Curiously, at Swedish DN, in the images they showed in their article (which I didn't put into my entry above); the plane's registration "OE-FGR" was blurred out for unknown reasons. Which i think is just plain silly... But then there are so many things newspapers do nowadays, which are silly (mildly spoken).

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Seems the Cessna OE-FGR registered in Austria ended up spiraling on its fall:


Also, the crash has got a dedicated Wiki page with more details

It seems like the autopilot climbs to 36.000 ft and continues the journey via Poitiers, Paris, Luxemburg to Euskirchen – as it was supposedly saved in the Flight Management System. In Euskirchen, supposedly the pilot wanted to take over for approach into Cologne (15:50 UTC). Since the pilot was seemingly unconscious, the plane just continued in a straight line for the next 1h41m (17:36 UTC) on course 54 degrees. The Cessna then starts descending and turning to right to course 116 degree, seemingly handing for approach at Ventspils International Airport. It is probably that instead the right engine failed and therefore the change of course was initiated. It seems like 3 minutes later (17:39 UTC) the left engine also failed as OE-FGR continued to fly straight forward on 116 degrees before starting to loose speed and altitude (17:40 UTC), eventually crashing (17:42 UTC) in the Baltic Sea. ...

Reportedly 4 people from Germany were on board: the pilot, Peter Griesemann, his wife Juliane, their daughter Lisa (who also has a pilot license) and a friend of the family.

ASN accident database record.
 
Or you can lose consciousness for other reasons : 💉
I thought of that possibility too, albeit reading now that the daughter also had a pilot license, makes it less likely that it was a jab stroke being the cause.

Or wait a minute… if the father was the pilot, and let me assume that there was already something off with his condition prior (e.g. being less focused in all the procedures prior and during take off ) - he may very well have failed with pressurizing the cabin. Then, his daughter’s pilot license would not have saved anyone, since hypoxia would affect them all. But… that is pure speculation from my side.

And there is always a possibility of sabotage by a hidden hand, for reasons unknown.
 
Missing plane found?

Costa Rica authorities find wreckage believed to be from plane carrying German entrepreneur

German entrepreneur Rainer Schaller, known for his line of fitness studios, was among the passengers on a plane believed to have crashed in Costa Rica, authorities from the Central American country said on Saturday.

Costa Rican authorities said they found wreckage earlier Saturday about 17 miles (28 km) from Limon airport believed to be from a private plane carrying Schaller, the founder of Germany's McFit gym chain, and some members of his family.

Schaller, 53, was traveling with other Germans including a 44-year-old woman, a 40-year-old man and two minors. The pilot, 66, was a Swiss citizen, according to Costa Rica's security ministry.

Costa Rican authorities received an alert on Friday night about the missing plane, which was en route from Mexico to Limon, Security Minister Jorge Torres said earlier.

The aircraft had lost communication with the control tower near Barra de Parismina, a few minutes from Limon, according to Torres.
 
23 Oct, 2022 10:54
Both pilots were killed, but the governor says there were no civilian casualties
Russia's Emergencies Ministry reported on Sunday that two pilots died when a Su-30 fighter jet crashed into a two-story house in the southern Siberian city of Irkutsk. Local Governor Igor Kobzev said there were no other casualties.

A ministry statement explained that the aircraft was conducting a test flight when it crashed. Irkutsk is a major centre for Russia's avitation industry, and a production hub for Sukhoi military planes.

The plane nosedived into a two-story building, causing a blaze which spanned some 200 square meters, the governor wrote on Telegram.

Around 150 homes in the area have been left without electricity due to damaged power lines, with repairs currently underway, Kobzev said.

The governor also promised that the owners of the affected buildings will receive compensation from the government.


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The Emergencies Ministry said firefighters, who swiftly arrived on site, were able to promptly localize and extinguish the blaze.

The Investigative Committee has clarified that the Su-30 was on a test flight, with no ammunition on board.

READ MORE: Moment of Russian fighter jet crash caught on camera VIDEOS

An informed source told RT that the plane had been circling around Irkutsk for around 20 minutes before going down.

Another fighter jet had been sent up to figure out what the problem was. When it approached the Su-30 it became clear that both pilots were unconscious, the source said. “The situation couldn’t be fixed and the plane crashed into a residential area,” he added.

The incident saw one home completely destroyed and another partially damaged, according to the source.

It is the second such incident in Russia this week, following a disaster in Krasnodar Region on Monday, which left 15 people dead and 26 injured.


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Missing plane found?

Published: Oct. 24, 2022 at 12:19 AM GMT+2 | Updated: 4 hours ago
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Authorities in Costa Rica have found two bodies in the search for six people, apparently including the German businessman behind Gold’s Gym, who went missing when their small plane disappeared from radar just off the country’s Caribbean coast.

The Security Ministry said the bodies of one adult and one child had been found, but that the bodies had not yet been identified.
Searchers also turned up backpacks and bags, and pieces of the plane.

All five passengers were believed to be German citizens, said Security Minister Jorge Torres. The plane’s pilot was Swiss.
Costa Rican authorities said pieces of the twin-engine turboprop aircraft were found in the water Saturday, after the flight went missing Friday.

A flight plan filed for the small plane listed Rainer Schaller as a passenger. A man by the same name runs international chains of fitness and gym outlets, including Gold’s Gym and McFit. At least one other of those aboard the plane seemed to be a relative of Schaller, but the relation was not immediately confirmed by authorities.

Searchers are concentrating on a site about 17 miles (28 kilometers) off the coast from the Limon airport.

The plane was a nine-seat Italian-made Piaggio P180 Avanti, known for its distinctive profile. It disappeared from radar as it was heading to Limon, a resort town on the coast.

The security minister said the flight had set out from Mexico.

“Around six in the afternoon we received an alert about a flight coming from Mexico to the Limon airport, carrying five German passengers,” Torres said. A search started immediately but was called off temporarily due to bad weather.

Rainer Schaller is listed as “Founder, Owner and CEO of the RSG Group,” a conglomerate of 21 fitness, lifestyle and fashion brands that operates in 48 countries and has 41,000 employees, either directly or through franchises.

The RSG Group did not respond to requests for comment on whether Schaller had been aboard the plane.

Schaller was in the news in 2010 for his role as organizer of the Berlin Love Parade techno festival. A crush at the event killed 21 people and injured more than 500. Authorities at the time said Schaller’s security failed to stop the flow of people into a tunnel when the situation was already tense at the entrance to the festival grounds.

Schaller fought back against the accusations of wrongdoing, noting that his security concept received official city approval.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
 
Yes, sadly the airplane crashed on the just north of Mount Etna Volcano in Sicily. It seems like the plane made a too narrow angle/curve at the same time being crazy close to the ground, and shortly after hitting it with the wingtip - from which they couldn't recover. It felt strange to watch the video; that the pilots would do such a dangerous manoeuvre while at the same time releasing the water. Like... too many things going at the same time, without really having any margins for it. Why would somebody do that ?




 
Commercial flights with only one pilot ? :scared:

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The article is not about airplane crashes, but... it appears, they are pushing the boundaries in the field of aviation. The thought of a single jabbed pilot on a commercial flight, doesn't sound very convincing...


EASA looks into possibility of single-pilot flight operations for commercial air transport​

By Bart Noëth • 23 November 2022

European aviation regulator EASA is looking into the possibility to start single-pilot flight operations. In a ICAO working paper, EASA requested – on behalf of member states – that the “necessary enablers” be created “for a safe and globally harmonized introduction of commercial air transport (CAT) operations of large aircraft with optimised crew/single-pilot operations while ensuring an equivalent or higher level of safety compared to that achieved in current operations.”

While manufacturers are confident about the implementation, pilot associations are more cautious. What in case of an incapacitation ? How about a toilet break ? And will passengers and cabin crew members feel confident?

Next to tackling pilot shortages, the single-pilot concept should also see a reduction in operating costs, the working paper mentioned, but “Potential additional costs related to higher-level ground support and two-way communications should also be considered. On the aircraft manufacturer side, the development and certification of new cockpit designs and associated systems may require significant investment, although these will likely produce safety benefits and savings in the medium/long term.

The objectives

  • assess the issues and the feasibility of the implementation of eMCOs in the EU regulatory framework by 2025 by developing a reference risk-assessment framework and investigating a series of key safety hazards and mitigations listed in this document;
  • assess the issues and the feasibility of the implementation of SiPOs in the EU regulatory framework by 2030 through a preliminary analysis of the related main safety hazards.
The main tasks and deliverables will address the following critical areas
  • Pilot workload: Ensure that the workload of the single-pilot during the cruise phase of the flight is acceptable in normal, abnormal, and non-normal operations.

  • Pilot error: Ensure that the cockpit design is appropriately tolerant of errors, noting that when operating as single-pilot, there is no scope for cross-checking actions by another pilot.

  • Pilot incapacitation: Detect whether the single-pilot during the cruise phase of the flight is no longer fit to fly. Ensure that the level of safety remains acceptable in case of pilot Incapacitation.

  • Fatigue: Ensure that the level of fatigue remains at least as acceptable as for conventional two-pilot operations.

  • Sleep inertia: Ensure resilience of the aircraft and of the operational environment for the time required for the resting pilot to recover sufficiently from the effects of sleep inertia that they can either take command of the aircraft and continue to a safe landing in case of incapacitation of the pilot-flying or be able to assist the pilot-flying with a complex failure scenario.

  • Breaks due to physiological needs: Allow the single-pilot to temporarily leave their station to attend to their physiological needs during an eMCO segment of the flight while ensuring an acceptable level of safety and security.
 
Crash of Piper aircraft in Medellin, Columbia
22 Nov 2022


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Article by André Orban, aviation24.be

Crash of Piper aircraft in Medellin, Colombia, kills 8 people

On the morning of this Monday, 21 November, a small plane that was transporting six passengers and two pilots crashed in the Belén Rosales neighbourhood of Medellín (Antioquia, Colombia). All eight persons onboard perished in the crash.

This was reported by the mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, who indicated, through his Twitter account, that “all the capabilities of the administration have been activated to help the victims.

The accident occurred to a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain aircraft registered HK-5121 that departed from Medellín in the direction of the municipality of Pizarro (Chocó). The plane sustained engine problems shortly after takeoff from Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD). It crashed into a residential area and was destroyed by fire. The aircraft conducted a flight for travel agency Grupo San Germán Express SAS.



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