Plane Crashes

Russian passenger plane goes missing with 28 people on board​


A Russian Antonov An-26 airplane with 28 people on board, including the head of a local government, went missing on Tuesday in the far east Kamchatka peninsula, the country’s emergencies ministry said.

The plane, carrying 22 passengers and six crew members, was en route from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana in the northern part of the peninsula when it lost contact with air traffic control and disappeared from the radar, agencies quoted local officials as saying.


Olga Mokhireva, the head of the local government in Palana, was aboard the flight, the spokespeople of the Kamchatka government said.


A search and rescue operation is on and a probe into the incident has been launched, they said.

The plane belonged to a company called Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise. Two helicopters and an airplane have been deployed to chart the missing plane’s route.
 
Russian passenger plane goes missing with 28 people on board
Update:

Russian passenger plane crashes, killing all 28 people on board​

Twenty-two passengers and six crew members were on board


The wreckage of an aircraft that went missing on Tuesday morning has been found on the coastline of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula.

The Antonov-26 plane was carrying twenty eight people, including six crew, when it crashed. None are believed to have survived.

Debris from the twin-engined turboprop aircraft was spotted on the side of a mountain 4 km (2.5 m) from the plane’s destination, Palana, in the north of the remote peninsula. Another part of the fuselage was found floating in the Okhotsk sea, rescuers said.

The plane was due to land just before 1pm local time, but lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather shortly before final approach.

Sergei Gorb, deputy director of Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, said the plane “practically crashed into a sea cliff” not supposed to be in its landing trajectory. A severe side-wind may have contributed to the outcome, he suggested.

Russia’s aviation authority confirmed that conditions at the time of scheduled landing were difficult. Mountains around the airport had been enveloped in clouds, they reported, and there was fog from 300m upwards.


Other anonymous sources pinned the blame on the pilot, suggesting he had been disorientated by the bad weather.

“One working theory is that the aircraft could have crashed because of pilot error or bad visibility,” one such source, attributed to the emergency services, told a local news agency. There had been no warning of a malfunction, which indicated a “fast-moving situation”.

The Antonov-26 is a twin-engined plane. Produced in the USSR between 1969 and 1986, it has been involved in a substantial number of fatal accidents, with 132 total loss accidents reported as of 2021.

In 2012, an Antonov An-28 plane belonging to Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise crashed into a mountain while flying the same route as Tuesday’s flight.


A total of 14 people were on board and 10 of them were killed. Both pilots, who were among the dead, were found to have alcohol in their blood.

The plane in question was a passenger modified version of the An-26, and has been operational since 1982.

In comments to local news agencies, Alexei Khabarov, director of the operating company, Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, insisted the plane was technically sound before taking off from the regional capital of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Olga Mokhireva, the head of the local government in Palana, was confirmed among the presumed dead, a spokesman for the Kamchatka government said.

A probe into the incident has already been launched, with helicopters, an aircraft and several ships deployed to the crash site.
 
The pilot followed all parameters for a correct take off within the Russian regulations, but in very cold conditions adding that icing may have played a role in the crash.

Fortunately the pilots brought the craft down in the middle of tundra field. Which may have added to a positive outcome.
Never the less, a true miracle!

16 Jul, 2021 16:57 Video / Social Media
Russian miracle as all passengers & crew walk away from horror Siberian crash that saw Soviet-era turboprop plane land upside down
Russian rescuers searching for a plane that disappeared from radar en route to the Siberian city of Tomsk have now confirmed that all passengers and crew on board survived when the plane hit the ground and landed on its roof.

Officials put out an emergency warning when the AN-28 light aircraft lost contact on Friday. After a frantic search of its last known location, authorities announced that all 18 people had survived the impact.


Photos and videos emerging from the scene revealed that the plane, a Soviet-era turboprop jet, had landed intact, but upside down. A source from the Siberian Aviation Search and Rescue Center told Interfax that “when landing, the front landing gear dug into the ground and it flipped over on its back. But the fuselage is intact and, fortunately, no fire broke out.”

Representatives of the Siberian Light Aviation airline, which operated the flight, denied reports that technical problems had grounded the flight for six hours before it was due to take off. “The airline changed its plan,” a spokesperson said. “This is by no means a technical malfunction. Preparations for takeoff proceeded as usual. The delay had absolutely no effect.”

Earlier this month, a similar light aircraft, an AN-26, crashed into a hillside on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s Far East, killing all 28 people on board.

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Safety in Russian aviation has improved significantly in recent years. However, the use of ageing planes in remote regions, often in difficult or extreme weather conditions, leaves the sector vulnerable to mishaps.

July 16, 2021 at 12:54 pm
HUMBOLDT COUNTY (CBS13) — Authorities say a Sacramento County resident was among the four people killed in a small plane crash near the Dinsmore Airport in Humboldt County late Thursday morning.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office says the crash was reported just before noon and involved a fixed-wing, single-engine Mooney M20.

Exactly what led up to the crash is unclear, but the aircraft caught fire after it went down.

Four people were killed in the crash, the sheriff’s office said. On Friday, the sheriff’s office released the identities of all the people killed. Sacramento County resident Kenneth John Malinowski, 62, was among the victims.

The other victims have been identified as 69-year-old Los Angeles County resident Henry Punt, 63-year-old Orange County resident Steve Sanz, and 56-year-old San Bernardino County resident Jacquie Ann Figg.

No one else is believed to have been on board at the time, the sheriff’s office says. It’s unclear which of the victims was piloting.

Deputies say witnesses of the crash and nearby community members jumped into action to stop the aircraft fire from spreading to the surrounding woods.

Both the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

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July 19, 2021 Updated: July 20, 2021 8:45 a.m.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Navy helicopter crew looking for a hiker missing in some California mountains east of Yosemite National Park survived after they crashed near the tallest peak in Nevada, and both the searchers and the hiker were rescued over the weekend.

The four-member crew escaped injury but had to spend Friday night in the rugged wilderness before being rescued Saturday from a ridge along the California-Nevada line, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) south of Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, authorities said.

The Navy is investigating the cause of the crash reported about 5 p.m. Friday, Navy spokesman Zip Upham said Monday. The Navy MH-60 Knighthawk had been helping with the search for a lost hiker in the White Mountains in the Inyo National Forest.

Ronald Bolen, an Oklahoma University professor who was reported missing last week on a trail to Boundary Peak, was found by hikers late Saturday or Sunday in good condition and transported for medical treatment, the Mono County sheriff’s office said.

A family member told the Reno Gazette Journal that Bolen was dehydrated but otherwise in good shape.

Boundary Peak, near the California line about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of Yosemite National Park, is Nevada's tallest mountain at an elevation of 13,410 feet (4,005 meters).

The helicopter crash occurred at 11,700 feet (3,566 meters) in “very rugged terrain” in the national forest, Upham said.

“It's going to take us a little time to do the investigation because of where the aircraft rests,” he said. “After that, we'll see about removing the aircraft.”

A second Knighthawk helicopter left the air station after the crash and found the crew but was unable to safely rescue them.

A California National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter that performs better at high altitudes and is based at Mather Field in Sacramento returned Saturday afternoon to safely remove the crew members, Upham said.

“They had been on standby for firefighting so they were available,” he said.


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Side-note: Not so friendly ski's :shock:

 
17 Aug, 2021 10:37
A prototype of a Russian military transport plane has crashed just outside Moscow, killing all three people on board, media reported on Tuesday. The Ilyushin Il-112V aircraft was undergoing a test flight to the Kubinka air base.

The incident has been reported by the plane’s developer United Aircraft Corporation, which has not confirmed the fatalities so far.

According to a source for TASS, there were three people on board, including Honored Test pilot Nikolay Kuimov, who holds the status of Hero of Russia. Before the plane crashed, the aircraft’s right engine went on fire, causing the Il-112V to tilt to the right side. The aircraft began to lose speed before flipping over and falling to the ground, the news agency reports.


It is not yet known what caused the crash. Rostec, the parent company of the United Aircraft Corporation, revealed it would create a commission to investigate the accident, noting that it is still in its experimental stage.
The IL-112V is a new generation light transport aircraft built at the Voronezh Aviation Plant, around 500km south of Moscow. The plane is designed to transport military personnel, weapons, and other equipment, up to a maximum of five tons. It was initially manufactured as a passenger aircraft, before the military variant was created to transport troops.


 
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Two pilots were hospitalized and three people were treated for minor injuries after a military jet crashed in a Lake Worth neighborhood Sunday morning, officials say.

Lake Worth officials received a call at 10:53 a.m. about the downed plane in the 4000 blocks of Tejas and Dakota trails. Both pilots in the plane had ejected.

One was taken in critical condition by CareFlite to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and an ambulance took the other to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department.

They were not named, but the office of the Chief of Naval Air Training identified the two people in the Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer as an instructor pilot and a student aviator.

The jet was assigned to Training Air Wing 2 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, and was conducting a routine training flight from the Corpus Christi International Airport, the Chief of Naval Air Training's office said.

The cause of the crash had not been determined Sunday afternoon, and a safety team was on its way to assess the damage, the office said.

The plane came down in a neighborhood about one mile north of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

Three houses were damaged when the plane crashed into the backyards, and three residents from the houses were treated for minor injuries and released, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department.

One pilot was found in the powerlines with his parachute. The other pilot was found in a nearby neighborhood, Lake Worth Police Chief JT Manoushagian said.

The crash site is in a neighborhood designated by the military as being in an "accident potential zone," an area where an accident could occur because it is on approach or departure from the base, Manoushagian said.

Two off-duty Fort Worth firefighters ran to help the pilots, the fire department said, and one woman rushed to her older neighbors to get them away from their homes.

Kaitlyn Deramus lives on Tejas Trail and said she saw two people eject from the plane. She said she went to help her neighbors, one of whom was paralyzed, because she knew they'd need help getting out.

"I knew there are old ladies in that house that it happened at and I was banging on their door but they wouldn't come out because they thought it was just a car, so I grabbed them out," Deramus said. "The house behind that, I ran over to the next street and got that lady out of that house because she's paralyzed and she needed to get out."

Deramus was shaken but relieved that the residents were not injured.

"I'm having anxiety, but all I wanted to do was save those old ladies because I've known them since I was really, really, little," Deramus said. "They're OK physically."

Cara Campbell was blocks away from where the plane crashed when she said she saw one of the pilots land on the powerlines.

"I was in my car on [State Highway] 199 right in front of the donut shop when the pilot landed on the powerlines," Campbell said. "While driving, I heard a loud explosion and debris was hitting the car."

Lake Worth Fire Chief Ryan Arthur said the American Red Cross was on scene to help the residents whose homes were damaged.

"It's very fortunate that it could have been a lot worse if it had been a direct contact into a residence," Arthur said. "Fortunately that's not the case."

Utilities and other services to the roughly two to three-block radius around the crash site will be impacted for a couple of days, he said.

Oncor was working to restore power to the homes, the Fort Worth Fire Department said.

Anyone who finds debris is asked not to touch it, and to call the Lake Worth police non-emergency number at 817-237-1224.

Tyler Carter contributed to this report.


I'll bet five bucks that the flight controller was Vaxed.


My bad 2018 :-[
 



A Kalitta Air Boeing 747-400, registration N741CK performing freight flight K4-330 from Leipzig (Germany) to East Midlands,EN (UK), landed on East Midlands' runway 27 when shortly after touchdown and after engaging spoilers and reverse thrust the #3 engine (CF6, inboard right hand) emitted streaks of flames and a loud bang. The aircraft rolled out without further event, emergency services responded, the aircraft vacated the runway and taxied to the apron with the engine still running. Emergency services performed a runway inspection focussing on the area of the touch down zone runway 27.

Ground observer Tony Johnson reported the #3 engine obviously ingested something on landing and went bang.

The aircraft is still on the ground in East Midlands about 17 hours after landing.

Recording of live stream showing short final, landing, roll out and taxi (Video: Airshow World):​

Oct 1, 2021
 
I know, its not a plane crash, but I don't know where to post it, so...

Southwest Airlines cancels nearly 2,000 fights over the weekend and sights "bad weather" that did not exist. Other airlines where flying. This is not nothing, but what it is, nobody knows yet.

 
I know, its not a plane crash, but I don't know where to post it, so...

Southwest Airlines cancels nearly 2,000 fights over the weekend and sights "bad weather" that did not exist. Other airlines where flying. This is not nothing, but what it is, nobody knows yet.

Yes it is a sick out. The employees are not picking up the slack on open time trips or voluntarily extending their flying hours when asked to help out. This I know from a personal friend that’s a pilot at Southwest. No one is really owning up to what is going on but the employees are mad about the mandates and are taking a stand against it !!!!!!!! Hopefully a show of force can help our medical freedoms.
 
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I happen to work for Southwest. I’m a pilot as I’ve posted in the past. There is NO organized sickout or other here. Folks are burnt out after a summer of poor management decisions which left 500 guys on the street and then ramped up the schedule. Couple that with the timing of the mandate which isn’t sitting well with many and you have a recipe for staffing shortages.
 
Published October 12, 2021
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What to Know

  • On Oct. 11, 2021, a doctor piloting a twin-engine Cessna C340 crashed at around 12:15 p.m. in a neighborhood in Santee in east San Diego County, destroying two homes and a UPS truck
  • The plane was headed to San Diego from Yuma, Arizona; according to its flight path, it was supposed to land at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in Kearny Mesa but never made it
  • At least two people were killed in the deadly plane crash: The pilot, Dr. Sugata Das, and the driver of the UPS truck, Steve Krueger
It will likely be weeks or maybe even months before Santee residents know what happened Monday in the skies over that East County city, but a look at official records and a discussion with a local flight instructor may offer some clues into the cause of the fatal crash.

For that matter, it will be some time before there is official confirmation about who was killed in the plane piloted by Dr. Saguta Das. On Tuesday, county public information officer Chuck Westerheide told NBC 7 that official IDs will likely not come out for a few weeks.

However, discussions with a local flight instructor, Chris Sluka, examinations of Federal Aviation Administration records and a review of communications between Das and local air traffic controllers offer a picture of what was happening shortly after noon on Monday above Santee.

Das, a San Diego County resident of the Fairbanks Ranch community, had filed flight plans for Montgomery Field in Kearny Mesa, returning from a trip to Yuma, Arizona, a flight he made regularly while traveling for his work as a physician affiliated with the Yuma Regional Medical Center.

FAA records show that Das' flight experience and pilot training were well above average. In fact, he earned a commercial pilot certificate in October 2014, which would have allowed him to carry paying passengers. Specifically, he had an airplane multI engine rating and instrument airplane certificate, something most private pilots don't possess. The certification allowed Das to fly more types of planes with fewer restrictions. In the simplest of terms, an instrument rating means the pilot can fly a plane without seeing outside the window — or at night — relying instead solely on the plane's instruments.

Furthermore, Das appears to have a lot of flight experience. Since July 19, his twin-engine Cessna C340 made 25 flights, most of them between San Diego and Yuma, but he also took it up for some longer, three-hour flights as well.

San Diego flight instructor Christopher Sluka, who did not know Das personally, told NBC 7 that, based on Das' flight history, he wasn’t a typical weekend warrior, or even someone with a flying hobby. He believes that Das got around and definitely knew what he was doing.

Also, Das received a first class medical certification in August 2020, the most difficult medical-class certification, one that is expensive to obtain. In fact, only airline pilots are required to have that certificate, which means, as of last summer, he passed the most rigorous medical examination. Pilots over the age of 40 are all required need to pass an EKG test, something Das, a cardiologist, would have been well-versed about.

Sluka told NBC 7 that the average speed of descent is 500 feet per minute. At the time of the crash, Das is believed to have been flying at 3,800 ft per minute.

Sluka believes that fact, combined with an audio recording of Das' communication with air traffic controllers, makes Sluka suspect Das was disoriented and believed he was ascending when he was, in fact, descending, until he got out of the clouds, when it was too late to correct his trajectory.

In an audio recording of Das' exchanges with air traffic control, a controller can be heard telling Das his plane was too low and instructing Das to climb to 4,000 feet, and then Das confirming receipt of the instructions.

“Low altitude alert, climb immediately, climb the airplane,” the controller told Das.

However, the controller did not see an adjustment made and repeatedly urged Das to climb to 5,000 feet. When the aircraft remained at 1,500 feet, the controller warned: “You appear to be descending again, sir.”

Sluka believes the reason for the crash was either disorientation or that Das had suffered a medical incident.


Either way, Sluka said, “the plane wasn’t falling out of the sky, it was flying,” Sluka said.


Al Diehl, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator, said the recording between air traffic control and Das indicates he was trying to deal with a major distraction or significant emergency on his own, breaking a basic rule that aviators should always tell controllers everything.


“The first thing you do when you’re in trouble is call, climb and confess — and he did not do any of the three," Diehl said. “These are very basic rules that flight instructors tell their students.”


Diehl, who helped design a Cessna cockpit, said the twin-engine aircraft has a complex system that could lead to deadly mistakes.


Clouds and windy weather may have complicated Das' ability to handle the aircraft, Diehl said.


Das and another man, Steve Krueger, a local UPS delivery driver, were killed at the scene, and two other people were hurt as well. A pair of homes were destroyed and five others were damaged.


On Tuesday, three investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrived in Santee to look into the deadly crash.


NTSB officials will be assessing the scene of the crash, gathering as much information as possible to determine what caused the tragedy.


"Part of the investigation will be to request radar data, weather information, air traffic control communication, airplane maintenance records and the pilot’s medical records," a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement. "NTSB investigators will look at the human, machine and environment as the outline of the investigation."


The NTSB spokesperson said a preliminary report on the investigators' findings is expected to publish Oct. 26 -- 15 days after the crash.



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