Timeline Airline Crashes and Airplane Bombings
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1912
Jul 1, Drama critic Harriet Quimby (b.1875) took
a passenger up in her new Blériot monoplane from Boston to
fly over Dorchester Bay at the Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet. As she
descended for landing, the plane went into a dive and, without seat
belts, she and her passenger were thrown out into the shallow water
of the bay, where they struck the muddy bottom and were crushed to
death. Quimby was the first American to receive a pilot's license
(1911) and was the first woman to solo across the English Channel
(1912). Her interest in flight was piqued at an aviation meet in
1910.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimby)(HNPD, 7/31/98)(ON,
1/00, p.11)
1927 Apr 26, US Navy officers
Cmdr. Noel Davis and Lt. Stanton Wooster were killed when their
aircraft crashed near New York while trying to take off with a huge
load of fuel for a final test flight prior to an attempt to cross
the Atlantic.
(ON, 2/08, p.1)
1927 May 8, French pilots
Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli took off from Paris in their
airplane named L’Oiseau Blanc (the White Bird), in an attempt to
cross the Atlantic. Pilots and plane vanished during the flight.
(ON, 2/08, p.2)
1935 Oct 30, The US Army Air
Corps held a competition to see which company would build the
country’s next-generation of long-range bombers. Boeing’s “flying
fortress” crashed shortly after takeoff and Martin and Douglas won
by default.
(Econ, 1/16/10, p.84)
1937 May 6,
At 7:25 p.m. the giant German airship (dirigible or zeppelin)
Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed to the ground as it
attempted to dock with a mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station
in New Jersey. Carrying 36 passengers and 61 crew, Hindenburg left
Frankfurt on May 4 for its first transatlantic voyage of the 1937
season. A total of 36 died when the fire ignited the 16
hydrogen-filled cells and destroyed the zeppelin in only 34 seconds.
It was 803 feet long and had private rooms for 50 passengers. It had
an 11,000 mile range. A newsreel film of the Hindenburg Disaster was
made. The true cause of the disaster remains a mystery, although
crash investigators considered claims that Hindenburg was lost due
to sabotage or an accidental charge of static electricity.
(TMC, 1994, p.1937)(Hem., 1/96, p.108)(AP,
5/6/97)(SFC,11/21/97, p.C17)(HNPD, 5/6/00)
1942 Jan 16, Actress Carole
Lombard and her mother were among some 20 people killed when their
plane crashed near Las Vegas while returning from a tour to promote
war bonds.
(AP, 1/16/00)
1942 Oct 23, Ralph Rainger
(41), pianist and song writer, was among 12 people killed when their
DC-3 crashed after being clipped by a B-34 bomber flown by Army Lt.
William Wilson, who had wanted to thumb his nose at Louis Reppert, a
flight school buddy and co-pilot of the DC-3. An Army court-martial
panel later exonerated Wilson, who had been charged with
manslaughter. Rainger’s songs included “Love in Bloom” and “Thanks
for the Memories,” which Bing Crosby made a hit in 1934.
(WSJ, 12/30/08, p.D7)
1942 Nov 2, An amphibious
aircraft foundered in rough weather, in the waters surrounding what
is now the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern
Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine, in
the US, and serviced an airfield in the village of
Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec. Four of the crew escaped the
flooding plane and were rescued by local fishermen rowing out from
shore in open boats in rough seas. Five others perished, trapped
inside. In 1941 and 1942, the US had constructed a series of
airfields in Eastern Canada to ferry aircraft to Allied air forces
in Northern Europe, as part of the so-called "Crimson Route."
Wreckage of the downed plane was found in 2009.
(AFP, 8/7/09)
1943 Jun 14, A US Army B-17
took off from Mackay, Australia, and crashed in fog at nearby Bakers
Creek, killing 40 of the 41 servicemen crammed into the bomb bay and
crannies of the aircraft. Wartime censorship restrictions suppressed
news of the crash.
(AP, 6/14/03)
1943 Jul 4, A Liberator II
aircraft carrying Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Poland’s prime minister
and chief army commander, crashed into the sea just 16 seconds after
taking off from Gibraltar. In 2008 Poland began an investigation
into the crash.
(AP, 9/3/08)
1943 A Vultee BT-13 Valiant
disappeared on a flight from San Antonio, Texas, to Chile. Pilot
Werner Martinez and Sgt. Tomas Ayala were on ill-fated flight, which
crashed in Costa Rica. In 2008 police were led to the crash site
after an anonymous caller reported seeing a local resident carrying
plane parts in the town of San Isidro de El Guarco.
(AP, 2/27/08)
1944 Nov 30, A US Navy
reconnaissance plane crashed into the south face of Mount Tamalpais,
in Marin County, Ca. 8 Navy fliers were killed.
(SSFC, 11/29/09, p.A1)
1945 May 28, In California the
engine of Helldiver aircraft from an aircraft carrier failed and the
pilot ditched the plane in a San Diego reservoir. The pilot and
gunner swam to shore. In 2009 fisherman spotted the plane and set in
process plans to retrieve the plane.
(SFC, 5/28/10, p.C3)
1945 Jul 28, A twin-engine U.S.
Army B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the
78th and 79th floors and killed 14 people. The plane’s propellers
severed elevator cables and sent one on a 38-story fall in which the
operator survived.
(SFC, 2/24/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A1)(HT,
5/97, p.26)(AP, 7/28/97)
1948 Mar 12, In Alaska 24
merchant marines and six crewmen were flying from China to New York
City, when their DC-4 slammed into Mount Sanford killing all 30.
Pilots Kevin McGregor and Marc Millican discovered some mummified
remains in 1999 while recovering artifacts to identify the wreckage
they had found two years earlier.
(AP, 8/17/08)
1948 Jun 17, A United Air Lines
DC-6 crashed near Mount Carmel, Penn., killing all 43 people on
board.
(AP, 6/17/98)
1950 Jun 23, Northwest Airlines
Flight 2501, a DC-4 propliner operating its daily transcontinental
service between New York City and Seattle, crashed into Lake
Michigan killing 58 people. This was to date the worst commercial
airliner accident in American history.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Flight_2501)(AP,
3/30/11)
1950 Nov 5, A US bomber caught
fire and crashed while flying over China’s southern Guangdong
province. Its mission was not known. Records and eyewitness accounts
indicated that four bodies were buried at the crash site, while the
fate of the other 11 on board wasn't clear.
(AP, 10/27/09)
1951 Nov 18, Two 4-engine
Korean airlift planes collided above Oakland Municipal Airport. One
plane crashed and the crew of 3 were killed. The other made an
emergency landing at SFO.
(SFC, 11/16/01, WB p.G4)
1952 Sep 6, An engine on a de
Havilland 110 plane falls into a crowd at Farnborough Air Show in
England. Thirty people on the ground and the pilot are killed.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1953 Oct 29, A British airliner
with 11 passengers and 8 crew crashed into Kings Mountain, 10 miles
west of Redwood City, Ca., and all aboard were killed. William
Kapell (b.1922), genius pianist, died in the crash. He was returning
from a tour in Australia when his airplane crashed into a mountain
outside San Francisco. A set of his 1944-1953 recordings was
released in 1998 by RCA. In 1999 BMG released "The William Kapell
Edition," a nine-disk set.
(SFC, 10/24/03, p.E10)(SFEC, 11/29/98, DB
p.44)(WSJ, 2/1/99, p.A19)(WSJ, 5/24/08, p.W12)
1955 Apr 11, Just before the
Bandung conference, an apparent attempt to kill China's then-Premier
Zhou Enlai resulted in the deadly crash of a chartered Air India
plane. Declassified Chinese documents have suggested that Taiwanese
agents placed the bomb in the mistaken belief that Zhou was on
board. The device detonated as the Lockheed Constellation, named
Kashmiri Princess, was descending north of Jakarta. It caused a fire
that forced the pilots to ditch the airliner. The co-pilot, flight
engineer and navigator managed to swim to safety, but 16 other
passengers and crew members drowned. They included six journalists
and Air India's chief pilot, Capt. D.K. Jatar.
(AP,
4/24/05)(www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=236591)
1955 Oct 13, A US Air Force
B-47B crashed while taking off from March Air Base in California.
Capt. Edward A. O'Brien Jr. (Pilot), Capt. David J. Clare
(co-pilot), Major Thomas F. Mulligan (navigator), and Capt. Joseph
M. Graeber (chaplain) were all killed.
(www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbadate.asp?thedate=551013&Submit2=Go)
1955 Oct 15, Richard Martin
Theiler (28) was in the front seat of the Lockheed-Martin T-33A that
went missing just after takeoff from the Los Angeles International
Airport. In 2009 aviation archaeologist G. Pat Macha and a group of
volunteers found the plane underneath 100 feet of water.
(AP, 9/30/09)
1955 Nov 1, A time bomb aboard
United DC-6 killed 44 above Longmont, Colorado. Jack Gilbert Graham
rigged a time bomb for the Denver to Seattle flight and put it into
his mother’s suitcase in order to collect the insurance money.
Graham was executed in the gas chamber Jan 11, 1957.
(MC, 11/1/01)(AWC, 1982)
1956 Jun 30, A United DC-7 and
a TWA Lockheed Constellation collided during a thunderstorm over the
Grand Canyon (Arizona) killing all 128 people.
(WSJ, 6/20/06, p.D3)(SFC, 6/30/09, p.D8)
1956 Oct 15, Pan Am Flight 943,
enroute to Hawaii from San Francisco crash landed in the ocean. All
31 aboard were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain.
(SFC, 1/24/09, p.A1)
1957 Mar 17, In the Philippines
a plane crash on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu killed Pres. Ramon Magsaysay
(b.1907). 25 of the 26 passengers and crew aboard were killed.
(AP,
8/2/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay)
1957 Nov 8, Romance of the
Skies, a Pan Am luxury airliner enroute to Hawaii from San
Francisco, crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Only a handful of bodies
and some wreckage were found. A crew of 6 and 38 passengers had been
booked on the flight.
(SSFC, 11/4/07, p.A1)
1958 Mar 22, Movie producer
Mike Todd (56) and three other people were killed in the crash of
Todd's private plane near Grants, N.M.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1958 Aug 14, KLM
Superconstellation crashed west of Ireland, killing 99.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1959 Feb 3, A plane crash
near Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rock- and-roll stars
Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17) and J.P. "The Big Bopper"
Richardson (28). They had just finished performing at the Surf
Ballroom in Clear Lake. Buddy Holley and the Crickets had 2 hit
songs "Oh Boy" and "Maybe Baby," Valens had the 2-sided hit "Donna"
and "La Bamba," Richardson was popular for his song "Chantilly
Lace."
(AP, 2/3/97)(WSJ, 2/25/99, p.A16)
1959 Feb 3, An American
Airlines Lockheed Electra crashed into New York's East River while
approaching LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
(AP, 2/3/08)
1960 Oct 5, A Lockheed Electra
turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor and 62 people died. The plane
had flown into a flock of starlings.
(MC, 10/5/01)(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A21)
1960 Oct 29, Chartered C46
carrying Cal State's football team crashed and 16 people were
killed.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1960 Dec 16, A United Air Lines
DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over Staten Island, New
York City. 134 people were killed including 128 people on both
planes.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_bi_ge/us_midair_collision_anniversary)
1961 Jan 24, A B-52 carrying
two nuclear bombs near Goldsboro, North Carolina encountered a
violent gust. The giant plane rolled completely over, came upright,
and continued rolling inverted a second time before whipping into a
vicious flat spin and breaking up.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)
1961 Feb 15, 73 people,
including 18 figure skaters from the United States, were killed in
the crash of a Boeing 707 in Belgium. The skaters were en route to a
world meet in Czechoslovakia.
(HN, 2/15/98)(AP, 2/15/98)
1961 Sep 1, TWA Flight 529, a
Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, crashed shortly after
takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 73 passengers
and 5 crew on board; it was at the time the deadliest single plane
disaster in US history.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_529)
1961 Nov 8, Imperial Airlines
Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation L-049 four-engine propliner,
aircraft crashed as it attempted to land at Byrd Field, near
Richmond, Va. It was chartered by the US Army to transport new
recruits to Columbia, South Carolina, for training.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Airlines_Flight_201/8)
1962 Mar 1, American Airlines
707 plunged nose 1st into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 16, US Lockheed
Super-Constellation disappeared above Pacific Ocean and 167 were
killed.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1962 Aug 23, A Colombian DC-3
plane crashed in the Choco jungle killing over 30 people including
two Americans, the first Peace Corps volunteers to die in service.
(SFC, 8/25/11, p.A3)
1963 Mar 5, A private plane
crash near Camden, Tenn., claimed the lives of country music
performers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins.
(AP, 3/5/98)
1964 May 7, A disturbed man
entered the cockpit of a Pacific Airlines flight and killed pilot
Ernie Clark (52). All 44 people aboard the Fairchild F-27A died as
the plane crashed in San Ramon, Ca.
(SFC, 10/9/09,
p.D12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773)
1964 Aug 12, Charles Ogle, land
investor, vanished after flying out of Oakland, Ca., en route to
Reno, Nevada.
(SFC, 9/10/07, p.A1)
1965 Feb 8, Eastern DC-7B
crashed into the Atlantic off Jones Beach, NJ, and 84 people were
killed.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1966 Jan 17, Two US Air Force
jets collided in the skies over Spanish coastal village of
Palomares. The mid-air crash of the B-52 bomber and a KC-135
refueling plane killed 8 crew members. The real scare was a missing
hydrogen bomb which was found 2 months later, intact, in nearby
waters.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1966 May 27, 6 French fighters
crashed above Spain.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1966 Jun 24, A Bombay to NY Air
India flight crashed into Mont Blanc (Switz) and 117 died.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1966 Jul 24, Oakland-born
golfer Tony Lema (32), while flying with his wife Betty to an
exhibition match in Chicago, Illinois, crashed on the seventh hole
of a golf course in Lansing, Illinois, after their chartered
twin-engine Beechcraft Bonanza ran out of fuel. All four people on
board were killed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Lema)
1968 Jan 21, An American B-52
bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed at North Star Bay,
Greenland, killing one crew member and scattering radioactive
material. Reports began to surface later and in 1995 the Danish
government paid a $15.5 million settlement to some 1,700 exposed
workers.
(www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2004/2004-08-09-02.asp)(AP, 1/21/08)
1968 Aug 10, In West Virginia
35 people were killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild
FH-227 at Kanawha County Airport.
(AP, 8/10/08)
1969 Sep 9, Allegheny Flight
853 collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 were killed.
{Air Crash, Indonesia, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853)
1970 Feb 15, A Dominican DC-9
crashed into sea at Santo Domingo and 102 people were killed.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700215-0)
1970 Feb 21, The PFLP-GC, a
Palestinian terrorist group, planted a parcel bomb on Swissair
Flight 330 that blew up on a flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv. All 47
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 5/21/02,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_330)(Econ,
11/6/10, p.74)
1970 Jul 3, A British Dan-Air
charter, flying a Comet 4 turbojet, crashed near Barcelona and 112
were killed.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=834)
1970 Oct 2, A plane carrying
the Wichita State Univ. football team crashed near Silver Plume,
Colorado, killing 29 passengers as well as the Captain and
Flight Attendant.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University_Crash)
1970 Nov 14, The Marshall
Univ. football team of Huntington, West Virginia, was wiped out in
air crash of a Southern Airways DC-9 at Kenova, WV. All 75 people on
board were killed.
(www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-11-14(SouthernAir).asp)
1971 May 28, Audie Murphy
(b.1926), WW II hero and actor, was killed in plane crash near
Roanoke, Va.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy)
1971 Jul 30, A Japanese 727
collided with a jet fighter. 162 people were killed.
(WUD, 1994, p.
1688)(www.airdisaster.com/features/top100/top100.shtml)
1971 Sep 4, An Alaska Airlines
jet crashed near Juneau, killing 111 people.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1971 Dec 24, LANSA Flight 508,
a LANSA Lockheed Electra OB-R-941 commercial airliner, crashed in
the Peruvian rainforest. Juliane Diller Kopcke (17) of Lima, Peru,
was the sole survivor of 92 passengers. She and her mother, famed
ornithologist Maria Kopcke, were traveling to meet with her father,
biologist Hans-Wilhelm Kopcke. Juliane traveled for 9 days in the
jungle before she found help. Her experience became the subject of
two films: the 1974 Giuseppe Maria Scotese film Miracoli accadono
ancora, I (Miracles Still Happen), and the 2000 film “Wings of Hope”
by Werner Herzog film.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_K%C3%B6pcke)
1972 May 5, Alitalia’s DC-8
Flight 112 crashed west of Palermo, Sicily; killing 115.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alitalia)
1972 Jun 18, A BEA Trident,
Flight BE548, crashed after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
people.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720618-0&lang=de)
1972 Aug 28, Prince William of
Gloucester was killed in an air race near Wolverhampton in the west
Midlands.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm)
1972 Oct 13, Aeroflot Il-62
crashed in large pond outside Moscow and 176 died.
(http://tinyurl.com/5a6zlm)
1972 Oct 13, A Uruguay to Chile
plane carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes Mountains. The event
was concluded by December 23, 1972 when the last of 16 survivors
were rescued. The group survived by collectively making a decision
to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. The book
“Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors,” published two years after
their rescue, was written by Piers Paul Read, who interviewed the
survivors and their families.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571)
1972 Oct 16, A light plane
carrying House Democratic leader Hale Boggs (b.1914) of Louisiana
and three other men were reported missing in Alaska. Nick Begich,
Alaska congressman, his aide, Russell Brown, and the pilot, Don Jonz
were also on the plane and later presumed dead. The plane was never
found.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Begich)(Econ,
9/6/08, p.35)
1972 Dec 3, A Spantax Convair
990A charter carrying West German tourists crashed in Tenerife,
Canary Island, and 155 died.
(www.secret-tenerife.com/2006/03/tenerife-air-disasters-in-perspective.shtml)
1972 Dec 23, 16 plane crash
victims (Oct 13 flight from Uruguay to Chile) were rescued from the
Andes after 70 died. The group survived by collectively making a
decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571)
1972 Dec 29, Eastern Airlines
Flight 401, a Lockheed Tri-Star Jumbo Jet carrying 176 people,
crashed into the Florida Everglades. 75 people survived. In the end,
the crash was blamed on the crew's preoccupation with a landing gear
light.
(http://www3.gendisasters.com/florida/1415/everglades,-fl-jumbo-jet-crash,-dec-1972)
1972 The Soviets introduced the
Tu-154 airplane. It was their version of the Boeing 727. The
three-engine Tupelov 154 first flew passengers and has since become
a workhorse of fleets in Russia, the former Soviet bloc and China.
The jet can carry between 156 and 180 passengers and has a range of
2,400 miles at a maximum speed of 560 mph.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)(AP, 7/2/02)
1973 Jun, A Soviet supersonic
Tupelov 144 explodes in flight at the Paris Air Show and crashes
into a nearby village, killing the six-man crew and seven people on
the ground.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1974 Mar 3, A Turkish Airlines
DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris and
346 people were killed. It was the worst air disaster to date.
(AP,
3/3/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981)
1974 Apr 22, A Pan Am 707
crashed into the mountains of Bali, killing 107.
(www.pan-american.de/Desasters/Tinga-Tinga.html)
1974 Sep 11, In North Carolina
an Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the
Douglas Municipal Airport. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11
and two crewmembers survived the accident. One passenger died 3 days
after the crash, and another died 6 days after the crash. One
survivor died of injuries 29 days after the accident.
(AP,
9/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines)
1975 Apr 4, Some 155 people,
most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force C-5A
transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans as part of "Operation
Babylift" crashed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.144 adults and
76 babies were killed. There were over 170 survivors.
(AP, 4/4/97)(SFC, 4/3/00, p.A8)
1975 Jun 24, In New York 113
people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while
attempting to land during a thunderstorm at John F. Kennedy
International Airport. The crash was later attributed to a
microburst, not experienced at the control tower because of a sea
breeze front.
(AP, 6/24/97)(SFC, 6/24/09, p.D8)
1976 Oct 6, A Cuban aircraft
from Venezuela with 73 people onboard was blown up on a flight over
the Caribbean. Castro blamed the explosion on the US. Luis Posada
Carriles, a veteran of the Cuban exile’s war against Castro, was
charged and twice acquitted in the bombing. Venezuelan authorities
kept him in jail for 9 years until his escape in 1985 when he
settled in El Salvador. In April, 2005, Posada sought asylum in the
US. In May, 2005, declassified documents were made public that
linked Posada to the bombing and indicated he was on the CIA's
payroll for years.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A8)(SFC,11/17/97, p.A14)(AP,
4/15/05)(AP, 5/11/05)
1977 Mar 27, A KLM Boeing 747,
attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary
Island of Tenerife. 583 people were killed with 54 survivors.
(SSFC, 10/17/04, p.B7)(AP, 3/27/07)
1977 May 16, Five people were
killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am
Building in midtown Manhattan, toppled over, sending a huge rotor
blade flying.
(AP, 5/16/97)
1977 Oct 20, Three members of
the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a
chartered plane near McComb, Miss.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1978 Apr 20, A South Korean Air
Lines Boeing 707 crash-landed in northwestern Russia. Flight 902 was
fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace. 107
passengers and crew survived after the plane made an emergency
landing on a frozen lake and 2 passengers were killed.
(AP,
4/20/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_902)
1978 Sep 25, In Calif. 144
people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Boeing
727 and a Cessna private plane collided over San Diego.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(AP, 9/25/97)
1979 Jan 16, Aaliyeh (d.2001),
R&B singer and actress, was born in Brooklyn and grew up in
Detroit. She was killed (22) in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A16)
1979 May 25, 273 people died in
America's worst domestic air disaster when an American Airlines
DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International
Airport. The left engine was lost on takeoff. 3 of the dead were on
the ground.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(AP, 5/25/07)
1979 Nov 25, American Airlines
DC-10 crashed on takeoff from Chicago and 275 people were killed.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1979
Oct 31, A US DC-10, flown by Western Airlines, crashed at Mexico
City when it struck a vehicle and 74 were killed.
(http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/Disasters.htm)
1979 Nov 28, An Air New Zealand
DC10 en route to the South Pole crashed into Mount Erebus in
Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
(www.planecrashinfo.com/cvr791128.htm)
1979 Comair experienced a fatal
crash.
(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A3)
1980 Mar 14, a Polish airliner
crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all
87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing
team.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1980 Jun 27, Aerolinee Itavia
Flight 870, an Italian domestic jetliner, exploded in flight and
crashed near the island of Ustica. 81 people were killed. In 1999 it
was reported that a fight by warplanes led to the crash and coverup
charges were filed against Italian military officials. Among
theories for the jet's demise was a bomb planted by domestic
terrorists, or an errant US or French missile allegedly fired at a
Libyan MiG streaking over the Mediterranean.
(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.A1)(AP,
8/17/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870)
1980 Aug 19, 301 people aboard
a Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency
landing at the Riyadh airport.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1981 Dec 1, 180 people were
killed when a chartered Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slammed into a
mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica.
(AP, 12/1/01)
1982 Jan 13, An Air Florida 737
crashed into the capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell
into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1982 Feb 9, On approach to
Haneda Airport a Japan Airlines DC-8 plunged into Tokyo Bay killing
24 people. 141 survived the crash caused when the captain pushed the
nose down prematurely and engaged in a struggle with the co-pilot.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350)
1982 Jul 9, A Pan Am Boeing 727
crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 145 people aboard and eight
people on the ground.
(AP, 7/9/07)
1982 Sep 11, U.S. Army Chinook
helicopter crashes during Mannheim Air Show in Germany, killing 46
people on board.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1982 In Brazil a Vasp 747
crashed in the northeastern city of Fortaleza, killing 137 people.
(AP, 9/30/06)
1982 A Pan Am flight from Tokyo
to Honolulu was bombed. One boy was killed and 15 people were
injured. In 1998 Mohammed Rashid, a Palestinian national, was turned
over to the US by Egypt on charges related to the bombing.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A4)
1983 Jun 2, A toilet caught
fire on Air Canada's DC-9 and 23 died at Cincinnati.
(www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/former/hall/jh980602.htm)
1983 Sep 1, The KAL flight 007
was downed by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet
airspace. 269 people were killed aboard the Korean Air Lines Boeing
747 including sixty-one Americans, among them Georgia Representative
Larry McDonald. The order was given by Soviet Gen’l. Anatoly
Kornukov who held that the plane was part of a hostile US operation.
In 2005 the History Channel featured a TV documentary on the
tragedy.
(SFC, 5/29/96, A3)(AP, 9/1/97)(WSJ, 1/23/98,
p.A1)(TV, 12/22/05)
1983 Sep 6, The USSR admitted
to shooting down KAL 007 on Sep 1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_007)
1983 Sep 12, The USSR vetoed a
UN resolution deploring its shooting down of South Korea’s KAL
flight 007 plane.
(www.globalpolicy.org/security/membship/veto/vetosubj.htm)
1983 Nov 27, In Spain 181
people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747
crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
(AP, 11/27/07)
1983 Dec 7, In Madrid, Spain,
an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing
727 that was accelerating for takeoff, killing all 42 people aboard
the DC-9 and 51 aboard the Iberia jet.
(AP, 12/7/03)
1985 Feb 19, 150 were killed
when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain.
(MC, 2/19/02)
1985 Jun 23, All 329 people
aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when Flight 182 from
Montreal to London crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland,
apparently because of a bomb. An hour earlier, a bomb in baggage
intended for another Air India flight exploded in a Tokyo airport,
killing two baggage handlers. In 2000 Canadian police arrested 2 men
of Sikh origin for the bombing. In 2001 Canadian prosecutors filed
murder charges against Inderjit Singh Reyat. In 2003 Reyat was
sentenced to 5 years for his role in making the bomb. Reyat spent 10
years in prison for building the bomb that exploded at the Narita
airport, and another five years for helping make the Flight 182
bomb. In 2005 a Canadian judge acquitted 2 men who had been accused
of conspiring in the case. Talwinder Parmar (1944-1992) was later
assumed to have been the mastermind behind the attacks. In 2010
Reyat was found guilty of perjury. In 2011 he was sentenced to an
additional 9 years in prison.
(AP, 6/23/97)(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A13)(SFC, 6/6/01,
p.C3)(AP, 2/11/03)(AP, 3/17/05)(Econ, 6/16/07, p.47)(Reuters,
9/18/10)(Reuters, 1/7/11)
1985 Jul 10, A Soviet Tu-154
crashed in Uzbekistan and all 200 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01,
p.A10)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19850710-0)
1985 Aug 2, In Texas 137 people
were killed when a Delta Air Lines jumbo jet crashed while
attempting to land at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
(AP, 8/2/97)
1985 Aug 12, The world's worst
single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Air Lines
Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into Mount Otsuka, 70 miles
northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 of 524 people onboard. A flawed
splice made by Boeing 7 years earlier was the probable cause. In
2006 Japan opened a museum to remember the crash. Boeing and JAL
paid undisclosed settlements to each victim’s family. Singer Kyu
Sakamoto, whose song "Sukiyaki" topped US hit charts in 1963, was
among the dead.
(AP, 8/12/97)(WSJ, 7/27/06, p.A1)(AFP, 8/12/10)
1985 Sep 6, All 31 people
aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the
Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee's
Mitchell Field.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A15)(AP, 9/6/05)
1985 Dec 12, 248 American
soldiers and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air
charter crashed after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.
(AP, 12/12/97)
1985 Lt. Cmdr. Michael Gershon,
a Navy Blue Angel pilot, was killed when 2 planes collided during an
air show at Niagara Falls, NY.
(SFC, 10/29/99, p.A3)
1986 Mar 31, 167 people died
when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in a remote mountainous
region of Mexico.
(AP, 3/30/97)
1986 Aug 31, Aeromexico flight
498 with 64 passengers collided with a light plane as it approached
Los Angeles and crashed to the ground where an additional 15 people
were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed flaws
in the overloaded traffic control system. 82 people were killed when
an Aeromexico jetliner and a small private plane collided over
Cerritos, Calif.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A20)(AP, 8/31/97)
1986 Sep 5, The Pakistan army
stormed a hijacked US B-747 in Karachi and 19 people were killed. In
2001 Zayd Hassan Abd Al-latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan
for 15 years, arrived in Alaska and was expected to face a 1991
indictment for the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jet in which 22 people
were killed. In 2003 Safarini pleaded guilty and agreed to 3 life
sentences plus 25 years.
(MC, 9/5/01)(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/17/03,
p.A4)
1986 Dec 12, Russian
Tupolev-134 crashed in East Berlin and 70 of 82 people were killed.
(www.emergency-management.net/avi_acc_1979_1989.htm)
1987 May 9, All 183 people
aboard a Polish jetliner were killed when the plane, bound for New
York, crashed and burned in Warsaw after the pilot attempted an
emergency return.
(AP, 5/9/97)
1987 Aug 16, 156 people were
killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to
take off from a Detroit airport; the sole survivor was 4-year-old
Cecelia Cichan. The plane hit a freeway overpass following takeoff.
(AP, 8/16/97)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A12)
1987 Nov 15, Twenty-eight of 82
people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and
co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking
off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1987 Oct 20, Ten people were
killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near
Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying
to make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1987 Nov 15, Twenty-eight of 82
people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and
co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking
off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1987 Nov 28, A South African
Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of
all 159 people aboard.
(AP, 11/28/97)
1987 Nov 29, A Korean Air
jetliner, Flight 858, disappeared off Burma over the Indian Ocean,
with the loss of all 115 people aboard. North Korean spies had
planted a time-bomb on the South Korean Air jet a day earlier and
got off in Abu Dhabi. Kim Hyon-hui and her accomplice were arrested
two days later in Bahrain, where they tried to kill themselves by
taking cyanide. The man died, but Kim recovered and was extradited
to Seoul. She was convicted of the bombing and was sentenced to
death. Even while on trial, she won admirers for her classic good
looks. She was eventually pardoned and became a best-selling author,
writing books about her time as a spy.
(WSJ, 9/9/96, p.A18)(AP, 11/29/97)(AP, 7/20/10)
1987 Dec 7, Forty-three people
were killed in the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in
California after a gunman apparently opened fire on a fellow
passenger and the two pilots.
(AP, 12/7/97)
1988 Jan 18, An airliner
crashed in southwestern China, killing all 108 people on board,
according to the official Xinhua news agency.
(AP, 1/18/98)
1988 Jun 26, Three people were
killed when a new Airbus A-320 jetliner carrying more than 130
people crashed into a forest during an air show demonstration flight
in Mulhouse, France.
(AP, 6/26/98)
1988 July 3, The US Navy shot
down an Iranian Airbus A-300 in the Persian Gulf from the cruiser
ship Vincennes. All 290 people aboard were killed. In 1996 the US
paid $131.8 million in compensation. Iran filed suit in World Court
in 1989 and settled out of court in Feb, 1996.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)
1988 Aug 28, Seventy [33]
people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during
an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany, sending
flaming debris into the crowd of spectators.
(AP, 8/28/98)(RTH, 8/28/99)
1988 Aug 31, Fourteen people
were killed when a Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff from
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
(AP, 8/31/98)
1988 Dec 21, Pan Am Flight 103
was downed over Lockerbie, Scotland by a terrorist bomb. 270 people
were killed aboard the Boeing 747. Libya was accused of
responsibility for the bombing, which killed 259 people onboard and
11 on the ground. Two Libyan operatives, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and
A-Amin Khalifa Fahimah, were indicted in 1991 and thought to be in
hiding in Libya. They were sent to the Netherlands for trial in 1999
and implicated Mohammed Abu Talb, a Palestinian terrorist jailed in
Sweden. In 2000 Ahmad Behbahani (32) told a 60 Minutes journalist
from a refugee camp in Turkey that he proposed the Pan Am operation
and coordinated the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi
Arabia. He also claimed that Iran was behind the 1994 bombing in
Argentina that killed 86 people. Behbahani was later called a fraud
by the CIA and FBI. In 2001 a Scottish court convicted Abdel Basset
Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, of murder in the 1998
bombing of Pan am Flight 103. A 2nd Libyan, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah,
was acquitted. The conviction was upheld in 2002. In 2003 Libya set
up a $2.7 billion fund for families of 270 people killed.
(WSJ, 12/18/95, p.A-9)(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-8)(SFC,
6/7/97, p.A4)(AP, 12/21/97)(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/25/99,
p.A14)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A9)(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)(SFEC, 6/11/00,
p.A20)(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A11)(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A9)(AP, 8/15/03)
1989 Jan 8, Forty-seven people
were killed when a British Midland Boeing 737-400 carrying 126
passengers crashed in central England. The pilots shut down the good
engine and tried to land with a bad one.
(AP, 1/8/99)(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A20)
1989 Feb 8, In the Azores 144
people were killed when an American-chartered Boeing 707 filled with
Italian tourists slammed into fog-covered Santa Maria mountain.
(AP, 2/8/99)
1989 Feb 24, A cargo door blew
off a United Air Lines Boeing 747-100 flying near Hawaii; the
explosive release of pressure pulled nine passengers to their
deaths.
(AP, 2/24/99)
1989 Jun 7, 169 people were
killed when a Suriname Airways airplane crashed in a tropical forest
near the Paramaribo airport.
(AP, 6/7/99)
1989 Jul 19, 111 people were
killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an
emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
(AP, 7/19/08)
1989 Jul 27, Eighty people were
killed when a Korean Air DC-10 crashed in Libya.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1989 Aug 13, Searchers in
Ethiopia found the wreckage of a plane which had disappeared almost
a week earlier while carrying Texas Congressman Mickey Leland and 15
other people. There were no survivors.
(AP, 8/13/97)
1989 Sep 3, In Brazil a Varig
737-300 plane crashed in the Amazon jungle with 52 people aboard. 14
died and 34 were injured.
(http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/030989.txt)
1989 Sep 3, A Cubana de
Aviacion jetliner crashed after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126
aboard and 26 people on the ground.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1989 Sep 19, A Paris-bound
French DC-10, UTA Flight 772, was bombed over the Sahara desert of
Niger and all 170 passengers died. French authorities placed the
blame on Libya’s Abdallah Senoussi, brother-in-law of Moammar
Khadafy and chief of foreign operations for the Libyan secret
service. The six Libyan suspects were named by a French judge in
1998 and tried in absentia in 1999. The attack was in retaliation
for French intervention on behalf of Chad in a war with Libya since
the mid 1980s. In 2004 Libya signed a $170 million compensation
accord with families of the people killed. In 2008 a federal judge
in Washington ordered Libya and six of its officials to pay more
than $6 billion in damages to the families of 7 Americans killed in
the attack.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C3)(SFEC,10/19/97, p.A26)(WSJ,
1/30/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A11)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)(AP,
9/19/99)(AP, 1/9/04)(Reuters, 1/16/08)
1989 Oct 28, Twenty people were
killed in the crash of a commuter plane on the island of Hawaii.
(AP, 10/28/99)
1989 Nov 27, A bomb, blamed by
police on drug traffickers, destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes
after takeoff from Bogota's international airport. 107 people were
killed.
(AP, 11/27/99)
1990 Jan 25, An Avianca Boeing
707 ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, N.Y.; 73 of the 161
people aboard were killed.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1990 Feb 14, Ninety-four people
were killed when an Indian Airlines passenger jet crashed while
landing at a southern Indian airport.
(AP, 2/14/00)
1990 May 11, The center fuel
tank of Philippine Air Lines B737-300 exploded as the plane pushed
back from the gate and 8 people were killed.
(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
1990 Dec 3, A Northwest
Airlines DC-9 collided on the ground with a Northwest Boeing 727 at
Detroit Metropolitan Airport, resulting in a fire that claimed eight
lives.
(AP, 12/3/00)
1991 Feb 1, A US-Air jetliner
crashed atop a commuter turboprop plane while landing at Los Angeles
International Airport. 34 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A1)(AP, 2/1/97)
1991 Mar 3, 25 people were
killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737 inexplicably crashed while
approaching the airport in Colorado Springs, Colo.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1991 Mar 16, A plane crash near
San Diego, Ca., killed 10 people including 7 members of Reba
McIntire's band.
(www.answers.com/topic/reba-mcentire)
1991 May 26, An Austrian Lauda
Air Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard.
Crash investigators blamed an engine thrust reverser that had
inexplicably deployed shortly after takeoff. The plane was enroute
to Vienna and crashed shortly after takeoff from the Bangkok
airport.
(AP, 5/26/01)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1991 Jul 11, A Nigerian
Airlines jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi
Arabia, int'l airport, killing all 261 people on board. The plane
was a Canadian-chartered DC-8.
(AP, 7/11/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1991 Dec 29, A Boeing 747-200F
of China Airlines crashed into a mountain at Taipei and 5 people
were killed.
(www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/aircraft_detail.cgi?aircraft=Boeing+747)
1992 Jan 20, A French Airbus
A-320 crashed near Strasbourg, killing 87 people.
(AP, 1/20/98)
1992 Feb 9, An Air Senegal
flight chartered by Club Med crashed and 30 people were killed. In
2000 a French court convicted Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano and
his son, Serge, for involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/7/00,
p.D6)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=6V)
1992 Mar 22, Twenty-seven
people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New
York's La Guardia Airport; 24 people survived.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1992 Sep 26, A Nigerian
military transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all
163 people aboard.
(AP, 9/26/97)
1992 Sep 28, A Pakistani Airbus
jetliner crashed in Nepal, killing all 167 people aboard. The crew
had miscalculated their altitude.
(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1992 Oct 4, In the Netherlands
an Israeli El Al Jumbo Jet transport, enroute from New York to Tel
Aviv, crashed into an Amsterdam apartment complex and killed 43
people. Since then scores of people complained of unidentified
health problems. In 1998 it was revealed that the jet carried 50
gallons of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a non-poisonous ingredient of
sarin nerve gas, destined for Israel. A report on the crash was
released in 1999 and said that the plane's ballast included
carcinogenic depleted uranium.
{Netherlands, Air Crash, Israel, Medical}
(AP, 10/4/97)(WSJ, 4/22/99,
A1)(www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.03/990211-cargo.html)
1992 Dec 21, A Dutch DC-10
burst into fire at landing on Faro, Portugal, and 56 died.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921221-0)
1992 Dec 22, A Libyan Boeing
727 jetliner crashed, killing 157 people.
(AP, 12/22/97)
1993 May 19, A Boeing 727 of
Columbian SAM regional airline crashed into a jungle mountain near
Medellin and killed all 132 on board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1993 Jul 26, A Boeing 737-500
crashed in South Korea and 68 people were killed.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930726-1)
1993 Dec 1, Eighteen people
were killed when a Northwest Airlink commuter plane crashed in
Minnesota.
(AP, 12/1/98)
1993 Dec, A U-2 pilot was
killed on takeoff from Beale Air Force Base southeast of Oroville,
Calif., on a routine training mission.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1994 Jan 3, A Russian Tu-154
airplane operated by Baikal Air, crashed near Mamony in Siberia and
killed all 124 people onboard and one person on the ground.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)
1994 Mar 23, A Russian Airbus
A-310 crashed in Siberia and 74-75 were killed.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1994 Apr 26, A China Airlines
A300-600 Airbus crashed at the south end of Nagoya airport west of
Tokyo and killed 264 people. There were 7 survivors.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)
1994 Jun 6, A China Northwest
Airlines Tu-154 on a flight from Xian to Guangzhou crashed 10
minutes after takeoff, and killed all 160 onboard.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1994 Jul 2, A USAir DC-9 Flight
1016 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International
Airport in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(WSJ, 1/4/96, p.A-8)(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Aug 21, An Air Morocco
regional jet crashed and killed all 44 onboard. It was suspected
that the pilot steered the plane into the ground.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(www.planecrashinfo.com/1994/1994-43.htm)
1994 Sep 8, A US Air Boeing 737
from Chicago crashed near Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport and killed all
132 people onboard. USAir Flight 427 crashed 6 minutes before it was
due to land. In 2002 Bill Adair authored “The Mystery of Flight
427.”
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP, 9/8/97)(SFC, 11/13/01,
p.A12)(WSJ, 5/23/02, p.D7)
1994 Oct 31, A French-built
ATR-72 crashed in Roselawn, Ind., and killed 68 people. In 1997
American Airlines and 7 other companies settled a suit filed by
relatives for $110 million.
(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A3)(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A4)
1994 Dec 13, An American Eagle
commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed short of Raleigh-Durham
International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15.
(AP, 12/13/98)
1994 Dec 29, In East Turkey a
B737-400 flew into a mountain at Edremit and 55 people were killed.
(http://tinyurl.com/98ytm)
1994 A California Air National
Guard Learjet plowed into a Fresno, Calif., apartment complex. The
2-member crew was killed and 18 were injured on the ground.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1994 A Korean Airbus crashed
but no one was killed.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1995 Jan 11, A 9-year-old girl
survived a Colombian airliner crash that killed the other 52 people
aboard near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena.
(AP, 1/11/00)
1995 Jun 18, A private plane
carrying the Angolan soccer team crashed in Luanda, Angola, killing
48 people.
(AP, 6/18/00)
1995 Aug 9, A Boeing 737
belonging to Guatemala’s Aviateca airline hit the Chichontepec
volcano in El Salvador on a flight from Miami and killed all 65 on
board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1995 Aug 21, A commuter plane
crashed near Carrollton, Georgia. Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight
529 enroute to Gulfport, Miss., crashed with 29 people aboard. 10
died. In 2001 Gary M. Pomerantz authored "Nine Minutes, Twenty
Seconds: The Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529."
(AP, 8/21/00)(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.R4)
1995 Sep 22, An AWACS plane
carrying US and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from
Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24
people aboard.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep, A Fokker-50
operated by a Malaysian airline crashed on arrival at Tawau,
Malaysia airport, killing 34 people. The plane touched down 500
yards short of the runway, pulled up and crashed into a shantytown.
(AP, 2/10/04)
1995 Nov 8, An air force Fokker
27 crashed in central Argentina’s mountains and killed all 57 on
board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1995 Dec, 6, A Tu-154 jetliner
apparently crashed on a flight from Sakhalin Island to Khabarovsk
with 95 [97] people.
(WSJ, 12/8/95, p.A-1)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)
1995 Dec 18, A chartered
Zairian plane crashed in northern Angola killing 139 [141] people.
Five people survived. The plane was a Lockheed Electra, an old plane
with a capacity of 99. It was owned by Trans Service Airlift, a
private company.
(WSJ, 12/20/95, p.A-1)
1995 Dec 20, An American
Airlines Boeing 757, Flight 965 jet crashed in Columbia with 164
people on board. Four survivors were reported. It smashed into a
mountain near Cali enroute from Miami. It was later reported that
pilots had entered an incorrect code for the approach to Cali.
(WSJ, 12/22/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(SFC,
4/18/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1995 A U-2 spy plane based at
Beale Air Force Base in Calif., crashed in England.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1996 Jan 8, A Russian-made
Antonov-32 skidded into a crowded marketplace shortly after take-off
in Kinshasa in Zaire (Congo) and killed at least 350 people. The
twin-turboprop was owned by African Air and was overweight when it
took off. At least 470 people were injured.
(WSJ, 1/9/96, p.A-1) (SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(WSJ,
11/13/01, p.A14)
1996 Jan 15, A Mitsubishi MU-2B
twin turboprop crashed in Idaho and killed all eight onboard. The
plane was carrying Coca-Cola bottling execs from Salt Lake City to a
sales meeting in Pocatello.
(WSJ, 1/16/96, p. A-1)
1996 Jan 29, A Navy F-14
fighter jet crashed shortly after take-off in Nashville, Tenn. The
two-man crew and three people on the ground were killed.
(WSJ, 1/30/96, p.A-16)
1996 Feb 4, A DC-8 Columbian
cargo plane crashed after takeoff in Paraguay and killed four
onboard and 18 on the ground.
(WSJ, 2/5/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 6, A Turkish-owned
Boeing 757 jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of
Puerto Plata shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic,
killing 189 people, mostly German tourists.
(WSJ, 2/8/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP,
2/6/01)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1996 Feb 23, An F-14 crashed in
the Persian Gulf. It was the 3rd this month and the 32nd since 1991.
The navy says that record is not alarmingly high but ordered the
entire fleet grounded for 72 hours to check for any common threads.
(WSJ, 2/23/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 27, A Sudanese
military plane crashed 25 miles south of Khartoum and killed 91
people on board. The plane was a US made C-130.
(WSJ, 2/28/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 29, Mar 2, A Boeing
737 of the Peruvian domestic Fawcett airlines crashed in the
southern Andes and killed 123 people.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)
1996 Mar 2, A Boeing 737 of the
Peruvian domestic Faucett airlines crashed in the southern Andes and
killed 123 people. The crash was later blamed on pilot error.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)
1996 Apr 3, A US Air Force
T-43, the military version of a Boeing 737, crashed in Croatia and
killed 35 people including the US Sec. of Commerce Ron Brown.
(SFC, 4/6/96, p.A-3)
1996 Apr 11, Seven year old
Jessica Dubroff was killed with her father and flight instructor
when their Cessna Cardinal 177B crashed during bad weather in
Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was attempting to become the youngest person
to fly across the US.
(SFC, 4/16/96, p.A-1,11)
1996 Apr 17, A US Navy F-14B
crashed while trying to land at Ocean Naval Air Station at Virginia
Beach, Va. It was the 4th F-14 crash this year.
(SFC, 4/18/96, p.A-3)
1996 May 3, A Sudanese airliner
on a domestic flight crashed in bad weather and killed all 50 [53]
onboard. It was an Antonov 24 airplane and had tried to land outside
of Khartoum in an area cleared for a new airport because sand
covered the runways at Khartoum.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 5/5/96, p.A-14)
1996 May 10, Two US Marine
helicopters collided and killed 14 servicemen at Camp LeJeune, N.C.
An AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter collided with a CH-46 Sea Knight
troop copter during exercises with British forces.
(SFC, 5/10/96, p.A-1)
1996 May 10, A plane crashed
and killed 16 people in the rugged mountains of northwestern Mexico.
The twin-turboprop De Haviland Twin Otter DHC-6 was flying from
Durango and crashed in Santa Maria de Otaes, a small mining town.
(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-10)
1996 May 11, A ValuJet DC-9
with 110 people onboard caught fire shortly after takeoff crashed in
the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami Int’l.
airport. In 1999 Florida brought murder charges against Sabre-Tech,
a Miami repair facility, that had loaded hazardous oxygen generators
onto the plane. In 1999 SabreTech Maintenance Co. was convicted for
mishandling oxygen canisters that were blamed for the crash. In 2000
a $11 million penalty was ordered against SabreTech. In 2001 8 0f 9
convictions against Sabre-Tech were overturned by a federal appeals
court.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-1)(AP, 5/11/97)(SFC, 7/14/99,
p.A1)(SFC, 12/7/99, p.A3) (SFC, 8/15/00, p.3)(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C2)
1996 Jun 13, An Indonesian
DC-10 skidded of a runway at the Fukuoka airport in Japan and burst
into flames. 3 people were killed, but 270 others were able to flee
the burning jet.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1996 Jul 8, A 1975 JetRanger
Bell Helicopter crashed in Salem, Ohio and killed all 5 people
onboard.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A3)
1996 Jul 11, An Air Force F-16 crashed into a
house in Pensacola, Fla., killed a young boy and badly burned his
mother. The pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 15, A Belgian plane,
Lockheed C-130, crashed during landing in the Netherlands and killed
32 people.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A9)
1996 Jul 17, TWA flight 800
crashed off of Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F.
Kennedy International Airport and 230 people died. It was a
25-year-old Paris-bound Boeing 747 whose previous flight had been
from Greece. Later reports of a missile attack were tracked to a
Navy P-3 Orion flying at 20,000 feet as opposed to the altitude of
the Boeing at 13,600 feet. In 1997 the FBI issued a report that the
disaster was caused by an explosion in the central fuel tank and was
not the result of sabotage.
(WSJ, 7/18/96, p.A1)(SFC, 3/21/97, p.A7)(AP,
7/17/97)(SFC,11/19/97, p.A3)
1996 Aug 17, An Air Force C-130
cargo plane crashed after takeoff from Jackson, Wyoming, and nine
people were killed.
(SFC, 8/19/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 19, A Russian
Ilyushin-76 carrying rescue flares and car wheels destined for Libya
crashed at Belgrade’s airport and killed all 12 aboard.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 29, A Russian Tu-154
plane with 141 passengers crashed on a desolate arctic island 6
miles from Spitsbergen where they were returning to jobs in a
Russian-run coal mine. It was the worst crash in Norway’s history.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A14)(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
1996 Sep 25, In the Netherlands
a DC-3 aircraft went into the North Sea near Den Helder and killed
all 32 people on board.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A11)
1996 Oct 2, The Aeroperu flight
603, a Boeing 757, crashed shortly after takeoff into the Pacific
and all 61 passengers and nine crew members were killed. The pilot
claimed loss of navigational equipment just before the crash. It was
later reported that a maintenance worker failed to remove tape from
sensors after polishing the aircraft. A judge ordered Aeroperu and
the worker to pay $29 million to families of the 70 dead.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/97)(WSJ, 1/22/98,
p.A1)
1996 Oct 8, A Russian Antonov
124 cargo plane crashed in San Francesco al Campo in northwestern
Italy. At least 2 crew members and 2 villagers were killed.
(SFEC, 10/9/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 18, An AV-8B Harrier
jet crashed during training exercises at Twentynine Palms Marine
Corps Air-Ground Combat Center. The pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 10/19/96, A19)
1996 Oct 22, A Boeing 707 cargo
plane crashed in an impoverished neighborhood in the port of Manta
in southeast Ecuador and killed 25 people.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1996 Oct 31, In Brazil a
Dutch-made Fokker-100, TAM Regional Airlines Flight 402, crashed
after take-off from Sao Paulo into the streets of Vila Santa
Catarina. At least 98 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1996 Nov 1, In Guatemala a
Brazilian-made turboprop crashed near Flores in Peten province and
14 people enroute to the Mayan site of Tikal were killed.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1996 Nov 7, In Nigeria Flight
086, a Boeing 727 belonging to the Aviation Development Corp.,
crashed near Epe east of Lagos and 141 people died.
(SFC, 11/8/96, p.A18)
1996 Nov 12, Near New Delhi,
India, a Saudi Arabian Boeing 747 with 312 passengers crashed into a
Kazak Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 with 39 people in midair. It marked
the worst midair collision in aviation history and the 3rd deadliest
air crash. Investigators later claimed the Ilyushin II-76 failed to
maintain its assigned altitude. All 349 passengers and crew were
killed.
(SFC, 11/13/96, p.A1)(SFC, 5/14/97, p.A12)(AP,
11/12/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1996 Nov 19, Two commuter
planes collided on a runway, exploded and killed all 14 people on
both planes at Baldwin Municipal Airport in Quincy, Ill.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.A4)
1996 Nov 27, A Russian military
cargo plane, an Ilyushin-76, crashed in central Siberia and 23 were
killed.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.B6)
1996 Dec 17, A Russian AN-12
military transport crashed and killed all 17 people onboard shortly
after takeoff from St. Petersburg. Colonel General Sergei Seleznyov,
commander of the Leningrad military district, was among the dead.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C1)
1997 Jan 9, A Comair Brazilian
made Embraer 120 commuter plane crashed 18 miles southwest of
Detroit and killed all 29 onboard. Icing was blamed for the crash.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A7)(AP, 1/9/99)
1997 Feb 1, An Air Senegal
plane crashed and at least 23 people died after liftoff from a
wildlife refuge at Tambacounda.
(SFC, 2/3/97, p.C3)
1997 Mar 14, In northeastern
Iran a C-130 military cargo plane crashed near Mashad and all 86
people aboard were believed killed.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1997 Mar 17, A Stavropol
Airlines AN-24 airplane crashed and all 48 aboard were presumed
dead.
(SFC, 3/18/97, p.A11)
1997 May, In China a Boeing 737
crashed in Shenzhen and 35 people were killed.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A11)
1997 Jul 11, A Cuban An-24
passenger plane with 44 people plunged into the sea after take-off
from Santiago de Cuba onroute to Havana.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 26, A light aircraft
spirals to the ground during a maneuver at a show in Ostende,
Belgium, killing the pilot and eight spectators.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1997 Aug 6, Korean Air Flight
801 from Seoul, a Boeing 747-300 jumbo jet, crashed into a hillside
a short distance from Guam’s Agana International Airport killing 228
with 26 survivors. A programming glitch in the ground radar system
was later identified as a contributing factor but not the cause.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801)(WSJ, 4/8/99,
p.A1)(AP, 8/6/98)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1997 Aug 7, A DC-8 cargo plane
crashed on take-off at Miami Int’l. Airport. Four people were killed
on the denim filled 29-year-old plane bound for the Dominican
Republic.
(SFC, 8/8/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 11, In Taiwan a
19-seat Dornier 228 crashed on the island of Matsu and killed all 16
onboard.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Sep 3, A Tu-134 Vietnam
Airlines jet crashed on approach to Phnom Penh airport and killed 65
people. One child survived.
(WSJ, 9/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 12, In southeast Congo
a plane crashed enroute to a religious meeting. All 20 aboard were
killed.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A24)
1997 Sep 13, A German military
transport, a Soviet-made Tupelov-154 jet, was reported crashed with
24 people off the coast of Angola [Namibia]. A midair collision with
a USAF C-141 Starlifter cargo plane was reported and the total dead
reached 32. Poor communications and faulty regional traffic control
were cited as the cause. On Mar 31, 1988 the German government
reported that the German crew was at fault for flying in airspace
reserved for westbound traffic.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A1)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)(WSJ,
3/31/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.A5)
1997 Sep 14, An Air Force
F-117A Stealth fighter broke apart in midair at a Baltimore County
air show. The pilot ejected safely but about a dozen people on the
ground were slightly injured.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 15, In Oman a US Navy
F/A-18 crashed and the pilot was killed.
(WSJ, 9/16/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 16, Two Air national
Guard F-16 fighters collided off Atlantic City, N.J. All the crew
members survived.
(SFC, 9/17/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 26, An Indonesian
Garuda Airbus A-300 crashed while approaching Medan Airport in north
Sumatra and all 234 passengers were killed. Low visibility from the
areas fires were thought to have contributed the tragedy. An air
traffic control error was cited.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/29/97, p.A1)(AP,
9/26/98)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1997 Oct 2, A Navy F-14 Tomcat
fighter jet crashed off the coast of N. Carolina. One crew member
was rescued but the pilot was still missing.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 10, An Argentine DC-9
with 75 people crashed in Uruguay.
(SFC, 10/11/97, p.A10)
1997 Dec 6, In Siberia a
Russian Antonov-124 jet cargo aircraft crashed seconds after takeoff
on the edge of Irkutsk into an apartment building and killed at
least 62 (68-69) people.
(SFEC,12/797, p.A19)(WSJ, 12/8/97, p.A1)(AP,
12/6/98)(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
1997 Dec 11, In northern Russia
an An-12 cargo plane hit a civilian helicopter at the Naryan-Mar
airport and all 8 passengers in the helicopter were killed.
(SFC,12/19/97, p.B2)
1997 Dec 15, In the UAR a
Russian Tu-154 charter flight from Tajikistan crashed 9 miles from
Sharjah and 85 people were killed.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)
1997 Dec 17, A Ukrainian
jetliner from Odessa, a Yakoviev 42, was missing as it approached
the Greek city of Salonica with 70-71 people onboard. The wreckage
was located near Fotina, Greece, on Dec 20, as a Greek military
plane, searching for the wreckage, crashed north of Athens. All five
people aboard the C-130 transport plane were killed.
(WSJ, 12/18/97,
p.A1)(www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/20/greece.plane.pm/)
1997 Dec 19, In Indonesia a
Singapore SilkAir operated Boeing 737 jet crashed by the Musi River
north of Palembang on its flight from Jakarta to Singapore. All 104
people on board were feared dead. The 10-month-old plane was later
found to have some fasteners missing. Capt. Tsu Way Ming was later
suspected of having committed suicide due to investment losses
(SFC,12/20/97, p.A10) (WSJ, 1/8/98, p.1)(WSJ,
7/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 2, In the Philippines
a Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashed on Mount Sumagaya as it approached
for landing at Cagayan de Oro. 104 people were onboard. Rescuers
reached the wreckage the next day but found no survivors.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A6)(SFC, 2/4/98, p.C3)
1998 Feb 16, In Taiwan a China
Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashed at Chiang Kai-shek airport while
trying to land in fog. 196 people on board were killed plus 6 on the
ground. The passengers included the governor of Taiwan’s Central
Bank and other financial officials.
(SFC, 2/17/98, p.A6)(AP, 2/16/08)
1998 Mar 19, Two small planes
collided over Riverside Ct. in California and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A3)
1998 Mar 19, In Afghanistan a
Boeing 727 operated by Ariana state airline crashed 12 miles south
of Kabul and killed all 22 people on board.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Mar 29, In Peru an air
force plane evacuating people stranded by flooding crashed in Piura.
Twenty-two people were killed when a Russian-made Antonov military
plane crashed into a Peruvian shantytown outside the northern city
of Piura.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A10)(AP, 3/29/99)
1998 Apr 20, In Columbia a
Boeing 727 crashed after takeoff from Bogota and all 53 people
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A12)
1998 May 6, In Peru a Boeing
737, chartered by Occidental Petroleum from the Peruvian air force,
crashed in the Amazon jungle. At least 13 of 87 people survived the
crash.
(WSJ, 5/7/98, p.A1)
1998 May 27, In Mongolia a
Yu-12 plane crash killed all 28 on board.
(WSJ, 5/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 18, A commuter plane
crashed near Montreal with engineers of Canadian General Electric
Co. All 11 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B4)
1998 Jul 30, In France a
Proteus Airlines Beechcraft collided with a Cessna off the west
coast and 15 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A11)
1998 Aug 29, In Quito, Ecuador,
a Cuban plane with 90 people onboard crashed. 80 people were killed
including 5 children playing on the ground. At least 8 people
survived the crash of the Russian-made Tupelov-154.
(SFEC, 8/28/98, p.A15)(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A10)(AP,
8/29/08)
1998 Sep 2, A Swissair MD-11
jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia with 229 people aboard and all were
feared dead. The New York to Geneva flight had 136 Americans on
board.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A17)(AP,
9/2/99)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1998 Sep 6, Divers working off
Nova Scotia found the flight data recorder from Swissair Flight 111,
which had crashed Sep 2, killing all 229 people on board. However,
it turned out the recorder had stopped working several minutes
before the crash.
(AP, 9/6/03)
1998 Sep 11, Divers off Nova
Scotia recovered the cockpit voice recorder from Swissair Flight
111, which had crashed Sept. 2, with 229 people aboard. The data
recorder was found Sep 6.
(AP, 9/11/03)
1998 Sep, In Burma Air Myanmar
F-27 with 39 people crashed near Tachilek in Shan state. Shan
tribesmen looted the wreckage. 5 adult male survivors were tortured
and an air hostess was raped for days. A surviving baby was left to
die. 30 villagers were arrested.
(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 25, In Morocco a
chartered Spanish airliner crashed and killed all 38 people onboard.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A11)
1998 Sep 29, In Sri Lanka a
Lionair commercial plane, Flight 602, carrying 55 people disappeared
off the coast after leaving the Jaffna peninsula. The
Ukrainian-built Antonov-24 was bound for Colombo. The government
said 700 soldiers and rebels had died in a 3-day battle in the
north. Later reports put the death toll to 1300.
(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/30/98, p.A1)(WSJ,
1/28/00, p.A1)
1998 Dec 11, A Thai Airways
Airbus A310-200 jet crashed near the airport at Surat Thani. 45
people survived and 101 died.
(SFC, 12/12/98, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/14/98, p.A1)
1999 Feb 24, A China Southwest
Airlines jet crashed near Ruian and all 61 people onboard were
killed. The jet was a Russian-made Tupelov-154.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A11)
1999 cMar 7, An Antonov 32
Indian air force plane crashed near New Delhi airport killing all 18
onboard and 3 people on the ground.
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 1, In Little Rock,
Ark., 9 people died when an American Airlines jet carrying 145
people crashed into a light tower on landing in stormy weather. The
toll climbed to 11 after 2 initial survivors died. In 2001 pilot
error was cited.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A3)(SFC,
10/24/01, p.C14)
1999 Aug 10, An Indian jet shot
down a Pakistani naval reconnaissance plane over the disputed Sir
Creek area. All 16 people in the plane were killed.
(www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9908/10/india.pak.plane.01/index.html)
1999 Aug 22, In Hong Kong a
China Airlines plane with over 300 passengers overturned while
landing under high winds from Typhoon [Tropical Storm] Sam. 2 people
were killed and 211 injured of the 313 survivors.
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 31, In Argentina at
least 64 people were killed when a Lapa Airlines Boeing 737 crashed
after takeoff from Jorge Newberry airport in Buenos Aires. There
were 26 survivors.
(SFC, 9/1/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/1/99, p.A1)(SFC,
9/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Oct 28, Two Navy Blue
Angel aviators, Kieron O'Connor (35) and Kevin Colling (32), were
killed when their F/A-18 Hornet crashed during a training flight
near Moody Air Force Base in Georgia.
(SFC, 10/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 31, An EgyptAir Boeing
767-300, Flight 990, enroute from New York to Cairo crashed off
Nantucket Island and all 217 people aboard were killed. Captains
Ahmed al-Habashy and Raouf Noureldin were at the controls. Relief
pilot Gamil al-Batouti was suspected to have caused the crash.
(SFC, 11/1/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A3)(SFC,
11/17/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/18/99, p.C5)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1999 Nov 17, Officials close to
the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 said a
relief co-pilot alone in the cockpit had said, in Arabic: “I made my
decision now; I put my faith in God’s hands” just before the
jetliner began its fatal plunge. In Egypt, relatives angrily
rejected any notion that relief co-pilot Gameel el-Batouty had
deliberately crashed the plane.
(AP, 11/17/00)
1999 Nov 9, In Mexico a TAESA
DC-9 jet exploded in flight near Uruapan and all 18 people onboard
were killed.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 12, In Serbia a World
Food Program flight from Rome crashed in northern Kosovo and all 24
aboard were killed. The plane was a propeller-driven ATR-42.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Dec 10, In Kuwait a US
airmen was instantly killed when an Air Force C-130 transport landed
short of the runway at Al Jaber Air Base. The plane regained
altitude, dumped fuel and made an emergency belly landing following
which 2 more airmen were killed. The pilot was charged with
involuntary manslaughter for killing three servicemen by crashing
the plane.
(SFC, 12/11/99,
p.A17)(www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/ahmed-al-jaber.htm)
1999 Dec 11, In the Azores a
SATA airline ATP turboprop crashed on Sao Jorge island and all 35
people aboard were killed.
(SFEC, 12/12/99, p.D1)
1999 Dec 21, In Guatemala City
a Cubana de Aviacion DC-10 skidded and crashed on landing. At least
26 people were killed.
(SFC, 12/22/99, p.C9)
1999 Dec 22, In Britain a
Korean Air 747 cargo plane crashed near London and all 4 people
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 12/23/99, p.C7)
1999 Dec 25, A Cuban airplane,
Russian-made YAK-42, with 22 people crashed just before landing in
the northern Venezuelan state of Carabobo.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.D6)
2000 Jan 10, In Switzerland a
Crossair Saab-340 airplane crashed after takeoff from Zurich and all
10 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A11)
2000 Jan 13, A Swiss Shorts
300-360 airplane carrying Libyan oil workers to a refinery at Marsa
el-Brega crashed off the Libya coast and at least 15 of 41 people
were killed.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 30, A Kenyan Airbus
310 crashed into the sea after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Kenya Airways Flight 431 carried 179 people. 10 survivors were
pulled from the water.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 31, Alaska Airlines
Flight 261, an MD-83 jet with 88 people bound for Seattle from
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, crashed about 2.7 miles north of Anacapa
Island, Ca. There were no survivors. A stop had been scheduled in
SF.
(SFC, 2/1/00,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261)
2000 Feb 16, In California an
Emory Worldwide DC-8 crashed after lifting off from Mather Airport
near Sacramento and all 3 crew members were killed.
(SFC, 2/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 9, In Moscow A Yak-40
aircraft crashed on takeoff from Sheremetyevo Airport and all 9
people aboard were killed. Among the dead were journalist Artyom
Borovik and oil executive Ziya Bazhayev.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A11)(SFC, 3/10/00, p.D5)
2000 Apr 19, An Air Philippines
Boeing 737-200 jet crashed and all 131 people aboard were killed on
Samal Island following an attempted landing at Davao City. It was
the worst air crash in Philippine history
(SFC, 4/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/19/01)
2000 Jul 17, In India an
Alliance Air Boeing 737 jet with 58 people caught fire and crashed
just before landing at Patna airport. 6 people survived.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A15)
2000 Jul 25, In France a NY
bound Concorde jet crashed in Gonesse after takeoff and all 109
people aboard were killed along with 4 people on the ground.
Passengers included 96 Germans, 2 Danes and an Austrian. Debris from
a blown tire was later believed to have caused an engine fire. A 5th
body was found in the rubble of the Hotelissimo. It was the
first-ever crash of the supersonic jet. A final probe in 2002
attributed runway junk as the cause of the crash. A French accident
inquiry concluded in December 2004 that the disaster was partly
caused by the strip of metal that fell on the runway from the
Continental plane that took off just before the supersonic jet. In
2010 Continental was ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 euros for the
crash and to pay Concorde's operator Air France a million euros in
damages.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A12)(SFC,
7/29/00, p.A12)(AP, 7/25/01)(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A8)(AFP, 12/6/10)
2000 Jul 27, In Nepal a
Canadian built Twin Otter Royal Nepal Airlines plane crashed near
Jogbudha and all 25 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 12, In Congo a
Russian-made Antonov crashed on approach to Tshikapa and 27 people
were killed.
(WSJ, 8/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 23, In Bahrain a Gulf
Air Airbus A320 crashed on approach to Manama and all 143 people
aboard were killed including 36 children.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 25, A Russian plane
with at least 75 passengers and crew crashed while trying to land in
Georgia. All were feared dead.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 31, A Singapore
Airlines Boeing 747-400 jet crashed on takeoff from Taiwan as
Typhoon Xangsane approached. Flight SQ006 was bound for Los Angeles.
The plane apparently hit construction equipment on a closed runway.
The airlines announced a $400,000 payment to victim’s families after
admitting to pilot error. 83 people were killed when the pilots took
off on the wrong runway. The pilots were not prosecuted.
(WSJ, 11/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A16)(SFEC,
11/5/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/02)
2000 Nov 15, In Angola an
Antonov 24 airplane crashed near Luanda Int’l. Airport and at least
40 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A17)
2002 Nov, A Fokker-50 caught
fire and crashed on a flight from Berlin to Luxembourg, killing 20
people.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2000 Dec 11, A US Marine Osprey
aircraft crashed in North Carolina and all 4 people aboard were
killed. The fleet was grounded the next day.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.A3)
2001 Jan 27, A small plane
crashed south of Denver and 10 people were killed including
passengers associated with the Oklahoma State Univ. basketball team.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 2, In Thailand a bomb
blast gutted a Thai Airways Boeing 737-400 in Bangkok just before PM
Shinawatra was to board. One crew member was killed. It was later
reported that the empty center fuel tank of the plane had exploded.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
2001 Mar 24, An Air Caraibes
plane with mostly French tourists from St. Maarten crashed on St.
Barts and killed all 19 aboard.
(WSJ, 3/26/00, p.A1)
2001 Jun 3, In California pilot
Daniel Katz (24) disappeared while flying over San Bernardino
National Forest. This spurred one of the most extensive and
high-tech searches in the area's history. In 2008 the wreckage of
his rented plane was found on a steep mountainside north of Rancho
Cucamonga near Lytle Creek.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2001 Jul 3, In Russia Flight
TD-352, a Tu-154 operated by Vladivostok Avia, crashed in Siberia
near the village of Burdakovka. All 143 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01,
p.A10)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1421072.stm)
2001 Sep 11, 8:45 a.m. American
Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 92 people, crashed into
the North tower of the World Trade Center in NYC. It was enroute
from Boston to LA.
9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing
767 carrying 65 people, crashed into the South Tower of the
WTC. It was enroute from Boston to LA.
9:38 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing
757 carrying 64 people, crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington,
Va. It was enroute from Washington DC to LA.
9:40 a.m. The FAA grounded all domestic flights
and ordered all airborne craft to land
immediately.
10:00 a.m. The South Tower of the WTC collapsed.
10:10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing
757 carrying 45 people, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh. The plane
had left Newark for SF but was believed to be directed by hijackers
to Camp David. Passengers appeared to have overcome the hijackers.
10:29 a.m. The North Tower of the WTC collapsed.
5:25 p.m. Building 7 of the WTC complex
collapsed. Four groups of terrorists used knives, hijacked 4
airplanes, and were suspected to be linked to Osama bin Laden’s al
Qaeda organization.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6,10,12)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, A chartered Russian
Tupelov-154 airplane crashed in to the Black Sea and all 78 people
were killed. The Sibir Airlines jet was bound to Novosibirsk from
Tel Aviv. An accidental missile strike from Ukrainian military
forces was suspected but denied by Ukraine officials. Pres. Putin
said terrorists might have been responsible. Later evidence
indicated that flight 1812 was hit by an S-200 missile. Ukraine and
Russia acknowledged that an errant missile was the probable cause on
Oct 12. In 2003 Ukraine agreed to pay $200,000 for each Israeli
killed.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/21/03,
p.A1)(www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/100501crash.shtml)
2001 Oct 8, In Milan, Italy, a
Scandinavian Airlines SAS jet, Flight 686 to Copenhagen, crashed
into a small Cessna on takeoff and 114 people were killed in both
planes with 4 killed on the ground. The Cessna had moved onto the
wrong runway as the SAS jet took off under foggy conditions.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, In Alaska a small
plane crashed following takeoff from Dillingham. 10 people were
killed in the Cessna 208 Caravan.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 12, American Airlines
Flight 587, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed in Belle
Harbor in the Far Rockaway district of Queens just after takeoff
from JFK Airport. All 260 crew and passengers were killed as well as
5 people on the ground. The A300-600 plane appeared to have fallen
apart. The vertical tail section cracked off when composite fittings
failed possibly due to turbulence from a preceding 747. In 2004 a
safety board said the pilot’s “unnecessary and excessive“ use of the
rudder contributed to the crash.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A19)(SFC,
10/27/04, p.A3)(AP, 11/12/05)
2001 Nov 19, A Russian airliner
crashed 90 miles north of Moscow and all 24 on board were killed.
The Ilyushin-18 was chartered by Israero and was from the Siberian
city of Khatanga.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 24, In Switzerland a
Swiss Avro RJ-100 Jumbolino crashed with 33 people on board. 10 were
killed.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2002 Jan 16, In Indonesia a
Boeing 737-300 with 60 people crash-landed on a river in Java. One
person was killed and 23 injured.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 28, An Ecuadoran TAME
Airlines Boeing 727-100 crashed along the Colombia border with 92
people aboard. The wreckage was found on a glacier of the Nevado de
Cumbal volcano and there were no survivors.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 12, An Iran Air Tours
Tupelov Tu-154 crashed into the Sefid Kouh mountains near
Khorramabad killing all 119 on board.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A12)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Apr 15, In South Korea an
Air China jet Boeing 767, CA-129, with some 166 passengers crashed
into a mountain near Kimhae. 122 people died in the crash.
(SFC, 4/15/02, p.A3)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A7)(AP,
4/15/07)
2002 Apr 19, In Colombia a
Russian-made Antonov jet, used to transfer inmates, crashed near
Popayan airport and at least 2 prison officials were killed.
(SFC, 4/20/02, p.A15)
2002 May 4, A Nigerian jet
crashed in Kano. 4 of 76 onboard survived. Nigeria's EAS Airlines
owned the British Aerospace twin-engine jet. The Red Cross reported
145 dead. A total of 154 people on the plane and the ground were
killed.
(SSFC, 5/5/02, p.A16)(SFC, 5/6/02, p.A3)(AP,
5/4/03)
2002 May 7, A China Northern
Airlines with 112 people crashed off the northeast coast. Flight
6136 was an MD-82 enroute from Beijing to Dalian.
(SFC, 5/8/02, p.A15)
2002 May 7, An EgyptAir Boeing
737 with 62 people crashed in bad weather near Tunis. 14 people were
killed.
(SFC, 5/8/02, p.A15)(AP, 5/7/03)
2002 May 25, A Taiwanese China
Airlines Boeing 747 airliner bound for Hong Kong crashed into the
sea and 225 people were killed.
(SSFC, 5/26/02, p.A12)(SFC, 5/27/02, p.A7)(AP,
5/25/03)
2002 Jul 1, Bashkirian flight
2937 with 45 Russian children headed for a beach vacation in Spain
were among 71 people killed when their chartered Tupolev airliner
slammed into a Boeing 757 DHL cargo plane over southern Germany. The
flights were under Swiss air control. An onboard device told the
pilot to climb but he followed a controller’s order to dive instead.
In 2007 four employees of a Swiss air traffic control company were
convicted of negligent homicide for the crash of flight 2937.
(AP, 7/2/02)(SFC, 7/2/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/2/02,
p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/07)
2002 Jul 3, Swiss authorities
said a collision-warning system was out of service in the Zurich
tower when it took control of a Russian airliner and a cargo jet
shortly before they collided on July 1 at 35,000 feet, killing 71
people, including 45 children headed for an end-of-school beach
holiday. One of 2 required air controllers was on a break.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 19, A Russian Mi-26
military helicopter loaded with troops crashed in Chechnya. 127 were
killed and 32 injured when the troop transport fell into a minefield
in what Russian media called the nation's biggest military
helicopter crash and the biggest single-day casualty count in the
Chechen war. Chechen rebels claimed to have shot the helicopter
down.
(AP, 8/20/02)(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP,
8/21/03)(AP, 8/19/07)
2002 Aug 22, In Nepal a plane
carrying foreign tourists slammed into a mountain in bad weather,
killing all 18 people on board.
(Reuters, 8/22/02)
2002 Aug 29, In Russia a small
plane disappeared in the Far East region of Khabarovsk. The plane
crashed into a cliff and 16 people were killed.
(AP, 8/29/02)(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Dec 23, In central Iran a
Ukrainian An-140 aircraft, carrying Ukrainian and Russian aerospace
scientists from Turkey, flew into a mountainside while preparing to
land killing all 46 people on board. Airport officials said pilot
"carelessness" caused the plane to crash.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2003 Jan 8, In Charlotte, NC, a
US Airways Express Beech 1900 turboprop crashed on takeoff and all
21 aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/9/03, p.A3)
2003 Jan 8, In Turkey the pilot
of the British Aerospace RJ-100 missed the runway because of heavy
fog in the southeastern city of Diayarbakir. 75 people were killed
with 5 survivors.
(AP, 1/9/03)(WSJ, 1/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 9, A Peruvian airliner
carrying 46 people, including eight children, disappeared amid
cloud-covered mountains in the Amazon jungle. On Jan 11 rescue
workers found the wreckage of TANS Airlines Flight 222, a Fokker 28
near the jungle town of Chachapoyas. There were no survivors.
(AP, 1/9/03)(AP, 1/11/03)
2003 Jan 9, In southeastern
Turkey 2 Turkish F-4 warplanes collided in heavy fog during a
training flight killing the four crew members.
(AP, 1/9/03)y
2003 Feb 19, An Iranian
military plane carrying 275 members of the elite Revolutionary
Guards crashed in southeastern Iran, killing all on board.
(WSJ, 2/20/03, p.A1)(AP, 2/19/08)
2003 Mar 6, An Air
Algerie Boeing 737 jet crashed killing 102 passengers and crew in
the southern Algerian province of Tamanrasset. At least 1 person
survived.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A14)
2003 May 26, An airplane
carrying Spanish peacekeepers crashed into a mountain in
northeastern Turkey while making its third attempt to land in thick
fog. All 74 people aboard were killed. The Yak-42 was chartered from
a Ukrainian company.
(AP, 5/26/03)(WSJ, 5/27/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 8, A Sudanese airliner
crashed minutes after its captain reported technical problems
following takeoff, killing 116 people. The only survivor was a
2-year-old boy.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2003 Dec 25, A passenger plane
bound for Beirut crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from the
west African nation of Benin and at least 138 people, mostly
Lebanese, were killed. Some 35 people survived.
(AP, 12/25/03)(SFC, 12/26/03, p.A3)(AP, 12/27/03)
2003 Dec 26, Kelvin Stark, a
new Zealand pilot, was killed while flying a new PAC 750XL airplane
to California. The 17-passenger plane was billed as the 1st
passenger aircraft built in New Zealand and was specially designed
for skydiving.
(SFC, 12/27/03, p.A15)
2004 Jan 13, In Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, a domestic airliner crashed on approach to the airport.
At least 36 people, including the top U.N. official for Uzbekistan,
were aboard and no survivors were reported.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004 Jan 17, A Cessna 208
regional plane carrying hunters went down in Lake Erie about one
mile west of Pelee Island, Canada. All 9 aboard were killed.
(AP, 1/18/04)(WSJ, 1/19/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 30, A 25-30 seat
passenger plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, Nigeria.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Mar 11, In San Diego 4
Marines were killed when their small UC-35 jet crashed on landing at
Air Station Miramar.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B3)
2004 May 14, A Brazilian
domestic airliner crashed near the Amazon city of Manaus, killing
all 30 passengers and three crew members.
(AP, 5/15/04)
2004 Aug 21, A military plane
crashed into a mountain in central Venezuela, killing 25 people,
including five children.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2004 Aug 24, A Russian airliner
crashed and a second disappeared from radar about the same time
night after both planes took off from the same Moscow airport,
raising fears that terrorism was involved. A distress signal was
activated on the second plane. All 89 passengers and crew were
killed, 46 aboard a TU-154 and 43 aboard a TU-134.
(AP, 8/25/04)(SFC, 8/25/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 30, A Lion Air MD-82
passenger plane from Jakarta carrying nearly 150 people skidded off
a runway in Solo, Indonesia, and split into two pieces killing at
least 31 people.
(AP, 11/30/04)(SFC, 12/1/04, p.A3)
2005 Feb 3, An Afghan passenger
jet carrying 104 people disappeared from radar screens during a
snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital. NATO helicopters found
the wreckage of 2 days later. There were no survivors.
(AP, 2/4/05)(AP, 2/5/05)
2005 Mar 16, A Russian
turboprop airliner carrying at least 52 people crashed and caught
fire while trying to land near an oil port along the Arctic coast,
and at least 29 people were killed.
(AP, 3/16/05)
2005 May 23, A Russian-made
plane crashed shortly after takeoff near Bunyakiri, Congo, killing
26 people.
(AP, 5/23/06)
2005 Aug 2, An Air France jet
skidded off a Toronto runway and burst into flames, prompting 309
passengers and crew to slide down escape chutes. In Dec, 2009, a
Canadian judge approved a C$12 million ($11.4 million) class-action
settlement with 184 passengers of the Air France jet.
(AP, 8/3/05)(Reuters, 12/31/09)
2005 Aug 6, A Tunis Air jet
carrying 35 passengers went down in the sea off the Sicilian coast,
and rescuers were on their way. 16 people were killed, while 23
survived. A bad fuel gauge on the Tuninter plane caused the crash.
On March 23, 2009, the Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of
taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, was
sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his
co-pilot. Another five employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of
Tunisair, were sentenced to between 8 and 9 years in jail.
(AP, 8/5/05)(AP, 8/7/05)(WSJ, 9/8/05,
p.A1)(Reuters, 3/24/09)
2005 Aug 14, A Cypriot
airliner, Helios Air 737, crashed into a hill north of Athens,
killing all 121 people on board. An inquiry in 2006 ruled pilots
erred in setting pressurization controls.
(AP, 8/14/05)(WSJ, 10/11/06, p.A1)
2005 Aug 16, A chartered jet
filled with tourists returning home from Panama to the French
Caribbean island of Martinique crashed in western Venezuela, killing
all 160 people on board. The pilot had been attempting an emergency
landing after both engines failed.
(AP, 8/16/05)(WSJ, 8/17/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 23, TANS Peru Flight
204, a Boeing 737-200 with 100 people on board, split in two after
an emergency landing during a fierce storm, killing at least 41
people. The pilot tried to land in a marsh to soften the impact but
the landing split the aircraft in two. The plane was enroute from
Lima to Pucallpa and landed 20 miles from Pucallpa.
(AP, 8/24/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Indonesia a
domestic jetliner slammed into a crowded neighborhood after taking
off from Medan, bursting into flames and killing at 143 people
including 44 on the ground. 18 passengers survived the crash,
including an 18-month-old boy.
(AP, 9/6/05)(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Dec 6, A C-130 Iranian
military transport plane crashed into a 10-story apartment building
as it was trying to make an emergency landing, ripping open the top
of the structure and igniting a huge fire. At least 115 people were
killed including 21 on the ground in the Azadi suburb of Tehran.
(AP, 12/06/05)(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A3)
2005 Dec 10, Nigeria’s Sosoliso
Airlines Flight 1145 carrying 110 passengers crashed while landing
during a storm in the southern city of Port Harcourt. Some 107
people were killed including 71 children. The runway lights were off
because the airport had not bought a generator.
(AP, 12/10/05)(AFP, 12/12/05)(WSJ, 10/1/07, p.A1)
2005 Dec 19, In Florida a
58-year-old propeller seaplane, owned by Chalk’s Ocean Airways,
crashed in the water off Miami Beach after taking off for Bimini in
the Bahamas. 20 people were killed. Federal investigators found
longstanding cracks in a wing that fell off.
(AP, 12/20/05)(SFC, 12/20/05, p.A4)(WSJ,
12/22/05, p.A1)
2006 Feb 11, In southern Sudan
a military transport plane blew a tire while landing at Aweil,
swerved off the runway and exploded, killing all 20 people on board.
(AP, 2/12/06)
2006 May 3, An Armenian Airbus
A-320 crashed in stormy weather off Russia's Black Sea coast while
readying to land at the Sochi resort, killing all 113 people on
board, most of them Armenians.
(AP, 5/3/06)(WSJ, 5/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 9, A Russian Airbus
310 passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway and
plowed through a concrete barrier, bursting into flames. At least
125 of 203 people on board were killed.
(AP, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/9/07)
2006 Jul 10, In eastern
Pakistan a Fokker F-27 twin-engine aircraft operated by Pakistan
International Airlines slammed into a wheat field and burst into
flames minutes after takeoff. All 45 people on board were killed.
(AP, 7/10/06)(AP, 7/28/10)
2006 Aug 22, A Russian
passenger jet with at least 170 people aboard crashed in Ukraine
after sending a distress signal. The Pulkovo airlines Tupolev 154,
en route from the Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa to St.
Petersburg, crashed near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Sep 1, In northeastern
Iran a Russian-made Tupolev 154 airplane with 148 people on board
skidded off the runway and caught fire, killing 29 people.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 29, A Brazilian
jetliner, Gol airlines Flight 1907, with 155 people aboard crashed
in the Amazon jungle after reportedly colliding with a smaller
ExcelAire executive jet carrying 16 passengers. The Legacy jet
stabilized after the apparent collision and then landed at a
Brazilian air force base in the Amazon state of Para. It was later
reported that the US executive jet was at the wrong altitude and
Brazil confiscated the passports of the pilots. In November it was
reported that the flight recorder transcript from the executive jet
involved in the air disaster showed that the jet's American pilots
were told by Brazilian air traffic control to fly at the same
altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided over the Amazon
rainforest. Pilots Joseph Lepore (42), of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan
Paladino (34), of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., were allowed to return to
the US on Dec 8 after signing a document promising to return to
Brazil for their trial or when required by local authorities. In
2010 Air force Sgt. Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos was sentenced to
14 months in jail for failing to take action when he saw that the
Legacy's anti-collision system had been turned off. In 2011 the
American pilots were sentenced to four years of unspecified
community service in the USA. On May 19 air traffic controller
Lucivando de Alencar was convicted of endangering air safety and
sentenced to three years and four months of community service.
(AP, 9/30/06)(AP, 10/1/06)(WSJ, 10/5/06,
p.A1)(AP, 11/2/06)(AP, 10/27/10)(AP, 5/17/11)(AP, 5/19/11)
2006 Nov 26, David Hermance
(59), a US engineer for Toyota, was killed when his experimental
plane, a Interavia E-3, crashed off San Pedro near Los Angeles, Ca.
Hermance’s job had been to take technology developed in Japan, as in
the Prius hybrid, and bring it to the US.
(SFC, 11/27/06, p.A5)
2007 Jan 1, Flight KI-574, an
Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people, disappeared in
stormy weather off Sulawesi island. Rescue teams were sent to search
in the area where the Boeing 737-400 sent out a distress signal. In
2008 investigators said the pilots had accidentally disconnecting
the plane's autopilot. A speed boat capsized in poor weather off the
coast of Borneo island, killing 15 people.
(AP, 1/1/07)(AP, 1/2/07)(AFP, 3/25/08)
2007 Jan 9, Iraqi and US
soldiers, backed by American warplanes, battled suspected insurgents
for hours in central Baghdad, and 50 militant fighters were killed.
A cargo plane carrying Turkish construction workers crashed during
landing at an airport near Baghdad, killing 32 people and injuring
two.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Mar 17, A Russian airliner
crash landed in the central Russian city of Samara, killing seven
people and injuring 23.
(AP, 3/17/07)
2007 Apr 21, A US Navy Blue
Angel jet went down during an air show in South Carolina, plunging
into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the
pilot.
(AP, 4/22/07)
2007 May 5, A Kenya Airways jet
with 114 people on board crashed after sending out a distress signal
over a remote rainforest in southern Cameroon. The Boeing 737-800
was carrying 114 people, including 105 passengers, from 23
countries. There were no survivors.
(AP, 5/5/07)(AP, 5/7/07)
2007 Jun 4, A small plane from
Milwaukee carrying a six-member organ transplant team and their
cargo of donor organs to Michigan crashed in Lake Michigan with no
survivors.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 25, A charter plane
carrying 22 people between two popular Cambodian tourist
destinations crashed in a mountainous region in the south of the
country.
(AP, 6/25/07)
2007 Jul 10, In Florida a small
plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban
Orlando neighborhood, killing both people aboard and starting two
house fires that seriously burned two adults and a 10-year-old boy.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 17, In Sao Paulo,
Brazil, a TAM airlines Airbus-320 slammed into a gas station and a
TAM building and burst into flames after trying to land on a short,
rain-slicked runway at Congonhas airport. All 187 people aboard were
killed along with 12 on the ground.
(AP, 7/18/07)(AP, 7/17/08)
2007 Jul 29, A 43-year-old
Russian cargo plane crashed minutes after taking off from a Moscow
airport, killing all seven crew on board.
(AP, 7/29/07)
2007 Aug 2, In Washington state
a helicopter with four people aboard crashed and burst into flames
on the east slopes of the Cascade Range, starting a wildfire. By the
next day it spread through dry timber to cover 300 to 400 acres.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 5, A medical plane
left the Ruidoso Regional Airport on a flight to University of New
Mexico Hospital, and crashed almost immediately in Devil's Canyon in
the Lincoln National Forest. 5 people were killed including a
15-month-old patient and her mother.
(AP, 8/7/07)
2007 Aug 9, A small airplane
plunged into the sea moments after taking off from the French
Polynesian resort island of Moorea, apparently killing all 20 people
aboard in the territory's worst-ever plane crash.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 20, In Okinawa, Japan,
passengers used emergency slides to evacuate a China Airlines Boeing
737-800 just minutes before the plane burst into a fireball on the
tarmac. All 165 people aboard escaped unhurt, including the pilot,
who jumped from the cockpit at the last second.
(AP, 8/20/07)(AP, 8/20/08)
2007 Sep 16, In Thailand a
One-Two-Go Airlines passenger plane filled with foreign tourists
crashed as it tried to land in pouring rain on the island of Phuket,
splitting in two and bursting into flames. 89 people were killed.
(AP, 9/17/07)(AP, 9/16/08)
2007 Oct 4, In Congo a cargo
plane crashed in a residential neighborhood near the main airport in
Kinshasa, plowing into homes and killing at least 52 people. The
next day Congolese President Joseph Kabila sacked Transport Minister
Remy Henri Kuseyo Gatanga.
(AP, 10/4/07)(Reuters, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 7, A Cessna 208 Grand
Caravan crashed in the Cascade Mountains after it left Star, Idaho,
near Boise, en route to Shelton, Wash., northwest of Olympia. 9
skydivers and the pilot were killed. Searchers found the wreckage
the next day.
(AP, 10/9/07)
2007 Oct 8, In Colombia a plane
carrying 15 soldiers and three civilians disappeared. The wreckage
was spotted Oct 11 high in the Andes and the armed forces chief said
there was no chance of survivors.
(AP, 10/11/07)
2007 Nov 30, In southwest
Turkey an Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before
it was due to land, killing all 57 people on board.
(AP, 11/30/07)
2007 Dec 25, In Panama the
bodies of Michael Klein (37), a California hedge fund manager, his
daughter Talia Klein (13) and pilot Edwin Lasso (23) were found in
an uninhabited region known as Las Ovejas on the slope of the Baru
volcano. Francesca Lewis (12) survived the Dec 23 crash, but cold,
wet weather prevented authorities from evacuating her immediately.
(AP, 12/26/07)(SFC, 12/26/07, p.A4)
2008 Jan 4, A private plane
carrying 14 people crashed into the sea after taking off from
Venezuela's Los Roques islands.
(AP, 1/5/08)
2008 Jan 20, In southern
California The two small Cessnas crashed near the small Corona
Municipal Airport, killing five and raining debris and bodies down
on car dealership parking lots.
(AP, 1/21/08)
2008 Feb 17, In New Zealand 3
people were killed after a light plane and a helicopter collided in
mid-air in the coastal settlement of Paraparaumu.
(AP, 2/17/08)
2008 Mar 15, In Nigeria a Wings
Airline 19-seater aircraft went missing shortly after leaving Lagos
for the Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River state. On Aug 30 hunters
found the wreckage of the plane and the bodies of its three crew
members.
(AFP, 9/3/08)
2008 Apr 3, In Suriname a
twin-engine Antonov-AN28, operated by Surinamese carrier Blue Wing
airlines, crashed on approach to an airstrip in the Benzdorp mining
region, near the country's border with French Guiana. All 19 aboard
were killed. Blue Wing, which has operated since 2002, was barred
from landing at European airports in June 2006 after French aviation
officials found safety deficiencies during an inspection of planes.
The airline was removed from the blacklist in 2007 after a
commission said the company had resolved the issues.
(AP, 4/4/08)
2008 Apr 8, In Vietnam a small
military plane crashed near Hanoi, killing all five aboard.
(AP, 4/8/08)
2008 Apr 11, In Moldova a
Sudanese-owned transport plane laden with fuel crashed shortly after
takeoff from an airport near the capital and burst into flames,
killing all 8 people on board.
(AP, 4/12/08)
2008 Apr 15, In eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo at least 44 people were killed and up
tot 100 injured when a passenger plane crashed onto a market
district after taking-off at Goma.
(Reuters, 4/16/08)(WSJ, 4/18/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 16, A military plane
belonging to Equatorial Guinea crashed off its coast with at least
13 people on board. There are no survivors.
(AP, 4/18/08)
2008 Apr 28, A Ukrainian
helicopter crashed onto an offshore drilling platform in the Black
Sea, killing all 20 people on board.
(Reuters, 4/28/08)
2008 May 13, In Canada a
helicopter with three people on board appeared to hover as if
looking for a landing spot before it crashed onto a street and burst
into flames in Cranbrook, British Columbia. A pedestrian Kenyan
exchange student, was killed along with the 3 in the helicopter.
(Reuters, 5/14/08)
2008 May 24, In California a
tour helicopter crashed on Santa Catalina Island killing 3 people
and injuring 3 others.
(SSFC, 5/25/08, p.A6)
2008 May 26, A Russian an An-12
cargo plane crashed near Chelyabinsk, Siberia, killing all 9 people
onboard.
(SFC, 5/27/08, p.A3)
2008 May 29, Chile's national
police chief and 10 other people were killed when the aging
Panamanian government helicopter they were riding in crashed into a
three-story building in the heart of Panama City.
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 30, In Honduras a
Grupo Taca Airbus A320 overshot a runway and raced onto a busy
street in Tegucigalpa, killing the pilot, two passengers and a
motorist on the ground. At least 65 people were injured.
(AP, 5/31/08)
2008 Jun 10, A Sudan Airways
plane carrying 214 people veered off a runway and burst into flames
after landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing at least 29
people.
(AP, 6/11/08)(SFC, 6/11/08, p.A2)
2008 Jun 11, A plane carrying
10 people that disappeared four days ago in Chile's frigid southern
forests was found with nine survivors who stayed alive by huddling
for warmth, sharing food and sheltering in the plane's wreckage. The
only fatality was the pilot Nelson Bahamondes (65). The plane had
disappeared June 7 after taking off the Chilean city of Puerto Montt
en route to La Junta.
(AP, 6/11/08)
2008 Jun 19, In central Bosnia
a helicopter carrying two Spanish pilots of the EU peace force and
two German officers crashed, but it was not clear if there were any
casualties.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 26, In Indonesia a
1984 Casa-212 plane disappeared during an aerial surveillance
mission about 60 miles south of the capital, Jakarta. All 18 aboard
were killed.
(AP, 6/27/08)(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Guatemala a
helicopter crash killed Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez and
three other people.
(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Sudan a small
cargo plane crashed mid-flight, killing seven crew members,
including five foreigners, in the third fatal aviation accident to
blight the African country in the past two months. There was one
survivor.
(AFP, 6/28/08)(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Sudan a small
cargo plane crashed mid-flight, killing 7 crew members, including 5
foreigners, in the third fatal aviation accident to blight the
African country in the past two months. There was one survivor.
Gunmen killed a Ugandan driver contracted to deliver aid for the
World Food Program in Sudan, in the 7th such killing in the country
in three months.
(AFP, 6/28/08)(AP, 6/28/08)(AFP, 6/29/08)
2008 Jun 28, A small plane
crashed outside Las Vegas killing 4 residents of Oakley, Ca.
(SFC, 6/30/08, p.B1)
2008 Jun 29, A helicopter
ferrying a patient with a medical emergency from the Grand Canyon
collided into another chopper carrying a patient near a northern
Arizona hospital, leaving six people dead and critically injuring a
nurse.
(AP, 6/30/08)
2008 Jun 30, In Sudan a cargo
plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Khartoum's airport, killing
all four Russian crew members aboard. The plane hit an electricity
pole shortly after takeoff and then crashed into an empty field.
(AP, 6/30/08)
2008 Jul 6, In northern Mexico
a plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed s it was trying to
land, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 20, In central Bolivia
a Venezuelan military helicopter often used to transport Bolivian
President Evo Morales crashed. Four Venezuelan military personnel
and a Bolivian officer were reported killed.
(AP, 7/21/08)
2008 Jul 21, A US B-52 bomber
that was due to fly in a Liberation Day parade in the US territory
of Guam crashed into the Pacific Ocean soon after take-off. All of
the bomber's six-man crew were killed.
(AFP, 7/21/08)(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 31, A small jet
crashed while preparing to land at Degner Regional Airport in
Minnesota killing 8 people including several casino and construction
executives.
(WSJ, 7/31/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 3, In Gearhart,
Oregon, a small plane crashed into a seaside house killing 2 people
aboard and 2 children in the vacation home.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 3, In Canada a small
plane crashed on Vancouver Island. Two survivors were pulled from
the wreckage but five other people on the aircraft died.
(Reuters, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 5, In California 9
firefighters were killed and 4 injured when their helicopter crashed
after battling a blaze in Trinity County. Investigators in 2010
concluded that lax federal oversight and Carson helicopter’s
decision to underestimate the craft’s weight led to the crash.
(SFC, 8/7/08, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/10, p.C7)
2008 Aug 17, Two small planes
collided in midair and crashed near Coventry in central England,
killing five people.
(AP, 8/17/08)
2008 Aug 20, A Spanair MD-82
bound for the Canary Islands caught fire while trying to make an
emergency landing just after departing from Madrid airport leaving
153 people dead. This was the nation's worst air disaster in nearly
25 years. The toll rose to 154 on Aug 23 leaving 18 survivors. In
2010 authorities investigating the crash of Spanair flight 5022
discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical
problems in the aircraft was infected with malware.
(AP, 8/20/08)(AP, 8/21/08)(Reuters,
8/23/08)(http://tinyurl.com/2azr8zj)
2008 Aug 22, In North Las
Vegas, Nevada, an experimental aircraft crashed into a house killing
the pilot of the Velocity 173 RG and 2 people in the home.
(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A4)
2008 Aug 23, In Utah a small
plane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from Canyonlands
Field airport. All 10 aboard, including 9 employees of a Cedar City
dermatology company, who traveled to remote areas to provide medical
treatments.
(SSFC, 8/24/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 24, In Guatemala a
Cessna Caravan carrying humanitarian workers crashed about 60 miles
east of Guatemala City killing 10 people, including five Americans.
At least 2 people survived. The plane was headed to a village in the
area of El Estor to build homes for CHOICE Humanitarian, a group
based in West Jordan, Utah.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 24, In Kyrgyzstan a
Boeing 737 passenger jet carrying 90 people to Iran crashed near
Bishkek’s Manas Int’l. Airport. At least 65 people were killed.
(AP, 8/24/08)
2008 Aug 25, A 41-year-old
Lockheed Martin C-130 military cargo plane crashed in the waters off
the southern Philippines. Two Philippine Air Force pilots and 7
crewmen were feared dead.
(AFP, 8/26/08)
2008 Sep 1, In Nevada an air
tanker being used to drop retardant on a wildfire in the Sierra
Nevada crashed after taking off for its last flight of the day,
killing all three crew members.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, In east Democratic
Republic of Congo a humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and
crew crashed into a mountain with no sign of survivors.
(Reuters, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 3, A helicopter
carrying foreign contractors crashed into an oil platform off the
coast of Dubai, killing all seven people on board and halting
production in one of the emirate's four offshore oil fields.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard
helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 10, In northern Israel
a military helicopter crashed at sundown and burst into flames
killing two crew members.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Western
Australia's 4 people died in a helicopter crash in the Bungle Bungle
National Park of the remote Kimberly region.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Aeroflot Flight
821, traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm,
crashed near residential buildings as it was preparing to land,
killing all 88 people aboard, including 21 foreign nationals. A
Russian investigator said the crash of the Boeing-737-500 was most
likely caused by engine failure.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 28, In Maryland a
medical helicopter crashed and killed 4 of 5 people on board.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.A2)
2008 Oct 8, In Nepal a small
airplane crashed and caught fire as it tried to land in foggy
weather at a tiny mountain airport near Mount Everest, killing 18
people, including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal.
(AP, 10/8/08)
2008 Oct 23, An Italian
military helicopter crashed in northeastern France, killing all
eight people on board.
(AP, 10/23/08)
2008 Oct 24, In Paraguay a
small plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Asuncion, killing all
five people on board. The plane belonged to the private hospital
Asismed and was used to transport patients. Hospital President
Miguel Figueredo said the pilot had said he would be conducting a
test flight, and did not tell officials he would have passengers.
(AP, 10/24/08)
2008 Nov 2, In Guyana American
pilots James Barker and Chris Paris and Canadian technician Patrick
Murphy were doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources
Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada,
when the plane went missing.
(AP, 11/18/08)
2008 Nov 4, One of Mexico's top
pointmen in the war against drug trafficking died when a government
jet crashed into a Mexico City street, setting fire to dozens of
vehicles. The loss of Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, former
anti-drug prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos and six others
thinned the ranks of Mexico's already embattled leadership. 9 people
on the plane were killed as well as 5 people on the ground. A 15th
victim died 2 weeks later. A 16th victim died in On Dec 11. Three
alleged hitmen suspected in the killing of a top border-state police
official died in a gunbattle with police in Nogales. They were
suspected of having helped kill Sonora state police chief Juan
Manuel Pavon on Nov 2. One Sonora state police officer died in the
shootout. A suspect in Pavon's killing was taken into custody.
(AP, 11/5/08)(AP, 11/6/08)(AP, 11/18/08)(AP,
12/11/08)
2008 Nov 16, On Canada's
Pacific coast 7 people were killed and one was injured when the
charter plane they were flying in crashed on Thormanby Island.
(AP, 11/17/08)
2008 Nov 27, An Airbus A320
passenger plane crashed off France's southern coast during a
maintenance flight, killing 3 people and leaving the 4 others on
board missing.
(AP, 11/28/08)(AP, 12/1/08)
2008 Dec 3, In Puerto Rico a
Rockwell International 690B plane slammed into El Yunque mountain,
killing Caribbean pilot Ken Webster and two US tourists on board. A
spokesman for the Medical Mutual of Ohio health insurance company
later identified the two Americans as Kent W. Clapp, the firm's
chief executive, and his fiancee, Tracy Turner.
(AP, 12/5/08)
2008 Dec 7, A Mexican
government Learjet plunged into Atlangatepec lake in central Mexico,
killing two pilots in the second deadly crash in a month involving a
federally owned plane.
(AP, 12/8/08)
2008 Dec 8, In San Diego The
F/A-18D Hornet crashed into a street about two miles from Marine
Corps Air Station Miramar as the pilot was returning from a training
flight. 3 people, a mother, her baby and a grandmother, were killed
in one house. Two homes were destroyed and a fourth person, believed
to be a small child, had not been found.
(AP, 12/9/08)(WSJ, 12/9/08, p.A1)
2008 Dec 15, A plane from the
Dominican Rep. went missing near the Turks and Caicos Islands that
reportedly had 12 people, including 11 migrant workers, on board.
Several days after the disappearance, Dominican authorities said
Adriano Jimenez, the pilot, was allowed to take off even though he
had only a US student pilot's license.
(AP, 12/16/08)(AP, 12/17/08)(AP, 12/16/09)
2008 Dec 17, Two Australian
women were killed when their light aircraft slammed into a suburban
house in Sydney after a mid-air collision between two flying school
planes.
(AFP, 12/18/08)
2008 Dec 19, In northern Mexico
a small plane carrying government officials and television reporters
crashed in northern Mexico and all five people on board are in
serious condition. The plane was carrying state water commission
chief Rafael Reyes, his assistant and two TV Azteca reporters. They
were hospitalized along with the pilot.
(AP, 12/20/08)
2009 Jan 2, In Britain 2 people
were feared dead after a light aircraft crashed into a major railway
line, causing severe disruption to train services between Rugeley
and Stafford.
(AFP, 1/2/09)
2009 Jan 4, In Louisiana 8
people were killed when a PHI Inc. helicopter, bound for offshore
oil fields, crashed about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans.
(SFC, 1/5/09, p.A3)
2009 Jan 9, A Russian
helicopter owned by the state gas giant Gazprom crashed while on a
hunting trip in the mountains of Western Siberia, killing eight
aboard. 3 people survived. The crash involved government officials
on an illegal hunt.
(AP, 1/11/09)(WSJ, 4/28/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 11, Marcus Schrenker's
plane went down en route to Destin, Fla., from Anderson, Ind.
Schrenker (38), an investment manager, had reported that the
windshield imploded and that he was bleeding profusely. Federal
marshals believe he faked a distress call before parachuting from
his plane over Alabama and disappearing on a motorcycle he had
stashed in advance.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 15, A US Airways
Airbus A320 jetliner, piloted by Chesley B. Sullenberger and bound
for Charlotte, NC, landed in the Hudson River after both engines
failed shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia and an encounter with a
flock of geese. All 155 people aboard Flight 1549 survived.
(AP, 1/16/09)(WSJ, 1/16/09, p.A3)
2009 Jan 15, In western
Afghanistan Gen. Fazaludin Sayar, a top Afghan army general, was
killed in a helicopter crash. All 12 others aboard were also killed.
(AP, 1/15/09)
2009 Jan 17, A helicopter
carrying 10 French soldiers crashed off the coast of Gabon in
central Africa. At least 2 survived and 2 were killed as rescuers
searched for 6 missing.
(AP, 1/17/09)
2009 Jan 26, In northern Iraq 2
US helicopters crashed in Tamim province, killing four American
troops, in the deadliest single incident for US forces in more than
four months. Enemy fire was later reported as the cause of the
collision.
(AP, 1/26/09)(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 30, In West Virginia a
small plane crashed in snowy weather killing all six on board.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, p.A8)
2009 Feb 3, A Russian military
Mi-24 helicopter gunship crashed about 700 kilometers (450 miles)
southeast of Moscow, killing all three people aboard.
(AP, 2/3/09)
2009 Feb 7, In Brazil 4 people
at the rear of a plane that crashed in a muddy Amazon river managed
to open an emergency door and swim to safety as the aircraft sank,
dragging 24 others to their death.
(AP, 2/8/09)
2009 Feb 8, A single-engine
plane carrying six US citizens crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off
the north coast of Puerto Rico.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 12, A commuter plane,
Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J., coming in for
a landing nose-dived into a house in suburban Buffalo, sparking a
fiery explosion that killed all 49 people aboard and a person in the
home. It was the nation's first fatal crash of a commercial airliner
in 2 1/2 years. Historian Alison Des Forges (66), prominent human
rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda, was among the
victims of the crash.
(AP, 2/13/09)(AP, 2/13/09)
2009 Feb 20, In Egypt 5 crew
members died when a Ukrainian cargo plane crashed during takeoff,
burst into flames and slid down the runway in the city of Luxor.
(AP, 2/20/09)
2009 Feb 25, A Turkish Airlines
plane with 135 people aboard slammed into a muddy field while
attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport. Nine people were
killed and more than 50 were injured, many in serious condition.
(AP, 2/25/09)
2009 Mar 9, In Uganda a cargo
plane carrying equipment for African Union peacekeepers in Somalia
caught fire and crashed into Uganda's Lake Victoria shortly after
takeoff, killing all 11 people on board.
(AP, 3/9/09)
2009 Mar 12, In Canada 17
people were missing in the frigid waters off Canada's Atlantic coast
after a helicopter crashed while ferrying workers to an offshore oil
platform. It went down about 47 nautical miles southeast of the
Newfoundland and Labrador capital of St. John's.
(Reuters, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 19, In Quito, Ecuador,
a small army plane crashed into an apartment building, killing seven
people and sending a fireball into the evening sky. The dead
included 3 soldiers, the pilot’s wife and son and 2 people on the
ground.
(AP, 3/20/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Montana a
single-engine turboprop airplane crashed just short of Butte’s Bert
Mooney Airport, killing all 14 people aboard, including 7 children.
The aircraft had departed from Oroville, Calif., and the pilot had
filed a flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 23, In Japan an MD-11
aircraft operated by FedEx crashed at Tokyo's main international
airport, killing its two-member crew. Though largely retired from
passenger use for economic reasons, the MD-11 aircraft is still
employed for cargo transport.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 25, One of the US Air
Force's top-of-the-line F-22 fighter jets crashed in the high desert
of Southern California, killing test pilot David Cooley (49), an
employee of prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
(AP, 3/26/09)(WSJ, 3/26/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 25, An Ecuadorean air
force training jet crashed in a jungle area near the Colombian
border. The pilot and a member of the air force rescue team were
killed when a cable snapped as they were being lifted to a
helicopter.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Turkey a
helicopter crashed in the snow-covered mountains of central Turkey.
Muhsin Yazicioglu, leader of the small conservative Great Unity
Party, was one of six people on board. Authorities the next day
released a recording of an emergency call made after the crash by
journalist Ismail Gunes, who said he thought he was the only
survivor.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Apr 1, A helicopter
returning to Aberdeen with 16 people from an oil platform crashed in
the North Sea. The Bond Super Puma helicopter went down off the
northeast coast of Scotland. 8 bodies were recovered and the others
were presumed dead. 7 bodies were later found inside the wreckage of
the helicopter.
(AFP, 4/1/09)(AP, 4/2/09)(AP, 4/5/09)
2009 Apr 6, An Indonesian
military plane carrying 24 people crashed into an airport hangar
during heavy rains and burst into flames, killing everyone on board.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 29, A Boeing 737 on a
test flight from Brazzaville crashed southeast of Kinshasa, killing
7 people.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 May 3, Sixteen Venezuelan
soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter
crashed near the Colombian border. A brigadier general was among
those killed.
(AP, 5/3/09)
2009 May 5, A Marine Corps
helicopter crashed shortly before midnight in a remote area of
Southern California, killing the two people who were on board.
(AP, 5/6/09)
2009 May 14, A small plane
crashed into a yard in Guatemala City, reportedly killing six people
on board and setting a home on fire near the airport.
(AP, 5/15/09)
2009 May 20, An Indonesian
C-130 Hercules military transport plane, carrying troops and their
families, crashed into a row of houses in East Java and burst into
flames, killing 99 people.
(AP, 5/20/09)
2009 May 22, In Brazil a
twin-engine plane crashed near a private airport in a northeastern
coastal resort area, killing all 11 people aboard.
(AP, 5/23/09)
2009 Jun 1, A missing Air
France Airbus A330 jet, Flight 447, carrying 228 people from Rio de
Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over
the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil soon began a search mission off its
northeastern coast.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 2, An airplane seat, a
life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean by Brazilian military pilots searching
for a missing Air France airliner Flight 447.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 6, Brazilian search
crews retrieved the first 2 bodies in the Atlantic from the May 31
crash of Air France Flight 447. Investigators said faulty speed
readings had been found on the same type of jets.
(Reuters, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 7, Brazilian and
French ships recovered 14 more bodies from ocean near Air France
crash, bringing the total to 16.
(AP, 6/7/09)(SFC, 6/8/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 8, Brazilian and
French ships recovered 8 more bodies from Air France Flight 447,
bringing the total recovered to 24. The tail section of the plane
was also recovered. The plane disappeared during a flight from Rio
de Janeiro to Paris on May 31 amid strong thunderstorms.
(AP, 6/9/09)(SFC, 6/9/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 9, In New Mexico a
helicopter crashed while attempting to rescue Megumi Yamamoto, a
Japanese graduate student who was hiking in the mountains above
Santa Fe. Police Sgt Andy Tingwall and Yamamoto died in the crash.
(SFC, 6/15/09, p.A6)
2009 Jun 9, An Indian air force
transport plane crashed near the disputed Chinese border in
the mountains of northeast Arunachal Pradesh state. All 14 on
board were killed.
(Reuters, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, The French nuclear
submarine Emeraude reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447
where 41 of 228 bodies have been recovered.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 12, A Brazilian ship
recovered three more bodies from the Atlantic bringing the total to
44. Searchers said weather and currents complicated their job and
warned it is unlikely that all the dead from Air France Flight 447
will be found.
(AP, 6/12/09)
2009 Jun 13, Brazil reported
that a French ship had found six more bodies from Air France Flight
447, which would bring the total to 50. It went down May 31 with 228
on board.
(AP, 6/13/09)
2009 Jun 22, US pilot Capt.
George B. Houghton (28), of Candler, NC, died in an F-16 crash at
the Utah Test and Training Range near the Nevada-Utah state line.
(SFC, 6/24/09, p.A4)(SFC, 6/25/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 24, In Arizona a
private plane crashed killing 4 people. The plane was returning to
Texas from California and carried over 12 pounds of marijuana and
over $8,000 cash.
(SFC, 6/26/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 30, A Yemenia Airbus
310 jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean as it
tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros.
The passengers were on the last leg of a journey from Paris and
Marseilles to Comoros with a stop in Yemen to change planes. Bahia
Bakari (14), the only person to survive, was plucked from the sea
after clinging to wreckage for 13 hours. Investigators on Aug 28
retrieved the slightly damaged flight data recorder and 10 more
bodies from the Yemenia Airways flight. The voice recorder was
recovered on Aug 29.
(AP, 6/30/09)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A3)(AP, 8/29/09)
2009 Jul 2, A British RAF
Tornado fighter aircraft crashed in a remote area of Scotland.
(AFP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 15, In Iran a
Russian-made Caspian Airlines TU-154 jet plane carrying nearly 170
people crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Imam Khomeini
International Airport. It was headed to the Armenian capital
Yerevan. All on board were killed.
(AP, 7/15/09)
2009 Jul 19,
In southern Afghanistan a Russian-owned civilian Mi-8 helicopter
crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from the
Kandahar NATO base, killing 16 civilians in the latest in a string
of deadly aircraft crashes in the country. Gunmen killed a candidate
for provincial council in Kunduz province as he was traveling to a
campaign event. The US military denounced the release of a video
showing a soldier captured in Afghanistan, describing the images as
Taliban propaganda that violated international law.
(AP, 7/19/09)(Reuters, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 24, In Iran a Russian
Ilyushin-62 plane, operated by Tehran-based Aria Airlines and
carrying 153 passengers and crew, skidded off the runway and hit a
wall while landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad. 13 of the 16
people killed in the crash were members of the crew, 9 of them from
Kazakhstan. The plane landed at high speed and the tires failed.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Aug 2, In eastern
Indonesia a plane carrying 16 people disappeared over a jungle-clad
and mountainous region of Papua. All aboard were killed.
(AP, 8/2/09)(AP, 8/5/09)
2009 Aug 4, In Thailand a
passenger plane skidded off the runway and crashed into a building
after landing on the Thai resort island of Samui, killing the chief
pilot and injuring at least seven people including foreign tourists.
(AP, 8/4/09)
2009 Aug 8, In New Jersey 9
people died in an air collision over the Hudson River, including 3
members of a Pennsylvania family in the private plane and five
Italian tourists and a pilot from New Jersey in a Liberty Tours
helicopter.
(AP, 8/9/09)
2009 Aug 11, In Papua New
Guinea a charter plane carrying 13 people to a popular tourist site
vanished on approach in bad weather to an airport nestled in rugged
terrain.
(AP, 8/11/09)
2009 Aug 16, Two Russian air
force fighters rehearsing acrobatic maneuvers collided near Moscow,
killing one pilot and sending the jets crashing into nearby vacation
homes.
(AP, 8/16/09)
2009 Aug 20, In Colorado a
Black Hawk helicopter crashed during training on Mount Massive, the
state’s 2nd highest mountain. 4 soldiers were killed in the crash.
(SFC, 8/21/09, p.A8)
2009 Aug 22, Vicki Cruse (40)
from Santa Paula, Calif., died in an accident during the World
Aerobatic Championships at Britain's Silverstone motor racing
circuit. She was a former member of the US national aerobatics team
and was the first woman to qualify to race in her class at the Reno
National Championship Air Races.
(AP, 8/22/09)
2009 Aug 26, In the Republic of
Congo 7 people, including five Russian crew members, were killed
when a cargo plane crashed on the outskirts of Brazzaville.
(AFP, 8/26/09)
2009 Sep 2, In India a
helicopter carrying Y.S.R. Reddy (60), a powerful politician from
southern Andhra Pradesh state, disappeared in heavy rains as it flew
over a forested region largely controlled by Maoist rebels. Wreckage
and the bodies of all 5 aboard were found the next day.
(AP, 9/2/09)(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 5, A small airplane
crashed into a Tulsa, Okla., park killing all 5 people on board.
(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.A7)
2009 Sep 7, A small Indonesian
military plane crashed on Borneo with nine passengers and crew
aboard, killing four.
(AP, 9/7/09)
2009 Sep 22, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that Iran is stronger than ever and warned that its
military will "cut the hand" of anyone who attacks. But a military
parade where he spoke was marred when an air force plane crashed,
killing seven people.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 24, Two French
military fighter Rafale jets crashed into the Mediterranean Sea
during a training mission and one pilot was missing.
(AP, 9/24/09)
2009 Sep 25, In South Carolina
a medical helicopter, which had just dropped off a patient in
Charleston, crashed near Georgetown killing the pilot, a flight
nurse and a paramedic.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Oct 10, In Louisiana 2
Cessna 150s, each carrying 2 people, collided near Pineville
Regional Airport, killing 2 and injuring 2.
(SSFC, 10/11/09, p.A6)
2009 Oct 14, A hot air balloon
crashed in a southern Chinese resort town with dramatic limestone
formations, killing four Dutch tourists.
(AP, 10/14/09)
2009 Oct 15, Two F-16 planes
collided around 8:30 p.m. about 40 miles off Folly Beach, near
Charleston, SC. One jet, piloted by Capt. Lee Bryant, landed safely
at Charleston Air Force Base. The missing plane was piloted by Capt.
Nicholas Giglio.
(AP, 10/16/09)
2009 Oct 17, In the Philippines
a propeller-driven plane on a test flight crashed and burst into
flames in a suburb of Manila, killing at least four people onboard.
(AP, 10/17/09)
2009 Oct 21, A Sudanese cargo
plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Sharjah International
Airport north of Dubai, killing the 6-member crew but causing no
other casualties on the ground.
(AP, 10/21/09)
2009 Oct 29, A US Coast Guard
airplane on a nighttime search for a boater collided with one of
four Marine Corps helicopters flying in formation to a military
training island off Southern California. All seven people aboard the
Coast Guard plane and the two-person crew of the Marine Corps AH-1W
Super Cobra helicopter were missing.
(AP, 10/30/09)
2009 Oct 29, In the US Virgin
Islands a small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames
shortly after taking off in St. Croix, killing all three people on
board.
(AP, 10/30/09)
2009 Oct 29, In Brazil a
single-prop Cessna Caravan plane went down on the Itui River in a
remote part of the Amazon rain forest. Members of the Matis Indian
tribe found the plane with 9 survivors of 11 on board.
(AP, 10/31/09)
2009 Nov 1, A Russian
heavy-lift military cargo plane crashed on takeoff in Siberia,
killing all 11 crew members on board.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 12, In Rwanda a
passenger plane with a recent history of technical problems crashed
into an airport VIP lounge Kigali, killing one passenger. The
CRJ-100 aircraft was leased from Kenya's Jetlink.
(AP, 11/13/09)
2009 Nov 14, In South Africa a
civilian pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed shortly
before he was to participate in an air show near Bredasdorp, about
200 km west of Cape Town.
(Reuters, 11/14/09)
2009 Nov 28, In China a
Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed in flames during takeoff
from Shanghai's main airport, killing 3 American crew members and
injuring 4 others on board.
(AP, 11/28/09)
2009 Dec 17, In the Bahamas 2
US pilots were the only people aboard the small jet when it crashed
in an unpopulated area of Great Inagua shortly after taking off from
the Dominican Republic en route to Miami. The Jet Falcon was owned
by a trust for which the San Francisco, California-based Wells Fargo
company acts as trustee.
(AP, 12/19/09)
2009 Dec 23, A Mexican military
Bell 212 helicopter crashed in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero,
killing an air force sergeant and seriously injuring two soldiers.
US officials recently delivered five Bell helicopters of a different
model to Mexico as part of the "Merida Initiative" for aiding the
Mexican campaign to curb drug trafficking.
(AP, 12/23/09)
2010 Jan 5, In California 3
biologists with the California Dept. of Fish and Game were killed
along with their helicopter pilot while they were surveying deer in
the foothills of Sierra national Forest after their vehicle clipped
a power line and crashed.
(SFC, 1/6/10, p.C2)
2010 Jan 5, In Illinois a small
Learjet cargo plane crashed into the Des Plains River in Glenview
killing two pilots onboard.
(SFC, 1/6/10, p.A4)
2010 Jan 24, In Iran a
Russian-made Iranian Taban Air plane carrying 157 passengers and 13
crew caught fire upon landing at northeastern Mashhad airport
injuring at least 46 people.
(AP, 1/24/10)
2010 Jan 25, An Ethiopian
Airlines plane carrying 90 people caught fire and crashed into the
sea minutes after taking off from Beirut. At least 34 bodies were
recovered, but no survivors were found by nightfall.
(AP, 1/25/10)
2010 Jan 26, A Nigerian naval
helicopter crashed in the Niger Delta, likely killing the four
people onboard.
(AP, 1/26/10)
2010 Jan 28, In the southern
Philippines a decades-old military plane crashed into a residential
area, killing a two-star air force general and eight other people.
(AP, 1/28/10)
2010 Feb 6, In Colorado 2 small
planes collided in flames over Boulder's outskirts and killed all
three people aboard, while a glider under tow by one aircraft cut
loose and flew through the fireball to safety.
(AP, 2/7/10)
2010 Feb 10, In Brazil a TV
news helicopter pilot steered his crippled, out-of-control aircraft
away from a busy highway in Sao Paulo before crashing in a grassy
field during rush hour, losing his own life but avoiding greater
casualties. A cameraman onboard was seriously injured.
(AP, 2/10/10)
2010 Feb 14, In Arizona a
helicopter crashed north of Phoenix killing 5 people onboard
including Thomas Stewart (64), the head of Services Group of
America.
(SFC, 2/16/10, p.A6)
2010 Feb 14, A Yemeni military
helicopter crashed killing at least 10 troops in the north, as the
government sought to implement a ceasefire with Shiite rebels in the
area.
(AFP, 2/14/10)
2010 Feb 15, In New Jersey a
small plane crashed at Monmouth Executive airport killing 5 people
aboard.
(SFC, 2/16/10, p.A6)
2010 Feb 17, In Palo Alto, Ca.,
a Cessna 310 crashed into a neighborhood after takeoff from the
fogged-in Palo Alto Airport, killing all 3 people aboard. 4 houses
were damaged, but no one on the ground was injured. Pilot Doug Bourn
(56), Brian Finn (42) and Andrew Ingram (31) worked for Tesla Motors
Inc.
(SFC, 2/18/10, p.A1)(SFC, 2/19/10, p.A9)
2010 Feb 18, In Texas Joe Stack
(b.1956), a software engineer, committed suicide by slamming his
single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin office building that houses
the IRS. One person was missing and 13 were injured. Stack felt the
federal government, especially its tax code, had robbed him of his
savings and destroyed his career while allowing corrupt executives
to walk away with millions.
(AP, 2/19/10)(SFC, 2/19/10, p.A6)
2010 Feb 19, In California
Albert Halluin (70), former biotech patent attorney, and his fiance
Judy Perchonock (60) were killed when Halluin’s single-engine plane
crashed near Pine Lake Airport in Tuolemne County.
(SFC, 2/22/10, p.A1)
2010 Feb 26, In Belize a
single-engine aircraft crashed. Michael and Jill Casey of Albany,
NY, and their two young children died in the accident on the island
of San Pedro along with former senator and bottling magnate Sir
Barry Bowen as the group headed to a fundraising event hosted by
Bowen. The Caseys taught at a school in northwestern Belize owned by
Bowen.
(AP, 2/28/10)
2010 Mar 20, In Florida 3
people were killed when a single-engine plane collided with a
kit-built aircraft over Williston.
(SSFC, 3/21/10, p.A9)
2010 Mar 25, In western
Tennessee a medical helicopter crashed ion stormy weather killing
its crew of three.
(SFC, 3/26/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 26, The head of Abu
Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, went missing
after his glider crashed in Morocco. Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's
glider went down in a lake in Morocco. The pilot of the aircraft was
rescued in good condition. The body of al-Nahayan was found on March
30.
(AP, 3/27/10)(AFP, 3/30/10)
2010 Mar 31, US Navy Lt. Steven
Zilberman's E-2C Hawkeye went down in the North Arabian Sea after it
"experienced mechanical malfunctions." Three other crew members
survived the crash without significant injuries.
(AP, 4/3/10)
2010 Apr 10, Polish President
Lech Kaczynski (60) and some of the country's highest military and
civilian leaders died when the presidential plane crashed as it came
in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96. The
26-year-old Tupolev was taking the president, his wife and staff to
events marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn forest
of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police. On board
were the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of
the air and land forces. Also killed were the national bank
president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the
National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic
Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two
presidential aides and three lawmakers.
(AP, 4/10/10)(AP, 4/11/10)
2010 Apr 14, In Mexico a cargo
plane crashed while trying to land overnight in the northern city of
Monterrey, killing at least four crew members. A fifth crew member
was missing and presumed dead.
(AP, 4/14/10)
2010 Apr 16, In eastern Haiti 4
soldiers died in the fiery crash of a Spanish military helicopter in
the rugged mountains of the Fond Verrettes area.
(AP, 4/16/10)
2010 Apr 20, Colombian Gen.
Fernando Joya and five other members of the military died in a
helicopter collision at a base in the nation's southwest.
(AP, 4/21/10)
2010 Apr 21, In the Philippines
an electrical fire forced a cargo plane's pilots to attempt an
emergency landing in a Philippine rice field when the Russian-made
Antonov-12 aircraft burst into flames, killing three of its six
crew. The dead included two Russian ground engineers and a
Bulgarian.
(AP, 4/22/10)
2010 Apr 24, In New Zealand 3
airmen were killed and a fourth seriously hurt after a military
helicopter en route to a military memorial flyover crashed on
farmland north of Wellington.
(AP, 4/25/10)
2010 Apr 25, A hot air balloon
carrying 14 people crashed in the desert south of Dubai, killing at
least two.
(AP, 4/25/10)
2010 Apr 29, A giant NASA
science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia, destroying its
multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly
missing frightened observers.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 May 7, In southern
California CHP officer Danny Benavides (39) was killed when his
patrol plane went down near Highway 78 in Imperial County.
(SSFC, 5/9/10, p.A8)
2010 May 12, A Libyan Afriqiyah
Airways Airbus A330-200 carrying 104 people crashed on approach to
Tripoli's airport. Ruben van Assouw, a Dutch boy (9), was the only
known survivor. The Royal Dutch Tourism Board said 61 of the dead
came from the Netherlands.
(AP, 5/12/10)(AFP, 5/14/10)
2010 May 17, In northern
Afghanistan a Pamir Airways passenger plane crashed with 44 people
on board. The British Embassy in Kabul confirmed that three British
nationals were among 6 foreigners on the plane. Poor weather
hampered search efforts. No survivors were found. 5 Afghan UN
staffers kidnapped in northern Afghanistan a month ago were freed in
a military operation. 2 Italian soldiers in the NATO mission were
killed by a roadside bomb while riding in a convoy near the western
city of Herat. Two other soldiers were wounded. Two other NATO
service members died in separate bomb attacks.
(AFP, 5/17/10)(AP, 5/17/10)(AP, 5/21/10)
2010 May 17, In the Philippines
a helicopter carrying Quezon Gov. Rafael Nantes, two security
personnel and the pilot, crashed into houses south of Manila,
killing all four people aboard and a girl on the ground.
(AP, 5/17/10)
2010 May 22, An Air India
Express plane trying to land at a tricky hilltop airport in southern
India overshot the runway, crashed over a cliff and burst into
flames at dawn, killing 158 people. There were 8 survivors. An
investigative panel later said Serb flight commander had slept
through more than half the flight and was disoriented during
landing.
(AP, 5/22/10)(SFC, 11/20/10, p.A2)
2010 Jun 13, In Mexico 9 people
were killed when a plane belonging to a politician running for
governor in Quintana Roo state crashed. Roberto Borge, the powerful
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s candidate for governor,
was not aboard at the time.
(AFP, 6/14/10)
2010 Jun 18, A South Korean Air
Force fighter jet crashed into the sea after a training mission and
its two pilots were killed.
(AP, 6/18/10)
2010 Jun 19, A plane carrying a
group of Australian mining executives disappeared en route from
Cameroon to Congo-Brazzaville. All 11 on board were killed wiping
out the entire board of the Sundance Resources company including
mining tycoon Ken Talbot. The wreckage was found June 21 in the
Congo jungle.
(AFP, 6/20/10)(AFP, 6/22/10)
2010 Jun 23, In Canada 7 people
were killed when a small plane crashed near Jean-Lesage
International Airport in Quebec City in Eastern Canada.
(Reuters, 6/23/10)
2010 Jul 4, In Texas an air
ambulance crashed after takeoff in Alpine killing all 5 people on
board including a patient and his wife.
(SFC, 7/5/10, p.A4)
2010 Jul 5, A Romanian military
plane crashed near the Black Sea, killing 10 people and injuring
three. The Antonov AN-2 plane with 13 people on board took off for
parachuting training and crashed soon after takeoff.
(AP, 7/5/10)
2010 Jul 7, A Mexican air force
helicopter crashed in the western state of Jalisco, killing three
military personnel on board.
(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 23, In South Africa a
police helicopter crashed, killing seven officers on board, as it
flew to the scene of a suspected hostage-taking northeast of
Johannesburg.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 25, In Japan 5 people
died when a rescue helicopter sent to help a party of climbers
crashed in mountains near Tokyo.
(Reuters, 7/25/10)
2010 Jul 26, In central Romania
an Israeli helicopter crashed with no survivors among the six
Israeli and one Romanian soldiers on board.
(AP, 7/27/10)
2010 Jul 28, In Arizona a
medical helicopter crashed on a Tucson street killing all three
people aboard.
(SFC, 7/29/10, p.A6)
2010 Jul 28, In Pakistan an
Airbus A321 passenger jet, flight number ED202, crashed into the
hills overlooking Islamabad amid poor weather, killing all 152
people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with body
parts and twisted metal wreckage.
(AP, 7/28/10)
2010 Jul 31, A Canadian
waterbombing plane with 2 crew members crashed while fighting the
blaze in British Columbia. 318 forest fires were burning across
British Columbia, with the largest covering 25 square km (10 square
miles).
(AP, 8/1/10)
2010 Aug 1, In Alaska a
Fairchild C-123 registered to All West Freight of Delta Junction
crashed in Denali National Park killing all 3 people on board.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100802/ap_on_re_us/us_alaska_plane_crash)
2010 Aug 3, In northern Siberia
a twin-engine Antonov-24 turboprop passenger plane crashed near
Igarka, killing at least 11 of the 15 people on board.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 9, In Alaska a small
plane crashed killing former US Sen. Ted Stevens (86) and 4 others
at a mountainside on Bristol Bay. 4 others survived the crash of the
1957 De Havilland DHC-3T.
(SFC, 8/11/10, p.A4)
2010 Aug 12, In Oregon a small
plane crashed in the Steens Mountain killing 2 men, including
prominent California horse breeder Frank Vessels (58).
(SFC, 8/13/10, p.A6)
2010 Aug 16, A Boeing 737
jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashed on landing and broke
into three pieces at Colombia’s at San Andres Island in the
Caribbean. The region's governor said it was a miracle that only one
person died. On Sep 1 a girl (11) died from her injuries raising the
death toll to two.
(AP, 8/16/10)(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Aug 17, A North Korean
military plane, what appeared to be a MiG-21 fighter jet, crashed in
northeastern in Liaoning province. China’s official Xinhua News
Agency later said it went down because of mechanical failure. The
pilot reportedly died on the spot.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 21, In Alaska a
float-plane carrying 4 people went missing 285 miles southwest of
Anchorage. The passengers included 3 Katmai National Park rangers.
(SFC, 8/23/10, p.A5)
2010 Aug 24, In Nepal an Agni
Air plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain
outside Katmandu, killing all 14 people aboard, including 4
Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national.
(AP, 8/24/10)
2010 Aug 25, In western Congo a
passenger plane, operated by local airliner FILAIR, crashed, killing
19 people. Police said there were two survivors.
(AP, 8/25/10)
2010 Aug 26, Two Greek fighter
jets crashed in mid-air during a training exercise south of the
island of Crete, killing one of the three crew members and leaving
the other two injured.
(AP, 8/26/10)
2010 Aug 27, A Venezuelan
National Guard helicopter crashed during a counter-drug mission near
the Colombian border, killing all 10 soldiers on board.
(AP, 8/28/10)
2010 Aug 31, In Arkansas a
medical helicopter crashed in Van Burn County killing 3 crew members
trying to reach a person injured in a traffic accident.
(SFC, 9/1/10, p.A7)
2010 Sep 2, In California
Robert Borrmann (91), founder of the R.E. Borrmann Steel Co., was
killed along with his pilot and the pilot’s girlfriend when their
small plane crashed in a lagoon in Redwood City shortly after
takeoff from the San Carlos Airport.
(SFC, 9/3/10, p.A1)
2010 Sep 3, A UPS Boeing
747-400 cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly
after takeoff outside Dubai. The 2 crew members, Captain Doug Lampe
(48) of Louisville, Kentucky, and First Officer Matthew Bell (38) of
Sanford, Florida. were killed. On Nov 5 al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing
claimed responsibility for the crash, even though the United Arab
Emirates' civil aviation authority said that there was no evidence
of an explosive device aboard the jet.
(AP, 9/4/10)(AP, 9/5/10)(Reuters, 11/5/10)
2010 Sep 3, Two members of
Mexico’s Congress were among six people killed on when their private
plane crashed near a popular Pacific beach resort. Guillermo
Zavaleta and Juan Huerta, members of President Felipe Calderon's
National Action Party, or PAN, died in the crash in Huatulco in the
state of Oaxaca.
(Reuters, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand's
Southern Alps a light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames
near a popular tourist spot, killing nine people including four
foreign tourists.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 13, In eastern
Venezuela a plane carrying 51 people crashed in a steel mill yard,
killing 15 people on board.
(AP, 9/13/10)
2010 Sep 14, A Venezuelan
military helicopter crashed into a navy research boat and plunged
into the sea, leaving two missing and five injured.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 18, A Honduras
military helicopter crashed during an exhibition for children and
the pilot was killed.
(AP, 9/18/10)
2010 Sep 21, In southern
Afghanistan a NATO helicopter crashed killing 9 international troops
in a region where forces are ramping up pressure on Taliban
insurgents. It was the deadliest chopper crash for the coalition in
four years. 5 Afghan road construction workers were killed and 4
wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Shinwari district
of Parwan province.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 23, Zimbabwe's
national airline said a crippling two-week strike by its 44 pilots
has ended and regional and international flights will resume Sep 24.
(AP, 9/23/10)
2010 Sep 25, Mexican
authorities sighted the wreckage of a small plane in the mountains
of Baja California believed to have taken off from Los Angeles, Ca.,
with four people on board.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 29, Two American
balloonists disappeared in rough weather off the Italian coast.
Richard Abruzzo (47) and Carol Rymer-Davis (65) were participating
in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, in which teams try to
fly the farthest on a maximum of about 1,000 cubic meters (35,300
cubic feet) of gas. Searching was called off on Oct 4. On Dec 6 an
Italian fishing boat pulled the remains of the two from the Adriatic
Sea.
(AP, 9/30/10)(SFC, 10/5/10, p.A2)(AP, 12/6/10)
2010 Sep 29, In Tanzania a hot
air balloon carrying tourists over Serengeti National Park crashed,
killing an American and a Danish tourist and wounding eight others.
(AP, 10/1/10)
2010 Oct 2, In Peru a small
plane carrying British tourists crashed near the famed Nazca Lines,
killing all six people on board.
(AP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 5, In the Bahamas a
twin-engine Cessna 402 carrying a pilot and at least eight
passengers crashed into Lake Killarney near the international
airport in, Nassau, after one of its engines caught fire. Officials
soon found the body of a 9th victim from the crash of what may have
been an illegal charter flight to a cultural festival. they said a
10th passenger may missing as well.
(AP, 10/9/10)
2010 Oct 12, In Afghanistan a
cargo plane, carrying NATO supplies went down east of Kabul shortly
after taking off from Bagram Air Field. The bodies of 5 of 8 people
on board were recovered the next day. The plane, owned by United
Arab Emirates-based TransAfrik, was under contract by the US-based
company National Air Cargo.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 15, In southeastern
Mexico a helicopter carrying oil workers crashed killing all 8
people aboard.
(SSFC, 10/17/10, p.A6)
2010 Oct 15, A light plane
carrying four US citizens on a medical aid flight crashed in Baja
California, killing all four aboard. The plane that went down was
one of three on a mission from the San Luis Obispo, Ca., area.
(AP, 10/17/10)
2010 Oct 21, In CongoDRC a
small plane was owned by a local airliner Starec Congo crashed into
a gorilla park in eastern Congo killing its pilot and co-pilot. It
was carrying some 3,300 pounds (1,500 kg) of commercial goods.
(AP, 10/21/10)
2010 Oct 25, In Wyoming a
single-engine plane disappeared after takeoff from the Jackson
airport. The plane’s wreckage was found Nov 1. Luke Bucklin (40) of
Minneapolis and his 3 sons were killed. Bucklin was co-founder of
Sierra Bravo Corp., a web development company.
(SFC, 11/1/10, p.A6)(SFC, 11/3/10, p.A5)
2010 Oct 28, A French
helicopter crashed in Antarctica during rough weather conditions
killing all 4 aboard. The downed AS350 Squirrel helicopter was
operated in Antarctica from the French research vessel, L'Astrolabe,
which was currently icebound about 230 miles (370 km) northeast of
the Dumont-d'Urville station.
(AP, 10/29/10)(AP, 10/30/10)
2010 Nov 1, In Romania a MiG-21
Lancer fighter jet crashed during a training exercise, killing two
experienced pilots.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 4, In Cuba all 68
people on board an Flight 883 of Aero Caribbean were killed when
their plane crashed in the central mountains after issuing an
emergency call. The plane was a 15-year-old ATR-72-212 twin
turboprop built by ATR, a joint venture of Europe's EADS and Italian
group Finmeccanica.
(AP, 11/4/10)
2010 Nov 5, In Pakistan a
private plane chartered by an Italy-based oil company crashed near
the airport in Karachi after the pilot warned of engine trouble. All
21 people on board, including an Italian, were killed.
(AP, 11/5/10)
2010 Nov 11, In Sudan a Tarco
Airline Russian-built Antonov 26 carrying 36-38 people crashed on
landing in the western Darfur region killing at least 6 and wounding
four others.
(AP, 11/11/10)(AFP, 11/12/10)
2010 Nov 12, A South Korean spy
plane crashed during routine training and its two pilots were killed
in the 2nd military accident to strike South Korea while it hosted
the G20 summit.
(AP, 11/12/10)
2010 Nov 22, UAR state media
said a military Hawk training jet has crashed in Ras al-Khaimah,
killing the pilot. The single-engine Hawk is made by British defense
company BAE Systems.
(AP, 11/22/10)
2010 Nov 23, A BP executive,
James Patrick Black (58), helping to guide recovery from the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill died with two others when a small plane crashed in
waters off the Florida Panhandle.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, A Mexican air
force cargo plane crashed at Monterrey International Airport killing
five military personnel.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 28, In Pakistan a
cargo plane carrying 8 people crashed in a residential area of
Karachi setting buildings on fire killing all 8 crew and at least 3
people on the ground.
(AP, 11/28/10)
2010 Dec 4, In Russia a
Dagestan Airlines passenger jet, carrying at least 155 people, made
an emergency landing at a snowy Moscow airport after its engines
failed. It skidded off the runway and slammed into buildings,
killing two people and injuring around 40.
(AP, 12/4/10)
2010 Dec 8, In Mexico a federal
police helicopter that had transported two inmates to a Mexican
prison crashed in Veracruz state, killing four people and injuring
two others.
(AP, 12/8/10)
2010 Dec 15, In Nepal a small
passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing while flying
over a mountainous region.
(AP, 12/15/10)
2010 Dec 18, In Louisiana a
small plane crashed after takeoff in Crowley killing 3 people and
injuring 2 others.
(SSFC, 12/19/10, p.A12)
2010 Dec 20, A Puerto Rico
National Guard UH-72 Lakota helicopter crashed in the ocean while
returning from a drug raid on Vieques. 3 bodies of the six people on
board were found and the remaining were feared dead. The last body
was recovered on Jan 23.
(AP, 12/21/10)(AP, 12/22/10)(AP, 1/23/11)
2010 Dec 22, A small Pakistani
army training plane crashed into mountains in the country's
southwest. The pilot and co-pilot died in the crash.
(AP, 12/22/10)
2010 Dec 28, An aging Russian
military cargo plane crashed, killing all 12 people aboard. The
An-22 plane was on a flight from the southwestern region of Voronezh
region when it crashed in the Tula region, about 120 miles (190 km)
south of Moscow.
(AP, 12/29/10)
2010 Dec 31, In western
Virginia a small aircraft collided with a medical helicopter in the
air, killing two people on the plane.
(AP, 12/31/10)
2011 Jan 1, A Russian passenger
jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway
and then exploded at a Siberian airport, killing three people and
injuring 43, including six who were badly burned.
(AP, 1/1/10)
2011 Jan 7, In western
Venezuela a 10-year-old girl survived a plane crash that killed the
five other people on board, apparently her family members.
(AP, 1/8/11)
2011 Feb 8, In South Africa a
private plane carrying nine people, including the chief executive of
tile company Italtile Ltd., crashed in a nature reserve 320 miles
east of Cape Town. There were no survivors. The Johannesburg-based
retailer of ceramic tiles and bathroom accessories has been publicly
traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 1988.
(AP, 2/9/11)
2011 Jan 9, In northwestern
Iran a passenger jet broke to pieces on impact while trying an
emergency landing in a snowstorm killing at least 77 people in
Orumiyeh. The Boeing-727, operated by Iran's national airline,
carried 104 passengers and crew.
(AP, 1/10/11)
2011 Feb 10, In Ireland a
commuter plane crashed and burst into flames, killing six people and
injuring another six, as it tried to land in heavy fog at Cork
airport.
(AFP, 2/10/11)
2011 Feb 11, In Switzerland a
twin-engine plane crashed at an altitude of 9,200 feet (2,800
meters) in the Val d'Anniviers near the border with Italy. A Swiss
pilot and a French family of 4 were killed in the crash.
(AP, 2/13/11)
2011 Feb 14, In the Democratic
Republic of Congo a small plane used to deliver World Food Program
aid crashed in Bukavu, killing its Russian pilot and his Congolese
co-pilot.
(AP, 2/15/11)
2011 Feb 14, A small Honduran
commercial airliner crashed near the capital, killing all 14 people
aboard. It was carrying two pilots and 12 passengers, including
Assistant Secretary for Public Works Rodolfo Rovelo, United Workers
Federation of Honduras leader Jose Israel Salinas and former Economy
Secretary Carlos Chain.
(AP, 2/15/11)
2011 Feb 17, Swiss media
reported that a private helicopter carrying five people has crashed
near the western Swiss ski resort of Les Diablerets.
(AP, 2/17/11)
2011 Feb 26, In Kingston, NY, a
privately owned, vintage military jet crashed into the Hudson River.
Divers the next day recovered the body of pilot Michael Faraldi
(38).
(SSFC, 2/27/11, p.A9)(SFC, 2/28/11, p.A5)
2011 Feb 27, In the United Arab
Emirates 4 Americans aboard a turboprop plane were killed when their
aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff in Abu Dhabi.
(AP, 2/28/11)
2011 Mar 5, A mid-sized
Russian-built plane crashed during a training flight in Belgorod
province, killing all six people on board including two pilots from
Myanmar.
(Reuters, 3/5/11)
2011 Mar 7, Two Colombian air
force helicopters crashed during a training exercise, killing four
Colombian soldiers and a Mexican lieutenant participating in the
operation.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 16, In California 5 of
6 people died in the crash of a small corporate plane near Long
Beach Airport.
(SFC, 3/17/11, p.A9)
2011 Mar 19, In Spain six
firefighters died when their helicopter crashed in a remote region
in the northeastern province of Aragon as they flew to try and put
out a wildfire. A seventh crew member survived the accident.
(AP, 3/19/11)
2011 Mar 21, In the Republic of
Congo at least 16 people were killed when an Antonov 32 cargo plane
crashed in the Mvoumvou area of Pointe-Noire.
(SFC, 3/22/11, p.A2)
2011 Apr 2, In New Mexico a 4
Gulfstream employees died in a crash of a test twin-engine business
aircraft at the airport in Roswell.
(SSFC, 4/3/11, p.A9)
2011 Apr 3, The French air
accident investigation agency BEA said that a team aboard the
expedition ship Alucia using underwater robots "has located pieces
of an aircraft ... in the past 24 hours." Air France Flight 447
slammed into the ocean June 1, 2009, after running into an intense
high-altitude thunderstorm.
(AP, 4/4/11)
2011 Apr 4, In CongoDRC a UN
plane crashed while attempting to land at the airport serving
Kinshasa, killing 32 UN officials and peacekeepers. One survivor was
confirmed.
(http://civiliancontractors.wordpress.com/)(SFC,
4/5/11, p.A2)
2011 Apr 18, A Sudanese army
helicopter crashed in North Darfur, killing all five people on
board.
(AFP, 4/18/11)
2011 Apr 19, In India a
helicopter hit a wall and burst into flames as it was trying to land
in the remote northeast, killing at least 17 people.
(AP, 4/19/11)
2011 Apr 21, In Brazil a small
plane crashed in the Amazon soon after taking off from Manaus,
killing seven people. 8 others on the air taxi survived.
(AP, 4/21/11)
2011 Apr 22, In India an army
helicopter went down in the state of Sikkim, killing four.
(AP, 5/1/11)
2011 Apr 30, In India a
single-engine helicopter, carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister
Dorjee Khandu, two other passengers and two pilots, disappeared in
bad weather just 20 minutes after taking off from the Himalayan
Buddhist retreat of Tawang for the state capital, Itanagar.
(AP, 5/1/11)
2011 May 1, A French submarine
probing 3,900 meters (12,800 feet) below the ocean's surface located
and recovered the flight data recorder of Air France Flight 447,
which crashed June 1, 2009, in a remote area of the mid-Atlantic.
(AP, 5/1/11)
2011 May 2, A twin engine cargo
plane crashed near an airport in the Miami, Flo., area killing the
pilot.
(SFC, 5/3/11, p.AA4)
2011 May 3, French
investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an Air
France Flight 447 that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1,
2009, killing all 228 people on board.
(AP, 5/3/11)
2011 May 5, In Bolivia a plane
monitoring the cultivation of coca went missing. Wreckage of the
plane and the bodies of the two crew members and four UN workers was
found on May 7.
(AP, 5/7/11)
2011 May 7, In Indonesia a
passenger plane carrying 25 people plunged into the ocean as it
approached an airport in bad weather in the eastern province of West
Papua. There were no survivors.
(AP, 5/7/11)(AP, 5/8/11)
2011 May 9, In New York two
small planes collided near New Hampton killing two people. Both
planes were registered to men from New Jersey.
(SFC, 5/10/11, p.A6)
2011 May 18, In Argentina a
turboprop plane carrying 22 people crashed and exploded in the
southern Patagonia region, killing all on board.
(AP, 5/19/11)
2011
Jun 13, At a photo opportunity in Hessen, Germany, a quick-thinking
pilot of the Goodyear Blimp saved lives as he lost his own in a
fiery crash. Pilot Mike Nerandzic was in the air allowing
journalists to take pictures for a road safety campaign when the
blimp began to experience problems. Nerandzic flew low enough for
journalists in the blimp to escape, but then the blimp burst into
flames; the pilot managed to direct it away from onlookers and
camera crews before it crashed, killing him.
(Yahoo News, 6/14/11)(http://tinyurl.com/5vamoyy)
2011 Jun 18, A Cessna 210
crashed down near the Westchester County Airport, NY. The victims
were identified as Keith Weiner, the 63-year-old pilot; his wife,
Lisa Weiner (51), their daughter Isabel (14) and her friend, Lucy
Walsh (14).
(AP, 6/20/11)
2011 Jun 19, In Ohio a small
plane crashed near Columbus killing 2 people.
(SFC, 6/20/11, p.A5)
2011 Jun 20, In northwestern
Russia a TU-134 passenger jet slammed into the ground and caught
fire while trying to land on a foggy night at Petrozavodsk, killing
44 people and leaving eight survivors badly hurt. 3 more victim died
days later bringing the death toll to 47. Russian authorities later
reported that the navigator was in a state of “light alcoholic
intoxication.”
(Reuters, 6/21/11)(AP, 6/22/11)(AP, 6/26/11)(SFC,
9/20/11, p.A2)
2011 Jun 24, In Michigan Dr.
Stephen Hatch (46) of Indiana and his current wife were killed in a
plane crash near Charlevoix. 8 years earlier Hatch survived a crash
that killed 2 of his children and his wife Julie (38).
(SSFC, 6/26/11, p.A11)
2011 Jul 6, In Afghanistan an
Azerbaijani cargo plane carrying supplies for the Afghan NATO
mission crashed into treacherous mountains killing all nine crew on
board outside Kabul. The nine crew were from Azerbaijan and
Uzbekistan. The plane was operated by private Azerbaijani airline
Silk Way.
(AFP, 7/6/11)
2011 Jul 7, In California Santa
Cruz residents David Edward Houghton (43), his wife and two sons
were killed when his small plane crashed following takeoff in
Watsonville.
(SFC, 7/9/11, p.C2)
2011 Jul 8, In CongoDRC a Hewa
Bora Airways plane crashed in a thunderstorm as it was attempting to
land in Kisangani airport, killing at least 48 people, and leaving a
dozen or more buried in the wreckage. 53 passengers survived.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 11, In northeastern
Brazil a regional Noar Airlines plane crashed in Recife city,
killing all 16 people on board.
(AP, 7/13/11)
2011 Jul 11, Russia's
Investigative Committee said a Tangara airline plane carrying 33
people crashed as it tried to make an emergency landing on the Ob
river in Siberia, killing five people.
(AP, 7/11/11)
2011 Jul 19, A Thailand Black
Hawk helicopter crashed during bad weather in a forested area near
Myanmar. 9 dead included an infantry division commander and a
television cameraman. The craft had been sent to retrieve the bodies
of five soldiers killed in the crash of another helicopter on July
16.
(AP, 7/22/11)
2011 Jul 19, A United Arab
Emirates fighter plane crashed during a training mission, killing
the pilot.
(AP, 7/20/11)
2011 Jul 26, In Morocco a C-130
military transport plane crashed into a mountain in Western Sahara
in bad weather, killing 78 people. There were three survivors.
(AP, 7/26/11)
2011 Jul 28, A South Korean
Asiana Airlines cargo plane crashed in waters off southern Jeju
resort island. South Korean pilot, identified by the airline as Choi
Sang-ki, was flying a Boeing-747 with a co-pilot, transporting
computers, semiconductors, resin solution and paint among other
items to Pudong in China.
(AP, 7/28/11)
2011 Jul 30, In Alaska two
small planes collided. One managed to land in Anchorage, the other
crashed killed a pilot, his wife and their 2 children.
(SSFC, 7/31/11, p.A10)(SFC, 8/1/11, p.A5)
2011 Jul 30, In Ohio a new
model of a Wright brothers biplane crashed near Springfield killing
2 volunteer pilots.
(SFC, 8/1/11, p.A5)
2011 Jul 30, A Caribbean
Airlines jet coming from New York crashed and broke in two while
landing in Guyana with 163 people aboard, causing several injuries
but no deaths.
(AP, 7/30/11)
2011 Jul 30, In southwest
Nigeria two women and a male pilot died after a helicopter crashed
in a hilly area outside Ife-Odan in Osun state.
(AP, 7/30/11)
2011 Aug 2, A Brazilian Air
Force plane crashed near the city of Bom Jardim da Serra in the
state of Santa Catarina, killing all eight people aboard.
(AP, 8/2/11)
2011 Aug 3, In Indonesia 9
people, including two Australians, two South Africans and five
Indonesians, were killed when a helicopter flying to a Newcrest mine
crashed with 10 on board.
(AFP, 8/4/11)
2011 Aug 14, In eastern South
Africa two planes carrying 13 people went missing. The wreckage was
spotted from a helicopter on Aug 16 and there were no survivors.
(AP, 8/16/11)
2011 Aug 17, A Venezuelan
military helicopter carrying 10 soldiers crashed into the sea off
the Caribbean coast. Searchers rescued one soldier and found the
body of one of the helicopter's pilots. The wreckage and remaining
bodies were recovered by Aug 20.
(AP, 8/17/11)(AP, 8/20/11)
2011 Aug 20, In New Jersey 2
small planes performing aerobatic maneuvers over Hammonton
collided in midair killing one of the pilots.
(SSFC, 8/21/11, p.A10)
2011 Aug 20, A British military
Red Arrows jet crashed while taking part in an air show in
Bournemouth. Lt. John Egging (33) was the first Red Arrows pilot to
die since 1978, when two were killed in a training accident. The Red
Arrows display team were formed in 1965.
(AP, 8/20/11)
2011 Aug 20, In Canada 12
people were killed when a Boeing 737, chartered by First Air,
crashed near Resolute Bay in the far north of the Canadian Arctic,
but three people survived.
(Reuters, 8/21/11)(SSFC, 8/21/11, p.A6)
2011 Aug 21, In Poland two
small planes have crashed within half an hour of each other in
separate accidents in the southern part of the country, killing six
people.
(AP, 8/21/11)
2011 Aug 26, In Missouri a
medical helicopter crashed in Mosby killing a female patient, a
pilot and two medical workers.
(SSFC, 8/28/11, p.A10)
2011 Aug 30, A Lithuanian
military plane collided midair with a French fighter jet during a
NATO training flight and crashed into a swamp in northern Lithuania
after its two pilots safely ejected. The French Mirage fighter was
only "lightly damaged" and landed safely.
(AP, 8/30/11)
2011 Sep 2, A Chilean CASA 212
military plane crashed after two failed attempts to land in
difficult weather on the Juan Fernandez islands, 400 miles (670
kilometers) from the Chilean mainland. All 21 aboard were believed
killed. Among those aboard was popular Chilean television
personality Felipe Camiroaga.
(AP, 9/3/11)
2011 Sep 6, In Bolivia a small
plane disappeared in the country's Amazon region. The wreckage was
found 2 days later. All 9 people aboard, including 2 Colombians and
7 Bolivians were aboard, were killed.
(AP, 9/811)
2011 Sep 7, A Russian Yak-42
jet carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team crashed while
taking off near the city of Yaroslavl, killing 43 of 45 people. One
of the 2 survivors died on Sep 12. Flight crew member Alexander
Sizov remained in intensive care at Moscow's Sklifosovsky hospital.
The Kontinental Hockey League included 24 teams from Russia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia.
(AP, 9/7/11)(AP, 9/10/11)(AP, 9/12/11)
2011 Sep 13, Taiwan's Defense
Ministry searched for three pilots aboard two reconnaissance
aircraft which crashed on a training flight.
(AP, 9/13/11)
2011 Sep 14, An Angolan air
force plane crashed as it took off from a central base, killing 30
people including three generals. Six people survived the fiery crash
in Huambo province.
(AP, 9/14/11)
2011 Sep 16, In Reno, Nevada, a
World War II-era P-51 Mustang fighter plane competing in an event
described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled
and did a nose-dive toward a crowded grandstand. 9 people were
killed and more than 60 injured. Pilot Jimmy Leeward (74) was among
those killed. A 10th victim died on Sep 19.
(AP, 9/17/11)(AP, 9/18/11)(SFC, 9/20/11, p.A6)
2011 Sep 20, In northern Haiti
3 people died when a small, twin-engine turboprop aircraft used by a
domestic Haitian airline crashed while trying to land during heavy
rain. The single passenger was a regular customer from
Vietnam.
(AP, 9/20/11)
2011 Sep 22, In Indonesia a
small plane has crashed in the eastern province of Papua, killing
all three people on board, including American pilot Paul Westlund.
(AP, 9/22/11)
2011 Sep 25, In Nepal a small
plane taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest
crashed into a hillside near Kathmandu, killing all 19 people on
board.
(AFP, 9/25/11)
2011 Sep 29, In Indonesia a
Casa 212 turboprop plane, carrying 14 passengers including four
children, and four crew, went down after departing Medan city, in
Sumatra. All 18 were killed.
(AFP, 9/30/11)(AFP, 10/1/11)
2011 Oct 4, A private
helicopter crashed into New York City’s East River, killing one
British passenger and injuring a British couple and a New Zealand
woman. The helicopter went down shortly after takeoff from a
riverbank heliport.
(AP, 10/5/11)
2011 Oct 13, A Papua New Guinea
Dash 8 passenger plane carrying 32 people crashed near the coast.
Witness reports said only four people on board had survived.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A2)
2011 Oct 14, A British pilot
(29) and his passenger (40) died in the crash of their small plane
in Switzerland.
(AFP, 10/15/11)
2011 Oct 14, A Chinese air
force JH-7 jet crashed at an air show outside the northern city of
Xi'an, leaving one of the pilots missing and presumed dead.
(AP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 18, In Botswana 3
French, 3 Swiss and 2 Britons were killed when their Moremi Moremi
Air Charters Cessna 208 crashed shortly after take-off from the
island of Pom Pom in the Okavango delta in the northern tourist
area. 4 passengers survived the crash.
(AFP, 10/18/11)
2011 Oct 21, In Mexico a
helicopter carrying Mexico state Metropolitan Development Secretary
Fernando Garcia and his assistant crashed against a wall and on top
of some cars in the Coyoacan borough. A secretary and co-pilot were
killed.
(AP, 10/21/11)
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