Posted on 5th September 2011 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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The crash of a military plane off the coast of Chile Friday killed all 21 aboard, including well-known Chiliean TV personality Felipe Camiroaga, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Chile-All-21-aboard-crashed-military-plane-died-2154752.php
The CASA 212 plane went down in the Pacific Ocean after two unsuccessful attempts to land on one of the Juan Fernandez islands. The plane encountered inclement weather when it was trying to make its landing.
As of Saturday, the bodies of two women and two men from the plane had been recovered, AP reported. Some of the plane’s wreckage had also been found.
Camiroaga, who was 44, and four members of his TV crew perished in the accident. They were going to the island to produce a TV report on the restoration of the islands a year after a tragic earthquake and tsunami, according to AP.
In an interesting side note, the AP story noted that the Juan Fernandez archipelago is believed to have inspored the class book “Robinson Crusoe.”
Posted on 19th January 2011 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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The fingerpointing continues, and accusations keep flying, about who is to blame for the plane crash in Russian that killed Poland’s president and a host of Polish dignitaries last year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704678004576090030341320652.html
During a news conference Tuesday Polish officials said that errors by Russian air traffic controllers helped lead to the April plane crash where President Lech Kaczynski and another 95 people lost their lives.
The Poles claimed that the Russian controllers at the Smolensk airport, where the Polish offiicials were headed, did not react when they saw that Kaczynski’s plane was off course and that they permitted it to land ”even though visibility at the airport was below the minimum safety threshold,” The Journal reported.
The Poles also charged that Russian meteorologists provided the Polish plane crew with faulty weather reports.
The Polish will issue a full report on their findings on the crash next month, but wanted to lob at shot at the Russians for their conclusions about the cause of the crash. In a report released last week, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee put the onus for the crash on the Polish pilots. The Russians claimed that the pilots were pressured to land by the dignataries they were transporting.
Posted on 10th January 2011 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
Iran plane crash, plane crash attorney
An Iranian plane that crashed during a snowstorm resulted in 77 people being killed, not 71 as originally believed, Bloomberg News reported Monday.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-10/iran-raises-plane-crash-death-toll-estimate-to-77-as-investigation-starts.html
After reporting a technical problem, the Boeing 707 crashed — and broke into several pieces — as it was making an emergency landing in Orumiyeh in Iran.
So far 54 bodies have been identified, Bloomberg reported. The Iran Air passenger jet had 105 people on board.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash, and have recovered the aircraft’s black boxes.
The plane, which was 37 years old, was on its way from Tehran to Orumiyeh.
Posted on 2nd January 2011 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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Three people were killed and dozens injured when a Russian jet caught fire and exploded when it taxied on a snowy runway in Siberia, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/01/russian-passenger-jet-explodes-1-dead-10-injured/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C34066
The accident took place Saturday, and involved a passenger jet that was carrying 124 people. In addition to the three dead, 43 people were injured, with six of them seriously burned, AP reported.
A fire started in one of the plane’s engines as it began its takeoff, and that fire caused an explosion that decimated the Tu-154 jet. The flames from the explosion covered an area that was 11,000 square feet.
Most of the passengers and crew were evacuated before the plane exploded, leaving only a tail section and part of its wing left after the fireball.
The jet, owned by the regional Kogalymavia airline, was flying to Moscow from Surgut, a town in Siberia.
The plane’s passengers included the Russian pop group Na-Na, which was popular in the 1990s.
Posted on 27th December 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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An emergency room doctor from Bergen County, N.J., was killed Wednesday when his plane crashed while he was commuting to a hospital in Upstate New York.
http://www.the-leader.com/news/x1651495111/Officials-N-J-pilot-died-of-injuries
Dr. Michael Lippe of Mahwah, N.J., an experienced pilot, was apparently alive after his single engine plane crashed in Barrington, N.Y., but he died of massive head trauma sustained during the accident, according to press reports.
Lippe had taken off from Essex County Airport in Fairfield, N.J., at roughly 6:40 p.m., en route to Finger Lakes Health hospital in Geneva, N.Y. His plane crashed at 7:50 p.m. when he hit some treetops while flying through sleet and freezing rain.
Posted on 5th November 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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In the country’s worse plane crash since 1989, all 68 people aboard a Cuban airliner were killed Thursday when the aircraft crashed in the island’s central mountains, according to AOL News.
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/no-survivors-in-cuba-plane-crash/19704213?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7C1%7Clink2%7C23663
The AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was flying from Santiago de Cuba to the capital Havana when it lost contact with flight controllers. The pilot had made an emergency call before the plane landed in a fiery explosion near Guisimal, a village.
There were no survivors among the 61 passengers and seven crew members. The passenger list had 40 Cubans and 28 foreigners, none Americans. The crew was all Cuban.
The fallen jet was a Russan-made ATR-72-212, and it is part of Cuba’s state airine fleet. Flight 883 originated in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had a stop at Santiago de Cuba before going on to Havana.
The doomed flight was the last one to take off from Haiti before Tropical Storm Tomas, which is looming in the Caribbean. But Cuban officals are investigating and don’t now if the weather played a part in the accident.
According to AOL News, this is Cuba’s worse plane crash since 1989, when 126 people onboard a Soviet-made jet were killed.
Posted on 3rd November 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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The bodies of four family members have been recovered from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed a week ago in a Wyoming mountain range, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jss3k1zjRLhwUpbgpWoqsXf18vmA?docId=d6c574825b6c48cd91be5285cbe0c451
A search team found the single-engine Mooney 20J Monday in Lander, Wyo., in the Wind River range. The plane had left Jackston Hole Airport Oct. 25 during a snowstorm.
The plane was owned by Luke Bucklin, 40, who was piloting the aircraft. He was killed, as were his twins Nick and Nate, 14, and Noah, 12, according to AP.
Bucklin was president and a co-founder of Sierra Bravo Corp. in Bloomington, Minn. He and his family came to Wyoming for a wedding, and Bucklin’s wife and youngest son had taken a commercial flight home.
Posted on 18th October 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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One passenger was killed Sunday, and three other seriously hurt, when a small plane crashed on a street in Long Island, N.Y., according to The Wall Street Journal.
The single-engine plane was apparently attempting an emergency landing at 9 a.m. Sunday after engine failure, and came down on East Carmans Road in East Farmingdale. The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating the fatal accident.
The propeller plane, a 1969 Marchetti, had taken off from Republic Airport and was circling back for a practice landing coming, and was less than a mile from the runway, when its engine failed. The plane hit a tree, a fence and four parked cars before it crashed.
The four men in the plane were friends who on Sundays would fly to a cafe in a Dutchess County airport for brunch.
Ed Cerverizzo, 75, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital in Massapequa, N.Y. Pilot Gus Halouvas, 55, was sent to Nassau University Medical Center with spinal injuries. William Mancuso, 83, was treated for facial cuts at that facility.
Charles Bianculli, 61, was in critical condition in Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558611692117590.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories
Posted on 7th October 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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A federal judge has set a date for a wrongful-death trial stemming from the crash of a plane near Buffalo, N.Y., last year. So far there have been 39 lawsuits filed relating to the crash, where 50 people were killed. Five of the suits have already settled.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/legal_fight_over_upsta
U.S. District Court Judge William Skretny Wednesday set a March 2012 trial date for the case involving Continental Connection Flight 3407. That jet crashed into a home on Feb. 12, 2009, killing 49 people on the plane and one person on the ground.
Continental, Pinnacle Airlines and Pinnacle’s unit Colgan Air are all being sued.
Attorneys for the families of the victims want the flight’s cockpit voice recording released, but the air carriers are objecting. The federal judge is expected to rule on that issue in about a month.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g4lPW3fYLQUuKXRHOdPO5BfBQc_gD9IMF0O81?docId=D9IMF0O81
Posted on 8th September 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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The pilot of a small plane was killed Monday, and his three passengers were injured, when his aircraft crashed in a suburb of Las Vegas.
http://www.abbevillenow.com/view/full_story/9407303/article-Erath-resident-killed-in-plane-crash-in-Las-Vegas?instance=home_news_lead
Douglas Touchet, 45, of Erath, La., died in the accident. His wife Susan was among those onboard, and she was critically injured. The two other passengers, who were from Catahoula, La., had serious injuries.
The Piper Cherokee had taken off from Henderson Executive Airport at about 8 a.m. Monday, but it ran into trouble and could not gain altitude. Touchet was attempting to go back to the airport when he crashed about two miles away from it.
The Piper was one of two planes that Touchet owned.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safty Board are both probing the accident.
Touchet
