Accidents
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AccidentsCanada: mother and daughter died in balloon accident
Vancouver , Canada - Balloon catches fire but they didn't safe. Flights suspended
A serious accident in the skies of Vancouver, British Columbia, has caused last Saturday August 25 the death of a woman and her teenager daughter, as well as the wounding of 11 more people. A hot-air balloon,... more
AccidentsRussia: a Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer aircraft crashes in Far East
Moscow, Russia - Save two pilots
A power supply failure most likely caused the crash of a Su-24 Fencer strike aircraft in Russia's Far East early Thursday, the Russian Air Force commander said. A Su-24 Fencer tactical bomber crashed... more
AccidentsIraq: crashed a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter
Baghdad, Iraq - 14 victims
14 American soldiers died in the incident occurred this morning to a helicopter in Northern Iraq. According to official statements it was not an attack by Talibans. The helicopter, a UH-60M Black... more
AccidentsAfghanistan: three Italian soldiers wounded during ISAF helicopter emergency landing
Kabul, Afghanistan - While carrying out a normal tactical reconnaissance activity
It all happened South of Kabul this morning. According to a first reconstruction, the AB-212 helicopter of the Italian Air Force, taking part in NATO's ISAF mission, was forced to land due to a technical... more
AccidentsJapan: a China Airlines Boeing aircraft on fire
Naha, Japan - The passengers and crew were evacuated safely
Terror at Naha airport in Okinawa, South Japan, when at 10:30 am (LT) on Monday a Taipei-based China Airlines Boeing 737/800 aircraft burst into flames during the landing. The passengers and crew were... more
AccidentsSalerno: the strong wind is the probable cause of the incident occurred to the Robinson R-22 Beta helicopter
Salerno, Italy - Two men died instantly
Robinson R-22 Beta helicopter would be crashed in Marina di Camerota, Salerno province, due to a stronger gust of wind and bad weather conditions. Both two men onboard, Pierluigi Schiavone, 29, and... more
AccidentsPolynesia: no survivors in the crash of Air Moorea aircraft
Tahiti, French Polynesia - 20 victims
No survivors in the yesterday incident occurred in the French Polynesia. The Air Moorea Twin Otter aircraft with 20 passengers and a pilot on board crashed at 12:15 am after taking off from Temae airport... more
AccidentsRussia: helicopter cuts off a power cable and falls into a local reservoir
Moscow, Russia - Five victims
Five people were died in an incident occurred to a private helicopter crashed on July 28th in the Western-Central Russian Republic of Udmurtiya. “Five bodies were extracted from the helicopter: the p... more
AccidentsRussia: an Antonov cargo aircraft crashes near Moscow
Moscow, Russia - Eight victims
Eight people were killed after a cargo plane crashed at Moscow's Domodedovo airport upon take-off, a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry said Sunday. A Russian Antonov An-12 cargo aircraft, destined... more
AccidentsDayton: a two-seater acrobatic aircraft crashes during the Air Show
Dayton, USA - The third incident of an American black week-end
New tragedy in the United States. Three locations, three different situations but connected from the same leitmotiv: air disaster. After the live collision between two news helicopters at Phoenix... more
AccidentsOshkosh: two Mustang aircraft collide on the runway, one victim and one injured
Oshkosh, USA - Two Warbirds series aircraft
On July 28th, 2007, during the Oshkosh International Air Show, a mortal incident occurred: two North America P-51 aircraft collided on the runway of Wittman Airport while landing during the Experimental... more
AccidentsArizona: collision between two news helicopters
Phoenix, USA - Four victims for a theft
Every network, every local television station, not only "CNN", "FOX" or "NBC", has its little helicopter, and to justify the costs there are continuous live programmes about traffic, arrests of pushers,... more
AccidentsBlast in the Mojave Airport, space air base
Mojave, USA - Probably three victims and at least four wounded
An explosion killed two or, probably, three people and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket... more
AccidentsHelicopter fallen into Vomano, the inquires keeps on
Rome, Italy - Experts are trying to reconstruct the accident: human error or technical hitch?
The inquiries keeps on about the accident of last June 2, when a helicopter Robinson 44 with four persons on the board (the pilot Sergio Testoni and passengers Andrea Ruggieri, Nadia Durante and Alina... more
AccidentsEmulous of Charles Lindbergh crashes onto a building in Basel
Basel, Switzerland - Pilot dead, 13 injured people
Yesterday around 12:00 a self-built airplane flown by record-man and ex-Swissair experienced pilot Hans Georg Schmidt crashed onto the roof of a structure made up of several small buildings shortly after... more
AccidentsAir tragedy in Brazil had been anticipated
Sao Paulo, Brazil - An air-traffic controller had accused FAB's bad management
"It will happen another air crash in Brazil": an anonymous air-traffic controller has anticipated all, that 48 hours before the Sao Paulo's air crash, the most terrible in the history of South-American... more
AccidentsUltralight pilot crashes in Greenland, saved by use of a ELT
Amassalik, Greenland - He was on way from France to Oshkosh, USA
An internationally known pilot and sailor, Loic Pochet, during a flight with its ultralight amphibious airplane, crashed near Amassalik, in a remote area on the east coast of Greenland. Pochet was flying... more
AccidentsAir crashes and ground victims (2): even military aircraft could be a drifting mine if bad piloted
Rome, Italy - Remained unpunished Cermis carnage
We can not forget to note the terrible events of Casalecchio di Reno (Boulogne) of December 6, 1990: an Aermacchi MB-326 of Italian Air Force went and planted into a school, the building of technical institute... more
AccidentsAir crashes and ground victims: an opportunity to meditate
Rome, Italy - When the importance of airplanes safety involves not only the people aboard
The accident of TAM's Airbus A-320 last July 17 at the "Congonhas" airport of Sao Paulo is an object of reflection. The accident caused 186 victims (according to the carrier, while Airbus declared 176)... more
AccidentsUSA: an "Experimental" helicopter crashed on a New Hampshire's pond
New Ipswich , USA - The conditions of pilot was not yet available
The calm of New Ipswich, a city of New Hampshire, near the Massachusetts border, was disturbed yesterday by the incident of a little "Homemade-experimental" helicopter. Jim Starbuck, 60, was the only... more
AccidentsSao Paulo air disaster: neglected a fault of the brakes
Sao Paulo, Brazil - A problem inside the breaking system was already known
Today arrived the upsetting news by the Tam' president, Marco Antonio Bologna, that the airline already knew a problem in the breaking system of the Airbus 320 aircraft, which caused the Sao Paulo tragedy... more
AccidentsSao Paulo air disaster (3): the accident plane
Sao Paulo, Brazil - An Airbus A-320
The accident airplane is an A-320 built by the European Airbus and operated by Brazilian TAM Linhas Aéras. The aircraft touched down at Sao Paulo's "Congonhas" at 6:45pm local time, on July 17 2007. Code... more
AccidentsSao Paulo air disaster (2): the power of attorney: "Congonhas" should be closed
Sao Paulo, Brazil - It was good sense to close the airport right after the ATR's runway skid
"Congonhas" airport of Sao Paulo, where the worst accident of the Brazilian civil aviation history occurred two days ago, is mainly adapted to national and regional flights, the second airport of the city,... more
AccidentsSao Paulo air tragedy: found the black box
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Perhaps it's partially damaged
The person responsible of the Brazilian Aviation, Juniti Saito, says that the black box of the Airbus 320 crashed yesterday at the airport of Congonhas in Sao Paulo, causing the worst tragedy of the Brazilian... more
AccidentsSao Paulo air tragedy (4): Pope expresses his sorrow
Vatican City, Italy - Prayers of sympathy for the departed
After the sorrow expressed by Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who declared three days of national mourning, a sorrow telegram by the Pope has been sent by the Vatican City's secretary of... more
AccidentsSao Paolo air tragedy (3): Gremio Team risked matching the slaughter of Superga
Sao Paolo, Brazil - Only the destiny wanted the football team did not board the aircraft
Gremio Football Team Porto Public Relation Manager, Paulo Pelaipe, stated that on the Airbus A-320 aircraft crashed yesterday on "Congonhas"-Sao Paolo Airport would have been also the football team of... more
AccidentsSao Paulo air tragedy (2): 101 corpses recovered
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Incessant and without a moment’s pause the operations of recovery
At Sao Paulo's airport "Congonhas" the scene is absurd, death is in the air and at the same time the activity of bodies recovery is frenetic, while a smell of burning covers everything. Even if the... more
AccidentsMore than 200 people believed dead after an air accident in San Paulo
San Paulo, Brazil - The runway wasn't ultimated yet
The most serious accident of the Brazilian aviation history occurred yesterday night at 18:45 local time, at the San Paulo's Congonhas airport. An Airbus A-320 aircraft of the Tam airline arriving from... more
AccidentsAmerican F-16 aircraft fallen last Saturday in Iraq
Balad, Iraq - Pilot luckily unhurt
The US military forces have been losing quite a number of airplanes and helicopters in Iraq. Last Saturday the umpteenth loss of a plane, an F-16 crashed during take-off from the main US base in Iraq,... more
AccidentsTourism aircraft crashed yesterday in Florida: two people killed and three injured
Orlando, Florida - Closed the massacre
A real strike of luck that the plane, a Cessna 310 airplane, has not caused others victims but the two occupants in its crash on a town nearby six kilometres to international airport of Orlando, Florida... more
AccidentsCrashed another helicopter in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - While yesterday a similar accident is happened in Croatia
Afghan governmental sources has spread the news, without giving any features, that an helicopter with foreign registration has crashed today in Laghman province in the East of Afghanistan, Talibans' stronghold.... more
AccidentsFlorida: tourism aircraft crashes on the city
Orlando, USA - Houses on fire and several wounded
The assessment of the incident occurred today in Sanford, near Monroe lake, at 6 km from Orlando-Sanford International Airport is not unveiled yet. A tourist aircraft, probably a Cessna with onboard two... more
AccidentsMexico: airplane aborts take off and ends up on a road
Culiacan, Mexico - At least 15 injured and 9 dead. President Calderon's visit suspended
Ernesto Cabreras, under-secretary of Safety in Mexico, has just informed that a transport plane of an unspecified company aborted take off ending off the runway and on a busy road: the aircraft seems to... more
AccidentsUS helicopter fallen in Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq - Two military on board, one dead
A US helicopter fell down yesterday in the Mosul area, about 400 hundred km North of Baghdad. On board two military, one of them died in the accident. The Multinational Forces carried out an air and ground... more
AccidentsAngola: doubts on crashed airplane maintenance
Luanda, Angola - The Boeing 737/200 would have been purchased in 1976
According to the Angolan press agency "Angonoticias" the Boeing 737/200 involved in the accident which caused the death of at least six people and the injury of an indefinite number of people would have... more
AccidentsA gyro-copter crashed in Tasmania
Launceston, Tasmania - One man killed and one injured
One man, aged 67, and from Blackmans Bay is dead and a his flight instructor, Geoff Jamieson, critically injured after a crash on board of a gyro-copter happened at an airfield North of Launceston, in... more
AccidentsUeberlingen disaster, next Sunday a commemorative day
Ueberlingen, Germany - The crash of 5 years ago caused 71 victims in Germany
Sunday 8 July at Ueberlingen a commemoration will be celebrated to remember the disaster of 2002, when a plan of Russian carrier Bashkirian Airlines has crashed with a cargo aircraft of DHL, causing the... more
AccidentsMagny-Cours, an helicopter crashes near the motor-racing track
Magny-Cours, France - Three the victims on Saturday
An helicopter with five persons aboard has crashed last Saturday near the motor-racing track of Magny-Cours (France), where the F1 Gran Prix was in programme the day after. There were three people killed... more
AccidentsAngola: TAAG flight crashes while landing
Luanda, Angola - Unknown the reasons of the incident
A TAAG (Angola Airlines) flight left from the capital Luanda crashed on Thursday June 28th while landing in the airport of M'banza Congo, in North-Easter Angola. There were 78 people on board and five... more
AccidentsArkansas: tourism airplane overshoots and crashes into a house
Washington, USA - Two victims
Two people were killed on Saturday when a tourism plane crashed into a house in Conway Municipal Airport in the Southern U.S. state of Arkansas. The victims were the pilot, Hugh Rains, 71, and a woman... more
AccidentsF-15 fighter went down in the Pacific Ocean yesterday
Portland, USA - During a training mission
Yesterday an F-15 fighter aircraft from the 142nd Fighter Wing based on Portland went down during a training mission in the Pacific Ocean. A second jet was on the mission too and stayed on scene until... more
AccidentsCambodia: found the wreckage of the fallen Antonov
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - All occupants are dead
Two days after it disappeared from the radars, the Antonov AN-24 airplane with 22 people on board - the Russian pilot, thirteen South-Korean tourists and three Czechs - fallen on a mountainous area, has... more
AccidentsCambodia: still searching for fallen airplane's wreckage
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Heavy rainstorm hampers the search
The heavy rainstorm seems to be liable for the fall of the Antonov AN-24 yesterday in a mountainous area in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen stated that there is a little hope some of the passengers might... more
AccidentsAntonov falls in Cambodia: 22 people on board
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - No information at the moment
The exact place in the mountainous region where an Antonov AN-24, probably transporting tourists, has fallen this morning is still to be located. The airplane took off around 10:00 am local time from... more
AccidentsMongolia: a Firefighters helicopter crashes
Ulan Bator, Mongolia - 14 victims
Rescuers have found the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in the northern province of Selenge and killed 14 people on board, a Mongolian emergency official said today. The Russian-made Mi-8... more
AccidentsTwo US Air Force jets collided near Fairbanks
Anchorage (Alaska), Usa - Two pilots were uninjured
Yesterday some minutes after 11 a.m. a simulated mission ended in a mid-air collision nearly 100 miles East of Fairbanks and Eielson US Air Force base in an air space known as the Pacific Alaska Range... more
AccidentsIndonesia. Flight crashes, end to pilot criminalization
Jakarta, Indonesia - Aviation sector pushes
The Indonesian Pilots Federation is seeking to ensure that the aviation bill does not allow for the criminalization of pilots by police investigations into aviation accidents. According to International... more
AccidentsComair crash: NTSB returns to critice airport runway markings
Washington, USA - No specifically cited Lexington Blue Grass
As it prepares to release findings about the cause of last year's fatal Comair crash in Lexington, Ky., the head of a federal safety agency told Congress yesterday that it's "Very interested" in how airport... more
AccidentsAircraft crashed in Michigan lake (2): peril of a seventh victim
Chicago, Usa - The airplane was lifting a transplantation heart
In serious condition the unlucky man who would have received the transplanted heart crashed in the air incident in Michigan during the flight between Usa and Canada. On board there were six persons and... more
AccidentsAircraft crashed in Michigan lake
Chicago, Usa - Six people on board, all dead
A small aircraft, for tourism or for medical transport is not still clear, crashed in Michigan's Lake waters yesterday evening, but the local authorities announced it today. Obviously is too early to... more