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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Accidents



Date: October 4, 2011 Time: 11:47
Location: Near Lutsek'e, NT, Canada
Operator: Air Tindi Flight: 200
AC Type: Cessna 208B Grand Caravan I
Reg: C-GATV cn: 208B-0308
Aboard: 4 Fatalities: 2 Ground: 0
Route: Yellowknife - Lutsek'e
Details: The plane hit the top of a hill while enroute, approximately 20 nm from Lutsek'e Airport. The pilot and one passenger were killed.

Date: September 29, 2011 Time: 07:38
Location: Near Bohorok, Indonesia
Operator: Nusantara Buana Air
AC Type: CASA NC-212 Aviocar 200
Reg: PK-TLF cn:
Aboard: 18 Fatalities: 18 Ground: 0
Route: Medan - Kutacane
Details: Contact with the plane was lost 10 minutes after taking off from Medan. Wreckage was located near Bohorok, on the slope of a mountain 6,100 feet high. Fourteen passengers and a crew of 4 were aboard the plane.

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Date: September 25, 2011 Time: 07:31
Location: Near Kathmandu, Nepal
Operator: Buddha Air
AC Type: Beechcraft 1900D
Reg: 9N-AEK cn: UE-295
Aboard: 19 Fatalities: 19 Ground: 0
Route: Sightseeing
Details: The Mt. Everest sightseeing flight struck terrain while on approach to Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport. All 16 tourists and crew of three were killed. One passenger survived the accident but died on the way to the hospital.




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Date: September 22, 2011 Time: 13:15
Location: Yellowknife, Northwesst Territories, Canada
Operator: Arctic Sunwest Charters
AC Type: De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
Reg: C-GARW cn: 367
Aboard: 9 Fatalities: 2 Ground: 0
Route: Thor Lake - Great Slave Lake
Details: While coming in for a landing at Great Slave Lake the float plane hit powerlines, a car and part of a building. Both pilots were killed.




Date: September 20, 2011
Location: Near Cap-Haitien, Haiti
Operator: SALSA d'Haiti Flight: 112
AC Type: Beachcraft 99A
Reg: HH-APA cn: U-123
Aboard: 3 Fatalities: 3 Ground: 0
Route: Port au Prince - Cap Haitien
Details: The plane crashed into a flooded sugar cane field while attempting to land in heavy rain and thunderstorms. The passenger and both pilots were killed.

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Date: September 14, 2011 Time: 12:00
Location: Huambo, Angola
Operator: Military - FANA Forca Aerea Nacional Angolana
AC Type: Embraer 120ER Brasilia
Reg: T-500 cn: 120357
Aboard: 36 Fatalities: 30 Ground: 0
Route: Huambo - Luanda
Details: The military plane crashed, broke in two and burned while attempting to takeoff from Huambo Airport. Six persons survived including the pilot and copilot.

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Date: September 7, 2011 Time: 15:50
Location: Yaroslavl, Russia
Operator: YAK Service Flight: 9634
AC Type: Yakovlev 42D
Reg: RA-42434 cn: 4520424305017
Aboard: 45 Fatalities: 44 Ground: 0
Route: Yaroslavl - Minsk
Details: The plane failed to climb after takeoff and crashed into an antenna outside the airport perimeter and came to rest in the Volga River, 1km from the runway. The plane carried members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team




Date: September 6, 2011 Time: 18:50
Location: Near Trinidad, Bolivia
Operator: Aerocon Filght: A4-238
AC Type: Swearingen SA-227BC Metroliner III
Reg: CP-2548 cn: BC-768B
Aboard: 9 Fatalities: 8 Ground: 0
Route: Santa Cruz - Trinidad, Bolivia
Details: The plane crashed into the jungle while on approach to Runway 14 at Trinidad Airport. After the crew reported they were turning into the final approach, radio contact was lost. The plane was found 2 days later, 10 km from the airport. One passenger survived. See below.



Date: September 2, 2011 Time: 17:48
Location: Off Robinson Crusoe Island
Operator: Chilean Air Force
AC Type: CASA C-212 Aviocar 300DF
Reg: 966 cn: 443
Aboard: 21 Fatalities: 21 Ground: 0
Route: Santiago- Isla Robinson Crusoe
Details: The transport crashed into the sea while on approach to the Isla Robinson Crusoe Airport.

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Date: August 29, 2011 Time: 03:55
Location: Cochin, India
Operator: Gulf Air Filght: 270
AC Type: Airbus A320-214
Reg: A9C-AG cn: 4188
Aboard: 137 Fatalities: 0 Ground: 0
Route: Bahrain - Cochin
Details: While landing the airliner went off the side of the runway collapsing the nose gear and coming to rest 10 meters off the runway. Eight people were injured one, seriously.



Date: August 20, 2011 Time: 12:50
Location: Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada
Operator: First Air Flight: 6560
AC Type: Boeing B-737-210C(A) Combi
Reg: C-GNWN cn: 21067/414
Aboard: 15 Fatalities: 12 Ground: 0
Route: Yellowknife - Resolute Bay
Details: The last communication with the charter flight was at 12:40 pm when the aircraft was eight kilometers from the airport. The plane went down 10 minutes later and broke up in a field. There were eleven passengers and crew of four aboard.



Date: August 14, 2011 Time: 13:30
Location: Near Tzaneen, South Africa
Operator: Private
AC Type: (2) Piaggio P-166S Albatross
Reg: ZU-MMI, ZS-NJX cn: 462, 446
Aboard: 13 Fatalities: 13 Ground: 0
Route: Tzaneen - Johannesburg
Details: The two Albatrosses crashed into Mamotswiri peak while en-route from Tzaneen to Johannesburg, killing 13 people on both planes. Seven killed on ZU-MMI and 6 on ZS-NJX. The group was returning from an airshow.

Top Accidents

Date: October 14, 2011
Location: Xakanaka Airstrip, Botswana
Operator: Moremi Air Charters
AC Type: Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
Reg: A2-AKD cn: 208B-0582
Aboard: 11 Fatalities: 8 Ground: 0
Route: Xakanaka Airstrip - Pom Pom Airstrip
Details: The sightseeing plane crashed immediately after taking off from Xakanaka Airstrip in the Okavango Delta. A pilot and seven passengers were killed.

Date: October 13, 2011 Time: 17:00
Location: Near Madang, Papua New Guinea
Operator: Airline PNG Flight: 1600
AC Type: de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102
Reg: P2-MCJ cn: 125
Aboard: 32 Fatalities: 28 Ground: 0
Route: Lae - Madang
Details: While on approach to Madang, the plane crashed into dense forest near the Gogol River, 20 km south of Madang. The two pilots and two pasengers survived the accident.

Recent Accidents

Date: October 27, 2011 Time: 04:12
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Operator: Northern Thunderbird Air Inc.
AC Type: Beechcraft 100 King Air
Reg: C-GXRX cn: B-36
Aboard: 9 Fatalities: 1 Ground: 0
Route: Vancouver - Kelowna
Details: After taking off, the pilot reported problems with the aircraft and began returning to the airport. The plane crashed 900 meters short of Runway 26L. The pilot was killed.



Date: November 10, 2011 Time: 12:15
Location: Near Kilohana, Molokai, Hawaii
Operator: Blue Hawaiian Helicopter
AC Type: Eurocopter EC-130
Reg: ?
Aboard: 5 Fatalities: 5 Ground: 0
Route: Sightseeing
Details: The sightseeing helicopter, on a tourist excursion of West Maui and Molokai, slammed into a mountainside and burst into flames while flying in heavy rain and winds.

Date: November 1, 2011 Time: 14:35
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Operator: LOT Flight: 16
AC Type: Boeing B767-35DER
Reg: SP-LPC cn: 28656/659
Aboard: 231 Fatalities: 0 Ground: 0
Route: Newark, NJ - Warsaw, Poland
Details: The crew carried out a gear-up landing, after the landing gear could not be deployed. No one aboard the plane was injured.