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DATE/SITE
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AIRCRAFT & REGN
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CIRCUMSTANCES
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DEATH & INJURY
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| 16 Dec. Nantes Atlantique |
A320 of GB Airways |
Diverted Nantes 45 mins ex Gatwick due smoke & fumes in cockpit. |
Nil |
Enrt Gatwick-Marrakech (landed within 10 mins of declaration) |
| 16 Dec. Mojave |
Pavair Lear 24B |
Crashed fm FL240 into a desert canyon. |
2 fatal / 2 o/b |
Enroute Chino, California to Hailey, Idaho |
| 17 Dec. Manchester UK |
A320 of unknown. A320 of Finnair |
An A320's false fire warning caused fuel diversion of a Finnair a/c to Leeds Bradford due to vis 800m in fog at Manchester & a train of other events. |
Nil |
Two maydays from BA a/c within 5 mins - first the Manchester shuttle with engine fire indications, then another into Birmingham for low fuel. |
| 18 Dec. 1900LLibreville Gabon |
737 of Air Gabon |
A/c overran the very wet runway in heavy rain. |
Injuries |
Aircraft severely damaged with injuries reported. |
| 18 Dec. 2200L Mitu, Colombia |
DC-9-15F of LAS |
Freighter declared missing once it was 3hrs overdue. |
3 fatal / 3 o/b |
Deptd. El Yopal for Mitu and is assumed to have crashed on descent. |
| 18 Dec. 1230LMemphis, Tenn. |
MD-10 N364FE FedEx Flt 647 |
Destroyed by fire after RH MLG collapsed on ldg & wing-root failed. |
2 inj / 7 o/b |
RH MLG and wing-root seems to be a common DC10/MD10/MD11 failing. |
| 19 Dec. afternoon Adelaide, Australia |
Unknown type |
City Beach woman almost hit by emergency exit door falling from a/c. |
Nil |
knocked a metal gate off its hinges. |
| 19 Dec. 1915L Washington DC |
747-400 of Virgin Flt VS022 |
Pilot arrested for exceeding alcohol limits and flight cancelled. |
Nil / 383 o/b |
Pilot suspended by Virgin pending internal inquiry. |
| 19Dec. 1915L London Heathrow |
747-400 of SIA Flt: SQ319 |
Fuel dumped and a/c returned due to heavy vibration caused by birdstrike to #4 engine on t/off 27R. |
Nil |
Bent fan blades & inlet guide vanes on cold side of eng. Possible damage to hot end. Blood on pylon and flaps. |
| 20 Dec. Florianopolis, Brazil |
737-76N of GOL Reg::PR-GOO |
A/c landed on wet runway, departed the side and demolished a high wall. |
Nil / 148 o/b |
Flt 1756 a/c severely damaged after landing long at Navegantes A/P. |
| 21 Dec. 1850L Liverpool, UK |
737 of EasyJet Flt107 |
Crew declared a mayday for sudden decompression and diverted Liverpool. |
Nil / 133 pax |
Luton-Glasgow flight |
| 21 Dec. Salt Lake City, Utah |
737-800 of AeroMexico |
Landed back after flames erupted due to an engine surge after take-off. |
Nil |
No further details. |
| 23 Dec Amsterdam |
737 of EasyJet |
Slow taxiing a/c lost traction and right wing was destroyed against lightpole. |
Nil |
ATC notified a/c of very slippery taxiways but they remained unswept. |
| 24 Dec. 1120L Gatwick, UK |
737-700 of EasyJet |
Emerg descent after F/O's window cracked with a loud bang at FL380. |
Nil |
EZY5222 Alicante-Gatwick (side-window cracked). A/c landed Gatwick. |
| 25 Dec 1415Z Cotonou, Benin |
727-223 of UTA Charter 3X-GDM |
GIH141 crashed into a low building on t/off for Beirut & finished in the ocean. |
141 fatal/ 163 o/b |
Suspected to have been overweight. Lebanese airliner reg'd in Guinea. |
| 27 Dec. Mzuzu, Malawi |
Grand Caravan of Air Malawi |
Hit minibus on t/off (100m on extended center-line) as 7QYKU aborted/o'ran. |
4inj / 9 o/b |
Bus occupant killed, others injured but Malawi Vice Pres Chihana survived. |
| 27 Dec. Valencia, Spain |
MD-83 of Spanair JKK3374 |
Diverted Valencia after an engine explosion short of top-of drop Alicante. |
Nil |
Ex Prestwick. Cabin filled with thick black smoke. Prior bird-strike blamed. |
| 28 Dec. Grand Rapids, Mich. |
DC-9 of NorthWest |
Flt. # 1723 blew a tire on t/off and returned. |
Nil / 125 pax |
Ford International Airport. |
| 28 Dec. Karachi |
747-300 of PIA Flt PK368 |
Ingested a bird near Nawabshah on departure and returned Karachi. |
Nil / 211 pax |
Enroute Islamabad. |
| 30 Dec. 1830L New York, JFK |
747-400 of BA Flt 177 |
Smell led to decomposed body being found in wheelwell (emplanement on Dec. 22in Lagos, Nigeria, is suspected). |
2 dead |
25 Dec: a 4 day old Dominican body was found in an AA A300's wheelwell after arrival JFK from Montego Bay. |
| 01 Jan. Tokunoshima, Japan |
MD-81 of JASFlt: 979 |
Port undercarriage collapsed and left wing-tip damaged on landing. |
2 inj / 168 o/b |
1350km SW of Tokyo. Significant damage on arrival from Kagoshima. |
| 01 Jan. Madrid, Spain |
737-700 of EasyJet flt2204 |
Luton-bound Chilean passenger arrested after pushback for threats. |
Nil / 139 pax |
Found to be carrying two concealed pen-knives. Flt deptd 75mins late. |
| 02 Jan. 1830L Pensacola, Fla. |
MD-80 of Delta |
Overran r/way 17 by 75m after long landing in rolling fog conditions. |
Nil / 145 o/b |
Minor damage to a/c (arriving from Atlanta). Other flights were diverted. |
| 03 Jan. 1800L Honolulu |
DC-10 of NWA flt NWA923 |
First class pax arrested after violently attempting to invade cockpit. |
Nil |
31 y.o. Knoxville science teacher was handcuffed 2hrs out of Honolulu. |
| 03 Jan. Funchal, Portugal |
A320-212 of Air Luxor |
Nose-gear retracted after pushback injuring some groundcrew members. |
G'crew minor inj |
Occurred during pushback disconnect (see imagery). Not unusual on A320. |
| 04 Jan 0200L Rostov-on-Don, Russia |
AN-12 of unknown operator |
Landed under ATC direction while squawking the hijack code |
Nil |
Believed to have been a false alarm (enroute Moscow to Abu Dhabi UAE). |
| 03 Jan. 0444L Sharm el-Sheikh |
737-300 of Flash Flt:FSH604 |
Quickly disappeared off radar after t/off in a rt descending turn fm 5000ft. |
148 fatal / 148 o/b |
No comms. Possible control loss on dark night (electrical/smoke problem?). |
| 04 Jan. 1030L Columbia, Mo. |
CL65 of United Express |
Flight diverted Columbia after a cruise failure of its left engine. |
Nil / 46 o/b |
Kansas City to Washington (Dulles) flight. |
| 05 Jan. 0820L Munich, Germany |
FK70 of Austrian |
Crash-landed 3kms short of r/way 26L after reporting appch engine problems |
One inj/37 o/b |
Fokker landed in an open snowy field. Damage unknown. Icing suspected. |
| 1 Air carrier accidents, or other incidents involving serious failures or fatal injuries. 2 DISCLAIMER: The information obtained is preliminary, possibly incomplete, and may be supplemented by new findings of fact as the inquiry progresses. Preliminary analysis by John Sampson, International Aviation Safety Association (IASA). |
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