| DATE/SITE |
AIRCRAFT & REGN |
CIRCUMSTANCES |
DEATH & INJURY |
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at http://www.iasa.com.au/250405.htm |
| 30 March 0750L Dade-Collier A/P, Fla. |
SA227-AC Reg: N811BC |
Impacted a deer on landing with LH prop while in reverse at about 50kts |
Nil / 2 o/b |
Ex Miami Intl on training sortie. Substantial damage. Prop hit fuselage |
| 03 April Lajes, Portugal |
L-1011-500 of Yes Air LA |
CS-TMX landed at this Azores airfield after an engine failed in the cruise |
Nil |
Prior eng failure was on Feb. 26 after birdstrike ex Holguin Cuba |
| 04 April 1925Z Lake Havasu City |
Cessna 421 Golden Eagle |
Gear collapsed on landing back at Lake Havasu City, Ariz. |
Nil / 3 o/b |
Substantial damage to N637SC Departing for Las Vegas |
| 05 April (TBC) Sheremetyevo-1 Russia |
TU204 of KMV Avia, Flt: 3062 |
Aircraft (a/c) encountered a loss of control situation enroute and apparently injuring passengers |
Unk injured |
Details scanty. Flight had departed Sharm-el-Sheikh for Moscow |
| 07 April 0955L Coca, Ecuador |
F28-4000 of Icaro, Flt: X8-504 |
Collapsed LH gear on runway lip on landing & fuselage crashed into a bldg. |
Nil / 65 o/b |
Quito, Ecuador, to Coca, Ecuador HC-CDA written off |
| 08 April Porto Santo |
757-200 of Monarch |
Inflight engine shutdown caused a diversion into Porto Santo, Portugal |
Nil / 235 o/b |
Flt 558 (Gatwick to Tenerife). Shutdown was due to oil loss. |
| 08 April Great Falls, Mont. |
HS125-700A Reg: C-GAAA |
Crew felt a thud on departure and after landing discovered eng damage |
Nil |
Great Falls, Mont., to Mesa, Arizona Possible foreign object damage (FOD) |
| 09 April 0912Z Chicago, Ill. |
737 of UA Reg: N304UA |
Reported a birdstrike to the radome and landed without incident |
Nil |
No further details |
| 09 April Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas |
MD-83 of AA Flt: AA1379 |
34,000ft approaching descent pt both packs to zero flow & a/c depressurized |
Nil |
Enrt from Washington (Reagan). Pax masks dropped. Still troubleshooting |
| 10 April 1300Z Destin, Fla. |
Learjet 45 Reg: N410FX |
Aircraft reported an inflight engine fire then landed safely at Destin, Fla. |
Nil / 3 o/b |
Owner: Oilfield Aviation-L60 Ltd |
| 10 Apr early morn Dubai, UAE |
A340-300 of Emirates |
Flt EK087 was recalled to Dubai after reports of smoke in the cabin |
Nil |
Attrib to 800 kilos of fish packed in dry ice in hold (bound for Zurich) |
| 12 April 1500Z Ceiba, PR |
Cessna 208B Reg: N1241X |
Enrt San Juan PR, eng failed. Landed OK on a road at Ceiba, Puerto Rico |
Nil / 4 o/b |
MN Aviation. NTSB says a/c landed Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station |
| 12 April 1200L Patuxent River NAS enrt to 29 Palms, Calif. |
KC130T of USN (Test & Trials Sqdn VX-20) |
Two 20-man life rafts emerged from port wing compartment in flight and wrapped around port horizontal stabilizer causing total loss of control |
4 inj / 11 o/b |
Miraculously recovered after enduring extreme flight parameters way beyond the Hercules refueller's flight envelope. Landed Huntington, W.Va. |
| 14 Apr ~1030L Virgin Gorda, BVI |
Beech 18 of Tol Air, Reg: N749T |
Left main gear collapsed on landing in stiff crosswind on this 3,160 ft strip |
Nil |
Tol Air operates Cessna 402, CV240, DC3 and Beech 18 aircraft |
| 14 April 1240L Karachi, Pakistan |
747-300 of PIA Flt: PK-757 |
#1 eng stalled following birdstrike on departure Lahore. A/c landed Karachi |
Nil / 420 pax |
Pax placed on another flight to London |
| 14 April 1915L Makassar, Indon. |
737 of Merpati |
Skidded off runway on landing in rain in this South Sulawesi Province |
22 inj / 55 o/b |
10 hospitalized. Undercarriage folded and airport closed. Arr fm Biak Papua |
| 15 April Gatwick, UK |
747-400 of Virgin Atlantic |
Flight VS26 turned back 3 hrs into flt to Bridgetown, Barbados, with #3 fail |
Nil |
Loss of oil pressure #3 engine |
| 15 April Murcia, Spain |
737 of Ryanair Flt: FR8022 |
Fire indication after landing caused a passenger evacuation |
1 inj / 59 pax |
Possibly an APU fire warning |
| 15 April Rio de Janeiro Intl. |
747-400 of BA |
G-BYGE lost an engine after departure and landed back |
Nil |
No further details |
| 15 April Capetown, SA |
MD-82 of 1Time |
Tailcone fell off rear end after landing and contaminated r/way 19 with debris |
Nil |
Tailcone optimistically trailered into the terminal by AFF for re-attachment |
| 17 Apr 1430L Elista A/P, Russia |
Yak 40 of Ruslain |
Emerg landing after tire fragments found at departure airport in Moscow |
Nil |
Deptd Vnukovo A/P Moscow |
| 18 April 1056L Cukai, Malaysia |
S61N of MHS Avn Bhd |
35 y.o. helo crashed in trees a few minutes after leaving Kerteh A/P |
9 uninj |
Kerteh to Terranganu offshore oil platforms. Poss tail-rotor drive failure |
| 18 April 2015L E. Venizelos A/P Greece |
ATR72 of Olympic Airways Flt: OA658 |
Unable to lower its gear on approach to Mikonos A/P so returned to Athens and made emerg landing E. Venizelos |
Nil |
Athens to Mikonos flt landed E. Venizelos A/P (Athens Intl A/P). No details of damage |
| 18 April Piarco Intl A/P Trinidad |
Dash 8 of Tobago Express, Flight: 534 |
Unable to lower nose-gear as it approached Crown Point A/P, so a/c returned to Piarco Intl for landing |
|
Port of Spain to Tobago. Substantial damage to nose area. 3 inj / 46 pax +3 crew |
| 19 April ~1950L Bangkok, Thailand |
777 of SIA A330 of Thai |
A330 (TG602) struck parked flt SQ068 777 wing at a taxiway intersection |
Nil / 183 + 292 (777) |
Thai Airbus wing substantially damaged (777 wing to lesser extent) |
| 19 April Kansas City Intl. |
A321 of US Airways, Flt201 |
Diverted enroute into Kansas City International with a hoz stabilizer light |
Nil |
Philadelphia to San Francisco |
| 20 April 2245L Mehrabad A/P, Iran |
707 of Saha Air (Iran Def Force) |
707-320C fm Kish crashed off r/way 29L (a/c ending up in the Kan River) |
|
Gear failed, caught fire. Evac chutes failed. 3 fatal / 80 inj/157pax +16 crew |
| 20 April 2346L Zurich |
A340 of Swiss LX096 |
Landed back Zurich 90 mins after t/off due to a departure birdstrike |
Nil |
No damage. Enrt Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International A/P, Brazil |
| 20 April midnight Hong Kong |
747 of Cathay Flt: CX289 |
Frankfurt bound jet aborted when two LHS tires blew on take-off below 100k |
Nil / 350 pax |
17 outbound & 6 inbound flts delayed plus one diverted by r/way closure |
| 1 Air carrier accidents, or other incidents involving serious failures or fatal injuries. 2 DISCLAIMER: These assessments are not intended to assert probable cause or liability, but rather are intended to provide insight pending publication of a final report of investigation. Preliminary analysis by John Sampson - International Aviation Safety Association (IASA). |
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