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Monday, February 26, 2007
Accidents And Incidents
| DATE/SITE | AIRCRAFT & REGN | CIRCUMSTANCES | DEATH & INJURY | PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 IMAGERY AT HTTP://WWW.IASA.COM.AU/260207.HTM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 Feb 2250Z Rexburg ID | Cessna T210R reg: N6390U | Aircraft crashed after takeoff engine failure and an unsuccessful turnback attempt | 1 dead | Destroyed by fire. Headed Lincoln Regional Airport California |
| 08 Feb 1930L Annecy France | TU154B of Berkut Kazakh | Skyguide ATC figured in a critical encounter between the TU154 and an Algerian AF C130 | nil | @FL250. The two flight paths crossed and a collision was narrowly avoided |
| 11 Feb 1355L Mumbai India | 747 of Saudia Flt SV801 | Returned to land after dumping fuel following an engine failure on takeoff | nil | Mumbai to Jeddah via Dammam Saudia Arabia. Birdstrikes after V1 |
| 11 Feb evening Bangladesh | 747-100 of Saudia | Dhaka A/P forced to close after SV801 nose tires punctured and caused a/c to abort t/off | nil/339 onboard | Dhaka to Riyadh. Dhaka Intl A/P closed until early the next morning |
| 11 Feb 1159L Berbegamau Ca | DHC6-300 of Air Inuit | Reg: C-GKCK substantially damaged after crashing on landing in drifting snow. | nil/2 crew + 5 pax | Arriving Northern Quebec from Kattiniq/Donaldson Lake A/P |
| 12 Feb Seattle Tacoma Washington | MD83 of Alaska Flight AS322 | Pilot announced 40 mins after t/off that pushback had contacted fence at gate D11 and that a diversion to Reno Nvada had been ordered | nil | Headed for Longbeach. Wingwalker saw the wing hit the fence but was slack and didn't report it. A tell-tale paint-scrape was found. |
| 12 Feb 0920Z Zweibrucken Ger | PA31T of BHS Direct | The 1979 manufacture Cheyenne II crashed shortly after takeoff (assumed engine failure) | 1 dead/1 onboard | reg: N160TR enroute to Split, Croatia |
| 12 Feb 2945L Indianapolis IN | A310 of FEDEX N676FE | While taxiing on the FEDEX Ramp, FDX3713's right wing struck a deicing truck | 1 x serious inj/ 1 minor | ..and tipped it over. Substantial damage to both vehicles. Injured were from truck |
| 12 Feb Tbilisi Georgia | MI-8 of Georgian Army | Helo crash-landed while attempting an emergency landing in the town of Kutaisi | 15 injured /17 onboard | write-off. Thought due to an overpitching at high all up weight. |
| 13 Feb 1636L Vnukovo Ru | Challenger 850 of Clearsky | Fell back onto runway in stalled condition after taking off in snow and a/c inverted | 3 crew injured | Special Edition version of CRJ-100SE. lack of leading-edge lift-enhancing devices. Destroyed |
| 13 Feb Gardermoen Oslo Norway | A320-232 of British Airways G-EUUI | Hit deicing truck whilst moving to the deicing zone in darkness. Damaged inner right wing leading edge and engine number 2 | nil/107 pax + 7 crew onboard | Oslo to London Flt BA767. Substantial damage |
| 13 Feb night Krakow Poland | Fokker 100 of Austrian AL | Flt OS348 diverted to Krakow Intl (EPKK) after an engine malfunctioned in flight | nil/45 Pax & 6 crew | Helsinki to Vienna flight |
| 13 Feb day Surgut Russia | TU134 of Kogalymavia | Made a safe emergency landing after the crew received a gear malfunction warning | nil/37 pax +6 crew | Nadym to Surgut. Aircraft suffered minor damage |
| 14 Feb Novosibirsk Ru | TU134 of Urals Airline | Lengthy delay caused by a flight engineer deplaning himself after the steps had departed | one injured | Flight bound for Yekaterinburg. FE went to hospital |
| 15 Feb 1505Z Carlsbad NM | Cessna 402 N593DM | Aircraft's left engine failed on approach and its RH gear collapsed on landing | nil/ 1 onboard | minor damage |
| 15 Feb evening Las Palmas | 737 of Air Mauritania | Pilot briefed pax in French to attack gunman hijacker during a very uncoordinated landing | 1 disarmed 20 injured | Ploy worked and hijacker was tackled by pax & cabin staff when he dropped one of 2 guns |
| 15 Feb 0117Z Teterboro NJ | Westwind 1124 | Reg: N4WG landed runway 6 and slid sedately off the RH side into the safety area | nil | no damage. A/c towed to ramp |
| 15 Feb Tacloban City | A320 of PAL Reg: RPC3223 | On landing, overran the Tacloban r/way in Leyte narrowly missing 100 shanties | nil/113pax +6 | PAL flight PR191 nose plunged into a canal 100m short of village. Substantially damaged |
| 16 Feb Manchester UK | 777 of PIA reg: AP-BGY | Tail of Flybe Dash 8-400 badly gashed by the PIA 777 in the passing bay for runway 24L | nil | some reports claim it was at the JA or G stopline for 24R or in the 24R passing bay |
| 16 Feb 0715L Ontario Calif | Learjet 55 reg: N55AR | Lear jet circled for a lengthy period before finally managing to extend the nose-gear | nil | Stajets.com a/c arriving from French Valley Airport. Askew nose-gear centered on t/down |
| 16 Feb night Naples Florida | Bizjet (unk type) | Tug driver died after becoming sandwiched between his tug and an aircraft wing | one dead | ...happened during a fly-in of Fortune 500 CEO's |
| 16 Feb ~2107L Council Bluffs SW Iowa | C340A reg: N111SC | Crashed 3nms from Municipal airport during fast developing heavy snowstorm (winds up to 53mph) | 4 dead/4 onboard | arriving from Jasper Texas. Owner was Color Ink of Council Bluffs |
| 16 Feb Natal Brazil | PA34 of Earthrounders | Pilot's body found adrift in a liferaft after ditching 60kms off the coast of Brazil | 1 dead/1 onboard | enroute to Dakar Senegal pilot advised diverting to Fernando de Noronha airport |
| 18 Feb day Zabul Province Afghanistan | CH47 Chinook of US Army | Crashed in Shajoi District about 50yds from the main highway between Kabul and Kandahar | 8 dead/14 inj/22 onboard | Sudden unexplained loss of power and control and then crashed (not due to enemy action) |
| 18 Feb 1530L Syracuse NY | CRJ of Delta | Regional jet had locked flaps and needed the longer runway at Syracuse Hancock Intl A/P | nil/36 pax | Atlanta to Rochester NY (pax were bussed onwards to Rochester) |
| 18 Feb 1514L Cleveland Ohio | EMB170 of Delta DL 6448 | Overran into deep snow on landing Cleveland Hopkins from Atlanta & ended up in the perimeter fence after destroying LLZ Antenna | nil/70 pax & 4 crew | N862RW Shuttle America operation was badly damaged off the end of r/way 28. R/way 28/10 is Cleveland's shortest at 1830m |
| 19 Feb Sharjah UAE | A330 of NovAir | Pilot shut down the port engine due to severe vibration and diverted into Sharjah | nil/356 pax | Dubai to Arlanda Sweden & Copenhagen. Charter a/c owned by Kuoni Scandinavia |
| 19 Feb 2235L Auckland NZ | 747-400 of Qantas | Flt QF25 suffered an inflight engine fire on eng #1 and returned to Auckland heavy | nil | Reg: VH-OJJ Melbourne-Auckland-LAX |
1 Air carrier accidents, or other incidents involving serious failures or fatal injuries, investigated by aviation safety agencies of various nations.
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 J. Sampson, International Aviation Safety Association (IASA).

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