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Monday, March 26, 2007

Accidents And Incidents

DATE/SITE AIRCRAFT & REGN CIRCUMSTANCES DEATH & INJURY PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 IMAGERY AT WWW.IASA.COM.AU/260307.HTM
01 Mar day Sierra Leone 757-200 of Astreus Flight 5W-072 Aircraft was forced to turn back and land at Freetown Intl after an engine failure nil Headed to London UK
04 Mar 2112Z Fayetteville AR Beech 200 reg: N1194C On landing the gear collapsed (at Drake Field, Fayetteville Arkansas) nil/ 1 onboard Arriving from Little Rock Arkansas
06 Mar 2131Z Wichita Kansas Gulfstream V reg: N401HF Crew reported a loud popping noise during flight and diverted in without incident nil/2 onboard Cleveland Ohio for Camarillo California. Minor damage
06 Mar 2327Z San Diego Ca MD83 of American N964TW Flight AAL575 manually lowered gear doors for landing and taxied to the gate nil Damage reported to the open gear door skid-plates. Arriving from Chicago Illinois
07 Mar 1402Z Memphis TN Cessna 414A reg: N414AN Chancellor reported a blown tire and on taxi the right maingear partly collapsed nil/2 crew arriving Memphis. Minor damage
09 Mar 2242Z Rochester NY Beech 58 Baron reg: N3059N On landing, a/c veered of the side of the runway & struck a snowbank nil/ one onboard lightly damaged
10 Mar 0150Z Munster Indiana Beech 58 Baron reg: N332HA Crashed onto Calumet Avenue Munster shortly after takeoff. Engine failure? 2 dead/ 2 onboard Flight originated Lansing Illinois
10 Mar ~0755L Tulsa Oklahoma CRJ-200 of Comair Flight returned immediately after takeoff with smoke in the cockpit nil/43 onboard Tulsa to Cincinnati flight
11 Mar 1156Z Ft Lauderdale FL Learjet 35 reg: VP-CLT Aircraft aborted its Ft Lauderdale takeoff and went off the runway onto the grass nil/ one onboard Headed Toronto Canada. Undamaged.
12 Mar 2123Z Portland Oregon DHC-8-400 of Horizon Air APU on Reg: N409QX exploded at the gate and passengers were deplaned nil aircraft damage substantial. Headed Boise Idaho
12 Mar Ft Rucker Alabama UH-60 of US Army Ft Rucker Helo instructor was killed after training crash near Opp at Skelly A/Field 1 dead & 3 inj/4 onboard 3 Army aviation cadets treated for minor injuries & released. 61yo pilot died on Mon
12 Mar ~1730L Las Vegas Nevada A320 of Air Canada Flight 547 Flt 547 came to halt on t/off about 1/2way down the 14,510ft runway at McCarran Intl Airport after blowing multiple tires. Pax headed Calgary overnighted in hotels nil/140 pax +6 crew onboard Remained on runway with engines damaged by tire debris for more than 17 hours. Left gear is badly damaged. Earlier the jet had brake heat problems (which recurred?)
14 Mar ~1300L Tauranga NZ Beech 1900D of NZ Airlink Successful emergency landing after circling without a gear down indication nil/15 pax microswitch failure
14 Mar 0235Z Paris Idaho PA-30 Twin Comanche N7169Y A/c reported engine loss and diverted, crashing 1 ml South of Bear Lake Airport 1 x minor injury Headed Rawlins Wyoming
14 Mar 0240Z Baton Rouge La 727-222 of Clipper Connection Clipper Connection 906 ran off taxiway with RH maingear on taxi-in to the ramp nil N346PA damage unknown. PanAm Clipper Connection (aka Boston-Maine Awys)
14 Mar ~0700L Islamabad Pakistan G-159 freighter Gulfstream 1 arriving from Muscat Oman made gear-up landing, obstructing runway nil/3 onboard South African rego. Caused PIA flt PK-366 from Karachi to divert to Lahore
15 Mar 2312Z Heathrow UK 777-200 of BA Flight BA083 Turned back & landed at 2312Z after an electrical odor was detected onboard nil Reg: G-VIIW Heathrow to Abuja Nigeria. Same aircraft left again 2 hours later.
15 Mar ~1215L Salvador, Bahia State, NE Brazil Aero Commander (TBC) of Bahia Air Taxi Crashed on hilltops in good weather on a ranch at Sao Sebastio do Passe, about 40mls from Salvador, capital of Bahia State. Possibly ran out of fuel. 4 dead / 4 onboard Bank cash hauler from Petrolina, Pernambuco State to Salvador. Over US$2.5M in unmarked cash was looted by >120 villagers during a running gun-battle with police
15 Mar 2113L Chicago O'Hare 767 of United Flt 843- Sao Paulo Landed back soon after 10pm after taking some birds down the port engine on t/off nil/178 onboard Home video shows a short wienie roast in #1 as the birds were being processed.
15 Mar 2129Z Conway Arizona Citation 500 reg: N771HR On landing the aircraft slid off the slick runway into the mud with nil damage nil arriving from Wichita Falls Texas
15 Mar 1825L New Delhi India 737 of Air Sahara Flt S2-6147 Flight returned with a hydraulic failure (flaps), departing again an hour later nil Ahmedabad - Indore via Delhi
15 Mar Moscow Russia TU204 of DaLavia Airline Twin-eng a/c returned Domodedovo A/P after a port engine failure passing 2400m nil /142 onboard enroute to Khabarovsk, Siberia in the Russian Far East
16 Mar 0708L Stavanger Norway 767-341ER of LOT Polish A'Line Flight LO-002 diverted enroute into Stavanger Norway with its port engine out nil Orlando FL to Warsaw Poland. Reg: SP-LPE (Ex Varig 767)
16 Mar Portland Oregon CRJ of US Air Flight: 3715 Diverted in enroute after a smoke detector warning went off in a rear bathroom nil/53 onboard Bangor Maine to Philadelphia Pa
17 Mar Manchester UK MD80 of SAS Declared a Mayday for a cockpit full of smoke and returned to Manchester nil vectored 24R Manchester for an immediate landing
17 Mar day Talil AirBase Iraq C130 of RAAF A/c returned Talil after cabin filled with heavy smoke at 5000ft on departure climb nil/31 onboard Carrying OZ PM John Howard. He was removed by another a/c 20 mins later.
17 Mar 1045L Samara Intl Russia TU-134A of UTair Flight: RA-65021 Flt P2-471 touched down ~400m short in heavy fog and inverted after losing the port maingear & shedding a wing. 7 dead/ 50 injured / 57 arriving from Surgut with deteriorating visibility of <500m in="">
18 Mar ~0640L West Palm Bch FL A320 of Jet Blue Flight 830 Aircraft turned back about 18 minutes into its flt after losing an engine cowling nil/150 pax + 6 crew Headed JFK. Known problem with A320 cowling latches. Pax boarded 1030 JFK flt

 

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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