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Monday, February 4, 2008

Accidents & Incidents

Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks
05 Jan ~1100Z Madrid, Spain A321 of Iberian Flight IB3836 Flight IB3836 safely returned to land at Madrid after the pilots experienced an engine problem soon after take off. nil Madrid to Warsaw
07 Jan ~2000Z Santa Cruz de La Sierra A/P, Bolivia 737-200 of Aerosur Flight: 5L755 Pilots made a safe emergency landing at Viru Viru Intl Airport, after they received indication about a possible fuel leak whilst on approach to land. nil/92 pax/ 8 crew Asuncion to Santa Cruz. Minor damage
08 Jan ~0515Z Rochester New York CRJ of US Airways Express Whilst the empty aircraft was parked at the gate over night, high winds lifted the CRJ which was moved around causing damage to its tail and nosegear nil substantial damage
12 Jan Moscow-Domododevo Intl A/P 2x 747 & 1 x 737 of TransAero All the aircraft sustained minor damage while parked on the ramp. The 747s were struck by a high-loading catering truck while a service ladder was blown over by another aircraft touching the wing of the 737. nil/446 onboard Minor damage. All aircraft were able to get airborne again within 24 hours.
13 Jan 1000L Shannon Ireland 747F of Atlas Cargo jet diverted to Shannon airport amid concerns that there was a fire on board. nil/3 onboard Freighter was en route from Atlanta, Georgia, to Amsterdam, when a warning light indicated a fire on board.
15 Jan 0730L Missoula Montana Dash 8 Q400 of Horizon Air 0700L flight to Seattle returned after failing to pressurize nil/~60 onboard Passengers were transferred to other connecting airline flights
19 Jan 2015Z Dillingham Alaska 737 of Northern Air Cargo Reg: N322DL On landing the aircraft struck runway lights nil/2 crew unknown damage
20 Jan day Huambo Angola SA315B Lama of Angolan Airforce Allo helo crashed & destroyed after a bad landing at the D2-FFK crash-site at around 7000ft elevation. One of a pair. 1 minor injury Sent from Lobito for SAR of downed Beech 200 D2-FFK (crashed on Mbave Mt 19 Jan) - see 28 Jan acc&inc table
22 Jan day Shermetyevo A/PMoscow A320 of Lufthansa A320 landing was delayed for 30 minutes while crew resolved a main system hydraulic failure affecting gear extension nil/109 onboard nil damage
22 Jan Zhengzhou China 757 of Shanghai Airlines Flight FM 9209 Departed on Tuesday from Xi'an but was forced to land one hour later in Zhengzhou en route to Shanghai. A female passenger said some people who touched the cabin wall detected heat. nil/>200 onboard By 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday evening, the passengers were still stranded at Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport. After some foreign passengers contacted their embassies they were informed that another plane would take them to Shanghai.
22 Jan early morn Paris France Total Pole Airship Gusts of up to 110 kilometers (70 miles) per hour blew the giant Total Pole Airship across the Fayence-Tourette aerodrome, where the expedition team had been training, over a road and planted it in the roof of a house, destroying the ship. Wind first blew the airship into a vertical position on its mooring mast, and then ripped the mast out of the ground. nil injuries Airship was to have set off from Paris on March 1, aiming to reach the North Pole on March 25-26 and spend the following month measuring the thickness of the pack ice covering the Arctic Ocean, to provide gauges against which melting due to global warming could be measured. the Scientific Mission: tinyurl.com/2j8sfb the Airship manufacturer: tinyurl.com/2zwozl
23 Jan ~1430L English Channel Beech 58 Baron Reg: N2326Y Enroute from Coventry to Alderney with a ditching between Cherbourg and Alderney. Survivor was found in a life-raft. Aircraft was working Jersey ATC during failure of its 2nd engine. 2 dead, 1 injured/3 onboard An Aurigny aircraft was vectored to follow the aircraft down then circled overhead till the French rescue service's helo arrived. Third man was rescued by a French maritime patrol boat and taken to Cherbourg with mild hypothermia
23 Jan ~0840L Capetown South Africa 737-800 of South African Airways Flight: SA 316 During boarding, the aircraft was hit by a catering truck causing damage to one of its doors. Nil/137 pax onboard Minor damage. Capetown to Johannesburg
23 Jan afternoon Manchester UK 767-300 of First Choice Landed in an emergency (PAN Call) "without nosewheel steering". F/O landed Flt FCA175 Goa to Manchester. nil/255 pax & 1 crew hosptlzd Rumored to have been because of the captain's incapacitation. Rumor has been confirmed (food poisoning)
24 Jan 2200Z Atlanta Georgia Canadair CL-600 of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 4316 Regn: N825AS While loading at the gate, a tug hit the aircraft. nil/32 pax + 2 crew onboard Damage to the aircraft is minor
24 Jan 1605L Benner Township Pennsylvania Dash 8 of US Airways Express Flight 4326 The 4:06 p.m. shuttle from Philadelphia, reported problems lowering its wheels while about 10 to 15 minutes away from landing at University Park Airport nil Plane made a couple of flyovers for ground officials to check/photograph the gear-locks. Return flight to Philadelphia was scrubbed.
24 Jan day Capetown South Africa 737-800 of South African Airways An Air Chefs truck drove into the SAA 737-800 on the apron nil causing extensive damage
24 Jan 1945L Mexico City Mexico 777-200 of Air Mexico Flight: AM001 While taxiing, 777 reg N746AM and 777 reg N774AM hit. The wingtip clash occurred while Flt AM001 was switching takeoff runways. nil Flt 001 (Mexico City to Madrid) returned to Gate 5� of the new Terminal 2
24 Jan Munich Germany Cessna 550 Citation on test flight landed gear up on runway 08R (nose gear jammed) Nil Minor damage (technician onboard for check-flight after maint)
25 Jan 0930L Phnom Penh, Cambodia A300 of Thai Airways International Tires were burst on a fast deep landing at Phnom Penh, Cambodia nil/160 0nboard Among the passengers was Cambodian parliament president Heng Samrin.
25 Jan Point Noire Dem.Rep of the Congo 727-247 of Teebah Airlines (some say Canadian Airways) AN-12BK of French firm Aero Service The electric (?) brakes on an AN-12BK failed as it taxied to the apron at Pointe Noire Airport (PNR). It could not be stopped and ran into an empty parked Boeing 727 (9L-LEF). Both aircraft sustained total write-off damage. 2 x AN12 crew seriously injured 38th AN-12 destroyed since 1/1/2000. Congo's government in 2007 banned the use of Antonovs, which are a widespread means of air transport in central Africa, as passenger planes, but not for cargo flights. tinyurl.com/3dpzj5 & 367ncx
25 Jan 2130Z Malpensa A/P, Milan, Italy 777-300 of Air France Reg: F-GSQO Flight AF680 Enroute to La Reunion ex Paris (Orly), the 773 diverted into Malpensa's runway 35R with an engine problem (GE90's) and pax were evacuated on slides. Both maingear wheels caught fire. nil Last AF 777 IFSD (inflight shutdown) was at Fiumicino Italy (also enroute to La Reunion, Indian Ocean) on 13 Dec. AF997 (a 777) also turned back to JNB after its 25JAN departure.
26 Jan 0935L Borneo Island area, Indonesian Casa NC212-200 of Dirgantara Air Service PK-VSE Aircraft crashed into dense jungle on a Borneo Island after a short flight. Dirgantara was grounded last year by Indonesia's Air Transport Directorate General for failing to meet minimum safety standards, so.... 3 dead/3 onboard .....it's not clear why the aircraft was operating. Planned Tarakan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. to Long Apung airport at Malinau regency. Aircraft was carrying solar panels to an outstation. Weather was not a factor.
26 Jan day Zimbabwe AVEX (Xian) MA60 of Air Zimbabwe Experienced a significant tailstrike on landing in the City of Bulawayo Airport (FVBU). Despite the tail strike, the crew then elected to continue flying the balance of their assigned duties for the day. The aircraft however was badly damaged and required extensive repairs and now its return to operational use remains unclear. nil Pilot attempted to land and flare with flaps 15 (vice 30 per SOP). MA60 is a stretched version of the Xi'an Y7-200A and a close copy of the An-26 cargo plane. The MA60 was first tested in 1993, and given its airworthiness certificate in 1998 by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. imagery: tinyurl.com/2lnhvl
26 Jan ~1300L Moscow Russia 767-300 of Delta Reg: N177DN Loud bang heard aboard Flt DL47 due to a takeoff tailstrike at Sheremetyevo Airport. Aircraft landed back. nil Headed Atlanta Georgia. Damage imagery at tinyurl.com/yq3kna (tailskid and 3 lights damaged)
26 Jan SW Papua (Indonesia's Easternmost Province) 737 of Merpati Nusantara 737 was landing at Merauke airport in southwest Papua when the calf ran across the runway and was hit Nil/141 + One fatted calf dead Boeing suffered damage to its left engine but no one was injured
26 Jan JumboLair runway imagery at: tinyurl.com/2oyj32 $90K 2008 BMW M5. 500hp V10 auto Car traveling at a very high speed down a private airport runway ran off an 85ft embankment and was airborne for >200 feet before smashing into a tree early Saturday, killing all five young men in the vehicle. Jumbolair Estates residential aviation community homesites are set on a 7550' paved & lighted runway just 6 miles from downtown Ocala Florida. 5 dead Probably the most famous of the U.S.'s near 500 fly-in communities. M5 is capable of a 0-60mph in 4.5 seconds, 1/4-mile in 12.7 seconds at 115mph...so on a runway that's 5750ft, and it's safe to say this car could have been traveling at or near the governed speed of 155mph. With a chip overriding the governor, this car is capable of over 200mph.
27 Jan 1340L Washington USA Spokane International (GEG) 737 of SWA Flight SWA485 (from Portland Oregon) Aircraft slid sideways off the snow covered runway 03 end on landing at Spokane International (Geiger Field), taking out some lights. Flights resumed shortly after 5pm Nil/118 pax + 5 crew Half-inch of wet snow on the ground. A pax said that: "one Alaska Air jet did land behind us" immediately after the incident, "and stopped in time to avoid crashing into our plane."
28 Jan 1730L Ft Myers Florida MD80 of American Airlines Aircraft circled in the air for about 20 minutes before landing at Southwest Florida International Airport nil/142 passengers inbound for Ft Myers with a declared emergency at 40 miles for an unspecified warning
28 Jan 0750L Shannon Ireland 767-333 of Air Canada Flt: AC848 Pilot diverted into Shannon on medical grounds after the First Officer began acting irrationally during what is being referred to as a psychiatric episode (i.e. the co-pilot began "acting in a peculiar manner, talking loudly to himself, invoking God's help" and needed to be restrained). 1 ill/149 pax + 8 crew Toronto's Pearson International Airport to London Heathrow. Co-pilot was assessed at the scene before being taken to the Acute Psychiatric Unit at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Ennis. Passengers were accommodated in a local hotel until a new crew arrived at Shannon.

1 Air carrier accidents, or other incidents involving serious failures or fatal injuries, investigated by aviation safety agencies of various nations.

2 DISCLAIMER: Assessments are not intended to assert probable cause or liability, but provide insight pending publication of a final report of investigation.
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