Jet Aviation Casualties

An emergency landing nearly ended in tragedy last week when an airplane was forced down on a ski slope in the French ski resort Avoriaz, the French news outlet Agence France-Presse reports. During the forced landing, the airplane managed to avoid most of the people on the busy ski hill but hit a Polish skier before coming to a stop. The lady struck by the plane is lucky to be alive after her hand was hit by the plane's propeller.

Indonesia will on Sunday end a search for the bodies of 56 people missing from an AirAsia jet that crashed into the Java Sea in December, a national rescue agency official said.AirAsia flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control during bad weather less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore on December 28. All 162 people on board the Airbus A320 were killed."Some of our ships and personnel have been pulled back already and some remain on standby, but officially the operation will be finished on Sunday," Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the search and rescue agency, told Reuters.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders were recovered two weeks after the crash. Large pieces of the fuselage were also found on the sea floor. A multi-national rescue effort, led by the Indonesian military and often hampered by bad weather and strong currents, recovered 106 bodies, with 56 unaccounted for. Few details of the analysis of the flight recorders have been made public. The National Transportation Safety Committee has revealed that the French first officer was at the controls of the jet just before the accident.

The AirAsia crash was the latest in a string of accidents to hit Indonesia's aviation industry, which is among the fastest-growing in the region, and has stepped up pressure on the government and airlines to improve safety. The final result of the investigation is due in about six months, an investigator said.

(Reuters)

A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Digne and Barcelonnette, aviation officials and police have said. The plane, flight 4U 9525, had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and six crew. No one is expected to have survived. The plane crashed after an eight-minute descent, an official said. It is not clear if it sent a distress signal. French and and German leaders have spoken of their shock. "This is the hour in which we all feel deep sorrow," German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters, adding that she was planning to travel to the crash site. A rescue helicopter has reportedly reached the site of the crash, in a remote mountain area. Gilbert Sauvan, a local council official, told Les Echos newspaper that the plane had "disintegrated". "The largest debris is the size of a car," he said.

Another Airbus A320 crashes early Sunday Morning after skating off runway at Halifax. Non life-threatening injuries, no deaths.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...es-on-runway-at-halifax-airport-10141625.html

A Cessna 414 carrying seven people on their way back from the NCAA Championship crashed in a farm field in central Illinois early Tuesday, killing everyone aboard.

Investigators say the pilot of a twin-turboprop Piper Cheyenne that crashed short of the runway at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Sunday reported smoke in the cockpit minutes before the airplane went down in a wooded area in a south Florida nature preserve.

Asiana narrow-body passenger jet involved in crash-landing. There were believed to be 74 passengers and seven crew members on board Asiana Airlines flight OZ162 when it was reported to have made a tailstrike and skidded off the runway. Japanese media are reporting that the plane spun 180 degrees after impact to be left facing the wrong way on the runway. This occurred at Hiroshima International Airport in Japan.

A Hawker 800 series business jet caught fire on the 8th of April while at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. The aircraft was in the process of being preparing by the crew for takeoff bound for Russia. All six people aboard the aircraft escaped without injuries.

Sad news but still good new out of the outcome...

A Mooney Type S aircraft crashed during the Sun 'n Fun event... while the aircraft was a total loss as it burst into flames when it crashed, the pilot somehow managed to walk away with only minor injuries. Sad to loose the plane but the best outcome is when no lives are loss. No one on the ground was injured or killed so still a good outcome.

Turkish Airbus A320 landing on its belly because of gear failure.

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration TC-JPE performing flight TK-1838 from Milan Malpensa (Italy) to Istanbul (Turkey) with 97 passengers, was on approach to Istanbul Ataturk Airport's runway 05 when the crew declared emergency due to an engine (V2527) inoperative and went around. The crew subsequently reported an unsafe gear indication. The aircraft positioned for an emergency landing on runway 35L, touched down safely, but the right main gear collapsed during roll out causing the aircraft to skid on its right engine and veer right off the runway spinning nearly 180 degrees. The aircraft was evacuated via slides while emergency services started to spray the aircraft. The airline confirmed the aircraft went off the runway during an emergency landing, the 97 passenges have been safely evacuated, there are no injuries. (Av Herald)

Shoreham Airshow Crash in Sussex.

Compilation of aircraft and helicopter crashes.

It appears an EgyptAir Boeing 737-800 has gone missing from radar. The flight operating was MS804 from Paris to Cairo and vanished from radar screens at 37,000 ft. The aircraft was said to have 59 passengers and 10 crew onboard. Just two months ago another jet from the same airline was hijacked and forced to stop in Cyprus.

Okay, so it is actually an Airbus A320 from Egypt Air rather than a Boeing 737-800 as was reported very early on.

A Korean Air Boeing 777-300 had to end its planned flight from Tokyo Haneda to Seoul Gimpo after fire was realized in one of the engines. “The plane was taxiing for take-off when flame was detected from engine No.1,” says Korean Air. “The take-off was immediately cancelled.” All 302 passengers and 18 crew onboard flight KE2708 were evacuated via the aircraft’s emergency inflatable slides.

A Boeing 737 was damaged by a fire in or near the hangar at the Prague Airport yesterday. Information is still sketchy but the aircraft is said to be a 737 operated by Congo-based airline ECAir. The fire took place at the hangar and was extinguished relatively quickly by the airport's fire personnel. If sources are correct, the aircraft is a Boeing 737-700 series registered OO-JJI.