25.12.2019/ 02:13 local time (05:13 UTC) -
19
people injured in helicopter emergency landing in Russia
09.12.2019/
18:13 LT -
Chile:
Military Plane Flying to Antarctica Vanishes, 38 onboard
Seven
dead in small plane crash in Canada
27.11.2019/ 17:05 LT
Kingston, ON - Canada
TSB of CANADA -
AIR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY INVESTIGATION REPORT A19O0178

On 27 November 2019, at 16:01 local time, a
privately registered Piper PA-32-260 aircraft (United
States registration N50DK) departed Toronto/Buttonville
Municipal Airport, Ontario, destined for Québec/Neuville Airport,
Quebec. The pilot and 6 passengers were on board. The aircraft was
operating under visual flight rules and departed during daylight hours.
However, the majority of the planned flight was to take place during the
hours of darkness, as official night began an hour after departure.
During the flight, in response to deteriorating weather, the pilot made
a number of altitude and track deviations. As the aircraft neared
Kingston Airport, Ontario, the pilot made radio contact with NAV
CANADA’s Kingston flight service station, stating his intention to land
there. At 17:05, the aircraft struck terrain approximately 3.5 nautical
miles north of Kingston Airport. All 7 occupants were fatally injured.
The aircraft was destroyed. There was no post-impact fire.
“Five Americans and two Canadians were aboard,” TSB spokeswoman Nora
Vallee told reporters.
The man piloting the plane was Otabek
Oblokulov and that
Oblokulov’s wife and
three kids, aged 16, 10 and 6, were also on the plane
along with his brother-in-law and his
wife. The family of five were apparently visiting Canada
from Texas for the American Thanksgiving. Oblokulov was a Houston
resident and part of the Uzbek community in the Texan city.
A military helicopter dealt with high winds while it searched for the
crash site. The helicopter crew found the wreckage thanks to an
emergency beacon on board the plane. Residents in the area also noted
there was heavy rain and strong winds around the time of the crash.
Findings as to causes and contributing
factors:
1. The pilot departed Toronto/Buttonville Municipal Airport, Ontario,
when the weather conditions for the intended flight were below the
limits required for a night visual flight rules flight.
2. Given the pilot's limited flying experience, it is likely that he did
not recognize the hazards associated with the night visual flight rules
flight into poor weather conditions.
3. While the aircraft was approaching Kingston Airport, the pilot likely
lost visual reference to the surface, became spatially disoriented, and
lost control of the aircraft.
25.11.2019/ 18:35 LT -
Helicopter
collision kills 13 French troops in Mali
24.11.2019/ 09:08 LT -
Dornier 228 crashes in eastern Congo, killing 27 people
24.11.2019 -
New
Russian Su-57 Stealth Fighter Crashes During Tests
10.10.2019/ 16:31 LT -
An-72 plane crashes in Congo with presidential staff on board
04.10.2019/03:43 UTC -
Ukraine Air Alliance flight 4050, an Antonov An-12, crashed on appproach
to Lviv, 5 dead ||
Final report
02.10.2019/ 09:53 LT -
7
dead, 7 injured in crash of World War II bomber at Connecticut’s Bradley
International Airport
Four
bodies recovered from crashed
Indonesia cargo plane
18.09.2019/ 11:00 LT (02:00 UTC)
Indonesia/ Mimika Regency/ Hoeya District/ 10
km (6.3 mls) from Kampung Mamontoga

A Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter cargo plane
(PK-CDC) with four
occupants was reported missing on a flight from Timika
to Ilaga in Papua province, Indonesia.
The plane was operated by Carpediem Aviation on behalf of
Rimbun Air.
The aircraft’s first flight was in 1916.
On 18.09.2019 at 10:36 hours local time
(01:36 UTC) the aircraft took off from Timika with three crew members,
one passenger, and 1.7 tons of rice on board. Last contact was at 10:54
and the estimated time of arrival at Ilaga was 11:09. The aircraft
failed to arrive at Ilaga.
On September 22, SAR teams located debris on
a mountainside at an elevation of 13500 feet, 70 km from Timika and 33
km from Ilaga.
The bodies of four occupants onboard of the
Indonesian cargo plane have been recovered.
"The location was difficult to reach because
of the dangerous terrain, but thankfully we managed to recover the
victims' bodies," Budi Purnomo of the national search and rescue agency
told reporters.
31.08.2019/ 18:53 LT (15:53 UTC) -
Helicopter crash into river outside Moscow kills two
Norway Helicopter Crash Kills
Six
31.08.2019/15:08
UTC (17:08 LT)
Norway/ Finnmark/ near Alta/ Skoddevarre

All six people
on board an Airbus H125 (AS-350B3e)
helicopter (LN-OFU) operated by Helitrans
have died following a
crash outside Alta in northern Norway. Five of the victims lived locally
and were in their 20s. The helicopter company Helitrans A/S flew local
sightseeing flights during the "Høstsprell" local music festival. The
helicopter was destroyed. There was a post-impact fire. Initially,
authorities confirmed four people had died with one person taken by
helicopter to the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) in Tromsø.
Just before 9 p.m, a UNN press officer said the injured person was in a
“critical and unstable” condition. In the early hours of Sunday
(September 1) morning, it was announced the patient had died along with
the other person who had been missing in the hours after the crash.
The Airbus AS-350B was almost new, having
been delivered to Helitrans in June 2019 from Østnes Helicopters, which
represent Airbus in Norway. The helicopter had less than 73 flight
hours. The
AIBN has no indication that the operator of the accident
helicopter, Helitrans AS, has performed work other than visual
inspection in the affected area.
The examinations of the accident helicopter
is still ongoing. The AIBN has, at this stage, not concluded whether, or
not, failure of the connection between the engine and the main gearbox
is a causal factor. In order to obtain a complete understanding of the
accident, the AIBN needs to hold together all information from the
examined components, possible data from the storage unit, accident site
observations, witness observations and testimonies from all parties
involved in manufacture, maintenance and operations of the helicopter.
15.08.2019/ 06:15 LT -
Hero pilot carrying 226 tourists lands in cornfield after plane collided
with flock of birds
Pakistani army plane crashes
into homes, killing 19
30.07.2019/ 02:30 LT
Pakistan/ Rawalpindi, Mora Kalu -
A Pakistan Army Aviation Corps Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i
(766, serial № FL-766) was destroyed when it impacted
residential structures near Mora Kalu (10 km south of Nur Khan AFB) in
the residential area of Rawalpindi in Punjab. The plane was on a routine
training night flight. According to a local rescue spokesman
19 dead bodies
were brought to hospital that included 14 civilians and five crew
members. Among the victims is a family whose eight members, including
four children, were killed.
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7 Confirmed Dead Following
Tour
Helicopter Crash In Hawaii
26.12.2019/ 16:57 LT
Lihue, Kauai, HI, USA
NTSB - Preliminary report
On December 26, 2019, about 1657 Hawaii
standard time, an Airbus AS350 B2 helicopter,
N985SA, was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire
when it collided with terrain about 24 miles northwest of Lihue, Hawaii.
The commercial pilot and six
passengers were fatally injured.
The helicopter was registered to SAF LTD and
operated by Safari Aviation Inc., doing business as Safari Helicopters.
Company flight following procedures were in effect for the visual flight
rules flight, which departed Lihue Airport (PHLI), Lihue, Hawaii at
1631. The accident flight was the pilot's eighth and last scheduled
50-minute aerial tour flight of the day.
On December 27, about 0932, the accident
site was located within the Koke'e State Park. The helicopter impacted
tropical
mountainous terrain on a north facing slope
at an elevation of about 3,003 ft mean sea level (msl) and came to rest
at an elevation of about 2,900 ft msl. All of the helicopter's major
components were located within the debris field, and the wreckage was
largely consumed by a postcrash fire.
A witness located about 1.5 to 1.75 miles up the Nualolo Trail within
the Koke'e State Park near the time of the accident reported
weather conditions of about 20 ft visibility in rain and fog.
He heard what he described as a hovering helicopter followed by a
high-pitched whine. Knowing something was wrong, he attempted to locate
the helicopter but was unable due to the adverse weather conditions and
fading daylight.
The victims were the members of a Swiss household believed to have been
aboard the helicopter. They’re Sylvie
Winteregg, 50; Christophe Winteregg, 49; Alice Winteregg, 13; and Agathe
Winteregg, 10. Two different victims
had been Amy Gannon, 47, and Jocelyn
Gannon, 13. The pilot,
69-year-old Paul Matero
was additionally killed.
Icy conditions during deadly
South Dakota plane crash
30.11.2019/ 12:33 p.m.
near Chamberlain Municipal Airport (9V9),
Brule County, SD -
United States of America
The National Transportation Safety Board
issued its preliminary report Tuesday for its investigation of the Nov.
30, 2019, crash of a Pilatus PC12 (N56KJ) in
Chamberlain, South Dakota, which killed the pilot and eight passengers
and injured three others.
The airplane was registered to Conrad & Bischoff, Inc.,
and operated by the pilot as a personal flight from Chamberlain
Municipal Airport destined for Idaho Falls Regional Airport, Idaho.
Those killed were Jim Hansen Sr.; his
sons, Jim Jr. and Kirk Hansen; Kirk Hansen’s children Stockton and
Logan; Kirk Hansen’s sons-in-law, Kyle Naylor and Tyson Dennert; and Jim
Hansen Jr.’s son Jake and grandson Houston were killed.
Kirk’s son Josh, Jim Jr.’s son Matt and Jim Jr.’s son-in-law,
Thomas Long, survived and were in stable condition Monday.
Family representative Jeff Walbom called the crash a “total tragedy” and
described how their loss rippled through their Idaho community, from
church to their businesses.

According to preliminary data recovered from the
data recorder installed on the airplane, the accident takeoff began from
runway 31 about 12:31 p.m. central standard time. The airplane
immediately rolled about 10 degrees to the left after takeoff. The roll
decreased to about five degrees left as the airplane climbed through
about 170 feet above ground level and then reversed to about five
degrees right. The airplane ultimately entered a 64-degree left bank as
the airplane reached its peak altitude of 460 feet above the ground. The
cockpit stall warning and stick shaker became active about one second
after liftoff and the stick pusher became active about 15 seconds after
liftoff. They continued intermittently for the duration of the flight.
The data recording ended about 12:33 p.m.
No radio communications were received from the pilot, and radar contact
was never established. The recorder also captured cockpit sound.
Weather at the time was recorded as being overcast with clouds at 500
feet, 1/2-mile visibility in moderate snow, with wind from the direction
of 20 degrees at 6 knots. The temperature and dew point were both 1
degree Celsius, and the altimeter setting was 29.30 inches of mercury.
Freezing rain and snow were observed in the vicinity of the airport the
previous afternoon and overnight before the accident flight, which was
operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.
Witnesses reported that the pilot and a passenger worked for
three hours to remove the snow and ice from the airplane before the
accident flight. The witnesses reported that visibility was limited by
snow at the time of the accident.
Another factor that could have contributed to the crash was a
possible load imbalance. The Pilatus PC-12 pilot's information
manual notes the "maximum number of occupants is 9 passengers" plus 1-2
pilot(s). According to the NTSB report, there were 12 people on the
plane.
The accident site was located at 1:57 p.m. approximately three-fourths
of a mile west of the airport in a dormant corn field. The debris path
was approximately 85 feet long and was oriented on a 179-degree heading.
S
Korean helicopter crashed into sea
near disputed islets, 7 killed
31.10.2019/ 23:30 LT
East Sea, near Dokdo Island

The H225 (EC 225LP)
helicopter (registered HL9619) with
seven people aboard
crashed into the sea near Dokdo shortly after takeoff from a helipad
near the lighthouse atop one island. The aircraft departed at 23:26
local time having picked up an injured crab fisherman (a severed thumb).
On board were two pilots, three fire department responders, the patient
and a friend. Divers found the wreckage 600 m offshore at 72 m depth. Five
bodies and some wreckage has been recovered.
17.10.2019/ 17:40 LT -
One dead in Unalaska plane crash
Afghanistan Mi-17 helicopter
crashes in Balkh province, killing 7
15.10.2019/ 5:30p.m (13:00 GMT)
Hairatan area in Mazar, capital of Balkh
province, Afghanistan
An Afghan military Mi-17
crashed on Tuesday evening in the Hairatan area of Balkh province with
seven people on board. The helicopter belonged to the 777 Army Special
Forces and was engaged in a practice flight when it crashed due
to technical issues. All 7
people on board were killed.
The Mi-17 is a medium twin-turbine
multipurpose transport helicopter and is the primary rotary wing
platform operated by the Afghan Air Force. It has a crew of three as
well as door gunners, and can carry up to 36 troops or 12 stretchers or
18 walking patients. Rosboronexport says its range without external fuel
tanks is 675 km (420 miles), its service ceiling is 6,000 m (19,700 ft),
and its maximum payload weight is 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). According to a
January 2018 report by the U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General,
Afghan Mi-17s can carry 24 passengers and have a cargo capacity of 6,620
pounds (3,000 kg).
01.09.2019/ 15:10H (07:10UTC) -
9 bodies retrieved from Calamba
crash site
Seven dead in collision between
helicopter
and small plane in Majorca
25.08.2019/ 13:35 LT
Spain/ Majorca/ Inca
Seven people, including two minors, were
killed on Sunday in a collision between a Bell 206L-3 LongRanger
III helicopter (D-HOTT) and a light plane, Aeroprakt
A-22L Foxbat (EC-GU1), on the Spanish island of Majorca. Five
people were on board the helicopter, two of them minors. Two adult
Spaniards were in the small plane. All the people on board the two
aircraft were killed.
A well-known German family celebrating a
birthday has been identified as the victims of a helicopter crash near
the Spanish island of Majorca, according to reports. Brewery heir
August Inselkammer Jr., 43, and
his wife, Christina, 41,
died while traveling on the chopper with their two children,
Max, 11, and
Sophie, 9, for the dad’s
birthday lunch. The pilot, Cedric Leoni,
and two other passengers
also died in the midair collision over the city of Inca.
The Inselkammer family reportedly was visiting the island with friends
and they planned to take two helicopters to lunch. But when the choppers
arrived, the group decided that some members of the trip would take a
car because one of the choppers was too small. The cause of the accident
in the municipality of Inca was not yet known. Emergency services were
notified of the crash at 1.35pm local time. The aircraft had crashed
into a farm field.
“My solidarity and love for the families of
the victims that lost their lives in this tragic accident,” Spain’s
acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez tweeted.
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