Eight dead after small plane crashes in Colombian neighbourhood

21.11.2022/ 10:14 LT

Medellin - Colombia

A Piper PA-31-350 Navajo suffered engine problems shortly after takeoff from Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD) and crashed into a residential area in the Bela Rosales quarter of Medellin and was destroyed by fire. The aircraft, a twin-engine Piper PA-31 (HK-5121), was travelling to the western department of Choco. Seven homes were destroyed and six other buildings damaged. The two pilots and six passengers died. The aircraft conducted a flight for travel agency Grupo San German Express. Among the deceased is Nicolás Jiménez, manager of the San Germán airline.
According to the Flight Plan, the aircraft was scheduled to depart at 09:30 (14:30 UTC), to proceed through the VFR Bolombolo exit and to maintain an altitude of 12,500 ft ASL en route; the estimated time en route was 50 min.
At 10:00 the aircraft was loaded with 233 lbs of cargo and 6 passengers and 2 crew members boarded; the crew started the engines at 10:03 and began taxiing at 10:06 to runway 02.
At 10:13:22, the aircraft started the takeoff run, and a few seconds after the rotation, the co-pilot called ATC:

"MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY HK5121, engine failure".

The Tower controller cleared the aircraft to return and reported wind calm.
Subsequent to this communication, there was no further radio transmission from the crew. Visually, from the control tower, the loss of altitude and subsequent collision of the aircraft with the ground in the urban area was confirmed, followed by a fire that generated smoke.

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Air tanker crash in Italy kills two

27.102022/ early in the afternoon

Mount Calcinera, municipality of Linguaglossa, province of Catania, Sicily, Italy

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A Canadair CL-215/415 ("Canadair 28") crashed while dropping water on a wildfire on the slopes of the volcano Etna near Linguaglossa, Sicily, Italy. Both pilots, Matteo Pozzoli and Roberto Mazzone, were killed.
The air tanker had just released its load, banked sharply to the right, then the Canadair’s right wing impacts the down slope of a mountain, causing the rest of the airframe to collapse, hit the ground and explode.
The registration number of the aircraft was I-DPCN. It was part of a fleet of 19 CL-415s owned by the Dipartimento dei Vigili del Fuoco, del Soccorso Pubblico e della Difesa Civile (Department of firefighters, public rescue and civil defense) but operated by Babcock, the company that provides the Canadair service in Italy as part of an outsourcing contract.
As a side note, Canadair 28 was the second Italian CL-415 to be given the civilian registration I-DPCN. The first one crashed near Brescia on Aug. 16, 2003. At the time, that airframe I-DPCN was coded 9 (“Canadair 9”). The aircraft was damaged beyond repair, while the two pilots survived the incident with wounds (one of them was heavily wounded).

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Seven killed in helicopter crash

in Italy's Monte Cusna

09.06.2022

Mount Cusna, Villa Minozzo (Reggio Emilia) area – Italy

An Agusta A119 Koala (I-ELOP), that took off from Lucca Airfield (LIQL) towards a paper company in Castelminio di Resana (near Treviso Airport TSF/LIPH) with 7 (1 Italian pilot, 4 Turkish and 2 Lebanese citizens) people on board, disappeared from radar screens Thursday morning as it flew over the province of Modena in the Tuscan--Emilian Apennines. Electric storms had been reported in the area at the time.

The two Lebanese were identified in Lebanon as Shadi Kreidi and Tarek Tayah, both executives at INDEVCO, an international manufacturing and industrial consultancy group. The two were said to be on a business trip. Tayah's wife, Hala, was killed two years ago in the massive explosion at Beirut's port, which took the lives of more than 215 people and injured thousands. The seven deceased occupants were found Saturday 11-th June. The helicopter was found on Mount Cusna after being reported by a hiker. The area of the crash is a ravine on Mount Cusna, in the area of Villa Minozzo (Reggio Emilia), at an altitude of about 1,900 meters.

Eight UN peacekeepers killed

in helicopter crash in DRC

29.03.2022/ 12:00 LT
Tshanzu area, SE of Rutshuru - Democratic Republic of Congo

A Pakistan Army Aérospatiale SA 330J Puma, operating for MONUSCO (UN), crashed in the Tshanzu area, SE of Rutshuru.
All eight occupants died and the helicopter was destroyed.

Eight UN peacekeepers – six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb – were killed on Tuesday when a Puma helicopter crashed in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), UN and Pakistani officials said.
Congolese military authorities in North Kivu said the M23 rebel group had “shot down” the aircraft, a claim not confirmed by other sources.

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Cessna plane with 14 people on board crashes in Comoros Islands

26.02.2022/ 12:30 LT
2,5 km (1.6 mls) NW off Mohéli-Bandar es Eslam Airport (NWA) - Comoros

List of passengers

A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX plane, with registration 5H-MZA, crashed into the sea in Comoros with 14 people on board. The aircraft, owned by FLY ZANZIBAR LIMITED and chartered by AB AVIATION of Comoros, was on flight Y61103 between Moroni and Mohéli when it crashed while attempting to land at Mohéli-Bandar es Eslam Airport (NWA), Fomboni, Comoros – on Mohéli Island. AB Aviation announced the disappearance of the plane that took off from Moroni at 5:50 a.m. and disappeared from radar, over the sea, 2.5 km from Mohéli airport. The pilots were citizens of Tanzania, while the passengers were all Comorians. After 24 hours of intense research, only few debris were found floating on water (such a wheel and wing fragments). No trace of the 14 occupants was found. Reports indicate that there have been recent bad weather conditions at sea in the Comoros Islands.
A body was found in the sea near the crash site in March 2023.

It is believed to be one of the passengers on board the crashed aircraft.

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7 dead in tourist plane crash near Peru's Nazca lines

04.02.2022/ 12:10 LT

1 km from Nazca-Maria Reiche Neuman Airport (NZC) - Peru

Final report

Five tourists and two crew died when their plane crashed on a trip to view Peru's famous Nazca lines. The Cessna T207A Turbo Stationair 8 single-engine plane (OB-2179) belonging to the Aero Santos tourism company came down shortly after takeoff from the small airport of Maria Reiche in Nazca around noon. There were no survivors among the seven on board. The tourists were two Chileans and three people from the Netherlands

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PROBABLE CAUSE
Progressive loss of engine power due to malfunction of the combustion system from the start of the takeoff, which significantly compromised the performance of the aircraft in flight, as it could not maintain adequate speed and altitude to return to the airport, resulting in a sudden loss of aerodynamic lift and subsequent impact with the ground.