Archive for Airplane Incidents

Missing plane reported short-circuit

{ June 1, 2009 @ 12:30 pm } · { Airplane Incidents }
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*This does not make a hell of a lot of sense to me.*

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 1 (UPI) — A passenger plane en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro over the Atlantic Monday reported a technical difficulty in the aircraft before disappearing.

The crew of Air France jetliner reported a short-circuit in the plane’s electrical equipment before vanishing over the ocean, Brazil’s Agencia Estado news agency reported Monday.

French officials expressed “real pessimism” Monday about finding an Air France jetliner.

Airport authorities in Paris said the Airbus A330-200 jet with 228 people on board dropped off radar screens somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Rio de Janeiro for Paris.

“We can fear the worst,” said French Transportation Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, adding there was “real pessimism at this hour,” The Daily Telegraph reported.

The airline said the plane sent automatic messages reporting electrical problems in stormy weather before it lost contact, CNN reported.

“I can say without doubt that this is a catastrophe,” Air France Chief Executive Officer Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said during a news conference, adding “the entire Air France company and its staff are very moved and affected by this.”

Other French officials said they had “no hope” for Air France Flight 447, its 216 passengers and 12 crew members.

The Brazilian air force undertook a search-and-rescue operation for the aircraft near the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, CNN reported.

Families of passengers gathered at a crisis center established at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle International Airport, the plane’s destination.

The aircraft was about 190 miles northeast of the Brazilian coastal city of Natal when contact was lost, three hours and 20 minutes after taking off from Rio de Janeiro, officials said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office said he was informed of the situation and ordered relevant government agencies to hunt “for any sign of the plane.”

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/01/Missing-plane-reported-short-circuit/UPI-23951243854793/

Small plane crashes in Louisiana

{ February 28, 2009 @ 10:04 am } · { Airplane Incidents }
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A small plane crashed in the woods of southeastern Louisiana early Saturday, local ambulance officials said.

The plane crashed in a wooded area near the city of Albany in Livingston Parish shortly after 1 a.m. ET, authorities said.

CNN affiliate WRBZ reported the airplane was bound for Marksville.

It was unclear how many people were on the plane and whether there were injuries or fatalities.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/28/louisiana.plane.crash/index.html

Loud Boom Rocks Southern Kentucky

{ February 14, 2009 @ 1:15 am } · { Airplane Incidents, Earth Events/Environment/Space, News }
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*Watch this story…might disappear, or some weird explanation might be brought forth.*

27 NEWSFIRST started receiving phone calls tonight telling us a loud boom, or series of booms were heard this evening in Southern Kentucky.

So we called emergency officals, to find out what is going on.

Brian Reams of the Laurel county EMS tells us they’ve had calls from Jackson to London, about a loud boom.

He says there are no reports of any injuries or damage.

In the last little bit, Reams says he’s been told by the state police in London that according to the FAA, the boom is from falling debris, coming from two satellites that collided in space.

The debris re-entering the atmosphere caused the loud boom, and then burned up before hitting earth.

Reams says it could have covered a 500 mile area.

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/39600267.html

UPDATE…

Okay. First they said there was a damn plane crash…

Now they are saying there is NOT a crash.

I have no idea.

Plane crashes into Clarence Center home

{ February 13, 2009 @ 1:05 am } · { Airplane Incidents, News }
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An aircraft identified by Erie County Executive Chris Collins as a Continental Airlines flight crashed into a house in Clarence Center shortly after 10 o’clock tonight, starting a fire that poured thick smoke throughout the hamlet.

Collins said that there were 50 people aboard the plane and crew members had reported mechanical problems as they approached Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Several injured people were taken from the scene to Erie County Medical Center for treatment.

Television reports said the crash site was 6050 Long St., not far from the Clarence Center Fire Hall on Clarence Center Road. Police said that one man was in the residence at the time of the crash.

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/577959.html

Plane crashes into Hudson River

{ January 15, 2009 @ 4:54 pm } · { Airplane Incidents, News }
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NEW YORK CITY — A US Airways flight headed to Charlotte has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City.

Flight 1549 left from Boston and was headed to Charlotte when it tried to divert to La Guardia Airport in New York City.

The plane landed in the Hudson River.

New York City firefighters are responding to the crash. It was not immediately clear if there were injuries.

Witness Barbara Sambriski, a researcher at The Associated Press, said, “I just thought, ‘Why is it so low?’ And, splash, it hit the water.”

http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-011509-mw-usairways_crash.759d7dc.html

F18 Fighter Jet Crashes into Residential Neighborhood

{ December 8, 2008 @ 4:53 pm } · { Airplane Incidents }
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LA JOLLA — An F-18 military jet has crashed into at least two homes a San Diego neighborhood, exploding into flames. At least two cars are also on fire.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the plane crashed shortly before noon today as it prepared to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The crash occurred two miles from the base.

The plane crashed into the residential neighborhood near Cather Avenue and Huggins Streets in University City, near University of California at San Diego.

Gregor says the pilot ejected and landed safely. There are no reports of any injuries on the ground.

Scott Patterson, an area resident, says he “heard two large booms and then saw smoke”. He also said he could see people running in the area. The fire department is evacuating the area.

The F-18 is a supersonic jet used widely in the Marine Corps and Navy.

Miramar, well known for its role in the movie “Top Gun,” is home to some 10,000 Marines. It was operated by the U.S. Navy until 1996.

http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?F18-Fighter-Jet-Crashes-into-Residential=1&blockID=156056&feedID=1198

Passenger “hijacks” Russian internal flight

{ October 24, 2008 @ 10:36 am } · { Airplane Incidents, News, Religion }
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A passenger aboard a Russian internal flight said the plane had been hijacked and must divert to Vienna, Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a law enforcement source as saying on Friday.

No official confirmation of the report was immediately available.

“At 5.20 p.m. (1320 GMT) one of the passengers on a flight from Adler to Moscow cried ‘Allah Akbar’ and announced that the flight had been hijacked and demanded to change the course from Vnukovo (airport outside Moscow) to Vienna,” Interfax quoted the source as saying.

Adler is a town on Russia’s Black Sea coast in the mainly Muslim north Caucasus.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49N50X20081024

Liberal plane diverted to Montreal

{ September 16, 2008 @ 9:25 pm } · { Airplane Incidents, News }
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*Hmmm…didn’t it happen to Obama recently???*

The Liberal campaign’s airplane was forced to make an unexpected landing in Montreal on Tuesday evening.

The CBC’s Susan Bonner, who was on the plane and is following the Liberal campaign, said the plane’s cabin lights went off shortly after taking off from Sherbrooke, Que.

One of the plane’s two on-board generators apparently lost power, said the CBC’s James Fitz-Morris.

All those aboard the plane will be spending the night in Montreal, he said, as the problem is fixed.

The Boeing 737, owned by Air Inuit, had been scheduled to land in southern Ontario.

Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion was in Sherbrooke to make a health-care announcement, promising a $420-million fund to boost the numbers of doctors and nurses across the country.

He is scheduled to speak at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., at 9:30 a.m. ET Wednesday.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/16/liberal-plane.html

Incident: Air France B744 at Toronto on Aug 24th 2008, navigation and fuel system errors

{ August 26, 2008 @ 10:45 pm } · { Airplane Incidents, News }
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The crew of an Air France Boeing 747-400, registration F-GITF performing flight AF353 from Toronto,ON (Canada) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), declared PAN and requested to return to Toronto due to errors in the navigation and fuel systems. The crew dumped fuel for 40 minutes and landed safely back to Toronto 90 minutes after declaring PAN and 110 minutes after departure.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR353/history/20080824/2107Z/CYYZ/LFPG

Air France jet skids off Montreal runway; no injuries

{ August 26, 2008 @ 10:43 pm } · { Airplane Incidents, News }
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MONTREAL (AFP) — An Air France Boeing 747 arriving from Paris skidded off the runway while landing Tuesday evening at Montreal’s airport, but no one was hurt, Air France and airport personnel said.

The accident took place just before 6:00 pm (2200 GMT), said Stephanie Lepage, a spokeswoman for Montreal-Pierre Eliott Trudeau International Airport.

The plane was carrying 490 passengers and 18 crew, she added.

The plane came to rest with its nose in the grass between two runways, television images showed. Canadian media reported that the plane had a problem with its undercarriage.

“Flight AF 346 … at the start of its landing, ground to a halt with its front undercarriage (ending up) outside the runway,” Air France said in a statement.

“Nobody was injured and the passengers … were able to reach the terminal to transfer later to other flights,” it said, adding that the time of the accident was 5:44 pm (2144 GMT).

Passengers aboard the flight said the plane appeared to have trouble breaking.

“The breaks suddenly came on … We remained calm inside the plane … it was no problem. We could see the front tire had blown out and was resting on the grass,” one passenger told reporters.

“The breaks probably seized up. We waited one hour aboard the plane, but it went by quickly,” said another passenger.

“All’s that left is for us to get the luggage left on the plane,” he added.

Normal air traffic resumed later on the other runways of the airport.

Lepage said the Transportation Safety Board of Canada would investigate the mishap, and Air France also said it would conduct its own probe.

On August 2, 2005, an Air France Airbus A340 arriving from Paris overshot the runway in Toronto during a storm, plunged into a ditch and caught fire.

The 297 passengers and 12 crew members of that flight were evacuated in record time, but ten passengers and two crew members were hurt.

The weather in Montreal Tuesday evening was fair.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gYYgQoXJAkoOkSFYjMuLa80T8bIA

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