Tag: aviation accident
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Medical Gulfstream G100 Lost at Sea – Coast Guard Calls Off 4,400-Square-Mile Search With No Further Signs of Survivors. All Six Onboard Presumed Dead. R.I.P.
The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for survivors after a medical transport Gulfstream G100 (IAI Astra) crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Massachusetts, with six people aboard. The aircraft was flying from Bermuda to Boston when the FAA alerted the Coast Guard at around 2:00 a.m. Saturday that the aircraft had…
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On This Day In 1996: Aeroperu Flight 603’s Blocked Sensors Due to Adhesive Tapes Triggered False Alarms, Tricking Pilots Into a Deadly Descent Over the Pacific That Killed All 70 Aboard.
On October 2, 1996, Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757-200 registered as N52AW, departed Lima, Peru, for Santiago, Chile, carrying 61 passengers and nine crew members. The aircraft took off at night in poor visibility, unaware of a dangerous maintenance error that would soon turn the flight into a desperate struggle for survival. Shortly after…
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Israeli Actor and Aviation Enthusiast Guy Kapulnik Among Two Killed in California Plane Crash as Mangled Aeronca Champion Is Found in Remote Field
Actor and aviation enthusiast Guy Kapulnik was among two people killed when a light aircraft crashed nose-down in a remote field near Hesperia, California, on September 24. Kapulnik, an Israeli national who had served in the Israel Defense Forces’ elite 669 search and rescue unit, had built a career spanning acting and aviation. He appeared…
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Two Men Identified After Fatal Upstate NY Plane Crash; Pilot and Passenger Killed Following Suspected Mechanical Failure
A small plane crash in the Town of Enfield, New York, has claimed the lives of two men who shared a deep passion for aviation. The victims were identified as 52-year-old David Kornreich, the aircraft’s owner and a physics professor at Cornell University and Ithaca College, and 31-year-old Andrew R. Harrell, a passenger who was…
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Plane Rips Through Driver’s Vehicle During Emergency Landing In Prince George – One Dead, Several Injured
A terrifying emergency landing in Prince George, British Columbia, turned a busy road into a crash scene Thursday afternoon after a twin-engine Beech King Air 200 lost power in one engine and came down on Foothills Boulevard. Jaime Pawliuk was driving to work when he suddenly saw the aircraft heading toward his vehicle. “All of…
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NTSB Reveals Somatogravic Illusion And Pitch-Trim Clues In Fatal Philadelphia Learjet Crash That Killed Eight People
Philly Learjet Crash: NTSB Docket Reveals Possible Role of Spatial Disorientation and Pitch Trim The NTSB has released its docket information on the January 31, 2025 crash of a medevac Learjet 55 in Philadelphia, providing new details about the final seconds of the flight. Eight people ultimately died in the accident — six aboard the…
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On This Day In 2011: First Air Flight 6560 Crashed 1 Mile From The Runway, Killing 12 After An Unstable Approach And Missed Warnings Led To Disaster
On August 20, 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a Boeing 737-210C operating a charter flight from Yellowknife to Resolute Bay in Canada’s Nunavut territory, was approaching its destination when a series of small errors and missed warnings turned an otherwise routine landing into a fatal controlled flight into terrain. The aircraft, registration C-GNWN, carried 15…
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On This Day In 2008: Spanair Flight 5022 Crashed Seconds After Takeoff, Killing 154 – The Three Safety Barriers That Failed Before It Left The Ground
On August 20, 2008, Spanair Flight 5022 was preparing to fly from Madrid-Barajas Airport to Gran Canaria with 166 passengers and six crew members aboard. Seconds after takeoff, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 stalled, rolled, and crashed beside the runway. Of the 172 people on board, 154 died and only 18 survived. It became one of…
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On This Day In 1993: A Fatigued DC-8 Banked Nearly 90 Degrees & Crashed And Destroyed By Fire At Guantánamo Bay – Yet Amazingly, All 3 Crew Members Survived With No Fatalities
On August 18, 1993, American International Airways Flight 808 was approaching the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, when a routine cargo flight turned into a terrifying loss of control. The three experienced crew members survived a crash that destroyed the Douglas DC-8-61, but the investigation uncovered something far more disturbing than a simple…
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Pilot Reached Just 125 Feet Before Tragic Crash Near Saranac Lake That Killed 3 – NTSB Releases Preliminary Findings
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report into the fatal July 13 crash of a Smith Aerostar 601P (N800AA) near Adirondack Regional Airport in Saranac Lake, New York, revealing the aircraft never climbed higher than about 125 feet above the ground before the accident. According to investigators, the twin-engine aircraft had…
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