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Date:  November 18, 2018      Time: 2300
Location:  Near Mandan, North Dakota
Operator:  Metro Area Ambulance Services
AC Type:  Cessna 441 Conquest II
Reg:  N441CX     cn: 441-0305
Aboard:  3  Fatalities: 3    Ground: 0
Route:  Bismark - Sloulin Field
Details:  The air ambulance en route to pick up a patient, broke-up and crashed into a field. The aircraft climbed to FL140, entered a steep right bank and disappeared from radar. There was no distress call. The pilot, a paramedic and nurse were killed.

Date:  November 9, 2018      Time: 0253
Location:  Georgetown, Guyana
Operator:  Fly Jamaica Airways
AC Type:  Boeing 757-N23
Reg:  N524AT     cn: 30233/895
Aboard:  128  Fatalities: 1    Ground: 0
Route:  Georgetown - Toronto
Details:  After taking off and reaching FL200, the crew reported a hydraulic problem and circled back to Georgetown Airport. The aircraft touched down on runway 06 but went off the runway and came to rest against the airport perimeter fence. Six people were injured. One person died of their injuries several days later.

   
Date:  October 29, 2018      Time: 0631
Location:  Off Jakarta, Indonesia
Operator:  Lion Air       Flight: 610
AC Type:  Boeing 737-MAX 8
Reg:  PK-LQP      cn: 43000/7058
Aboard:  189    Fatalities: 189      Ground: 0
Route:  Jakarta - Pangkal Pinang
Details:  The airliner crashed into the Jakarta Sea, 13 minutes after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. It was on a short 1 hour flight to Pangkal Pinang. After taking off from runway 25L, the aircraft made a climbing left-hand turn after which the crew radioed a request to return too the airport. The aircraft then showed an erratic pattern of flight and began losing altitude until it crashed into the sea, 9 miles off the Jakarta coast. The filight data recorder showed the airspeed indicator malfunctioned on the last four flight of the accident plane.

   
Date:  September 28, 2018      Time: 1010
Location:  Chuuk, Micrones ia-
Operator:  Air Niugini
AC Type:  Boeing 737-8BK
Reg:  P2-PXE       cn: 33024/1688
Aboard:  47     Fatalities: 1    Ground: 0
Route:  Pohnpei - Chuuk
Details:  The aircraft was approaching for a landing at Chuuk/Weno Airport in rain when it landed in a lagoon 500 feet short of the runway. Everyone on board was able to be rescued. One passenger was killed.

   

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                 INCIDENTS

12/6/2018
Southwest Airlines
FIight 278
Oakland - Bubank
Overran runway.

11/30/2018
Frontier Airlines
Flight 260
Las Vegas - Tampa
Separation of engine cowling.

11/29/2018
American Airlines
Flight 63
Paris - Miami
Mechanical problem.

11/24/2018
American Airlines
Flight 172
Boston - Miami
Bird strike.

11/11/2018
Air France
Flight 116
Paris - Shanghi
Smoke in the cabin.

SkyLease Cargo
Flight 4854
Chicago - Halifax
Veered off runway on landing. Four crew hospitalized.

11/6/2018
American Airlines
Flight 5627
Akron - Charlotte
Cracked windshield.

11/4/2018
NorthStar
Nobosibirsk - Hainan Provence China
Cracked windshield.

11/4/2018
Iraqi Airways
Erbil
Struck flock of birds.

10/26/2018
American Airlines
Flight 1555
Las Vegas - Los Angeles
Bird strike.

10/19/2018
Icelandair
Flight 688
Orlando - Reykjavik
Cracked cockpit window.

10/12/2018
Air India
Trichy - Duabi
Landing gear and underside of plane struck airport compund wall while taking off.

10/11/2018
Delta Airlines
Flight 2567
Wichita - Atlanta
Pressurization problem.

10/10/2018
United Airlines
Fort Myers - Newark
Flight2397
Engine failure.

10/4/2018
United Airlines
Flight 839
Los Angeles - Sydney
Low fuel emergency.

10/2/2018
Pegusus Airlines
Flight 1135
Istanbul - Paris
e-cigarette caught fire in the cargo hold and set off alarms.

9/30/2018
Jet Airways
Flight 955
Hyderabad - Indore 
Engine failure.

9/27/2018
Volaris
Flight 423
Guadalajara - Tijuana
Severe turbulence. 45 injured. 12 taken to the hospital.

9/21/2018
Jet Airways
Flight 697
Mumbai - Jaipur
Pilot forgot to pressureize cabin. Five taken to the hospital with bleeding from ears and noses.

9/12/2018
British Airways
London - Calgary
Electrical burning smell in cockpit.


8/25/2018
Ryanair
Flight 1998
Birmingham - Perpignan
Lightening strike.

8/24/2018
American Eagle
Philadelphia - Birmingham
Flight 5078
Pressurization problem.

8/24/2018
United Airlines
Flight 1
San Francisco - Singapore
Bird strike.

8/22/2018
Red Wings
Ufa - Sochi
Engine fire.

8/22/2018
Spriit Airlines
Flight 521
Newark - Fort Lauderdale
Hydraulic problem.


8/7/18
United Airlines
Flight 4697
Washington - Providence
Smoke in the cockpit

8/6/18
Saudi Airlines
Flight 750
Riyadh to Hyderabad
Bird strike.

8/3/18
Czech Airlines
Helsinki - Prague
Smoke in the cabin.

7/31/2018
American Airlines
Flight 89
Shannon - Philadelphia
Smoke in the cabin.