Country western singer, Troy Gentry, of the country music duo Montgomery, was killed when the helicopter he was flying in crashed in New Jersey. The pilot made a distress call to the airport before he crashed near the end of the runway while attempting to land at Flying W Airport.
Date:
July 10, 2017 Time: 1600
Location:
Near Itta Bena, Mississipi
Operator:
USMC
AC Type:
Lockheed KC-130T Hercules
Reg:
1650000
cn: 382-5303
Aboard:
16 Fatalities: 16 Ground: 0
Route:
Cherry Point, NC - El Centro, CA
Details:
While en route, the Marine Corps transport suffered an exlosion and structural failure at 20,000 ft., spiraled down and crashed into a soybean field.
Date:
June 28, 2017 Time: 1015
Location:
Mount Gambier, South Australia
Operator:
Angel Flight
AC Type:
Socata TB1-10 Tobago
Reg:
VH-YTM
cn: 1518
Aboard:
3 Fatalities: 3 Ground: 0
Route:
Suttontown - Adelaide
Details:
The medical flight crashed 3 km south of Mount Gambier Airport in heavy fog. The plane had just taken off and was bound for Adelaide with a patient and her daughter. Angel Flight is used to help people in rural areas access medical treatment.
Date:
June 7, 2017 Time: 1335
Location:
Off Dawei, Myanmar
Operator:
Myanmar Air Force
AC Type:
Shaanxi Y-8F-200W
Reg:
5820
cn: ?
Aboard:
122 Fatalities: 122 Ground: 0
Route:
Myeik - Yangon
Details:
The transport plane carrying military personnel and their familiies, left Myeik for a return trip to Yangon. The aircraft was at FL 180 when contact by air traffic control was lost 29 minutes into the flight. The plane crashed about 20 miles west of Dawei in the Andaman Sea. There were 108 passengers and a crew of 14 aboard.
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8/5/17 American Airlines flight 759 flying from Athens to Philadelphia ran into severe turbulence sending ten people to the hospital.
7/25/17 AirAsia flight 7237 on a flight to Kuala Lumpur was forced back to Perth, Australia after it lost power in its left engine.The plane returned safely.
6/10/17 Actress Jenifer Lawrence's private jet made a safe landing after suffering double engine failure. The plane was headed from Louisville to Buffalo when it lost an engine and declared an emergency. During the emergency landing the second engine failed.
6/3/17 United Airlines flight 1738, on a flight from Chicago to Miami, had to return to O'Hare Airport after it's engine caught fire when it apparently struck a bird.
5/30/17 A Rossair Cessna 441 crashed shortly after takeoff from Renmark, Australia during a training flight. All three crew were killed..
5/1/17 More than two-dozen passengers were injured after an Aeroflot flight encountered severe turbulence Monday on its way from Moscow to Bangkok
4/30/17 A Cuban AN-26 military plane crashed into a hillside Saturday in the western province of Artemisa, killing all eight troops on board.
3/31/17 An American Airlines pilot died after having a medical episode just before landing Wednesday evening at Albuquerque International Sunport. The Albuquerque Journal reports that the captain declared a medical emergency a shortly before landing. First officer William “Mike” Grubbs was pronounced dead. There was no word on a cause of death.
3/29/17 A Peruvian Airlines 737, flight 112, with 141 people aboard, veered off the right side of the runway while landing at Jauja Francisco Airport. The right wing impacted the perimeter fence causing a fuel leak and fire. No one was seriously hurt.
3/20/2017 A South Supreme Airlines plane crashed at Wau Airport in Sudan. All on board survived but many were taken to the hospital.
3/17/17 A Regional Express Airlines Saab340 lost a propeller in flight but landed safely at Sydney Airport in Australia.
3/8/17 A plane carrying the Michigan men's basketball team slid off the runway at Willow Run Airport in Detroit, Michigan. There were no injuries.
2/28/17 American Airlines flight 1296 made unscheduled landing at Denver after encountering severe turbulence..
1/23/17 Endeavor Air flight 4149 from Baltimore to Cincinnati had a fan blade failure during climbout resulting in a total failure of the number 2 engine. The flight returned to Baltimore without incident.
12/31/16 A Sunwing Airlines pilot faces charges after his co-pilot found him slumped over drunk in the cockpit of a plane early Saturday morning as the flight crew prepared to take nearly 100 passengers from Calgary to Cancun, Mexico, Canadian authorities said.
12/29/16 A Cessna 525C Citation corporate jet, registered to Maverick Air and operated by the Superior Beverage Group, went missing shortly after taking off from Cleveland bound for Colombus. Six people are presumed dead.
10/28/16 A Fedex plane caught fire at Lauderdate Hollywood Airport after the landing gear of the DC-10 collapsed. There were no injuries.
10/27/16 A plane carrying republican VP candidate Mike Pence skidded of the runway while landing at La Guardia Airport. No one was injured.
9/23/16 After suffering hydraulic failure and fumes in the cabin, a QantasLink Fokker 100 made an emergency landing at Perth. After chutes were deployed, 102 passengers exited the plane. Two were taken to the hospital for minor injuries.
8/31/16 Twelve people were hospitalized after United Airlines flight 880, bound from Houston to London, ran into severe turbulence. An emergency landing was made in Shannon, Ireland.
8/28/16 Ice Road Truckers star Darrell Ward killed in plane crash in Montana.
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8/27/2016 Southwest Airlines flight 3472, bound from New Orleans to Orlando, was forced to make an emergency landing at Pensacola, after the aircraft lost part of an engine while over the Gulf of Mexico. The plane landed safely with no injuries.
8/24/16 Thompson Airways flight 7352 on a flight from Birmingham to Paphos, Cyprus returned for an emergency landing soon after taking off due to a bird strike and loss of an engine.No one was injured (except the bird).
8/18/16 Qatar flight 240 flying from Istanbul to Doha had to make an emergency landing at Istanbul after a bird strike on one of it's engines. All 312 aboard disimbared normally.
8/11/16 Twenty-four people were taken to the hospital after Jet Blue flight 429 flying from Boston to Sacramento ran into severe turbulence.
6/27/16 Singapore Airlines, fight 368 flying from Changi to Milan, had to return to Singapore for an emergency landing after the crew received an engine oil warning. On landing, the right engine burst into flames. No one was injured.
