| Date: | May 11, 2022 |
| Location: | Nanga Eboko, Cameroon |
| Operator: | Caverton Aviation |
| AC Type: | DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 Viking |
| Reg.: | TJ-TIM cn: 934 |
| Aboard: | 11 Fatalities: 11 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Yaounde - Dompta Airstrip |
| Details: | The aircraft, carrying Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) personnel, crashed into a forest. |
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| Date: | March 21, 2022 Time: 0622 |
| Location: | Wuzhou, Guangxi, China |
| Operator: | China Eastern Airlines Flight: MU 5735 |
| AC Type: | Boeing 737-89P WL |
| Reg.: | B-1791 cn: 41474/5453 |
| Aboard: | 132 Fatalities: 132 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Kunming - Guangzhou |
| Details: | Flying at 29,098 feet, the jetliner started descending in a dive until it reached 7,400 feet. It then briefly climbed to 8,600 feet and then it made a steep dive, crashing in a mountainous wooded area. |
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| Date: | February 13, 2022 Time: 1402 |
| Location: | Off Beaufort, North Carolina |
| Operator: | EDP Management Group LLC |
| AC Type: | Pilatus PC-12-47E |
| Reg.: | N79NX cn: 1709 |
| Aboard: | 8 Fatalities: 8 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Engelhard - Beaufort |
| Details: | The private aircraft crashed into the Atlantic ocean, about 4 miles off Drum Inlet, 18 miles northeast of Beaufort . The group was returning from a hunting trip. Four teenagers and four adults were among the dead. |
| Date: | December 27, 2021 Time: 1914 |
| Location: | El Cajon, California |
| Operator: | Med Jet |
| AC Type: | Learjet 35A |
| Reg.: | N880Z cn: 35A-591 |
| Aboard: | 4 Fatalities: 4 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Santa Ana - El Cajon |
| Details: | The air ambulance flight was completing a turn for its final approach to runway 27R at San Diego-Gillespie Field when it crashed into a residential area of El Cajon, San Diego, 2.5 km east of the runway threshold and burst into flames. Prior to the crash, the flight crew requested the runway lights to be turned up, to which the controller replied that "they are at 100% now." All four people aboard were killed. Preliminary indications are the pilot requested a last-minute change to a visual approach on an east-to-west runway. The maneuvers the pilot needed to perform to make such a landing was needlessly complicated and dangerous, requiring a sharp bank while flying low to the ground. |
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