Asiana Flight 214 Wreckage Raw Footage

News: Today a boeing 777 from Asiana Airlines crash landed at San Francisco International Airport 2 dead

On July 6, 2013, at 11:26 a.m. PDT (18:26 UTC), a Boeing 777-200ER, registration number HL7742,crashed at San Francisco International Airport upon landing, short of runway 28L's threshold, striking the seawall that projects into San Francisco Bay.One engine and the tail section behind the aft pressure bulkhead became separated from the aircraft.The vertical and both horizontal stabilizers came to rest on the runway before the threshold, while the remainder of the fuselage and wings halted to the left side of the runway. After the aircraft came a rest it is seen that the right engine also came off. Eyewitnesses described a large brief fireball upon the aircraft landing, and a second large explosion minutes after the impact, with a large, dark plume of smoke rising from the fuselage. Evacuation slides were deployed on one side of the plane, and were used to evacuate the passengers.

General aviation: Ohio air show plane crash 22/06/2013

Warning: Some viewers may find this video to be graphic. A wing walker and her pilot died in a fatal plane crash during the Vectren Air Show at the international airport in Dayton, Ohio.


DAYTON, OHIO A plane carrying a wing walker crashed Saturday as she sat on top of the inverted plane at the Dayton Air Show, killing the performer and her pilot, CBS Dayton affiliate WHIO-TV reports.
Terrence Slaybaugh, Dayton's director of aviation, confirmed to WHIO-TV that two people died in the crash.

"Obviously this is a tragedy for what is a very small community," he said.

The identity of the pilot of the plane has not been released.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating along with the Federal Aviation Administration, which was already on scene for the show.

"Right now there is no conclusive answer about why the accident happened," Slaybaugh said. He said the investigation could take months.

The 450 HP Stearman burst into flames when it hit the ground just before 1 p.m. A fire truck was at the crash site within seconds and extinguished the flames.

"All of a sudden I heard screaming and looked up and there was a fireball," Stan Thayer of Wilmington, Ohio, told WHIO-TV.

Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville, Ohio, said he was watching the plane through binoculars.

"I noticed it was upside-down really close to the ground; she was sitting on the bottom of the plane," Warwick told WHIO-TV. "I saw it just go right into the ground and explode."

His wife was getting a drink when the crash happened.

"I came back, and everybody was just in shock," Cara Warwick told the affiliate.

Many spectators were already leaving when show organizers canceled the show for the day at 1:30 p.m.

The show announcer encouraged parents to move children away from the crash scene.

The act was the third of the day at the 39th Vectren Dayton Air Show.*

*taken from youtube description

Historic Jet Plane Crashed and Exploded at Airshow in Madrid, Spain

        A historic jet plane crashed into a hangar and exploded in a fireball at an airshow southwest of Madrid in Spain on Sunday, May 5, 2013. Pilot was reportedly severely injured and later died in Getafe hospital. I’m surprised he was reported “severely injured” rather than fried on the spot. The fireball looks rather unsurvivable, unless he was able to eject at some point and that’s how he survived with mortal injuries.35 year old Ladislao Tejedor Romero was an experienced jet pilot and assistant to Defense Minister Pedro Morenes, a spokesman for Spain’s Defense Ministry said. Cause of the crash is not known. Other than the pilot, no one else was injured, although the pilot’s father who was at the airshow when his son crashed reportedly suffered from an anxiety attack and had to be transferred to hospital. Europa Press agency also reported that several rescue workers suffered from smoke inhalation or burns they sustained during the rescue operation.The airshow at Cuatro Vientos airfield was attended by about 3,000 people. The HA-200 Saeta jet was a built in the 1950s – one of the first jet-propelled planes to be manufactured in Spain, by Hispano Aviacion. It was initially an advanced jet trainer but was later given an attack capability.

Chilling footage of a National Airlines Cargo 747-400 airplane stalling and crashing at Bagram Airfield,Afghanistan

National Airlines Flight 102 was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Bagram Airfield—a military base in Afghanistan—and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai. On 29 April 2013 a Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed shortly after taking off from Bagram, killing all seven crew.Initial reports say that there may have been a cargo shift of the military material inside,such as cars or other heavy stuff.Also there was bad weather approaching the airport around that time that may have played a role.Still it is very soon to draw hasty conclusions.Story developing...

Video Animation on what may have happened inside the plane:

News: Lion Air B737-800 overruns runway at Ngurah Rai International Airport,Bali Indonesia

Lion Air Flight 904 (JT 904, LNI 904) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight on the aircraft PK-LKS, a Boeing 737-8GP operated by Lion Air between Bandung and Denpasar, Indonesia. On 13 April, 2013, at about 3:00pm (07:00 GMT), the aircraft ditched into a shallow coastal sea, some 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) short of the seawall protecting the threshold of Runway 9, while attempting to land at Denpasar. The aircraft’s fuselage broke up in two parts.There were 101 passengers and 7 crew members on board the aircraft. A total of 22 people were injured in the accident,however there were no fatalities.

News: Russian Plane crashes in Ukraine carrying Champions league fans

On February 13th, 2013, a Ukrainian South Airlines Antonov An-24 plane commencing chartered flight YG 8971 crash-landed in Donetsk, Ukraine leading to five confirmed casualties.

Accident

After an Ukrainian internal flight from Odessa to Donetsk the plane overshot the runway as it attempted an emergency landing at Donetsk International Airport.As of 13 February 2013 five passengers were confirmed dead, while the fate of one passenger remains unclear.After touchdown the aircraft had burst into flames, however most occupants were evacuated because they were able to escape from the burning aircraft through a hole in the fuselage left by the crash. Eyewitnesses have stated that the aircraft was attempting to land in dense fog and touched down on soft ground between main runway and taxiway, other observers reported the aircraft touched down short of the runway on soft ground.According to flight documentation on board were 36 passengers and 7 crew members; but there where also several unregistered passengers making the total of people on board 52.All 44 passengers were football fans on their way to the match-up of Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Dortmund.This match opened with a minute of silence in memory of the deceased.The aircraft was built in 1973.

Investigation

Donetsk Region Prosecutor's Officer Volodymyr Vyshynsky is in charge of the inquiry which was opened the day after the crash.On 14 February 2013 investigators considered pilot error, faulty ground support equipment and poor weather conditions as possible causes.The plane's pilot blamed bad weather for the accident; while the plane's operator, South Airlines, stated that the plane was in good condition and the pilot should not have landed in the fog and should have diverted to another airport. One passenger mentioned "engine failure during landing".In the years before this crash, former Soviet republics (like Ukraine) had seen a series of deadly crashes that has tarnished the region's air safety record.Experts blamed them on poor maintenance of aging planes, weak government controls, insufficient pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality among carriers.

An An-24 In Better Days