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02jul17 RA-31024 Ka-32S 6008 dam
The Russian Kamov 32T of Avialift Vladivostok crashed while
attempting to take in water into its bucket, from the Tahtali
reservoir, Izmir Province, Turkey. Out of the five persons
onboard only one received injuries.
02jul17 HR-3602 AS365N3+ w/o
The SAR Dauphin of Basarnas was carrying at least eight
people, including four crew, when it hit a cliff in Temanggung,
Central Java province. So far two unidentified bodies have
already been recovered. The helicopter was on a mission to
oversee the situation in Central Java, where a volcanic crater
erupted at the Dieng Plateau.
02jul17 N796SK CRJ701ER 10300 dam
Skywest Airlines flight OO5869, on behalf of United Express
from Aspen (CO) to Denver (CO), landed on Denver’s runway
34R and was vacating the runway when flames became visible
from the ground from the left hand engine. The CRJ stopped
on taxiway F(oxtrot) near the northern end of F, with the pas-
sengers rapidly disembarking the aircraft via aircraft stairs.
Emergency services sprayed the left hand engine and ground
and quickly extinguished the fire. The final damage is to be
determined by the NTSB.
02jul17 N9103F T-28A 174-459 dam
The vintage T-28 Trojan of Trojan Corp impacted cornfield
terrain in Clay County, near I-94 West weight station, west
of Moorhead Municipal Airport (MN). The airplane sustained
substantial damage and the sole pilot onboard received fatal
injuries.
02jul17 Mi-17 w/o
Once again the Syrian Arab Air Force lost a chopper, this time
a Mi-17. According to reports it was shot down at Deir Ezzor,
near Al Assad hospital, killing all four crew members. It was
dropping food in besieged areas.
02jul17 N238BK BK117B2 7238 dam
Kids Flight 1, an air ambulance helicopter service operated by
Air Methods for the St. Louis Children’s Hospital, experienced
an emergency autorotation and subsequent hard landing in
farmland north-east of Perryville in Perry County (MO). It
came to rest on its side, sustaining substantial damage, and
the five occupants (pilot, three medical crew and a five-year
old patient) survived but were taken to hospital with unde-
termined injuries. During the flight the pilot reported that
when the flight was about five miles north of Perryville, the
chopper “experienced a sharp change in attitude yawing to
the left with a hard-upward bump,” followed by a change in
the engine noise. He observed the N1 gauges (an engine indi-
cation parameter) both indicating below forty per cent and
decreasing. The no. 1 engine low warning light, the no. 1 gen-
erator light, and the battery discharge warning lights were
illuminated. He stated that “Suddenly the aircraft pitched
nose up and rolled to the right. I could hear the rotor begin
to deteriorate.” He entered an autorotation by applying
right forward cyclic and lowering the collective to full down.
During the autorotative descent, he saw power lines and a
ditch which required him to change his flight path to land on
the far side of the ditch. He flared the helicopter about 100ft
and the rotor RPM began to decay rapidly. He attempted to
level the helicopter “as it began to fall through.” The helicop-
ter landed right skid low and the helicopter skidded for about
100ft. The main rotor blades hit the ground as the helicopter
rolled onto its right side. Once the helicopter came to a rest,
he pulled the power levers to the stop position and ordered
an evacuation.
03jul17 N9714B Ce208B 208B0153 w/oShortly after take-off from Alpine-Casparis Municipal Airport
(TX), while on a cargo flight to Midland (TX) on behalf of UPS,
the pilot of this Martinaire Grand Caravan encountered prob-
lems with the engine and elected to return for a safe landing.
Shortly after it struck power cables near Highway 18 and
crashed in a field. The pilot was able to walk away and was
uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
04jul17 Dhruv w/oWhile conducting flood relief operations (transporting pack-
ages from Itanagar to Naharlgar) near Sagalee in Papum Pare
district of Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Air Force Dhruv
went missing, with three crew members onboard.
04jul17 YV2896 G1159A 469 w/o