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Scramble 459
21jul17 N3035N PA-44-180 44-7995228 dam
After landing at Green Bay (WI) the Sherwood & Associates
Piper Seminole received damage after the nose gear col-
lapsed. Both persons onboard were uninjured.
21jul17 N...QS Ce750 750-.... dam
NetJets has to do without this Citation X for a little while, as it
sustained quite some damage at Las Vegas-Henderson Airport
(NV) after a mechanic forgot to chock the wheels after having
completed maintenance on the Mickey Mouse-jet (if you look
at the Citation head-on it resembles Mickey Mouse with the
big engines) without setting the parking brake. It went down
a steep embankment and ended with its nose into a chain-
link fence as well as its belly onto rocks next to a taxiway or
parking area. Unfortunately NetJets was quick to tape off the
registration, so for now we do not know the culprit.
22jul17 PK-RSD Ce208B 208B-2361 dam
Three Cessna 208 incidents in as many days! This Cessna
Grand Caravan of Enggang Air Service suffered a runway
excursion at Sinak Airport, Papua, Indonesia. It failed to stop
on the asphalt runway and overran into a gutter, immedi-
ately past the runway end. The nose landing gear collapsed,
causing the propeller blades to strike the ground.
24jul17 5Y-KYF B737-86N 35637 dam
This Boeing 737-800, about to operate Kenya Airways flight
KQ760 to Johannesburg, sustained substantial damage to the
right hand fuselage skin after a push back mishap at Nairobi-
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya. The cabin of a
tow truck struck the right hand side of the fuselage, causing
a large gash. It occurred in the hours of darkness.
24jul17 LV-MCV MU-2B-26A 361SA w/o
All three occupants of the Aibal MU-2 are feared dead after it
was reported missing between San Fernando and Las Lomitas,
Argentina. Witnesses declared they heard two explosions
during the afternoon in the region of the Delta, seventeen kil-
ometres from San Fernando. The sound would have occurred
at the same time of the last cell phone signal was recorded of
one of the occupants. This does not bode well...
24jul17 N605GV Strikemaster Mk80 EEP/JP/3681 w/o
Another classic jet trainer bites the dust! Attack Aviation
Foundation lost this BAC Strikemaster after it impacted
desert terrain shortly after take-off from Henderson Execu-
tive Airport (NV). It was partially consumed by the appar-
ently post-impact fire and the sole pilot onboard was not
injured. This former Royal Saudi Air Force Strikemaster
(serial 1114) was flying around in white/grey colours with a
shark’s mouth on the nose and a bullseye sign just aft of the
wings.
25jul17 8R-GRA BN-2A-26 3006 w/o
Roraima Airways lost a Britten-Norman Islander after it
impacted terrain while on approach to Eteringbang Airport,
Guyana. The pilot sustained fatal injuries. It was engaged in
shuttling fuel for miners between Ekereku and Eteringbang.
It came down in an area of thick vegetation. Although the
reason for the crash is still unknown, sources said before
nose-diving to the ground, the commuter almost flipped.
26jul17 74+.. Tiger UHT w/o
The German Air Force lost a Tiger when it crashed due to a
technical failure, 43 miles north-east of Gao, Mali. Sadly both
pilots perished in the crash. They were based there as part
of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabili-
zation Mission (MINUSMA), or Mission multidimensionnelle
intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation au Mali to use
the French abbreviation.
27jul17 RA-40908 An-2R 1G215-45 dam
An Antonov 2 of Aviation Technical Center Virazh sustained
substantial damage in an accident at the Telegin farm of the
Krasnoarmeysky District in Russia. The aircraft was engaged
in the treatment of a rice field when it came down in an
irrigation canal. The captain of the aircraft was injured, the
other occupant was OK.
Credits: ASN, Aviation Herald, JACDEC, B3A, FAA, Starnieuws
A Pakistan Army Aviation Puma, operating on behalf of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo MONUSCO, crashed on take-off from Kavumu, DRC, on 12 April 2017, which we forgot to mention. It is seen here inflight during an
aerial surveillance mission, carried out by the MONUSCO Force in far-flung areas of DR Congo to ensure the security of the civilian population.
(7 March 2016, MONUSCO/Taimoor)
