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during the landing at runway 35. The blockage caused the
diversion for several incoming flights. Exactly what hap-
pened is not clear. Weather at the time was beautiful and the
flight had originated at Zagreb-Pleso Airport, Croatia.
05may18 PT-ZNF KC-390 39000001 dam
The Embraer KC-390 aircraft prototype suffered a runway
excursion during a ground test at Gavião Peixoto Airport,
Brazil. It was performing a ground-level test and the incident
is under investigation and has been reported to the Brazilian
Air Force’s centre on accidents, Cenipa (Center for Research
and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents) of the Força Aérea
Brasileira.
The aircraft was also involved during a loss of control acci-
dent during a test flight on 12 October 2017, but landed safely
at Gavião Peixoto Airport. After this accident the KC-390 took
to the skies again in January 2018.
Here a video of the aftermath of the excursion:
07may18 Ka-52 w/o
A Russian Ka-52 crashed during a routine flight over eastern
regions of the Syrian Arab Republic. Both pilots were killed. A
technical failure seems to be the cause of the crash.
08may18 N99GN PA-34-200 34-7250030 dam
Minor injuries to the two occupants of this Griffith Aviation
Piper Seneca I, and substantial damage to the aircraft itself,
was the result after it impacted airport terrain at Porter
County Regional Airport, Valparaiso (IN). Exactly what hap-
pened is not clear.
09may18 PT-HKY Bell 206B-3 3146 w/o
The Bell 206 JetRanger of Mapa Empreendimentos e Partici-
pações crashed into the sea off the coast of Rio de Janeiro,
under unknown circumstances. The pilot died, three other
occupants were injured.
12may18 helo w/o
After a technical malfunction of an unknown type of military
helicopter (operated by the Afghan National Army), the pilot
had to perform an emergency landing in the Yakhchal area of
Greshk district, Helmand. There were no fatalities. For secu-
rity reasons, the helicopter was destroyed.
12may18 L-382 dam
12may18 P2-PXE B737-8BK 33024 dam
At 16:15 the Accident Investigation Commission (AIC) of Papua
New Guinea was informed that the right wing of a Lynden Air
Cargo Hercules struck the left winglet of a parked Air Niugini
Boeing 737, when the Hercules was turning on the parking
bay at the Jackson Airport freight ramp. According to the
AIC the accident occurred at about 15:20 at the freight ramp,
adjacent to the Air Niugini maintenance hangar. The right
wing of the Hercules overlapped the left wing of the Boeing
737, then struck and significantly damaged the winglet.
12may18 N82857 OH-58C 41172 dam
Former 70-15621 of the United States Army, now operating as
civilian for Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical, received damage to
its tail rotor during crop dusting duties over Somerton (AZ).
13may18 G-KNYS Ce208B 208B1146 dam
A man and a seven-year-old boy have died following a plane
crash in County Offaly, two kilometres north-west of Clonbul-
logue Aerodrome, Ireland. The Parachuting Caravan Leasing
Cessna Grand Caravan was operating for the Irish Parachute
Club when it went down in an area of bog and woodland, near
the Mountlucas wind farm between Edenderry and Daingean.
It took off from Clonbullogue Airfield with sixteen parachut-
ists onboard, all of whom made their jump from the aircraft.
However, witnesses then saw the aircraft crash shortly
afterwards.
13may18 HL7792 A330-323 1001 dam
13may18 TC-JMM A321-231 2916 dam
An Asiana Airlines Airbus A330 and a Turkish Airlines Airbus
A321 suffered substantial damage in a ground accident at
Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport, Turkey. The Airbus
A321 had arrived from Ercan as flight TK969 and turned
towards the gate at Terminal A , stopping about thirty metres
before the intended parking position at the gate. At the same
time the Asiana Airbus had commenced taxiing along taxiway
G to the runway. Flight OZ552 was returning to Seoul, South
Korea. While taxiing past the A321, the right hand wing tip
impacted the vertical stabiliser of TK969, which was knocked
over entirely and the A330’s wing tip sustained serious
damage.
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15may18 N149CD Ce208 w/o
Two occupants were killed when the Buena Suerte Cessna
Caravan impacted terrain and burned on a wooded hillside in
the Tuzantán municipality in Mexico. A photo from the scene
of the accident shows a burned wreck of an aircraft with a
white tail fin, likely of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan. Local
Said to be the last L-100-30 Hercules registered in Libya, L-100-30 5A-DOM crashed on a charter flight near the Sahara oil field. Before the Her-
cules was repainted, it had this colour-scheme, seen during LAVEX 2009. (Tripoli-Mitiga, 5 October 2009, Erik Sleutelberg)
