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Scramble 467
Additions & Corrections:
27feb16 FAB2808 C-105A S-049 dam
It was deemed to be too costly to recover the C-105 and two
years later it is in the process of being cannibalized.
See Scramble 443.
24oct16 XA-ALA Do328-310 3167 w/o
See Scramble 450.
02nov16 512 F-16C XK-13 dam
See Scramble 451.
30may17 N330BG Do328-310 3184 w/o
See Scramble 458.
New Accidents:
23feb18 C-GIAE Beech B100 BE-8 w/o
The Island Express Air Beech King Air experienced a runway
excursion during an apparent aborted take-off attempt at
Abbotsford International Airport (B.C.). It came to rest in a
snowy raspberry field and sustained substantial damage.
Four of the ten occupants onboard received minor injuries,
while the remaining six were unharmed. Weather may have
been a factor in the incident.
24feb18 RA-22793 Mi-8T 98315099 dam
One out of the five persons onboard got injured after the
KrasAvia Mi-8’s tail rotor collided with an obstacle and the
helicopter fell on its side, during landing at the Arctic Cape,
Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk region.
26feb18 Beech 90? w/o
A twin engined aircraft (Beech 90?) was found between
Indian Church and Hill Bank, Orange Walk District, Belize,
completely burnt out as it was obviously used for the illegal
narcotics trade.
26feb18 PA-31 w/o
Belize is not the place to be for aircraft used in the illegal nar-
cotics business, as they seem to go up in flames after having
performed their duties. This Piper Navajo, the second one
within 24 hours, was found burnt by law enforcement offic-
ers on a public road in the Santa Cruz area, Libertad Village,
Corozal District.
27feb18 N969TB Kodiak 100 100-0173 w/o
Both occupants were killed when the Pegasus of Montana
Quest Kodiak impacted the waters of the St. Johns River near
the Fort Gates Ferry in Cresent City (FL). It was inbound to the
Mount Royal Airport in Welaka (FL).
28feb18 ES-SAN A320-214 1213 w/o
A SmartLynx Airlines Estonia Airbus A320 was practising
touch-and-goes at Tallinn-Lennujaam, when it suffered a
landing gear mishap. It took off at 12:03 hour’s local time as
crew training flight MYX9001 (with two pilots, four trainees
and one inspector onboard), and performed about a dozen
touch and goes, when the aircraft touched down on runway
- It accelerated again for another take-off, lifted off but could
not climb out, touched down again very hard with sparks and
flames visible and became airborne, the transponder obvi-
ously failed upon the hard touch down. The crew declared
an emergency, repositioned for a landing and touched down
on runway 26. That is when a loud bang was heard and the
aircraft veered left off the runway, leaving some parts behind
on the runway and came to a stop.
A video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAgmeQOSp8&t=3s)
of the incident shows what appears to be a tire rolling away
from the aircraft as it came to a stop. Photos from the scene
seem to show that one of the nose landing gear tires is
missing.
We guess the Airbus took the touch and “there goes the nose
wheel” a little too seriously...
01mar18 N77MM Beech B60 P-587 w/o
The Mike & Mayo Partners Duke hit trees and impacted
terrain while trying to make an emergency landing following
an engine failure in Ellis County, near Ferris (TX). The Beech
sustained substantial damage and the sole pilot onboard was
not injured.
01mar18 YV1909 Beech 200 BB-195 dam
A Beech Super King Air of an unknown operator suffered a
runway excursion and undercarriage collapse at Charallave-
Óscar Machado Zuloaga Airport in Venezuela. That is about
all the details that are available.
Dustpan & Brush
Liberty Helicopters lost this AS350B2 N350LH on 11 March 2018 when it suffered a loss of engine power and had to make an auto rotation into
the waters of the East River in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York (NY), near Roosevelt Island. The tour helicopter had floats deployed
before water contact, rolled to the right on contact and shortly afterwards sank. To get out of a sunken helicopter requires special training,
which the pilot received and this saved his live. Unfortunately the passengers normally don’t have that luxury and sadly they paid for that with
their lives... (New York-West 30th Street Heliport (NY), 3 August 2017, Monique Hendriks)
