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04mar18 UP-MI861 Mi-8MTV-1 w/o
A Mi-8 of Burundaiavia crashed at Marshal Fahim military
Academy, Kabul, Afghanistan, injuring five foreign occupants.
04mar18 9G-ASG B737-322SF 24378 w/o
A Boeing 737-300 of Serve Air suffered a runway excursion
and nose gear collapse after landing on runway 07 at Lubum-
bashi International Airport, D.R. Congo. It was travelling at a
speed of about sixty knots when the aircraft veered off the
left side of the runway. The nose landing gear collapsed and
the aircraft came to rest on the runway shoulder. It received
substantial damage but the crew was unharmed.
05mar18 Mi-8 w/o
A Mi-8 of the Libyan Air Force air ambulance crashed during
a landing manoeuvre at Mitiga International Airport, after it
apparently collided with an electric pole. All occupants could
escape the helicopter safely.
06mar18 RF-92955/52RD An-26 10107 w/o
A Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crashed in Syria, killing
all 33 passengers and six crew members onboard. It hit the
ground some 500 metres from the runway of Hmeimim AFB,
Latakia, and burst into flames. It did not come under fire
before the incident, the Russian military said. It had departed
Kuweires-Rasin El Aboud Airbase on a flight to Hmeimim AFB.
06mar18 PR-EBF PA-34-300T 34-7670218 dam
A Piper Seneca II of the Aviation Escola de Aviacao Civil was
intercepted by a Brazilian Air Force A-29 Super Tucano and
forced to land in a field, near Nova Fernandopolis, São Paulo.
It was conducting an illegal flight and transporting 500kg of
drugs.
07mar18 RF-..... Mi-8 w/o
The Russian armed forces are having a tough couple of days.
First a crash involving an Antonov 26 in Syria, now a Mi-8 of
the Russian Federal Security Service Border Guard. It crashed
in mountainous terrain in Khildekharoi, Itum-Kale District
when the main rotor blades hit the rock while landing, and
approximately 1.5 kilometres off a border guard post in
Chechen Republic, some eight kilometres from the Georgian
border line. At least five of the nine occupants were killed.
07mar18 ....MT BeF90 w/o
A Beechcraft King Air was discovered by the Venezuelan army
at an illegal airstrip at La Gloria, Villa del Rosario, Zulia. The
aircraft was likely used for transporting drugs and was set on
fire after it was deemed surplus to requirements. Although
officials in Venezuela reported the aircraft to be a Beech 300
Super King Air 350, an expert determined that, based on the
photos, the aircraft was a Beech F90.
08mar18 PR-HBB Bell 206B-III 4688 w/o
A JetRanger of Avalon Taxi Aereo crashed in the South Zone of
Joinville, in Santa Catarina, Brazil. It was consumed by post-
impact fire and two occupants onboard were fatally injured,
the third one suffered serious injuries and was rescued. Early
information suggests that the helicopter crashed after it was
stolen from Joinville Airport. According to the civil police,
the helicopter was kidnapped by the survivor, and that the
plan would be part of a prisoner rescue of the Joinville peni-
tentiary. He was on parole, and weapons were found in the
wreckage of the crashed helicopter.
08mar18 N82605 PA-31P 31P-7730010 w/o
All three occupants of the private Piper Pressurized Navajo
perished when it crashed at Laredo International Airport,
during an attempted return to land shortly after take-off,
after the pilot reported smoke coming from an engine. It
came to rest inverted in a grassy area some fifty yards from
commercial buildings adjacent to the airport grounds.
08mar18 XA-TZA A109SP dam
Gasera TOMZA’s Agusta GrandNew is reported to have
crashed on a truck while attempting to take off from an LP
fuel depot, at San Juan Ixhuatepec, Tlalnepantla. All four pas-
sengers were injured while one person on the ground was
injured to a leg.
09mar18 D-ACNT CRJ900LR 15264 dam
Lufthansa Regional flight LH1742, from Munich to Chis-
inau with 29 passengers and four crew, departed Munich’s
runway 26L, climbed to FL390 (39,000ft) and was enroute
about 290nm west of Chisinau when the crew decided to
return to Munich. They descended to FL150 (15,000ft) for the
return and performed a low approach over Munich’s runway
26R, to have the gear inspected from the ground. Ground
observers reported one tyre appeared to be completely off
the left main gear. An aircraft on approach behind the CRJ
reported they could not see anything hanging away from
the aircraft/gear at all. The airport authority reported theThe medic sits casually inside the Air-Glaciers Eurocopter, assisting the pilot in manoeuvring into a tight forrest area. Sadly there was no help
on 24 March 2018 when HB-ZIR crashed near St. Bernhard, Switzerland, in daylight and in reportedly reduced visibility and strong winds. It
was one of two responding to recover people that may have become trapped by an avalanche. The crew of two was not injured. (Lauterbrunnen,
31 July 2014, Michiel van Herten)