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Scramble 467
number three tyre (inboard right hand) had completely gone,
tyre number four (outboard right hand) was good. The air-
craft repositioned for a landing on runway 26L, tower advised
that a ground observer reported the left main gear was also
affected besides the right main gear. The CRJ landed safely
back on runway 26L about 1:45 hours after the decision to
return and became disabled on the runway. Emergency ser-
vices observed another large piece was lost from the left
main gear during roll out resulting in sparks and fire during
the roll out. The aircraft sustained substantial damage to the
underside of the left hand wing.
10mar18 CG803 SA316B AH257 w/o
A Chetak of the Indian Coast Guard crashed near Murud’s
Nandgaon in Raigad district. The four crew members were
rescued and transported to the Naval Hospital INHS Asvini
at Mumbai.
11mar18 TC-TRB CL-604 5494 w/o
A Turkish Challenger 604 of Basaran Holding has reportedly
crashed near Shahr-e Kurd in Iran. The aircraft operated on
a flight from Sharjah back to Istanbul-Atatürk, Turkey, with
three crew members and eight passengers onboard. Flight
tracking data from FlightRadar24 shows the aircraft depart-
ing Sharjah at 13:11z (17:11 local time), and reached its cruis-
ing altitude of 36,000ft 33 minutes later. Around 14:32z the
aircraft climbed to about 37,700ft when it suddenly entered
a pronounced descent until it struck the slope of a mountain
located in the region of Shahr-e-Kord and exploded, killing
all onboard.
11mar18 N350LH AS350B2 7654 w/o
Following a loss of engine power, the Liberty Helicopters
Ecureuil auto rotated to the waters of the East River in Man-
hattan’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 after sank.
Two of the five passengers died at the scene and the other
three were taken to local hospitals where they later died.
The pilot helicopter received minor injuries. To get out of a
sunken helicopter requires special training, which the pilot
received and saved his live. Unfortunately the passengers
normally don’t have that luxury and sadly they paid for that
with their lives...
New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro called it a “great
tragedy”. “We are told the five people were all tied tightly in
harnesses that had to be cut and removed,” he said. “It took
a while for the divers to get these people out. They worked
very quickly, as fast as they could. That’s 50ft of water there,”
he said, adding that “they also had to work against currents
and water temperatures of below 4C.” At 4C cold shock on
immersion is highly likely.
The pilot told investigators that one of the passenger’s bags
may have inadvertently hit the emergency fuel shutoff
button, causing the fatal crash. They had departed Kearny
(NJ) earlier for a tour of the Manhattan skyline, a popular
tour around New York.
These are videos of the crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECa9S80pnh0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ki0j3eye8
12mar18 S2-AGU DHC-8-402 4041 w/o
US-Bangla Airlines flight BS211 from Dhaka-Shahjalal Inter-
national Airport, Bangladesh, crashed on landing at Kath-
mandu-Tribhuvan Airport’s runway 02, Nepal. At the time
of the accident a thunderstorm was passing the airport with
cumulonimbus clouds at 2,500ft. There were 67 passengers
and four crew members onboard, of which at least 49 people
were killed (including all crew members) and 22 survivors
were hospitalized.
Having been cleared to land, the aircraft turned left, tower
radioed “Do not turn towards runway 20, turn right” and
repeated “cleared to land runway 02”. The crew requested
to land on runway 20, so tower cleared the aircraft to land
on runway 20. When tower queried the aircraft whether they
had the runway in sight, the crew responded “negative”.
ATC again queried whether they had runway 02 in sight, to
which the crew replied “affirm”, so again ATC cleared the
flight again to land on runway 02. Sadly it never reached the
runway as the Dash impacted terrain and burst into flames.
All traffic in and out of Kathmandu was stopped and arriv-
ing aircraft were directed into holds, reporting an aircraft
accident.
Ground observers reported the aircraft turned suddenly left,
overflew two aircraft, came very close to the control tower
and went out of sight. A large plume of smoke began to rise
Hawk T1A of the Red Arrows crashed on 20 March as it was travelling from RAF Valley on Anglesey to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire after
completing simulator training. A bird strike is the suspected cause, although the Royal Air Force is still investigating the crash. In the picture,
taken at a base in the south of France when these two Hawks were en route to Malta late September 2014 by Swingwing, XX204 (and XX256) is
still adourned in the standard black Hawk colour scheme instead of the Red Arrows one, as it was part of 208(R)sq at the time.
