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seconds later. The airport reported the aircraft veered right
off the runway and slid for about 300 metres until coming to
a rest on a soccer field and burst into flames. It later added:
“The plane flew past just above the air traffic control tower
during its descent for landing. It touched down the ground
just next to a parked plane and ploughed through a fence
on the east side of the airport, and plunged into the lower
ground.”
The approach to Kathmandu Airport was completed in mar-
ginal weather conditions with thunderstorm activity over
the area. Apparently, the crew encountered difficulties on
final to land on runway 02 or 20 and was eventually cleared
to land on runway 02. The aircraft crashed in a soccer field,
broke into several pieces and was destroyed by a post-crash
fire. It is unclear if the airplane crashed prior to touchdown
or veered off runway after landing.
12mar18 VH-SEV AS355F1 5272 dam
During landing at Sydney-Bankstown (NSW), the pilot of the
Rotor Head AS355 observed a suspected failure of the no. 2
engine and shut it down. After landing, smoke and flames
were seen emitting from the engine cowlings. Post-flight, it
was determined the exhaust ducts had become detached and
the exhaust collector was badly damaged.
14mar18 166683 /AJ-205 F/A-18F F161 w/o
A United States Navy Super Hornet of VFA-213 “Blacklions”,
crashed off the coast of Key West (FL), killing its two crew
members. An eyewitness said the F/A-18F may have exploded
in mid-air. Navy officials said late Thursday, 15 March, that
the aircraft was on final approach to the base from a routine
training mission when the mishap occurred, but couldn’t go
into further detail while undergoing the preliminary stages
of the investigation. The unit is based out of NAS Oceana (VA).
14mar18 6W-HTA Mi-171 w/o
An Armée de L’Air du Senegal (Senegalese Air Force) Mi-171
crashed near Missirah, while enroute from Ziguinchor
to Dakar. Sadly six persons perished and fourteen were
wounded, of which three seriously. It is unclear why the
Russian chopper crashed.
15mar18 YV3284? BeB200 BB-1277? w/o
A Beechcraft 200 Super King Air was found damaged in a field
close to the Belize-Mexican border. The passenger cabin was
stripped and empty. Traces of blood were found in the pilot’s
seat area. One man was arrested after he was seen leaving the
area. The aircraft is suspected to have been used in drug traf-
ficking. Photos of the aircraft showed that it carried the reg-
istration mark YV3224. However, the digits ‘24’ were much
bigger than the previous part of the registration. They were
seemingly applied on top of other digits. YV3224 is on the
Venezuelan register as a Beechcraft B200GT Super King Air.
However, the colour scheme of this aircraft, as photographed
in November 2017, does not match the accident aircraft.
One Beech 200 with a registration starting with ‘YV32’ does
have a similar colour scheme, which is YV3284 (msn BB-1277).
For the moment it is not clear which of the two was involved.
15mar18 HH-60G w/o
A Pave Hawk of the United States Air Force’s 179th Wing,
the Alaska ANG, crashed near Al Qaim in the western Anbar
province of Iraq after it hit an electricity pole. Sadly all seven
onboard did not survive the crash.
15mar18 11130 An-12BP 02348205 dam
An Antonov 12 of Kosmos Airlines suffered a partial failure
of the rear cargo door during take-off from Yakutsk Airport,
Russia. Part of the cargo consisting of gold concentrate
ingots, fell onto the runway and the departure path, up to
26 kilometres from the airport. A total of 172 ingots of gold,
weighing twenty kilograms each, were collected from the
runway. The Antonov was operating a flight to Krasnojarsk
from Chukotka (east Siberia) to Krasnojarsk with a scheduled
fuel stop at Yakutsk.
15mar18 VH-ZGA EC135P2+ 0777 w/o
The Mackay Helicopters Eurocopter, with two flight crew
onboard, was approaching the bulk carrier MV Squireship at
night at 02:49 local time, to pick up a marine pilot when it
impacted the water. Approximately one hour later an injured
commander was rescued from a life raft with minor injuries,
however, the other pilot, who was under training, remained
missing. Seven aircraft and seven vessels were participat-
ing in an extensive search. The Australian Maritime Safety
Authority (AMSA) said initial reports indicated the helicop-
ter inverted almost instantly, but remained on the ocean
surface for approximately half-an-hour before sinking. The
survivor did not see his colleague on the surface. Helicopter
debris, including a rotor blade and cowling, were found in
the search area.
Late on Friday 16 March search operations for the missing
pilot were suspended. The missing pilot is presumed to have
died.
16mar18 N213AV BeC99 U-213 w/o
After touch down on runway 04 at Hastings Airport (NE), the
crew of the Ameriflight Beech 99 encountered stability and
control difficulties. The airplane went out of control, veered
off the runway to the right, lost its nose gear and came to rest
in a grassy area. While both crew members were uninjured,
the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. Flight AMF1696 was
a cargo trip from Omaha (NE) on behalf of UPS.
17mar18 C-FDJA CRJ200ER 7979 dam
An Air Canada Express CRJ, flight AC8032 from Montreal-
Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (Que.) to Phila-
delphia International Airport (PA) and parked at gate 78, was
hit by a service vehicle, causing substantial damage to two
flaps on the right had wing and a fibreglass panel under the
aircraft.
18mar18 MiG-29 w/o
During a ground attack east of the Qalamoun mountains, in
the east of Damascus Province, the Syrian Arab Air Force lost
this Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 after it was shot down by Jaish
Tahrir Sham militants. There is a video on the internet of the
MiG being hit, but it does not show the actual crash, nor if
the pilot ejected.
19mar18 NAF214 DA40NG dam
One of Nigerian Air Force’s Diamond DA40s received substan-
tial damage after it made a crash-landing near Kauran Dawa,
Saminaka, Kaduna state. The pilot and sole person onboard
was not injured.
19mar18 4L-AVK AS350B3 7126 dam
Four passengers and one pilot were injured when the Kazbegi
Helicopters Ecureuil rolled over while landing on snow near
Gudauri, Georgia. The helicopter caught fire and was sub-
stantially damaged.
20mar18 XX204 Hawk T1A 312051/051 w/o
A bird strike is suspected to be the cause of the crash of Red3,
this BAe Hawk of the Red Arrows. It came down while tem-
porarily based at RAF Valley, Anglesey, to practise for the
upcoming show season. The pilot managed to eject safely, but
the engineer (who rode along in the backseat) sadly died...
20mar18 Hawk Mk132 w/o
Not a good day to be a Hawk... First the Red Arrows lost one,
and now the Indian Air Force too!
This one crashed during a training flight out of Kalaikunda
airbase, and came down at Mahuldangiri, Odisha’s Mayurb-
hanj district. The pilot used his ejection seat but was still
slightly injured. Eyewitnesses said that the trainer went up
in flames after it crashed on the banks of Subarnarekha river
and its debris lay scattered at the site.