Scramble Magazine – May 2018

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A Korean Air Boeing was on short final to Kansai Airport’s

runway 06L, when the crew initiated a go-around at very

low height. This resulted in the tail of the aircraft contacting

the runway surface during the rotation for the go-around.

The Boeing climbed out, positioned for another approach to

runway 06L and landed without further incident about fifteen

minutes after the go-around. There were no injuries onboard

flight KE733 from Jeju, South Korea, but the aircraft received

minor damage, mainly abrasion of paint from the belly.

10apr18 N6926Z Be58 TH-1437 w/o

All four occupants of the Fort Lauderdale Aircraft Sales Beech

Baron were killed when it was located in mountainous terrain

near El Naranjito, Tucuman, Argentina. It had earlier disap-

peared from radar screens shortly after take-off and SAR

operations were initiated after the ELT (Emergency Locator

Transmitter) activated. Later that same day a SAR helicopter

found some debris.

10apr18 UR- Mi-2 w/o

Another Mi-2 mishap, of an unknown operator, in the

Ukraine, this time near Chernyshovka, Shishatsky district,

Poltava region. Both pilots walked away from this one.

11apr18 RA-24640 Mi-8PS-9 8635 w/o

All six occupants of the Vostok Mi-8 were killed when it

crashed at Khabarovsk, Russia, during a local training flight.

It hit a 300 metres high TV antenna mast in reported reduced

visibility and a 150 metres overcast ceiling. The chopper was

destroyed by fire.

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An IIyushin 76 of the Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Jaza’eriya

(or Algerian Air Force in English) was engaged in a troop

transport from Boufarik to Tindouf, with an intermedi-

ate stop in Béchar, west Algeria, carrying 247 soldiers and

family members and ten crew. Shortly after take-off from

Boufarik AFB, located some 25 kilometres south-west of

Algiers, while climbing to a height of 150 metres, the aircraft

went out of control and crashed in flames in an agricultural

zone located near the airport. The Russian cargo plane was

totally destroyed by impact forces and a post-crash fire.

It was quickly confirmed by the Algerian authorities that

none of the 257 occupants survived the crash, among them

26 members of the Front Polisario. According to first testi-

monies, it appears that the left wing (engine?) was on fire

when control was lost. The aircraft hit the ground, wing first,

and split in half. The aft section of the fuselage stayed partly

intact with the tail section sticking out of the field. Most of

the front of the plane appeared destroyed. The cause of the

mishap is under investigation.

11apr18 N814GV Ce208B 208B-0958 w/o

The Ravn Connect Cessna Grand Caravan, operating a mail

flight on behalf of Hageland Aviation, crashed under unknown

circumstances three miles north of Atqasuk-Burnell Memo-

rial Airport (AK). It was “forced into a steep descent and made

a very hard landing on the frozen tundra, approximately

three miles short of the Atqasuk village runway”, according

to Ravn Alaska. The pilot was not injured and picked up by a

chopper of North Slope.

11apr18 23742 G-4 FVS-G-23742 w/o

The Serbian Air Force lost a SOKO G-4 Super Galeb and one of

its two occupants, when it crashed under unknown circum-

stances near Kovacica. Both pilots ejected from the plane but

one pilot however died from the injuries sustained.

12apr18 546 Mirage 2000-5EG w/o

An Elliniki Polemiki Aeroporia Mirage 2000-5 crashed off

the Skyros coast, a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea,

killing its pilot. At the time it was involved in a Quick Reac-

tion Alert (QRA) flight which was scrambled to intercept

Turkish military aircraft that were too close or entered the

Athens FIR (Flight Information Region) without notification.

These QRA missions are almost daily routine for the EPA as

well as the Turkish air force. Local media reported that the

aircraft returned to its Skyros base (on the northern part of

the island) and crashed during landing.

12apr18 RF-..... Yak-130 w/o

A Russian Air Force Yakovlev Yak-130 crashed in eastern

Russia, 600 kilometres from Moscow. It went down during

a training flight in the city of Borisoglebsk in Voronezh

Region, eastern Russia. Both pilots ejected after noticing a

mid-flight malfunction and landed safely. The plane crashed

in a deserted location and no damage was reported. The jet

belongs to the training base of the Krasnodar Higher Military

Aviation School.

12apr18 RF-...../14 YL Ka-29 w/o

A Kamov Ka-29 of the Russian Navy, which crashed in the

Baltic Sea, was practising take-offs and landings onboard the

large amphibious assault ship Ivan Gren. The Kamov should

be able to operate from amphibious ships like the Ivan Gren

in the future, hence the trials. The mishap took place in the

area of Cape Taran, about six kilometres from shore, and sank

to a depth of ten metres. For the investigation the Kamov will

be salvaged from the sea. Sadly both test pilots were killed in

the accident.

When this Fuerza Aérea de Chile ENAER T-35 Pillán, serial 111, crashed on 29 March 2018 near one of the hangars located at El Bosque Air Base,

it was not only destroyed itself but also took out two fellow air force aircraft; SR-22 235 and PA-28 223. Sadly both occupants of the Pillán did not

survive the impact. (Santiago-El Bosque, 18 March 2010, Wim Sonneveld)
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