This list of accidents and incidents involving general aviation is grouped by the years in which the accidents or incidents occurred. "General aviation" here includes private as well as corporate aircraft operating under general aviation rules,[note A] i.e. not military or scheduled airline flights.
Overall, this is an incomplete listing, but is intended to be a complete listing of those accidents and incidents with Wikipedia articles. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office or the Aviation Safety Network.
- May 13 - A Flanders Monoplane crashed at Brooklands, Surrey, United Kingdom, killing the pilot and his passenger. The accident was investigated by the Royal Aero Club, which issued the first-ever report into an aviation accident and established the science of aviation accident investigation.
- August 2 - Cessna 501, N15NY. Thurman Munson, catcher for the New York Yankees, died in a crash of his personal jet while practicing touch-and-go landings at Akron-Canton Regional Airport.
- August 24 - A Stearman biplane, aircraft registration number N48784,[1][2] flew into electrical transmission lines that cross Lake Natoma at Mississippi Bar.[3][4][5] Jacquelyn Burnett,[6] a passenger in the biplane, was killed. The pilot, Stephen Francis Williams, was convicted of manslaughter.[7] His conviction marked the first time in United States history that a pilot was held criminally responsible for the death of a passenger. Williams had previously killed his own 12-year-old daughter, Patricia Anna Williams,[8] by attempting a takeoff in dense fog at the Salinas Municipal Airport.[9]
- March 5 - at Saint-Forget, France a Socata Rallye MS.892 (registered as F-BLSO) collided midair with a Cessna F150 (registered as F-BSIQ) killing the instructor and student pilot in the latter aircraft. After investigation, the BEA called for obligatory use of transponders in a large zone around Paris.[11]
- July 21 - a South African registered aircraft, carrying 12 passengers and two crew, crashed into Mount Kenya: there were no survivors.[12][13]
- December 17 - Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne suffered a collapsed landing gear and a runway excursion during a freefall flight prior to its space launches.
- 4 January - A Sikorsky S-76 Spirit helicopter crashes into a marshy area near Bayou Penchant, Louisiana. The helicopter operated by Petroleum Helicopters, Inc was flying oil workers to a Shell Petroleum Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico from Gibson, Louisiana resulting in 8 fatalities and 1 passenger rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter.[18]
- February 15 - A Bell 205 Helicopter while flying in dense mist and light rain crashes into Polhuín Hill, Chanco, Cauquenes Province, Chile. The accident occurred when the Bell helicopter owned by Flight Services Helicópteros was ferrying local fire-fighters from a Eucalyptus plantation to a forest fire in the Quirihue Sector of the Eighth Region. The wreckage from the accident was scattered over a large area killing the pilot a former Chilean Airforce officer and 12 fire-fighters from the Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion (CELCO) company.[19]
- February 18 - An Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma Helicopter (G-REDU) flying from the heliport at Aberdeen Airport to a BP ETAP Oil Platform located 120 nautical miles (195 km) east of Aberdeen, Scotland is forced to ditch into the North Sea 500m short of its destination. A major maritime rescue operation for the ditched Super Puma owned by Bond Offshore Helicopters was coordinated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at the Aberdeen HM Coastguard Rescue Centre involving a RAF Sea King from No. 202 Squadron RAF Lossiemouth and a Nimrod from RAF Kinloss.[20] Three of the passengers were rescued by one of a pair of Bond Helicopters involved in the rescue and the remaining 15 passengers successfully rescued by an oil-rig support vessel.[21] A further Super Puma owned by Bond Helicopters is involved in a second North Sea ditching on 1 April 2009.
- 12 March - A Sikorsky S-92A Helicopter (C-GZCH) flying from St. John's International Airport, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to the offshore SeaRose FPSO in the White Rose oil field was forced to ditch in the North Atlantic Ocean, 30 nautical miles (56 km) east-southeast of Newfoundland. The Sikorsky S-92 owned by Cougar Helicopters issued a mayday after experiencing low oil pressure in the main gear-box and requesting emergency clearance to return to St.John's airport. The aircraft ditched in the North Atlantic approximately 10 minutes after issuing the mayday at 7:58 am ET resulting in 17 fatalities and 1 passenger rescued from the crash site.[22]
- March 22 - A Pilatus PC-12 flying in to Bert Mooney Airport outside Butte, Montana from Oroville, California crashed 500 feet (150 m) short of the runway, around 15:27 local time (21:27 GMT), killing fourteen[23] people.[24][25][26][27]
- April 1 - An Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma (G-REDL) flying from the BP Miller Oil Platform located 168 nautical miles (270 km) north-east from Aberdeen, Scotland to the heliport at Aberdeen Airport crashes into the North Sea 11 nautical miles (20 km) east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The Super Puma helicopter owned by Bond Offshore Helicopters made a brief mayday call at 12:54 pm BST and was then seen to crash 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from a supply vessel resulting in the death of 2 crew and 14 passengers.[28] The cause of the accident was the catastrophic failure of the main rotor gearbox, which caused the main rotor to detach and severed the pylon and tail boom.[29]
Note A: ^ General aviation operating rules are U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations 14 CFR Part 91 or the international equivalent.
[edit] References
- ^ Airframe information and photographs of N48784.
- ^ Photograph of N48784 with its original (pre-crash) United States Army Air Corps markings. Lloyd Stearman can be seen climbing into the front cockpit while Robert Cummings converses with Pelham Burnett (Lt. Col., USAF, retired), father of Jacquelyn Burnett (crash victim).
- ^ National Transportation Safety Board report number LAX79FVG71.
- ^ THE STATE-Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Aug 26, 1979.
- ^ Aerial photograph of electrical transmission lines at Mississippi Bar, Lake Natoma, California.
- ^ Burnett, Jacquelyn (February 2, 1962 - August 24, 1979), in California Death Records.
- ^ "Pilot gets jail, fine, in fatal crash". The Orangevale News, August 27, 1980, page 1.
- ^ Williams, Patricia Anna (11/05/1938 - 10/28/1951), in California Death Records.
- ^ "FATAL CRASH". The Orangevale News, August 27, 1980, page 3.
- ^ Kevin Lynch. "Helicopter crash kills Woodridge man: Boaters save pilot, co-pilot in Indiana". Chicago Tribune, July 12, 2002. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "Rapport: Accident survenu le 5 mars 2003 à Saint-Forget (78) à l’avion Socata Rallye MS 892 immatriculé F-BLSO et l’avion Cessna F150 immatriculé F-BSIQ" Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses, October 2010
- ^ Charter aircraft crashes into Kenya's Mount Kenya., Airline Industry Information, 21 July 2003
- ^ Rescue teams resume efforts to recover bodies of those killed in charter aircraft crash, Airline Industry Information, 23 July 2003
- ^ Liz Minchin. "Five killed in skydive plane tragedy". The Age, 3 January 2006. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ "5 die in Angola chopper crash". News24, 18 November 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ Angela Macdonald-Smith (2007). "BHP Suspends Operations in Angola After Fatal Helicopter Crash". Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=af60OwUCJix8. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ^ "Engine fault 'caused Sudan crash'". BBC News, 3 May 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ http://www.wdsu.com/news/18409935/detail.html WDSU.com 8 Killed, 1 Injured In Helicopter Crash - Lone Survivor In Critical Condition
- ^ http://www.santiagotimes.cl/santiagotimes/index.php/2009021615626/news/political-news/helicopter-crash-kills-pilot-and-12-crewmembers-in-chile.html The Santiago Times - Helicopter crash kills pilot and 12 crew members in Chile
- ^ http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/RafAircraftInSuccessfulNorthSeaHelicopterRescue.htm Ministry of Defence News - RAF aircraft in successful North Sea helicopter rescue
- ^ "All rescued as helicopter ditches". BBC News, 18 February 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ "No signals from locator beacons in crashed helicopter: officials". CBC News, March 12, 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "Probe launched into Montana crash". BBC. 2009-03-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7958472.stm. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ^ "'Children die' in US plane crash". BBC News. 2009-03-22-09. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7958383.stm. Retrieved 2009-03-22-09.
- ^ "FAA: 17 killed in Montana plane crash". CNN. 2009-03-22-09. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/03/22/montana.plane.crash/index.html. Retrieved 2009-03-22-09.
- ^ Welch, William M.; Levin, Alan (2009-03-22-09). "Montana plane crash kills 17". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-22-montanacrash_N.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-22-09.
- ^ "FAA: Children among 17 dead in Montana plane crash". Yahoo! News. 2009-03-22-09. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090323/ap_on_re_us/plane_crash_montana. Retrieved 2009-03-22-09.
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7977095.stm BBC Scotland News Channel - helicopter with 16 people on board crashed into the North Sea
- ^ http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/G-REDL%20-%20Initial%20AAIB%20Report.pdf CAA Air Report AAIB Ref: EW/C2009/04/01 Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma, G-REDL
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