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Yahoo
21 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Investigators sift through wreckage of small-plane crash that killed 2 in Deer Lake
Transportation officials are combing through the wreckage of a small plane after a two people died near a west Newfoundland airport over the weekend. In a statement released Monday, the RCMP said there were two people on board the aircraft that crashed near the Deer Lake Regional Airport on Saturday evening The pilot, a 54-year-old man, and the lone passenger, a 27-year-old man, were both pronounced dead at the scene. Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigators have been at the scene since Sunday to conduct the field stage of their investigations. TSB investigator Allan Chaulk told CBC his team is analyzing the wreckage and the marks left on the Trans-Canada Highway near the airport. "One of the reasons we look at the ground scars and the position of the aircraft as it came to rest is it tells us a lot about its attitude when it struck the ground." he said. Chaulk expects the field investigation to conclude in the next day or so. Then, he says, the debris will be gathered and shipped for further analysis. "We may retain certain parts of the aircraft, engines, props, whatever we deemed necessary," he said. WATCH | The CBC's Colleen Connors has the latest on a plane crash that killed 2 people in Deer Lake: The investigation into the crash will take time to solve. Chaulk said some of the information behind the crash wouldn't have been lost with the debris. "Certain aircraft instrumentation that may retain what we call non volatile memory. In other words, it won't disappear when the power goes away from the aircraft," he said. "Investigations are seldom solved right here," Chaulk said. Officers responded to reports of a plane crash by the TCH near the airport around 5:35 p.m. on Saturday. In response, the police closed the highway for hours to help get emergency personnel to the site, the RCMP said in a statement Monday. Officers are continuing to secure the site to preserve potential evidence and keep the public safe, the force said. Download our free CBC News app to sign up for push alerts for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador. Sign up for our daily headlines newsletter here. Click here to visit our landing page
Associated Press
2 days ago
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- Associated Press
Small plane carrying 3 people crashes off California coast, search underway
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are searching for three people who were aboard a private twin-engine plane that crashed off the central California coast. Emergency officials responded Saturday night after receiving a lost radar alert and 911 calls from residents, KSBW-TV reported. Witnesses reported hearing an aircraft engine revving and a splash in the water near the coast of Pacific Grove, the station reported. The small plane, a Beech 95-B55 Baron, took off from the San Carlos airport at 10:11 p.m. local time and was last seen at 10:37 p.m. near Monterrey, according to flight tracking data from Several agencies responded to the crash and search effort, including the U.S. Coast Guard and California's Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection. People on shore reported seeing debris wash up from the crashed aircraft. Coast Guard officials estimated the plane crashed about 200 to 300 yards (183 to 274 meters) off shore, the news station reported. The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
CBC
2 days ago
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- CBC
Small, privately registered plane crashes in southern Manitoba: TSB
Canada's Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a small plane crashed in southern Manitoba on Saturday. The federal agency said the accident happened in Dugald, a community around 20 kilometres east of Winnipeg. It involved a privately registered Quad City Challenger II ultralight aircraft. In a news release on Sunday the transportation safety board, responsible for investigating transportation accidents, said it has deployed a team of investigators to gather information and assess the accident. No information has been released at this time on injuries or fatalities. CBC has reached out to Manitoba RCMP for more information.
Arab News
4 days ago
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- Arab News
Investigators find black boxes from crashed Russia plane
MOSCOW: Investigators have recovered flight data recorders from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Russia's far east, killing 48 people, and will send them for analysis, Russian authorities said Friday. The aircraft, an Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was making a second attempt to land in the remote Siberian town of Tynda when it disappeared from radar around 1:00 p.m. local time (0400 GMT) on Thursday. A rescue helicopter later spotted the burning fuselage of the plane on a forested mountain slope about 15 kilometers (nine miles) south of Tynda's airport. Prosecutors have not commented on what may have caused the crash, but a rescuer quoted by the TASS news agency said the twin-propeller plane — almost 50 years old — was attempting to land in thick cloud. Investigators are looking into whether the crash was caused by technical malfunction or human error, the agency reported. 'The flight recorders have been found at the crash site and will be delivered to Moscow for decryption in the near future,' Russia's transport ministry said in a statement. Russian authorities have also launched an investigation into the plane's operator, Angara Airlines, and whether it complied with regulations, it added. 'Based on the findings, a decision will be made on the company's future operations,' the ministry said. Angara Airlines, a small regional carrier based in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, said it was doing 'everything possible to investigate the circumstances of the accident.' The company's CEO, Sergei Salamanov, told Russia's REN TV channel on Thursday that it was the plane's captain — an experienced pilot with 11,000 hours of flight time — who decided to make the flight. 'The weather forecast was unfavorable,' he said. The plane came down in a hard-to-reach area and it took a ground rescue team hours to reach the site. Russia's transport ministry said the families of the 48 killed — six of whom were crew — would receive five million rubles' ($63,000) compensation each. The number killed could have risen to 49 if the Marina Avalyan, who was already sitting on the plane, had not been asked by her daughter to urgently get off and return home, according to a story reported by Argumenty i Fakty newspaper. The daughter wanted Avalyan to look after her newborn baby, as she was taking her second child to a hospital, the daily said. 'I have no words to describe it: is this a miracle? Thank God she returned! My child has saved my mother,' Zimina told Argumenty i Fakty.
New York Times
6 days ago
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- New York Times
Plane in Alaska Crash Was Overloaded With Moose Meat and Antlers, N.T.S.B. Says
A small plane that crashed in rural Alaska in 2023, killing the husband of a congresswoman, was weighed down by too much moose meat and faced drag from a set of antlers mounted on its right wing strut, federal investigators said on Tuesday. The plane, a single-engine Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub, crashed shortly after takeoff in a mountainous area of southwestern Alaska on Sept. 12, 2023. Only the pilot, Eugene Peltola Jr., 57, the husband of former U.S. Representative Mary Peltola of Alaska, was onboard and died in the crash. 'The overweight airplane and the added drag and lateral weight imbalance caused by the antlers on the right wing,' along with downdrafts, 'would likely have resulted in the airplane having insufficient power and/or control authority to maneuver above terrain,' the National Transportation Safety Board said in its report on probable cause findings. There were also turbulent flight conditions in the area of the crash at 8:45 p.m., the time when the plane went down, the report said. Mr. Peltola had taken a group of hunters and equipment days earlier from Holy Cross, a community of about 200 people near the Yukon River, to an airstrip nearly 100 miles northwest in St. Mary's, Alaska, the agency said in its final report on the crash. The group set up camp next to the runway in St. Mary's, the report said. One day before the crash, the group bagged a moose and Mr. Peltola was asked to transport the meat. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
