A Saudi passenger aircraft on a domestic flight made an emergency landing after its assistant pilot fell ill, a newspaper reported.
The Saudia Airlines plane was on route from the capital Riyadh to the northwestern town of Tabuk when the pilot aide had breathing problems.
The pilot decided to land in the northern city of Hail, where his assistant was taken to King Khaled hospital, Aleqtisadiya daily said.
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October 8, 2012
Authorities call off search for a plane crash in Campbell County, Tennessee
Officials in Campbell County have called off the search for a plane crash on Sunday night.
Deputies centralized around the Stanfield Baptist Church during that search. They closed that area after 11:15 on Sunday night.
On Sunday several people reported that a plane crashed in that area.
The FAA confirmed that there were no reports of a crash and are not missing any planes in the Campbell County area.
A spokesperson from the Campbell County Sheriff's Office said it was their duty to take tips on plane crashes seriously.
Deputies centralized around the Stanfield Baptist Church during that search. They closed that area after 11:15 on Sunday night.
On Sunday several people reported that a plane crashed in that area.
The FAA confirmed that there were no reports of a crash and are not missing any planes in the Campbell County area.
A spokesperson from the Campbell County Sheriff's Office said it was their duty to take tips on plane crashes seriously.
Grumman G-44 Widgeon, N139F: Accident occurred October 07, 2012 in Aleknagik, Alaska
NTSB Identification: ANC13FA001
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, October 07, 2012 in Aleknagik, AK
Aircraft: GRUMMAN G-44, registration: N139F
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On October 7, 2012, about 1645 Alaska daylight time, an amphibious Grumman G-44 airplane, N139F, sustained substantial damage when it impacted the surface of Tikchik Lake, about 50 miles north-northeast of Aleknagik, Alaska. The airplane was being operated by Freshwater Adventures, Dillingham, Alaska, as a visual flight rules, VFR positioning flight, under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 91, when the accident occurred. The pilot, the sole occupant, sustained fatal injuries. Marginal visual meteorological (MVFR) conditions prevailed in the area of the accident, and company flight following procedures were in effect. The flight departed Dillingham, about 1600.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on October 10, a local hunting guide who witnessed the accident, along with his client, were waiting for the accident airplane’s arrival for a return trip to Dillingham. He said that when the airplane arrived overhead, it made several passes over the lake and island where they were located. After the third pass overhead, the airplane came into view in front of their location and very low over the water. He said the airplane rolled into a left turn and the left wing float struck the water, and it veered sharply to the left, bounced, then cartwheeled three times. After the accident, the airplane came to rest, partially submerged, with its high-mounted wings level with the surface of the lake. The witnesses were unable to reach the airplane in the icy water, and the airplane subsequently sank about 5 or 10 minutes after the accident. There was no sign of the pilot.
The witness reported that weather conditions at the time of the accident consisted of calm wind, low clouds, light rain, and fog restricted visibility over the lake. He added that the water was glassy at the time of the accident.
On October 9, the wreckage was located on the bottom of the lake in about 40 feet of water.
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Alaska State Troopers are responding to Tikchik Lake after a plane reportedly crashed in the lake Sunday night, with no sign that its pilot survived.
According to a Monday AST dispatch, a hunting guide told Dillingham troopers at about 5:15 p.m. Sunday that the plane had been attempting to land on the lake, about 63 miles north of Dillingham, when it flipped over and sank.
“No one was observed to exit the aircraft while it was sinking,” troopers wrote. “The guide watched the area of the incident and has not observed anyone in the water since the crash.”
Weather conditions, including darkness and fog, have blocked troopers’ efforts to fly to the lake and investigate the crash both Sunday night and Monday.
While troopers have preliminary information regarding the pilot’s identity, it will not be released until troopers can arrive at Tikchik Lake. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have both been notified of the crash.
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14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, October 07, 2012 in Aleknagik, AK
Aircraft: GRUMMAN G-44, registration: N139F
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On October 7, 2012, about 1645 Alaska daylight time, an amphibious Grumman G-44 airplane, N139F, sustained substantial damage when it impacted the surface of Tikchik Lake, about 50 miles north-northeast of Aleknagik, Alaska. The airplane was being operated by Freshwater Adventures, Dillingham, Alaska, as a visual flight rules, VFR positioning flight, under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 91, when the accident occurred. The pilot, the sole occupant, sustained fatal injuries. Marginal visual meteorological (MVFR) conditions prevailed in the area of the accident, and company flight following procedures were in effect. The flight departed Dillingham, about 1600.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge (IIC) on October 10, a local hunting guide who witnessed the accident, along with his client, were waiting for the accident airplane’s arrival for a return trip to Dillingham. He said that when the airplane arrived overhead, it made several passes over the lake and island where they were located. After the third pass overhead, the airplane came into view in front of their location and very low over the water. He said the airplane rolled into a left turn and the left wing float struck the water, and it veered sharply to the left, bounced, then cartwheeled three times. After the accident, the airplane came to rest, partially submerged, with its high-mounted wings level with the surface of the lake. The witnesses were unable to reach the airplane in the icy water, and the airplane subsequently sank about 5 or 10 minutes after the accident. There was no sign of the pilot.
The witness reported that weather conditions at the time of the accident consisted of calm wind, low clouds, light rain, and fog restricted visibility over the lake. He added that the water was glassy at the time of the accident.
On October 9, the wreckage was located on the bottom of the lake in about 40 feet of water.
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 139F Make/Model: G44 Description: G-44 Widgeon (J4F)
Date: 10/07/2012 Time: 1712
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed
LOCATION
City: TIKCHIK LAKE State: AK Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES. TIKCHIK LAKE, AK
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
# Crew: 0 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: ANCHORAGE, AK (AL03) Entry date: 10/09/2012
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Alaska State Troopers are responding to Tikchik Lake after a plane reportedly crashed in the lake Sunday night, with no sign that its pilot survived.
According to a Monday AST dispatch, a hunting guide told Dillingham troopers at about 5:15 p.m. Sunday that the plane had been attempting to land on the lake, about 63 miles north of Dillingham, when it flipped over and sank.
“No one was observed to exit the aircraft while it was sinking,” troopers wrote. “The guide watched the area of the incident and has not observed anyone in the water since the crash.”
Weather conditions, including darkness and fog, have blocked troopers’ efforts to fly to the lake and investigate the crash both Sunday night and Monday.
While troopers have preliminary information regarding the pilot’s identity, it will not be released until troopers can arrive at Tikchik Lake. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration have both been notified of the crash.
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Socata TBM 850, C-FBKK: Port Elgin pilot killed in crash wanted to fly from childhood, brother says
C-FBKK witnessed by Air Canada crew
CADORS 2012O2979
The privately-registered Socata TBM-700 aircraft was on an IFR flight from Ottawa (Carp) Airport (CYRP) to Wiarton Airport (CYVV). NAV CANADA staff reported that the pilot was cleared to FL260, which was read back. The aircraft was observed (on radar) climbing through FL270 and then it commenced a very rapid descent. At approximately 12:18 EDT (1618Z), the flight crew of an Air Canada flight (ACA451) overflying Renfrew/Black Donald Lake waterdrome (CPK8) reported seeing an aircraft enter a steep dive and impact the ground, about 20NM west of Carp, ON. J.R.C.C. Trenton staff dispatched search and rescue helicopters. The pilot, the sole occupant, was fatally injured. The aircraft was destroyed.
Note; pilot filed Carp to Goderich, then changed destination to Wiarton.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA451/history/20121008/1600Z/CYOW/CYYZ Air Canada A320 at 28k
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CFBKK]Flightaware C-FBKK TBM850 at 27k
C-FBKK TSB released photo:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Flightaware shows the dive from 27000' feet:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Police have identified the man who died in the crash of a small plane near Calabogie, Ont. as a 74-year-old man from Port Elgin, Ont.
Ontario Provincial Police said Robert John Reany died at the scene after his plane crashed at about 12:20 p.m. Monday between Calabogie and Griffith, Ont.
Wife of pilot said flying was his dream
Reany's wife, Grace Reany, said her husband was hired to teach the owner how to fly the new plane from France.
Reany said her husband had just dropped off the lawyer in Carp and he was headed back to the airport in Goderich to pick her up and take her to see Ottawa for the first time.
She said he had been flying since the 1960s, and that it was his dream.
"We talked about this kind of thing happening, many times. And we knew that it does happen. And I understand it was pretty quick, for which I am grateful," said Reany.
"But I put him in God's hands when he goes out in the morning every day, and so I know he's there now, safe and sound," she said.
Plane crashed at 'steep' angle
The cause of the crash is not yet known, investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Tuesday in Calabogie.
They are looking for a small panel that could help determine what happened to the plane because it contains all the flight information.
But after early stages in the investigation, the wreckage shows the plane crashed violently, nose-first at a "steep" angle with a "great deal of speed and velocity."
"[The plane] picked up and moved a very large oak tree — about 18 to 19 inches in diameter — about 50 feet from the impact point," said investigator Ewan Tasker, who arrived in Calabogie from Toronto Monday evening.
Tasker also said investigators can only get as close as 500 metres from the crash site, which makes the clean-up of debris difficult. That will start in the coming days.
"The aircraft is heavily destroyed and fragmented into many pieces. The largest of which is probably the engine, the rest of them is smaller than that," Tasker added.
The aircraft will then be reconstructed in an Ottawa laboratory to determine what caused the crash. There are no similar crashes in Canada involving the Socata TBM-850, Tasker added.
Renfrew OPP members also continue to investigate the crash.
William Reany, a pilot himself, said brother Bob had flown across the Atlantic and to Africa and back numerous times, a passion he enjoyed until his final day.
In fact, William said, after watching their father waste away ravaged from cancer, he believes his brother would’ve preferred to have died in a cockpit than a hospital bed.
“I guess he learned to fly sometime in the late ‘60s. It’s something both of us always wanted to do, even as kids,” Reany said. “He learned to fly at first for pleasure, but then he got a commercial licence and he did a bit of that. The last 15 years or more, that’s what he’s done for a living.”
Reany said the plane his brother was flying Monday was new, but that he had flown in similar models often and was comfortable behind the controls.
“He had flown it a considerable amount. He had flown across the Atlantic about three times with a turboprop similar to the one that crashed. He went to Central Africa a few times to retrieve aircraft that were on aerial survey work.”
At 12:15 p.m., police were called to a wooded area between Calabogie and Griffith, about 80 kilometres west of Ottawa, to search for a small plane that went down for an unknown reason.
Goderich Municipal Airport manager Ken Bogie said the plane was leaving the Carp, Ont., airport and heading back to Goderich, Ont., in southwestern Ontario when it crashed 20 minutes into the trip.
Bogie confirmed the pilot was the only occupant.
The plane is owned by Timmins, Ont., lawyer and private pilot Lorenzo Girones.
Reany was giving Girones flying instruction on the newly purchased turbo-prop Monday. Reany dropped him at Carp then began his own flight home for Thanksgiving dinner with his wife of 46 years.
While Girones knows how to fly, he needed to learn the new plane.
Shortly after takeoff, Reany encountered an unknown emergency.
Reany said his brother would’ve likely been trying to manage whatever the problem was as long as possible before the crash.
“He wasn’t one to get easily frightened or frustrated or anything like that. He was calm, cool and collected.”
The likeliest cause of the crash, he suspects, was some sort of engine problem.
“It’s a new plane, so that shouldn’t happen, but depending on the altitude it could’ve ingested a bird. If that happened, it could cause an engine problem pretty quick. Right now, though, we don’t know what altitude he was at.”
In the ‘70s and part of the ‘80s, the brother ran their own business selling and repairing appliances before Bob immersed himself into flying full time.
The aircraft is described as a French-built Socata TBM700, a seven-seater with room for pilot, co-pilot and five passengers. Transport Canada reports that a Socata TBM700 was imported from the United States three weeks ago.
Reany said the aircraft cruises at a speed of more than 300 MPH.
“It has all kinds of navigation equipment and that sort of stuff on board, so it was really outfitted and equipped pretty much like a small airliner would be.”
A search of the U.S. aircraft registry confirmed the plane was exported to Canada from Columbia Aircraft Sales Inc. of Groton, Conn. The plane was new, having been built in June 2012.
The Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
Reany and his wife have no children.
- With files from QMI Agency
An experienced pilot has died after a small plane crashed west of Ottawa near the town of Calabogie Monday afternoon.
Reany was training Girones to fly the Socata TBM700 aircraft.
“Wonderful man…he was an excellent pilot,” Girones, a Timmins, Ont. lawyer, told CTV Northern Ontario’s Kari Vierimaa.
“It’s just a tragedy beyond comprehension.”
The aircraft went down shortly after the noon hour in a wooded area between the towns of Calabogie and Griffith, about a two-hour drive west of Ottawa. CTV Ottawa reported that the plane was destroyed on impact.
Girones said he and Reany flew from Goderich, Ont. to Carp earlier Monday and Raeny decided to fly back and spend Thanksgiving with his family. Reany was supposed to return and pick up Girones for his last day of training Tuesday.
Girones said his instructor was an practiced pilot who had logged 26,000 hours of flight time.
The Socata was a “brand new” aircraft, he said, adding that he doesn’t understand what went wrong.
“He spiralled down from 27,000 feet.”
Officers with the OPP’s Renfrew detachment had to approach the crash site on ATVs. The force’s Emergency Response Team searched the wreckage with local officers, as well as officials from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre.
Jacqueline Allan was with her daughter in the area when the plane went down.
Allan said she heard “a high-pitched whine, kind of like motocross vehicles.”
“It was waxing and waning and then we heard a loud bang,” Allan told CTV Ottawa. “But it was muted, and my daughter thought maybe it was a gunshot.”
Allan said she only learned that a plane had crashed when the owner of a local trailer park told her he had heard reports of a plane going down in the area.
Girones said he’s thankful that he wasn’t aboard the plane when the crash occurred, “but I’m sad that it was (Reany).”
“I’m very concerned about his family and about his wife, with whom he was married for 46 years,” Girones said.
“I’m just sad and my heart goes out to her and his family.”
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/excellent-pilot-killed-in-plane-crash-west-of-ottawa-1.987661#ixzz28lGx6kRY
Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com
They said they were called to the wooded area between Calabogie and Griffith around 12:15 p.m., needing ATVs to get to the scene about three hours off a nearby trail.
C-FBKK TSB released photo:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Flightaware shows the dive from 27000' feet:
http://i845.photobucket.com
CADORS 2012O2979
The privately-registered Socata TBM-700 aircraft was on an IFR flight from Ottawa (Carp) Airport (CYRP) to Wiarton Airport (CYVV). NAV CANADA staff reported that the pilot was cleared to FL260, which was read back. The aircraft was observed (on radar) climbing through FL270 and then it commenced a very rapid descent. At approximately 12:18 EDT (1618Z), the flight crew of an Air Canada flight (ACA451) overflying Renfrew/Black Donald Lake waterdrome (CPK8) reported seeing an aircraft enter a steep dive and impact the ground, about 20NM west of Carp, ON. J.R.C.C. Trenton staff dispatched search and rescue helicopters. The pilot, the sole occupant, was fatally injured. The aircraft was destroyed.
Note; pilot filed Carp to Goderich, then changed destination to Wiarton.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA451/history/20121008/1600Z/CYOW/CYYZ Air Canada A320 at 28k
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CFBKK]Flightaware C-FBKK TBM850 at 27k
Bob Reany, 74, died Monday in the crash of Socata TBM 850 (C-FBKK) - the plane he used as an flight instructor.
(Photo courtesy of the Reany family)
Lorenzo Girones
Registered the Socata TBM 850 just two weeks ago
Video above: Lorenzo Girones and Bob Reany at the controls of C-FBKK on October 06, 2012.
18 knot cross wind landing at Buttonville, Ontario on Saturday, October 6, 2012 in Socata TBM850 (C-FBKK) on runway 33.
18 knot cross wind landing at Buttonville, Ontario on Saturday, October 6, 2012 in Socata TBM850 (C-FBKK) on runway 33.
Looks like Bob is on the left, Lorenzo as co-pilot.
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C-FBKK TSB released photo:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Flightaware shows the dive from 27000' feet:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Police have identified the man who died in the crash of a small plane near Calabogie, Ont. as a 74-year-old man from Port Elgin, Ont.
Ontario Provincial Police said Robert John Reany died at the scene after his plane crashed at about 12:20 p.m. Monday between Calabogie and Griffith, Ont.
Goderich
Municipal Airport confirmed the six-seat Socata TBM-850 was travelling
from the Carp Airport, west of Ottawa, to Goderich, Ont., in
southwestern Ontario.
The airport confirmed the pilot died but said no one else, including the plane's owner, was on board.
A Timmins, Ont., lawyer, Lorenzo Girones, registered the Socata just two weeks ago.
The airport confirmed the pilot died but said no one else, including the plane's owner, was on board.
A Timmins, Ont., lawyer, Lorenzo Girones, registered the Socata just two weeks ago.
Wife of pilot said flying was his dream
Reany's wife, Grace Reany, said her husband was hired to teach the owner how to fly the new plane from France.
Reany said her husband had just dropped off the lawyer in Carp and he was headed back to the airport in Goderich to pick her up and take her to see Ottawa for the first time.
She said he had been flying since the 1960s, and that it was his dream.
"We talked about this kind of thing happening, many times. And we knew that it does happen. And I understand it was pretty quick, for which I am grateful," said Reany.
"But I put him in God's hands when he goes out in the morning every day, and so I know he's there now, safe and sound," she said.
Plane crashed at 'steep' angle
The cause of the crash is not yet known, investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Tuesday in Calabogie.
They are looking for a small panel that could help determine what happened to the plane because it contains all the flight information.
But after early stages in the investigation, the wreckage shows the plane crashed violently, nose-first at a "steep" angle with a "great deal of speed and velocity."
"[The plane] picked up and moved a very large oak tree — about 18 to 19 inches in diameter — about 50 feet from the impact point," said investigator Ewan Tasker, who arrived in Calabogie from Toronto Monday evening.
Tasker also said investigators can only get as close as 500 metres from the crash site, which makes the clean-up of debris difficult. That will start in the coming days.
"The aircraft is heavily destroyed and fragmented into many pieces. The largest of which is probably the engine, the rest of them is smaller than that," Tasker added.
The aircraft will then be reconstructed in an Ottawa laboratory to determine what caused the crash. There are no similar crashes in Canada involving the Socata TBM-850, Tasker added.
Renfrew OPP members also continue to investigate the crash.
The brother of a pilot killed in a plane crash near Calabogie, Ont., Monday said 74-year-old Bob Reany of Port Elgin had always loved flying and had logged thousands of hours in the air.
William Reany, a pilot himself, said brother Bob had flown across the Atlantic and to Africa and back numerous times, a passion he enjoyed until his final day.
In fact, William said, after watching their father waste away ravaged from cancer, he believes his brother would’ve preferred to have died in a cockpit than a hospital bed.
“I guess he learned to fly sometime in the late ‘60s. It’s something both of us always wanted to do, even as kids,” Reany said. “He learned to fly at first for pleasure, but then he got a commercial licence and he did a bit of that. The last 15 years or more, that’s what he’s done for a living.”
Reany said the plane his brother was flying Monday was new, but that he had flown in similar models often and was comfortable behind the controls.
“He had flown it a considerable amount. He had flown across the Atlantic about three times with a turboprop similar to the one that crashed. He went to Central Africa a few times to retrieve aircraft that were on aerial survey work.”
At 12:15 p.m., police were called to a wooded area between Calabogie and Griffith, about 80 kilometres west of Ottawa, to search for a small plane that went down for an unknown reason.
Goderich Municipal Airport manager Ken Bogie said the plane was leaving the Carp, Ont., airport and heading back to Goderich, Ont., in southwestern Ontario when it crashed 20 minutes into the trip.
Bogie confirmed the pilot was the only occupant.
The plane is owned by Timmins, Ont., lawyer and private pilot Lorenzo Girones.
Reany was giving Girones flying instruction on the newly purchased turbo-prop Monday. Reany dropped him at Carp then began his own flight home for Thanksgiving dinner with his wife of 46 years.
While Girones knows how to fly, he needed to learn the new plane.
Shortly after takeoff, Reany encountered an unknown emergency.
Reany said his brother would’ve likely been trying to manage whatever the problem was as long as possible before the crash.
“He wasn’t one to get easily frightened or frustrated or anything like that. He was calm, cool and collected.”
The likeliest cause of the crash, he suspects, was some sort of engine problem.
“It’s a new plane, so that shouldn’t happen, but depending on the altitude it could’ve ingested a bird. If that happened, it could cause an engine problem pretty quick. Right now, though, we don’t know what altitude he was at.”
In the ‘70s and part of the ‘80s, the brother ran their own business selling and repairing appliances before Bob immersed himself into flying full time.
The aircraft is described as a French-built Socata TBM700, a seven-seater with room for pilot, co-pilot and five passengers. Transport Canada reports that a Socata TBM700 was imported from the United States three weeks ago.
Reany said the aircraft cruises at a speed of more than 300 MPH.
“It has all kinds of navigation equipment and that sort of stuff on board, so it was really outfitted and equipped pretty much like a small airliner would be.”
A search of the U.S. aircraft registry confirmed the plane was exported to Canada from Columbia Aircraft Sales Inc. of Groton, Conn. The plane was new, having been built in June 2012.
The Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
Reany and his wife have no children.
- With files from QMI Agency
An experienced pilot has died after a small plane crashed west of Ottawa near the town of Calabogie Monday afternoon.
The plane’s owner, Lorenzo Girones, identified the pilot as Bob Reany
of Port Elgin, Ont., who was well-known in the flight community.
Reany was training Girones to fly the Socata TBM700 aircraft.
“Wonderful man…he was an excellent pilot,” Girones, a Timmins, Ont. lawyer, told CTV Northern Ontario’s Kari Vierimaa.
“It’s just a tragedy beyond comprehension.”
The aircraft went down shortly after the noon hour in a wooded area between the towns of Calabogie and Griffith, about a two-hour drive west of Ottawa. CTV Ottawa reported that the plane was destroyed on impact.
Girones said he and Reany flew from Goderich, Ont. to Carp earlier Monday and Raeny decided to fly back and spend Thanksgiving with his family. Reany was supposed to return and pick up Girones for his last day of training Tuesday.
Girones said his instructor was an practiced pilot who had logged 26,000 hours of flight time.
The Socata was a “brand new” aircraft, he said, adding that he doesn’t understand what went wrong.
“He spiralled down from 27,000 feet.”
Officers with the OPP’s Renfrew detachment had to approach the crash site on ATVs. The force’s Emergency Response Team searched the wreckage with local officers, as well as officials from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre.
Jacqueline Allan was with her daughter in the area when the plane went down.
Allan said she heard “a high-pitched whine, kind of like motocross vehicles.”
“It was waxing and waning and then we heard a loud bang,” Allan told CTV Ottawa. “But it was muted, and my daughter thought maybe it was a gunshot.”
Allan said she only learned that a plane had crashed when the owner of a local trailer park told her he had heard reports of a plane going down in the area.
Girones said he’s thankful that he wasn’t aboard the plane when the crash occurred, “but I’m sad that it was (Reany).”
“I’m very concerned about his family and about his wife, with whom he was married for 46 years,” Girones said.
“I’m just sad and my heart goes out to her and his family.”
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/excellent-pilot-killed-in-plane-crash-west-of-ottawa-1.987661#ixzz28lGx6kRY
‘There was debris scattered all over hell’s half acre’
CALABOGIE
— One person is dead after a small plane crashed into a heavily
forested area just west of Calabogie on Thanksgiving Monday.
The aircraft went down in the cottage community more than an hour’s drive west of Ottawa shortly after noon, Ontario Provincial Police said.
Shawn Popkie, the owner of nearby White Pines Resort on Black Donald Lake, put on his coveralls and went up in his plane to try to find the wreckage.
“As soon as we climbed out over the trees you could see the smoke,” he said. “We flew over the site and everything was on fire down there. There was debris scattered all over hell’s half acre.”
The site was still on fire when he found it on foot some time later, he said.
Greg Veldhuizen, who was staying at the lodge at the time, looked up when he heard the plane as flying close to the ground.
“We saw him through the trees making loops, which he did two or three times,” said Veldhuizen. “Then we didn’t see him and we heard an explosion.”
The plane was almost vertical as it headed toward the trees, he said.
Veldhuizen then went into the forest to find the plane. It had been broken into what he estimated was thousands of pieces, none of them bigger than three feet across.
Officers went into the area on all terrain vehicles shortly after the crash took place. An OPP officer was posted at the entrance to a dirt road area off Centennial Lake Road.
Popkie estimated it was about a kilometre off the road.
The scene was being held until investigators with the federal government’s Transportation Safety Board of Canada could arrive. They had not yet determined the cause of the crash.
The plane that crashed was a Socata TBM700, according to a TSB press release. That model carries about six people and has a propeller at the front, the manufacturer’s website said.
The plane was reportedly en route from the Carp Airport to the Goderich Municipal Airport.
A website that tracks small planes after they take off, Flightaware, noted a similar model of plane took off from the Carp Airport on Monday shortly after noon. It was supposed to arrive in Goderich at around 1:30 p.m., but stopped being on radar just west of Ottawa.
At one point it was flying at 26,000 feet, the website said.
The plane’s pilot was from Port Elgin, Ont., north of Goderich, CTV reported. He was not the owner.
Ontario’s air ambulance service initially sent a helicopter to the scene, but that was later cancelled.
The aircraft went down in the cottage community more than an hour’s drive west of Ottawa shortly after noon, Ontario Provincial Police said.
Shawn Popkie, the owner of nearby White Pines Resort on Black Donald Lake, put on his coveralls and went up in his plane to try to find the wreckage.
“As soon as we climbed out over the trees you could see the smoke,” he said. “We flew over the site and everything was on fire down there. There was debris scattered all over hell’s half acre.”
The site was still on fire when he found it on foot some time later, he said.
Greg Veldhuizen, who was staying at the lodge at the time, looked up when he heard the plane as flying close to the ground.
“We saw him through the trees making loops, which he did two or three times,” said Veldhuizen. “Then we didn’t see him and we heard an explosion.”
The plane was almost vertical as it headed toward the trees, he said.
Veldhuizen then went into the forest to find the plane. It had been broken into what he estimated was thousands of pieces, none of them bigger than three feet across.
Officers went into the area on all terrain vehicles shortly after the crash took place. An OPP officer was posted at the entrance to a dirt road area off Centennial Lake Road.
Popkie estimated it was about a kilometre off the road.
The scene was being held until investigators with the federal government’s Transportation Safety Board of Canada could arrive. They had not yet determined the cause of the crash.
The plane that crashed was a Socata TBM700, according to a TSB press release. That model carries about six people and has a propeller at the front, the manufacturer’s website said.
The plane was reportedly en route from the Carp Airport to the Goderich Municipal Airport.
A website that tracks small planes after they take off, Flightaware, noted a similar model of plane took off from the Carp Airport on Monday shortly after noon. It was supposed to arrive in Goderich at around 1:30 p.m., but stopped being on radar just west of Ottawa.
At one point it was flying at 26,000 feet, the website said.
The plane’s pilot was from Port Elgin, Ont., north of Goderich, CTV reported. He was not the owner.
Ontario’s air ambulance service initially sent a helicopter to the scene, but that was later cancelled.
Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com
A veteran Ontario pilot was killed when his plane plunged into a wooded area near Calabogie Monday, according to the aircraft's owner.
Ontario police said they were called to the area between Calabogie and Griffith around 12:15 p.m., needing ATVs to get to the scene about three minutes off a nearby trail.
CTV Ottawa's Katie Griffin says a witness told her a plane seemed to be doing aerobatics before she saw an explosion.
"We heard kind of a high-pitched whine, like a motocross vehicle . . .
it was waning and waxing and we heard a loud bang," said Jacqueline
Allan.
Others said they could feel the impact when it hit the ground, rushing to the scene to see it sitting "in a thousand pieces."
Lorenzo Girones, a lawyer in Timmins, said he and 74-year-old Bob Raeny flew from Goderich, Ont. to Carp earlier Monday.
Raeny then left alone to have Thanksgiving dinner with his family in southwestern Ontario before something went wrong.
Ken Bogie of the Goderich arport said the plane was scheduled to land
there around 1:30 p.m. and crashed about 20 minutes after takeoff from
Carp.
CTV Ottawa's Stefan Keyes visited the Carp airport and said it was a six-seater, single-engine Socata.
It was bought Sept. 18 and registered two days later, making its way from Timmins to Goderich, Ont.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team to inspect the scene, about a two hour drive west of downtown Ottawa.
One person is dead after a small plane crashed near Calabogie, Ont., about 120 kilometres west of Ottawa.
The crash happened Monday at about 12:20 p.m. ET between Calabogie and Griffith, Ont., said Ontario Provincial Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kristine Rae.
The crash happened Monday at about 12:20 p.m. ET between Calabogie and Griffith, Ont., said Ontario Provincial Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kristine Rae.
Goderich
Municipal Airport confirmed the six-seat Socata TBM-850 was travelling
from the Carp Airport, west of Ottawa, to Goderich, Ont., in
southwestern Ontario.
The airport confirmed the pilot died. It is not known if the pilot was the plane's owner, who is a lawyer from Goderich who had just bought the plane brand new.
The plane was scheduled to leave Carp at 12:07 p.m. ET and arrive in Goderich at about 1:30 p.m. ET. The plane was on the first leg of a round-trip flight, with three people aboard.
Police confirmed one person had been killed.
ORNGE air ambulance service was asked to send a helicopter from Toronto, but that request was cancelled at about 2:30 p.m. while the helicopter was in the air close to Calabogie.
The airport confirmed the pilot died. It is not known if the pilot was the plane's owner, who is a lawyer from Goderich who had just bought the plane brand new.
The plane was scheduled to leave Carp at 12:07 p.m. ET and arrive in Goderich at about 1:30 p.m. ET. The plane was on the first leg of a round-trip flight, with three people aboard.
Police confirmed one person had been killed.
ORNGE air ambulance service was asked to send a helicopter from Toronto, but that request was cancelled at about 2:30 p.m. while the helicopter was in the air close to Calabogie.
Police officers and paramedics
had to use all-terrain vehicles to reach the crash site, which is in a
heavily-wooded area near Black Donald Lake. Paramedics have since been
released from the crash site.
Marc Allain was at a cottage nearby on the same lake when he said he and his friends heard a loud engine in the sky.
"Someone in our group pointed to the sky and said, 'Look it's a plane up there doing loop-de-loops,'" he told CBC News.
"Then next thing you know we sort of lost it behind the trees and then [there was] a loud explosion sound and then a big, black plume of smoke in the sky."
According to the online flight tracking service FlightAware.com, the plane was travelling at about 27,000 feet at 12:17 p.m., but the next recorded altitude was 5,200 feet just two minutes later.
The Transportation Safety Board is sending two investigators to the crash site to test for safety deficiencies.
Marc Allain was at a cottage nearby on the same lake when he said he and his friends heard a loud engine in the sky.
"Someone in our group pointed to the sky and said, 'Look it's a plane up there doing loop-de-loops,'" he told CBC News.
"Then next thing you know we sort of lost it behind the trees and then [there was] a loud explosion sound and then a big, black plume of smoke in the sky."
According to the online flight tracking service FlightAware.com, the plane was travelling at about 27,000 feet at 12:17 p.m., but the next recorded altitude was 5,200 feet just two minutes later.
The Transportation Safety Board is sending two investigators to the crash site to test for safety deficiencies.
Ontario police say one person is dead after a plane crashed into a wooded area near Calabogie Monday.
They said they were called to the wooded area between Calabogie and Griffith around 12:15 p.m., needing ATVs to get to the scene about three hours off a nearby trail.
An OPP officer on the area police scanner reported multiple times the
plane is "blown apart." CTV Ottawa's Katie Griffin says a witness told
her he saw an explosion around the time the plane went down.
ORNGE officials say there an air ambulance en route has been called off.
CTV Ottawa's Stefan Keyes visited the Carp airport where the plane took
off from and says it was a six-seater, single-engine Socata.
The plane that crashed was bought Sept. 18 and registered two days later, making its way from Timmins to Goderich, Ont.
The crash scene is about a two hour drive west of downtown Ottawa.
Developing story...
Ontario Provincial Police have not confirmed the type of plane that
crashed or how many people were on board. The plane went down shortly
after the noon hour, about 3 kilometres off a main road.
The crash site is about a two-hour drive west of Ottawa.
CTV Ottawa reported that the plane was completely destroyed on impact.
An Ornge air ambulance that had initially been called to the scene has since been cancelled.
Watch video: http://www.ctvnews.ca
C-FBKK TSB released photo:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Flightaware shows the dive from 27000' feet:
http://i845.photobucket.com
Lorenzo Girones and Bob Reany at the controls of C-FBKK on October 6, 2012:
Published on October 6, 2012
18 knot cross wind landing at Buttonville, Ontario on Saturday, October 6, 2012 in a TBM850 (C-FBKK) on runway 33
Looks like Bob is on the left, Lorenzo as co-pilot.
Looks like Bob is on the left, Lorenzo as co-pilot.
Garlick Helicopters Inc UH-1H, N1577: Accident occurred October 07, 2012 in Medford, Oregon
NTSB Identification: WPR13FA006
14 CFR Part 133: Rotorcraft Ext. Load
Accident occurred Sunday, October 07, 2012 in Medford, OR
Aircraft: GARLICK HELICOPTERS INC UH-1H, registration: N1577
Injuries: 1 Minor.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On October 7, 2012 about 1513 Pacific daylight time, a Garlick Helicopters UH-1H, N1577, made a forced landing following separation of the tailrotor gearbox approximately 16 miles north of Medford, Oregon. The commercial pilot sustained minor injuries and the helicopter was substantially damaged. The helicopter was registered to a private individual and operated by Columbia Basin Helicopters under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 133. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the local flight that departed Merlin (Grants Pass), Oregon at 1400.
The pilot reported that when in straight and level flight, during the return flight from the firefighting efforts, he heard a loud noise followed by an abrupt, hard yaw to the right. The pilot immediately initiated a descending right hand turn towards the valley below. During the descent, he heard another loud noise followed by severe vibration. The low rotor RPM horn and Master caution lights illuminated. The pilot continued to descend until the helicopter impacted terrain.
On-scene examination of the helicopter by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the tail rotor gearbox was separated from the helicopter and not present.
http://registry.faa.gov/N1577
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo
A 30-year-old pilot escaped without injuries Sunday afternoon when his helicopter crashed in rugged terrain west of Shady Cove after helping douse a fire.
The pilot, Cody Seeger, was airlifted from the crash site by Brim Aviation, but he declined medical treatment. Other than a ripped jumpsuit, Seeger appeared uninjured.
After being asked how he felt walking away from a helicopter crash, Seeger responded, "pretty good." The Bell UH1H "Huey" helicopter belongs to Columbia Basin Helicopters Inc. in Baker City.
Jackson County sheriff's Deputy Jeff McGrath said the pilot was headed back to Grants Pass when the crash occurred.
"As he was flying back, it started rattling and losing pressure, and then it went down," McGrath said. "This could be a lot worse."
The helicopter landed on its side in a forested hillside several miles to the west of Rogue River Drive. Only a Brim Aviation helicopter was able to spot the crash site, eventually airlifting the pilot out to safety.
McGrath said the trees surrounding the crash site may have softened the impact, preventing a harder landing.
Good visibility aided rescuers in finding the pilot, but the crash occurred so quickly the pilot didn't get a chance to pick a flatter area to land, McGrath said.
Craig Morrison, chief pilot for Brim, said the pilot initially indicated he wanted to walk out.
Eventually, rescue officials persuaded Seeger that he should be airlifted out, landing next to a large pond near a house in a remote area to the west of Rogue River Drive.
Reviewing a video of the crash site, Morrison and other Brim pilots found the helicopter was remarkably intact considering how and where it landed.
The tail section still was attached to the helicopter, and the cockpit didn't look badly damaged.
Morrison said pilots are always reviewing the landscape underneath them just in case there's a problem.
"What we're always looking for is open spots where we could land," he said.
The terrain was so rugged sheriff's deputies couldn't get to the scene of the crash with all-terrain vehicles. After the rescue, a bulldozer eventually was brought in to clear a trail so that deputies could investigate the scene and take photos.
The National Transportation and Safety Board also will investigate the crash, but deputies expected the helicopter would have to be airlifted out of the crash site by a heavy-lift helicopter.
Dave McCarty, president of Columbia Basin Helicopters, declined to be interviewed.
According to its website, the company has three Bell UH1H helicopters that are equipped with additional features, including a 323-gallon tank for firefighting. In addition, the company has one Hiller 12E Soloy helicopter and one Bell OH-58A helicopter.
Bob Miller, Fire District No. 4 chief, said the helicopter had dropped water on a grass clipping fire at Joseph Stewart State Park.
Miller said the fire likely could have started because a camper inadvertently dumped ash in the grass clipping pile. He said a bulldozer was sent up later to take the pile apart so the embers wouldn't spread. The cause of the fire still is being investigated.
The Joseph Stewart park fire call came in at 2:26 p.m.
Another fire burned almost 5 acres near 23611 Highway 62, and the call came in at 1:44 p.m., Miller said.
He said fire crews still were mopping up the fire into the evening Sunday. The cause of that fire is unknown, Miller said.
Overall, it was a busy weekend for Miller's firefighters. On Saturday, around noon, a hunter fell out of his tree stand near Abbot Creek in the Prospect area. Miller said the hunter suffered a broken leg and was flown to Providence Medford Medical Center for treatment.
Story and photo gallery: http://www.mailtribune.com
14 CFR Part 133: Rotorcraft Ext. Load
Accident occurred Sunday, October 07, 2012 in Medford, OR
Aircraft: GARLICK HELICOPTERS INC UH-1H, registration: N1577
Injuries: 1 Minor.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On October 7, 2012 about 1513 Pacific daylight time, a Garlick Helicopters UH-1H, N1577, made a forced landing following separation of the tailrotor gearbox approximately 16 miles north of Medford, Oregon. The commercial pilot sustained minor injuries and the helicopter was substantially damaged. The helicopter was registered to a private individual and operated by Columbia Basin Helicopters under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 133. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the local flight that departed Merlin (Grants Pass), Oregon at 1400.
The pilot reported that when in straight and level flight, during the return flight from the firefighting efforts, he heard a loud noise followed by an abrupt, hard yaw to the right. The pilot immediately initiated a descending right hand turn towards the valley below. During the descent, he heard another loud noise followed by severe vibration. The low rotor RPM horn and Master caution lights illuminated. The pilot continued to descend until the helicopter impacted terrain.
On-scene examination of the helicopter by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the tail rotor gearbox was separated from the helicopter and not present.
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 1577 Make/Model: UH1 Description: 204, 205, 214A/B BigLifter/C (UH-1A to M
Date: 10/07/2012 Time: 2316
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Substantial
LOCATION
City: SHADY COVE State: OR Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT WAS FORCED TO LAND DUE TO AN ENGINE FAILURE. SHADY COVE, OR
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: PORTLAND, OR (NM09) Entry date: 10/09/2012
http://registry.faa.gov/N1577
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo
A
helicopter pilot was rescued from an area to the west of Shady Cove
after his helicopter crashed while fighting a near-by fire.
Mail Tribune / Bob Pennell
Photo By: Bob Pennell
Mail Tribune / Bob Pennell
Photo By: Bob Pennell
A 30-year-old pilot escaped without injuries Sunday afternoon when his helicopter crashed in rugged terrain west of Shady Cove after helping douse a fire.
The pilot, Cody Seeger, was airlifted from the crash site by Brim Aviation, but he declined medical treatment. Other than a ripped jumpsuit, Seeger appeared uninjured.
After being asked how he felt walking away from a helicopter crash, Seeger responded, "pretty good." The Bell UH1H "Huey" helicopter belongs to Columbia Basin Helicopters Inc. in Baker City.
Jackson County sheriff's Deputy Jeff McGrath said the pilot was headed back to Grants Pass when the crash occurred.
"As he was flying back, it started rattling and losing pressure, and then it went down," McGrath said. "This could be a lot worse."
The helicopter landed on its side in a forested hillside several miles to the west of Rogue River Drive. Only a Brim Aviation helicopter was able to spot the crash site, eventually airlifting the pilot out to safety.
McGrath said the trees surrounding the crash site may have softened the impact, preventing a harder landing.
Good visibility aided rescuers in finding the pilot, but the crash occurred so quickly the pilot didn't get a chance to pick a flatter area to land, McGrath said.
Craig Morrison, chief pilot for Brim, said the pilot initially indicated he wanted to walk out.
Eventually, rescue officials persuaded Seeger that he should be airlifted out, landing next to a large pond near a house in a remote area to the west of Rogue River Drive.
Reviewing a video of the crash site, Morrison and other Brim pilots found the helicopter was remarkably intact considering how and where it landed.
The tail section still was attached to the helicopter, and the cockpit didn't look badly damaged.
Morrison said pilots are always reviewing the landscape underneath them just in case there's a problem.
"What we're always looking for is open spots where we could land," he said.
The terrain was so rugged sheriff's deputies couldn't get to the scene of the crash with all-terrain vehicles. After the rescue, a bulldozer eventually was brought in to clear a trail so that deputies could investigate the scene and take photos.
The National Transportation and Safety Board also will investigate the crash, but deputies expected the helicopter would have to be airlifted out of the crash site by a heavy-lift helicopter.
Dave McCarty, president of Columbia Basin Helicopters, declined to be interviewed.
According to its website, the company has three Bell UH1H helicopters that are equipped with additional features, including a 323-gallon tank for firefighting. In addition, the company has one Hiller 12E Soloy helicopter and one Bell OH-58A helicopter.
Bob Miller, Fire District No. 4 chief, said the helicopter had dropped water on a grass clipping fire at Joseph Stewart State Park.
Miller said the fire likely could have started because a camper inadvertently dumped ash in the grass clipping pile. He said a bulldozer was sent up later to take the pile apart so the embers wouldn't spread. The cause of the fire still is being investigated.
The Joseph Stewart park fire call came in at 2:26 p.m.
Another fire burned almost 5 acres near 23611 Highway 62, and the call came in at 1:44 p.m., Miller said.
He said fire crews still were mopping up the fire into the evening Sunday. The cause of that fire is unknown, Miller said.
Overall, it was a busy weekend for Miller's firefighters. On Saturday, around noon, a hunter fell out of his tree stand near Abbot Creek in the Prospect area. Miller said the hunter suffered a broken leg and was flown to Providence Medford Medical Center for treatment.
Story and photo gallery: http://www.mailtribune.com
Cessna 180H, N2780X Accident occurred October 06, 2012 in St. Maries, Idaho
NTSB Identification: WPR13LA005
Nonscheduled 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, October 06, 2012 in St Maries, ID
Aircraft: CESSNA 180H, registration: N2780X
Injuries: 1 Minor,1 Uninjured.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On October 6, 2012, about 1714 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 180H, N2780X, sustained substantial damage during a forced landing near the St. Maries Municipal Airport (S72) St Maries, Idaho. The airplane was registered and operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The private pilot was uninjured and the passenger sustained minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight which originated from Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport (LWS) Lewiston, Idaho at about 1600 mountain daylight time.
The pilot reported that during descent the engine lost power. Despite the pilot attempts, the engine would not restart. Subsequently, the pilot landed off the airport on a dirt road. During the landing roll, the left wing struck a tree and the airplane came to rest inverted.
Examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector was conducted at the accident site. The inspector observed a small amount of fuel in each tank. The wreckage has been transported to a secure location for further examination.
http://registry.faa.gov/N2780X
ST. MARIES, Idaho -- A couple flying over North Idaho escaped any serious injuries when their plane made a crash landing Saturday.
They were headed from Lewiston to Coeur d’Alene when the Cessna C180’s engine failed.
The plane’s right wing struck a tree on the way down, causing it to flip over. The plane landed on its top on private property near Alder Creek Road, not far from St. Maries.
The woman in the plane was airlifted to the hospital as a precaution. She suffered only minor injuries.
The crash is under investigation.
http://www.krem.com
Nonscheduled 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, October 06, 2012 in St Maries, ID
Aircraft: CESSNA 180H, registration: N2780X
Injuries: 1 Minor,1 Uninjured.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On October 6, 2012, about 1714 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 180H, N2780X, sustained substantial damage during a forced landing near the St. Maries Municipal Airport (S72) St Maries, Idaho. The airplane was registered and operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The private pilot was uninjured and the passenger sustained minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the personal flight which originated from Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport (LWS) Lewiston, Idaho at about 1600 mountain daylight time.
The pilot reported that during descent the engine lost power. Despite the pilot attempts, the engine would not restart. Subsequently, the pilot landed off the airport on a dirt road. During the landing roll, the left wing struck a tree and the airplane came to rest inverted.
Examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector was conducted at the accident site. The inspector observed a small amount of fuel in each tank. The wreckage has been transported to a secure location for further examination.
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 2780X Make/Model: C180 Description: 180, Skywagon 180 (U-17C)
Date: 10/06/2012 Time: 2314
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Substantial
LOCATION
City: ST MARIES State: ID Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT LOST POWER AND CRASHED INTO A TREE. ST. MARIES, ID
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: 1
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: 1
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Cruise Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: SPOKANE, WA (NM13) Entry date: 10/09/2012
http://registry.faa.gov/N2780X
Photo Credit: KREM
Photo Credit: KREM
ST. MARIES, Idaho -- A couple flying over North Idaho escaped any serious injuries when their plane made a crash landing Saturday.
They were headed from Lewiston to Coeur d’Alene when the Cessna C180’s engine failed.
The plane’s right wing struck a tree on the way down, causing it to flip over. The plane landed on its top on private property near Alder Creek Road, not far from St. Maries.
The woman in the plane was airlifted to the hospital as a precaution. She suffered only minor injuries.
The crash is under investigation.
http://www.krem.com
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