TOWER CONTROLLER HAD BACK TURNED, CRASH INVESTIGATORS SAY
An air traffic controller on duty by himself the morning of the fiery crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Kentucky was doing "administrative duties" and had turned his back to the aircraft as it attempted takeoff on the wrong runway, investigators said Tuesday.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...nway-crash.html
Wow, what gross inconsideration for duty and the lives of people. From another report I also understood that he was the only one on duty which is against FAA regulations - there is blame to pass all around.
155 CONFIRMED DEAD IN BRAZILIAN JETLINER CRASH
All 155 people aboard a Brazilian jetliner that crashed in the Amazon rain forest are dead, the air force said late Sunday in a statement, after rescue teams scoured through the wreckage and found no survivors.
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B.C. WOMAN ESCAPED THROUGH WINDOW OF BURNING PLANE
A 23-year-old B.C. woman said she escaped through a window as smoke and flames filled an airplane that crashed in southern Thailand on Sunday, killing most aboard.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...h-canadian.html
Canadian Toddler Lone Survivor of Plane Crash
I hope she can make it despite the head injuries.
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A 3-year-old girl was the lone survivor of a plane crash in Canada's Rocky Mountains after the Cessna 172 went down on Sunday, the Canadian Press reported. The unidentified toddler, who suffered head injuries in the crash, was rushed to Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary. Her grandfather and another man were killed, the Canadian Press reported. The plane was on its way to Edmonton and crashed shortly after takeoff in the Blaeberry River area. Bad weather originally complicated search efforts, and the girl was found after rescuers were lowered into the crash site from a private helicopter. |
Thank God, nobody died in this plane crash. They were really lucky. I suppose the water has a lot to do with it.
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TACOMA, Wash. - Two small planes collided mid-air on Tuesday, with one safely landing at a nearby airstrip and the other went down in Commencement Bay, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Boaters recovered two people alive in the water, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Tara Molle. Their condition was not immediately known. The other plane landed at Thun Field in Puyallup, about 10 miles southeast of Tacoma, with damage to its landing gear, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said. Neither of the two people on that plane was injured. |
I am sure the parents of this little girl are so happy she is alive after the rest of the passengers are dead. What a tragedy.
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PANAMA CITY, Panama - Rescuers in a remote, mountainous region of Panama struggled Wednesday to evacuate a 12-year-old American girl, the only survivor of a small plane crash that killed a California businessman, his teenage daughter and their Panamanian pilot. The bodies of Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23, were found Tuesday afternoon in an uninhabited region known as Las Ovejas, 270 miles west of the capital, Panama's civil protection agency said. The family of Francesca Lewis - a friend of Talia's who was traveling with the Kleins - gathered at a soccer field near the crash scene awaiting a helicopter that will evacuate her. Michael Klein, the chief executive officer of Pacificor LLC, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company that manages several hedge funds, founded two companies in the 1990s before becoming president and CEO of eGroups Inc., which was the world's largest group e-mail communication service. Yahoo Inc. purchased eGroups for $450 million in August 2000 and it is now known as Yahoo Groups. A colleague described Michael Klein as a brilliant businessman who skipped high school and graduated from college at age 17. "One of the most interesting people you could ever speak to on any ... in a myriad of subjects," Kurt Benjamin, the vice president of business development at Pacificor, told KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. "He's just an unbelievable individual.... |