24/7 Plane Crash Monitor

The Gulfstream G700 was being pushed back under tow at Rome-Ciampino Airport (CIA), while the crew started an engine. The tow bar failed and the jet lunged forward over running the tug. The NTSB rated the occurrence an accident.

The pilot, accompanied by three passengers who were family members, took off at 1835LT from Kassel-Calden Airport (Germany) for a private flight under IFR to Toulouse-Blagnac. After about three hours of flight, he was cleared for approach and received radar vectoring for the runway 14R ILS. During the last exchange with the controller, as the aeroplane was on final at 900 feet, the pilot stated that he had a problem without specifying what type, as the message was interrupted. Shortly afterwards, radar and radio contact was lost. The wreckage was found close to the threshold of runway 14R. Two passengers were rescued while the pilot and another passenger were killed. The occupants were four members of the same family : the parents and two children, a boy aged nine and a girl aged 13. While the parents were killed upon impact, the daughter died from her injuries a day later and the boy died three days later.

United Airlines flight UA1157 encountered severe turbulence, resulting the injuries of 4 flight attendants, including one that required hospitalization.

📋 Summary of incidents recorded this week: • Asia One Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (Indonesia) - 0 fatal • 46U LLC Honda HA-420 HondaJet Elite II (United States) - 0 fatal

An Asia One Air Cessna 208 Caravan, PK-LTF, suffered a collapse of the left main gear on touchdown at Bilorai, Intan Jaya. The aircraft slid down the runway and veered off the left side, impacting an embankment. Two occupants sustained moderate injuries.

The aircraft overran the runway and went in the wet grass due to a wet runway surface. The NTSB rated the occurrence an accident.

Delta flight DL276, an Airbus A330-302, was involved in a "cabin safety" event on approach to Milan (MXP), causing a serious injury to a cabin crew member.

Following an uneventful flight from Managua, the crew started a night descent to Tegucigalpa-Toncontin Airport. The standard approach to runway 01 consisted of a three-steps descent from the initial approach fix altitude of 7,500 feet. For unknown reasons, the crew failed to follow this procedure and started the descent prematurely and with a constant descent profile from a distance of 11 nm from the airport. This caused the aircraft to descend below the glide when, at an altitude of 4,000 feet, it struck the slope of Cerro de Hula (4,800 feet high) located 7,7 km short of runway 01. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and 15 people, including four crew members, were rescued while 131 other occupants were killed.

American flight AA5089, a Bombardier CRJ-900LR, to St. Louis (STL) shortly after takeoff after an odor, described by a passenger as an 'electrical burning smell', was reported. The aircraft landed safely back at STL, 35 minutes after takeoff, and vacated the runway. An evacuation was carried out, during which one occupants suffered serious injuries.

A Dassault Falcon 50, N200SG, sustained substantial damage when it aborted the takeoff from runway 01L and went off the end of the runway and struck a perimeter fence with the left wing at KLAS.