Posts tagged aviation accidents

• Caravan Gear Failure Leads To Minor Injuries

  Mike Schneider | January 16, 2008 8:04 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Tuesday, a Grant Aviation medivac flight landed in Bethel, but the nose gear failed before the plane could be safely parked at the airport. Snow conditions on the taxiway may have contributed to the fialure and the NTSB is investigating. A couple of the people on board complained of pain after the incident.

• FAA Clears Pilot in Fatal Crash

  Jane Schneider | January 11, 2008 12:18 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  SeaWind Aviation pilot Steve Kamm was recently cleared by the FAA of violating regulations in the August crash that left some passengers dead and seriously injured. But the FAA's very findings, including that the weather was adequate for flight and that the plane was properly equipped, suggest negligent operation as one possible cause of the crash. Those on board, and their families, have...

• Kodiak Crash Kills Six

  Jane Schneider | January 06, 2008 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Nine passengers and an experienced pilot, Robin Starrett, were on board Servant Air's PA-31 Navajo Chieftain when it crashed into icy waters 50 yards from the Kodiak runway. The pilot encountered unknown problems just after the charter flight departed Kodiak for Homer. Another air taxi operator, Dean Andrew, was on the scene immediately and helped rescue 4 of the survivors, one of whom...

• Bethel Plane Crash Leaves One Seriously Injured

  Mike Schneider | December 19, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An Arctic Circle Air Cessna 208 Caravan crashed after takeoff from Bethel Tuesday morning. The most seriously injured passenger was and Arctic Circle Air employee. The NTSB is investigating. AS 23/30.055 will bar any claim for negligence against the pilot or Arctic Circle that the passenger/employee might otherwise make. But any other non-employee passenger can make such a claim. They will...

• Helicopter Medivac Crash Leaves No Survivors

  Jane Schneider | December 10, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Monday, December 3, 2007, a helicopter carrying John Stumpf, flight nurse, Cameron Carter, paramedic, Gaye McDowell, patient, and flown by Lance Brabham went missing less than half way through a 90 minute flight between Cordova and Anchorage. Saturday, Stumpf's body was found with some wreckage along the flight path that would have taken the flight through Portage Pass on its way to Anchorage. ...

• Palmer Plane Crash Injures Pilot and Instructor

  Jane Schneider | November 16, 2007 12:31 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Last Friday the student pilot of a Cessna 150, David Terrill, and his instructor/passenger Dennis Covel, were hospitalized after crash landing on the Palmer Golf Course. They struck a tree on approach to the Palmer airport and had to put the plane down. Cases such as this are complicated and require retention of a skillful attorney.Normally the pilot, responsible for the safe operation of the...

• Plane Crash NNW of Bethel Leaves One With Serious Injuries

  Jane Schneider | October 03, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  19:45 hours Thursday, about 40 miles NNW of Bethel a Cessna 172 with three on board crashed. One person sustained serious injuries. No other details have been released. Investigation continues.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Airline, Cruise, Bus, and Other Mass Transit.

• Plane Crash Results in Serious Injury

  Jane Schneider | September 26, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Friday, September 21, 2007, 80 miles East of McGrath, a pilot departing Mystic Lake Lodge in a Skyvan SC-7 clipped trees on takeoff and crashed. He was seriously injured. He was the only person on board. But even though his errors may have caused the crash, he will be able to maintain a claim against his employer if the employer failed to maintain worker's compensation coverage or fails in an...

• Two Killed in Plane Crash in North of Arctic Village

  Jane Schneider | August 24, 2007 12:55 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A 15 year old boy left in camp attracted the attention of a pilot who landed 8/16/07 to hear that the boy's father and another hunter failed to return from an 8/14/07 flight to scout for sheep north of Arctic Village in Gates of the Arctic refuge. A helicopter dispatched by the Rescue Coordination Center found an aircraft and two dead occupants soon after the incident was reported. It has not...

• Five Dead in Plane Crash

  Jane Schneider | August 22, 2007 12:44 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Five passengers from Oregon and California died in a crash of a Beaver operated by SeaWind Aviation 25 miles North of Ketchikan recently. The Pilot and three passengers survived but some were burned and their condition and prognosis is unknown. Weather conditions changed fast, and may have contributed to the crash. An investigation into the cause continues.For more information on this...