A Civil Passenger Airplane Crached in Turkey !!
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Amos Stevens
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Yes I heard about that..sad news!
Mama San
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Suzi,
I just heard about it! I am so sorry to hear of it!
A terrible tragedy!!
We, also, had one today!
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Jan. 8) - A commuter plane taking off with 21 people crashed into an airport hangar and burst into flames Wednesday, killing everyone on board, authorities said.
The cause of the crash - the deadliest U.S. air accident in nearly 14 months - wasn't immediately clear.
US Airways Express Flight 5481, a Beech 1900 twin-engine turboprop, was taking off in light wind from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport when it hit the corner of the hangar at full throttle just before 9 a.m., officials said.
Benjamin Witkege told The Charlotte Observer that the plane attracted his attention as he and his girlfriend arrived at the airport.
''The plane was climbing too steep,'' said Witkege, 19, of Roanoke, Va. ''I told her, 'It looks like that plane is not doing right.'''
As they stopped to watch, he said, the plane moved into a twisting dive.
Nineteen passengers and two crew members were aboard the flight, which was operated by Air Midwest and headed to Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.
The plane took off to the south and veered sharply back toward the airport and crashed into a US Airways hangar, airport director Jerry Orr said.
''The plane is so destroyed there's not much to see,'' said Charlotte police spokesman Keith Bridges. ''It's just a horrible sight.''
The pilot contacted the tower after takeoff and indicated an emergency, FAA spokesman Greg Martin said. ''However, it was cut short and the emergency was never identified,'' Martin said.
The sky was clear at the time of the crash.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators sent to the scene likely will check into possible engine failure or pilot error, whether ice was on the wings and whether the flaps deployed correctly, said Chuck Eastlake, an aerospace engineering professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla.
''Any airplane that crashes on takeoff, whether it rolled over its back or not, probably is a candidate for engine failure to look at,'' Eastlake said.
Martin said the plane should have had a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder that could provide information about what happened. There was no immediate indication of terrorism, the FBI said.
Orr said there were no survivors aboard the plane, but three people on the ground who were thought to have been missing had been accounted for.
The plane was about 8 years old and had 15,000 hours of flight time and 21,000 takeoffs and landings, said Jonathan Ornstein, chief executive of Mesa Airlines, which owns Air Midwest.
A maintenance alert had been issued in August for the same model of airplane after attachment bolts for the vertical stabilizer were found loose on a plane during a scheduled inspection.
According to FAA records, the aircraft the crashed had reported service difficulties 10 times. In November, the company reported a leaking fuel pump, which was replaced. In May, the plane's left main landing gear wouldn't retract as it was taking off; it landed safely and the problem was fixed. Other problems were minor, including a stuck light switch, cracks on a flap and chafing on brackets that attached a flap.
The government's maintenance records did not say whether the plane's vertical stabilizer had been checked after the alert, and the company's records were not immediately available.
''We clearly are deeply concerned about this event, about our crews and our passengers,'' Ornstein said from the company's headquarters in Phoenix shortly after the crash. ''I can only express our greatest sympathy, my personal sympathy, to all those involved.''
Mesa Airlines operates in the East and Midwest as US Airways Express, in the West and Midwest as America West Express, in Denver as Frontier JetExpress, in New Mexico as Mesa Airlines and in Kansas City with Midwest Airlines.
At Greenville-Spartanburg airport, a room had been set up for friends and relatives arriving to pick up passengers from the flight, spokeswoman Rosylin Weston said.
Among those at the airport was 21-year-old Caroline Abrams, who said she had purchased a ticket for the doomed flight but had to change her plans. She would have been returning on the flight from a visit with her sister in Charlotte.
''I feel blessed, but I feel remorse for all the families,'' Abrams said. She was at the airport Wednesday for a flight to Seattle to see her mother and stepfather.
The crash came after a year in which there were no deaths aboard a passenger or cargo airliner in the United States. It had been the third time in a decade that a year went by without a fatality on a commercial plane, according to the FAA.
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We pray for those who died and for their families!
May they rest in peace!
May God bless us all!
Mama san
I just heard about it! I am so sorry to hear of it!
A terrible tragedy!!
We, also, had one today!
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Jan. 8) - A commuter plane taking off with 21 people crashed into an airport hangar and burst into flames Wednesday, killing everyone on board, authorities said.
The cause of the crash - the deadliest U.S. air accident in nearly 14 months - wasn't immediately clear.
US Airways Express Flight 5481, a Beech 1900 twin-engine turboprop, was taking off in light wind from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport when it hit the corner of the hangar at full throttle just before 9 a.m., officials said.
Benjamin Witkege told The Charlotte Observer that the plane attracted his attention as he and his girlfriend arrived at the airport.
''The plane was climbing too steep,'' said Witkege, 19, of Roanoke, Va. ''I told her, 'It looks like that plane is not doing right.'''
As they stopped to watch, he said, the plane moved into a twisting dive.
Nineteen passengers and two crew members were aboard the flight, which was operated by Air Midwest and headed to Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.
The plane took off to the south and veered sharply back toward the airport and crashed into a US Airways hangar, airport director Jerry Orr said.
''The plane is so destroyed there's not much to see,'' said Charlotte police spokesman Keith Bridges. ''It's just a horrible sight.''
The pilot contacted the tower after takeoff and indicated an emergency, FAA spokesman Greg Martin said. ''However, it was cut short and the emergency was never identified,'' Martin said.
The sky was clear at the time of the crash.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators sent to the scene likely will check into possible engine failure or pilot error, whether ice was on the wings and whether the flaps deployed correctly, said Chuck Eastlake, an aerospace engineering professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla.
''Any airplane that crashes on takeoff, whether it rolled over its back or not, probably is a candidate for engine failure to look at,'' Eastlake said.
Martin said the plane should have had a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder that could provide information about what happened. There was no immediate indication of terrorism, the FBI said.
Orr said there were no survivors aboard the plane, but three people on the ground who were thought to have been missing had been accounted for.
The plane was about 8 years old and had 15,000 hours of flight time and 21,000 takeoffs and landings, said Jonathan Ornstein, chief executive of Mesa Airlines, which owns Air Midwest.
A maintenance alert had been issued in August for the same model of airplane after attachment bolts for the vertical stabilizer were found loose on a plane during a scheduled inspection.
According to FAA records, the aircraft the crashed had reported service difficulties 10 times. In November, the company reported a leaking fuel pump, which was replaced. In May, the plane's left main landing gear wouldn't retract as it was taking off; it landed safely and the problem was fixed. Other problems were minor, including a stuck light switch, cracks on a flap and chafing on brackets that attached a flap.
The government's maintenance records did not say whether the plane's vertical stabilizer had been checked after the alert, and the company's records were not immediately available.
''We clearly are deeply concerned about this event, about our crews and our passengers,'' Ornstein said from the company's headquarters in Phoenix shortly after the crash. ''I can only express our greatest sympathy, my personal sympathy, to all those involved.''
Mesa Airlines operates in the East and Midwest as US Airways Express, in the West and Midwest as America West Express, in Denver as Frontier JetExpress, in New Mexico as Mesa Airlines and in Kansas City with Midwest Airlines.
At Greenville-Spartanburg airport, a room had been set up for friends and relatives arriving to pick up passengers from the flight, spokeswoman Rosylin Weston said.
Among those at the airport was 21-year-old Caroline Abrams, who said she had purchased a ticket for the doomed flight but had to change her plans. She would have been returning on the flight from a visit with her sister in Charlotte.
''I feel blessed, but I feel remorse for all the families,'' Abrams said. She was at the airport Wednesday for a flight to Seattle to see her mother and stepfather.
The crash came after a year in which there were no deaths aboard a passenger or cargo airliner in the United States. It had been the third time in a decade that a year went by without a fatality on a commercial plane, according to the FAA.
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We pray for those who died and for their families!
May they rest in peace!
May God bless us all!
Mama san
Mama San
Administrator
Suzi,
I found this information about the crash in Turkey:
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ISTANBUL, Turkey (Jan. 8) - A Turkish Airlines flight crashed Wednesday as it tried to land at an airport in southeastern Turkey, killing 72 people, Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said.
The plane, which was on its way from Istanbul, crashed in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported. Private NTV television said the plane crashed in heavy fog.
NTV television quoted Aksu as saying that the plane carried 77 people and that there were only five survivors.
The RJ-100 passenger aircraft crashed in a military area near the airport, and soldiers were helping to evacuate the injured, CNN-Turk television reported. The RJ-100 is a four-engine plane built by British Aerospace.
The five injured were evacuated to the main hospital in Diyarbakir, about 635 miles southeast of Istanbul and 75 miles north of the Syrian border. CNN-Turk television said the injured were in shock but had no life threatening injuries.
Last week, several flights to Diyarbakir were canceled because of poor conditions on the runway.
In May 2001, a military transport plane crashed in southeastern Turkey, killing 34 officers and soldiers from Turkey's elite special forces.
A civilian jetliner crashed in eastern Turkey in 1991, killing 55 people after the pilot insisted on landing despite a snowstorm that drastically cut visibility.
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A sad, sad day indeed! May they all rest in peace!!
May God bless us all!
Mama san
I found this information about the crash in Turkey:
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ISTANBUL, Turkey (Jan. 8) - A Turkish Airlines flight crashed Wednesday as it tried to land at an airport in southeastern Turkey, killing 72 people, Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said.
The plane, which was on its way from Istanbul, crashed in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported. Private NTV television said the plane crashed in heavy fog.
NTV television quoted Aksu as saying that the plane carried 77 people and that there were only five survivors.
The RJ-100 passenger aircraft crashed in a military area near the airport, and soldiers were helping to evacuate the injured, CNN-Turk television reported. The RJ-100 is a four-engine plane built by British Aerospace.
The five injured were evacuated to the main hospital in Diyarbakir, about 635 miles southeast of Istanbul and 75 miles north of the Syrian border. CNN-Turk television said the injured were in shock but had no life threatening injuries.
Last week, several flights to Diyarbakir were canceled because of poor conditions on the runway.
In May 2001, a military transport plane crashed in southeastern Turkey, killing 34 officers and soldiers from Turkey's elite special forces.
A civilian jetliner crashed in eastern Turkey in 1991, killing 55 people after the pilot insisted on landing despite a snowstorm that drastically cut visibility.
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A sad, sad day indeed! May they all rest in peace!!
May God bless us all!
Mama san
kickingbird
candle lighter
Let's hope the trend stops!
Prayers for the victims and their families/friends.
In Oneness and Peace
Prayers for the victims and their families/friends.
In Oneness and Peace
