| Date: | December 27, 2021 Time: 1914 |
| Location: | El Cajon, California |
| Operator: | Med Jet |
| AC Type: | Learjet 35A |
| Reg.: | N880Z cn: 35A-591 |
| Aboard: | 4 Fatalities: 4 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Santa Ana - El Cajon |
| Details: | The air ambulance flight was completing a turn for its final approach to runway 27R at San Diego-Gillespie Field when it crashed into a residential area of El Cajon, San Diego, 2.5 km east of the runway threshold and burst into flames. Prior to the crash, the flight crew requested the runway lights to be turned up, to which the controller replied that "they are at 100% now." All four people aboard were killed. Preliminary indications are the pilot requested a last-minute change to a visual approach on an east-to-west runway. The maneuvers the pilot needed to perform to make such a landing was needlessly complicated and dangerous, requiring a sharp bank while flying low to the ground. |
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| Date: | November 5, 2021 Time: 1830 |
| Location: | Piedade de Caratinga, Brazil |
| Operator: | PEC Aero Taxi |
| AC Type: | Beechcraft C90B King Air |
| Reg.: | PT-ONJ cn: LJ-1087 |
| Aboard: | 5 Fatalities: 5 Ground:0 |
| Route: | Goiânia-Santa Genoveva - Piedade de Caratinga |
| Details: | While attempting to land at Caratinga-Ubaporanga Airport, the aircraft hit power lines and crashed on the grounds of a waterfall. Both pilots and 3 passengeres were killed. Among those killed was popular Brazilian singer Marilia Mendonca. |
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| Date: | October 10, 2021 Time: 09:10 |
| Location: | Menzelink, Russia |
| Operator: | DOSAAF |
| AC Type: | Let L-410UVP-E3 |
| Reg.: | RF-94591 cn: 871826 |
| Aboard: | 16 Fatalities: 22 Ground: 16 |
| Route: | Menzelink - Menzelink |
| Details: | The aircraft, carrying parachutists, lost the no. 1 engine shortly after taking off. The crew attempted to return to the airport but descended and impacted the ground. Fourteen parachutists along with both pilots were killed. |
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| Date: | September 12, 2021 Time: 2315 |
| Location: | Kazachinskoye , Russia |
| Operator: | Aeroservice/SiLA |
| AC Type: | Let L-410UVP-E20 |
| Reg.: | RA67042 cn: 2916 |
| Aboard: | 16 Fatalities: 4 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Irkutsk - Kazachinskoye |
| Details: | The aircraft was on it's second approach in heavy fog when it crashed. |
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