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| Date: | May 19, 2016 Time: 0249 |
| Location: | 175 miles off the Egyptian coast |
| Operator: | EgyptAir Flight: 804 |
| AC Type: | Airbus A320-232 |
| Reg: | SU-GCC cn: 2088 |
| Aboard: | 66 Fatalities: 66 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Paris - Cairo |
| Details: | The plane was en route from Paris to Cairo, flying at an altitude of 37,000 ft. when it made a sharp 90 degree turn to the left, followed by a 360 degree turn to the right as it lost altitude. The aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea approximately 175 miles off the Egyptian coast. |
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| Date: | May 18, 2016 Time: 1440 |
| Location: | Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan |
| Operator: | Silk Way Airlines |
| AC Type: | Antonov An-12B |
| Reg: | 4K-AZ25 cn: 3341209 |
| Aboard: | 9 Fatalities: 7 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Dwyer, Afghanistan - Mary Port Turkmenistan |
| Details: | The cargo plane crashed while attempting to takeoff. It was a civilian flight operated under a contract with the NATO mission. |
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| Date: | April 29, 2016 Time: 1150 |
| Location: | Sotra, Norway |
| Operator: | CHC Helikopter Service |
| AC Type: | Eurocopter EC225LP Super Puma M2+ |
| Reg: | LN-OJF cn: 2721 |
| Aboard: | 13 Fatalities: 13 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Gulflex B - Bergen |
| Details: | The helicopter crashed on the rocky shores of Skitholmen Island whle returning to Bergen from Oil platform Gullflex B. All 11 passengers and 2 pilots were killed. Several eyewitness accounts stated the main rotor separated from the helicopter before it crashed. |
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| Date: | April 13, 2016 Time: 1420 |
| Location: | Kiunga, Papua New Guinea |
| Operator: | Sunbird Aviation |
| AC Type: | Britten-Norman Islander |
| Reg: | P2-SBC cn: 3010 |
| Aboard: | 12 Fatalities: 12 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Oksapmin – Kiungaraining |
| Details: | While on approach, the plane stalled and crased in a wooded area 1 km short of the runway. The accident took place in stormy weather.Three survived, but later died of their injuries. Possible engine failure. |
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| Date: | April 4, 2016 Time: 1530 |
| Location: | Near Pigeon Forge, Tennessee |
| Operator: | Smoky Mountain Helicopters |
| AC Type: | Bell 206L |
| Reg: | N16760 cn: 45081 |
| Aboard: | 5 Fatalities: 5 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Sightseeing |
| Details: | The helicopter crashed in a wooded hillside while on a sightseeing flight. |
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| Date: | March 29, 2016 Time: 1140 |
| Location: | Magdelen Islands, Quebec, Canada |
| Operator: | Marquise Aviation Corp. |
| AC Type: | Mitsubishi MU-2B 60 Marquise |
| Reg: | N246W cn: 1552S-A |
| Aboard: | 7 Fatalities: 7 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Montreal - Iles-de-la-Magdelen |
| Details: | The plane crashed while on approach to Iles-de-la-Magdelen Airport in poor weather conditions. Former Canadian cabinet minister Jean Lapierre, his wife, 2 brothers and sister were among those killed. All five were on the way to a funeral for Lapierre's father. |
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| Date: | March 19, 2016 Time: 0341 |
| Location: | Rostov-on-Don, Russia |
| Operator: | Flydubai Flight: 981 |
| AC Type: | Boeing 737-8KN (WL) |
| Reg: | A6-FDN cn: 40241/3517 |
| Aboard: | 62 Fatalities: 62 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Dubai - Rostov |
| Details: | At 2237, at Rostov-on-Don, the crew aborted a landing attempt to Runway 22 due to poor weather conditions. The plane was instructed to enter a holding pattern at 15,000 feet where it remained for a little under two hours. During a second landing attempt, at 3.4 miles from the runway and an altitude of 1,500 feet the crew executed a second go around and climbed to 3,975 feet, after which, the plane went out of control in a nose down attitude and hit the runway at high rate of speed and disintegrated. All 55 passengers and crew of 7 were killed. |
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| Date: | March 15, 2016 Time: 1430 |
| Location: | Fatima Pastaza, Ecuador |
| Operator: | Military - Ecuador Army |
| AC Type: | IAI Attava 201 |
| Reg: | E-206 cn: 090 |
| Aboard: | 22 Fatalities: 22 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Training |
| Details: | The crew was conducting sky diving exercises when, an hour into the flight they radioed they were returning to base due to deuterating weather conditions. Shortly thereafter the plane went out of control and crashed in a wooded area. Nineteen passengers and the 3 pilots were killed. |
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| Date: | March 9, 2016 Time: 0905 |
| Location: | Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh |
| Operator: | True Aviation Ltd. |
| AC Type: | Antonov AN-26 |
| Reg: | S2-AGZ cn: 13408 |
| Aboard: | 4 Fatalities: 3 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Cox's Bazar - Jessore |
| Details: | The cargo plane, carrying shrimp, crashed less than 5 minutes after taking off from Cox's Bazar Airport. The pilot declaired an emergency and tried to return to the airport but crashed into the shallow waters of the Bay of Bengal just offshore. |
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| Date: | February 26, 2016 Time:1305 |
| Location: | 250 miles northwest of Kathmandu, Nepalx |
| Operator: | Kasthamandap Airlines |
| AC Type: | PAC 750XL |
| Reg: | 9N-AJB cn: 160 |
| Aboard: | 11 Fatalities: 2 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Nepalganj - Jumla |
| Details: | The plane went into a steep descent and crashed onto a field in the mountains of the Kalikot district. The plane was reported to be trying to make an emergency landing. Both the pilot and copilot were killed and nine passengers were injured. |
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| Date: | February 24, 2016 Time: 0815 |
| Location: | Dana, Nepal |
| Operator: | Tara Air Flight: 193 |
| AC Type: | de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 |
| Reg: | 9N-AHH cn: 926 |
| Aboard: | 23 Fatalities: 23 Ground: 8 |
| Route: | Pokhara - Jomsom |
| Details: | The plane crashed in the mountainous northern region of Nepal half-way through a 20 minute flight to Jomsom. The plane was relatively new. There was wind and dense fog at the time of the accident. |
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| Date: | February 18, 2016 Time: 1025 |
| Location: | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| Operator: | Genesis Aviation |
| AC Type: | Bell 206B Jet Ranger |
| Reg: | N80918 cn: 2687 |
| Aboard: | 5 Fatalities: 1 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Sightseeing |
| Details: | The helicopter was making an approach to land when it crashed into Pearl Harbor. A 16 year old by died 4 days after the accident. |
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| Date: | February 2, 2016 Time: 0020 |
| Location: | Near Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Operator: | Daallo Airlines Flight: 3159 |
| AC Type: | Airbus A321-111 |
| Reg: | SX-BHS cn: 642 |
| Aboard: | 72 Fatalities: 1 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Mogadishu - Djibouti |
| Details: | Shortly after leaving Mogadishu Airport a loud bang was heard in the cabin. There was a loss of pressurization and the plane made an emergency landing back at the airport. A large hole was observed in the side of the fuselage. A bomb containing TNT was detonated in the cabin. The bomber was sucked out of the plane and killed. |
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| Date: | January 8, 2016 Time: 0020 |
| Location: | Akkajaure Lake, Norrbotten, Sweden |
| Operator: | West Air Sweden Flight: 294 |
| AC Type: | Canadair CRJ-200 |
| Reg: | SE-DUX cn: 7010 |
| Aboard: | 2 Fatalities: 2 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Oslo – Tromsø |
| Details: | While en route, the crew of the cargo plan sent a unintelligible mayday message. The plane went into a near vertical dive and disintegrated on impact with the ground. |
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| Date: | December 24, 2015 Time: 0835 |
| Location: | Mbuji, Congo |
| Operator: | Services Air |
| AC Type: | Airbus A-310-304F |
| Reg: | 9Q-CVH cn: 413 |
| Aboard: | 4 Fatalities: 0 Ground: 8 |
| Route: | Lubumbashi - Mbuji-Mayi |
| Details: | While landing at Mbuji-Mayi Airport, the cargo plane overran the runway and crashed into several houses killing 8 people on the ground. |
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| Date: | December 22, 2015 Time: 0940 |
| Location: | Delhi, India |
| Operator: | Border Security Force |
| AC Type: | Beechcraft B200 Super King Air |
| Reg: | VT-BSA cn: BB-1485 |
| Aboard: | 10 Fatalities: 10 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Delhi - Ranchi |
| Details: | Shortly after taking off, the pilot indicated they wanted to return to the airport. Soon after, the aircraft impacted terrain near Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport. |
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| Date: | November 26, 2015 Time: 1015 |
| Location: | Near Igarka, Russia |
| Operator: | Turuhan Avia |
| AC Type: | Mil MI 8T |
| Reg: | RA-2561 cn: 98206821/59 |
| Aboard: | 26 Fatalities: 15 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Igarka - Krasnyi Selkub |
| Details: | Contact with the helicopter, which was heading to an oil pumping station, was lost 15 minutes after taking off. There were 22 passengers and 4 crew on board. Thirteen passengers and 2 crew members were killed. |
| Date: | November 21, 2015 Time: 1155 |
| Location: | Fox Glacier, South Valley, New Zealand |
| Operator: | Alpine Adventures |
| AC Type: | Aerospatiale AS 350B2 Ecureuil |
| Reg: | ZK-HKU cn: 1132 |
| Aboard: | 7 Fatalities: 7 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Sightseeing |
| Details: | The sightseeing helicopter crashed into a crevasse on Fox Glacier. The wreckage site was 2, 500 feet up the valley with debris scattered across hundreds of feet. The pilot and six passengers were all killed. |
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| Date: | November 10, 2015 Time: 1451 |
| Location: | Akron, Ohio |
| Operator: | ExecuFlight Flight: 1526 |
| AC Type: | BAe 125-700A |
| Reg: | N880RG cn: 257107/NA252 |
| Aboard: | 9 Fatalities: 9 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Dayton - Akron |
| Details: | The business jet clipped a telephone wire, hit a small apartment building and crashed into an embankment about 4 miles from the Akron Fulton Airport The plane was attempting to land in overcast and rainy conditions. The2 pilots and 7 passengers were all killed. |
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| Date: | November 4, 2015 Time: 0900 |
| Location: | Juba, South Sudan |
| Operator: | Allied Services Limited |
| AC Type: | Antonov 12BK |
| Reg: | EY-406 cn: 1347704 |
| Aboard: | 43 Fatalities: 41 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Juba - Paloich |
| Details: | The cargo plane had just taken off from Juba Airport when it had difficulty gaining altitude and crashed into a hill about half a mile east of Runway 13. |
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| Date: | October 31, 2015 Time: 0613 |
| Location: | Near Hasna, Egypt |
| Operator: | Metrojet (Kogalymavia) Flight: 9268 |
| AC Type: | Airbus A321-231 |
| Reg: | EI-ETJ cn: 663 |
| Aboard: | 224 Fatalities: 224 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Sharem el Sheikh - St. Petersburg |
| Details: | Approximate 25 minutes after taking off from Sharem el Sheikh airport, radar contact was lost with the airliner. Wreckage was found near Hasna in the north Sinai. The aircraft was flying at about 30,000 feet when contact with the plane was lost. This is the 27th worst acident in aviation history. The aircraft was brought down by a homemade explosive device. |
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| Date: | October 2, 2015 Time: 1429 |
| Location: | Near Masamba, Indonesia |
| Operator: | Avistar Mandari Flight: 7503 |
| AC Type: | de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter |
| Reg: | PK-BRM cn: 741 |
| Aboard: | 10 Fatalities: 10 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Masamba - Makassar |
| Details: | The aircraft went missing minutes after talking off from the airport. Seven passengers and three crew were on board. Wreckage was located on Mount Latimojong. |
| Date: | October 2,, 2015 Time: 0019 |
| Location: | Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
| Operator: | Military - U.S. Army |
| AC Type: | Lockheed C-130J Hercules |
| Reg: | ? |
| Aboard: | 11 Fatalities: 11 Ground: 2 |
| Route: | ? |
| Details: | The military transport crashed while taking off from Jalalabad Airport. Five crew members, 5 passengers and 2 on the ground were killed. |
| Date: | September 15, 2015 Time: 0624 |
| Location: | Iliamna East Wind Lake, Alaska |
| Operator: | Rainbow King Lodge |
| AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC 3T Turbine Otter |
| Reg: | N928PK cn: 61 |
| Aboard: | 7 Fatalities: 3 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Iliamna - Remote lake |
| Details: | While on the way to a remote fishing site, the non-sceduled passenger float plane crashed in trees as it attempted to take off. Three of the passengers were killed. |
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