Madeira Crash

[IBMN]

Plane with nine on board disappears over Atlantic
LISBON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A private plane with nine people
on board disappeared shortly after take off from the Portuguese
island of Madeira for Malaga, Spain, an airport official said
early on Friday.
The twin-engine Beechcraft lost radar contact after taking
off at 9:53 p.m. (2053 GMT) from the Funchal airport on Madeira,
about 600 km (400 miles) west of Morocco, the official said.
The U.S.-registered plane was carrying a British pilot and
eight Spanish passengers. The weather was clear. Rescue teams
searching the Atlantic Ocean off Funchal have found no trace of
the plane or its passengers.

[PakoSpain]

Fatal plane crash off Madeira
Friday, September 12, 2003 Posted: 0346 GMT (11:46 AM HKT)


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LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) -- A private plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Portuguese island of Madeira and all nine people on board were believed killed, officials said on Friday.

The twin-engine Beechcraft plunged into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off at 9:53 p.m. (2053 GMT) on Thursday from Funchal airport on Madeira, about 600 km (480 miles) west of Morocco, for Malaga, Spain, a search and rescue spokesman said.

The U.S.-registered plane was carrying a British pilot and eight Spanish passengers. Rescue teams found wreckage off Funchal and recovered the bodies of two men and a woman.

"We feel that all the passengers and the pilot died," the spokesman said. The weather was good and the cause of the crash was not immediately known.

[AIRWAY]

Here's the Aircraft at Madeira International Airport ( Portugal ) :

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Photos by Jorge Abreu

[JJflyer]

Sad to hear about this. I have been been based in Malaga on and off now for coming 4 years and seen this aircraft and met with someof the people involved many a times.

This was a speacial mission King Air equipment out of this world that included remote Sensing Equipment:

· VHF-UHF SAR / SRI International _ Profiling and SAR modes

· HSI / ITRES CASI II _ 288 bands, 512 pixels 1.2 mrad resolution

· Thermal IR / Daedelus _ 3-5 plus 8-14 micron 1 mrad resolution

· Camera / SRI International _ Kodak 460 digital

Aircraft was modified for sensors including radar, hyperspectral imager, and thermal infrared scanner

It could be used for all of the following jobs:

· UXO (Unexploded Ordnance Detection)

· Toxic Waste Detection

· Humanitarian Demining

· Agriculture Studies

· Forest Resource & Inventory

· Urban & Engineering Studies

· General Database Development etc

Though I doubt that any of this equipment was installed on this flight...

JJ

[wes_wall]

According to "Airwise" today, all ten people on board a leisure flight were believed to have died when the aircraft crashed off the island of Madeira in the Atlantic.

Early details: http://news.airwise.com/display/story.html?name=2003/09/1063710086.html

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[AIRWAY]

Hi,

Sorry to bring this back to life, but i can seem to find an investigation report to this accident. Anyone aware of one?

Many Thanks