March 13 – Television personality Peter Tomarken and his second wife Kathleen are killed when Tomarken's Beechcraft Bonanza A36, N16JR, crashed a few hundred feet off shore in Santa Monica Bay after attempting climb-out from the Santa Monica Airport in California. September 11 – A Cessna A152 – G-BHAC crashed near Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales minutes after takeoff resulting in the death of the passenger Mr. S. Kingsbury (73) and serious injury to the pilot Mr. P. Vaux (61). The AAIB attributed the cause of the crash to the pilot who shortly before had aborted a flight on an alternative return route due to bad weather! The official report is: October 11 – A Cirrus SR20 flown by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and an instructor crashed into the Belaire Apartments in New York City. The cause of the crash was determined as pilot error. December 10 – A Bell 412SP air ambulance helicopter crashed near Cajon Pass, killing the three member crew. 2007 March 5 – An Aérospatiale AS 332C1 Super Puma collided mid-air with a smaller Diamond DV20 Katana near Zell am See Airport in Austria. All 8 people on board the two aircraft were killed. July 27 – Two TV news AS-350 AStar helicopters collided in mid-air over Phoenix, Arizona, killing all four aboard. November 16 – Inclement weather caused a BHP Billiton AS350-B2 helicopter, to crash in Angola, killing the helicopter's five passengers. 2008 March 30 – A privately registered Cessna 501 Citation carrying five people crashed into two homes in Farnborough, London, after taking off from London Biggin Hill Airport. On board were former racing drivers Richard Lloyd and David Leslie. All five onboard died. May 2 – A chartered South Sudan Air Connection Beechcraft 1900 carrying 2 crew and 19 passengers, including South Sudan defense minister Dominic Dim Deng, crashed near Rumbek, Sudan while en route from Wau to Juba. There were no survivors. May 30 – A chartered 12-seater Pilatus PC-6 crashed in central Spain after shedding a wing, killing the pilot and a passenger. Other skydivers escaped. September 19 – A Learjet 60 crashed near West Columbia, South Carolina. Travis Barker and DJ AM survived while four others died. November 4 – A Learjet 45 carrying Mexican Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino and 8 others plunged into a central Mexico City neighborhood, killing all on board and 7 on the ground. 2009