August 20, 2024
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it would require inspections of Boeing Dreamliners following an incident in March when a LATAM Airlines plane went into a sudden mid-air dive that injured more than 50 passengers. The FAA said …
November 21, 2011
Federal investigators say weather likely wasn’t a factor in the plane crash that killed two Oklahoma State women’s basketball coaches this week. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jason Aguilar said Saturday that the skies were clear and the winds were …
November 4, 2011
A spokesman for Munich airport says a Singapore Airlines flight with some 200 passengers aboard slid off the runway just after landing but nobody was injured. Peter Pruemm says it is still unclear why the Boeing 777 arriving from Manchester, …
October 18, 2011
Authorities in Southern California say three Riverside men died when their small plane crashed in San Bernardino County. The county coroner says the men were 26, 35 and 38 years old but their names haven’t been released. The Beech 33 …
October 4, 2011
A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board accident report says nothing broke off a 1950s-era plane prior to it crashing into the ground during a West Virginia air show last month and killing the pilot. The board also says a review …
October 3, 2011
An ultra-light plane has crashed into a Ferris wheel at a rural festival in Australia, trapping four people in the tangled wreckage for hours. There were no serious injuries. New South Wales Rural Fire Service spokesman Ben Shepherd says the …
September 26, 2011
Federal investigators are expected to release a preliminary summary of their probe of a racing plane crash that killed 11 people in Reno, Nevada and injured at least 80. A National Transportation Safety Board official says there won’t be any …
September 2, 2011
Federal investigators are listening to Santa Monica Airport audio tapes and interviewing maintenance workers in an effort to determine the cause of single-engine plane crash into the yard of a vacant home. The student pilot, whose name hasn’t been released, …
August 31, 2011
A Bay man on his first airplane ride asked the pilot to fly over his home so he could take some aerial photos. What he saw was two men burglarizing his home. Steven Lynn told The Jonesboro Sun that he …
August 22, 2011
A chartered Boeing 737-200 plane crashed as it was approaching an airport in Canada’s Arctic region, killing 12 people and injuring three, police said. Residents of the tiny hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut and soldiers …