January 12, 2021
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian navy divers scoured the floor of the Java Sea on Monday as they hunted for the black boxes of a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the water over the weekend with 62 people aboard. …
September 25, 2020
A pilot’s inability to maintain proper airspeed and the flight crew’s decision to continue an unstable approach and landing likely caused the crash of a small plane carrying race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his family in 2019, according …
June 12, 2020
A lawsuit has been filed against the owners and operators of a World War II-era airplane that crashed at a Connecticut airport last October, killing seven people. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state Superior Court by survivors of the crash …
December 31, 2019
The lack of a distress call and flight data recorder coupled with mangled and charred wreckage will make finding the cause of a fiery airplane crash in Louisiana extremely challenging, federal officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman …
March 2, 2017
The National Transportation Safety Board will look into the “man, the machine and the environment” as it investigates a plane crash that killed a former mayor and left the tail of the aircraft poking out of the roof of a …
February 4, 2015
Nearly six years after Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home near Buffalo, relatives of the 50 people killed continue to push for improved aviation safety. A contingent of passengers’ relatives plans another trip to Washington Wednesday to try to …
December 11, 2014
The family of a U.S. senator whose son was killed in a plane crash is seeking damages in a lawsuit that alleges negligence against the aircraft’s manufacturers. The Tulsa World reports the suit was filed in Tulsa County District Court. …
September 30, 2013
A pilot who crashed his twin-engine plane at the airport in Sandpoint was flying under the influence of alcohol, according to authorities in the north Idaho resort town. Nobody was injured Monday when the plane left the runway and smashed …
September 26, 2013
In the first investigation of its kind, federal transportation officials are reviewing whether Asiana Airlines failed to meet legal obligations to help the families of passengers after one of its planes crashed at San Francisco International Airport. Three people died …
April 26, 2013
The family of a North Yarmouth, Maine, man who died when his plane crashed into a Biddeford home, as well as the owners of the house that was destroyed, are jointly suing the companies that maintained and inspected the aircraft. …