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Pilot in Fatal Crash Took Off at Night Despite Warning

Plane went down on Santa Catalina Island, killing 5

(Newser) - The pilot of a small plane in a fatal crash on California's Santa Catalina Island last month took off at night despite warnings, and a new NTSB report provides some answers on what happened. The Beechcraft 95-B44 airplane crashed shortly after taking off about 8pm on October 8, killing...

Boy, 12, Among 5 Dead in Arizona Plane Crash

Business jet hit vehicle outside Mesa airport after aborted takeoff

(Newser) - A 12-year-old boy was among five people who died in the fiery crash of a small business jet near a suburban Phoenix airport, authorities said Wednesday. Preliminary information indicated the six-seater HondaJet HA-420 aircraft was headed to Provo, Utah, when it aborted takeoff at the Falcon Field airport in Mesa...

New Details Emerge in Plane Crash Killing Gospel Singers

Pilot declared emergency before plane with members of The Nelons went down in July

(Newser) - The pilot of a plane that crashed in northeast Wyoming in July , killing seven people, declared an emergency and loss of the autopilot shortly before the incident that claimed the lives of three members of the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet The Nelons . The preliminary report released this...

There Was 'No Way to Reclaim Control of the Plane'

Brazilian authorities continue to investigate what caused aircraft to crash in Vinhedo, killing 62

(Newser) - Brazilian authorities worked Saturday to piece together what exactly caused the plane crash in Sao Paulo state the previous day that killed all 62 people on board. Local airline Voepass' plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo's international airport in Guarulhos with 58 passengers and...

Brazilian Flight Crashes Into Neighborhood, Killing 61

Witnesses on the ground say no one in the residential area was hurt

(Newser) - All 61 people aboard a Brazilian passenger plane that went down in a residential area of Sao Paulo on Friday were killed, the airline said. There was no official word on whether anyone on the ground was hurt, though witnesses in the area reported no casualties among residents, per the...

Plane Crash Kills 7, Including Gospel Hall of Famers

3 members of Nelons were aboard single-engine turboprop

(Newser) - Three members of the Nelons, a Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet and the chairman of the board overseeing the Georgia Department of Corrections, were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming, according to a statement by a group member who was not aboard the aircraft....

Only One Survivor After Plane Slips Off Runway

18 people were killed in Kathmandu as pilot is the only one to survive

(Newser) - A domestic plane crashed Wednesday while taking off from the airport serving Nepal's capital, killing 18 people and injuring a pilot who was the lone survivor, the AP reports. Police official Basanta Rajauri said authorities have recovered all 18 bodies. The only survivor was the pilot, who was taken...

After 'Miracle on the Hudson,' These Bird Detectives Got the Call

When birds collide with planes, Smithsonian forensic ornithologists help decide what happens next

(Newser) - One of the most high profile cases of an airplane colliding with a bird in the air was 2009's Miracle on the Hudson , when pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed a passenger plane in the river after Canada geese flew into both its engines. The story was a...

NTSB: Ex-Astronaut Did a Flyby Just Before Fatal Crash

William Anders routinely did such flybys in the San Juan Islands, a friend tells government agency

(Newser) - A preliminary report in the investigation into the plane crash last month that killed William Anders, the 90-year-old former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo from space, has determined that Anders was doing a flyby past a friend's home right before his aircraft plummeted into...

NY Plane Crash Claims Lives of 5 Family Members

They had been at a baseball tournament in Cooperstown

(Newser) - Five family members who were headed home from a baseball tournament in Cooperstown, NY, were killed in a plane crash in the state on Sunday. The New York Times reports the Georgia family was traveling in a single-engine Piper PA-46 that had departed from Oneonta when their Atlanta-bound plane went...

Lawyer: Boeing Set to Get a 'Sweetheart Deal' From DOJ

Relatives of victims of 2 fatal crashes are said to vehemently oppose the deal's terms

(Newser) - Last week federal prosecutors recommended the Justice Department bring criminal charges against Boeing over its failure to keep the terms of an agreement sparing the company from legal action in 737 Max crashes that killed a combined 346 people. A lawyer for the families of those crash victims say what'...

Remains of Long-Lost Plane Spotted in Vermont Lake

It disappeared with 5 men on board in 1971

(Newser) - Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long-lost jet in Lake Champlain.
  • The corporate jet disappeared shortly after departing the Burlington airport for Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan. 27, 1971, the AP reports.
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Malawi VP, 9 Others Confirmed Dead in Plane Crash

Saulos Chilima's aircraft went down in bad weather

(Newser) - Malawi's vice president and nine others were killed in a plane crash, the country's president said Tuesday. The wreckage of the military plane carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima was located in a mountainous area in the north of the country after a search that lasted more than a...

Plane With Malawi VP, 9 Others Is Missing

Military aircraft carrying Saulos Chilima 'went off radar,' authorities say

(Newser) - A military plane carrying Malawi's vice president and nine others went missing Monday and a search is underway, the president's office said. The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima left the southern African nation's capital, Lilongwe, at 9:17am but failed to land as scheduled around...

7 People on Skydiving Flight Escape Plane Before It Crashes

Plane, however, was a total loss in Missouri accident

(Newser) - A small plane crashed into a Missouri field Saturday afternoon, but all seven people on board survived, thanks to the fact that they were on what the National Transportation Safety Board terms a "skydiving mission" at the time. The pilot and all six passengers parachuted out of the single-engine...

Man, Dog Survive Ocean Plane Crash, Swim to Shore

Pilot reported engine issues before small plane crashed just off California coast on Sunday

(Newser) - The horror that came in seeing a small plane crash into the ocean off California on Sunday soon turned to relief as the pilot and his dog were able to escape the wreckage and swim to shore, where they were met by responding authorities. The pilot had reported engine trouble...

NTSB Report Highlights Disturbing Details of Pilot's Fall

Agency says Ronald Snyder may have unlatched seatbelt to inspect aircraft, passenger was helpless

(Newser) - Before a two-seater plane crashed near a Pennsylvania farm in 2022, its passenger sat by helplessly after the pilot fell out. That's according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday, describing the crash of an "experimental amateur-built" Bearhawk Patrol plane near Pennsylvania's Hanover Township on...

United Airlines Isn't Having a Very Good Week

Plane rolls off runway in Houston, hours after tire fell off another plane in San Francisco

(Newser) - People often clap when their plane lands, but maybe everyone should hold that applause until their ride makes it to the terminal gate. Passengers on a United Airlines flight found that out the hard way Friday morning, when their jet touched down OK at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport,...

Plane Was Cleared for Emergency Landing, Didn't Make It

Plane crashes off highway near Nashville's John C. Tune Airport, killing 5

(Newser) - A single-engine plane crashed near a highway in Nashville, Tennessee, just a few miles short of the airport it had tried to reach for an emergency landing on Monday, killing five people aboard, authorities said, per the AP . The pilot made an emergency call to John C. Tune Airport around...

US Tech Firm Thinks It Can Find Malaysia's Lost Plane

Nation may resume the search for flight MH370 10 years after it vanished

(Newser) - Malaysia's government said Sunday it may renew the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after a US technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed a decade ago. Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Texas-based Ocean Infinity...

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