Aftermath

In August 2015, a Florence, South Carolina, doctor, 51, left his home field early in the morning on a vacation trip whose eventual destination was the Grand Canyon.

Do you know the difference between civil twilight, nautical twilight and astronomical twilight?

Clouds are mostly harmless, but sometimes they turn on you.

In September 2014, a Cessna 172 overtook and collided with a homebuilt Searey amphibian on final approach to the Buffalo-Lancaster Regional Airport (KBQR) in Lancaster, New York. The 172 pilot, 78, with 2,500 hours, and his 14-year-old passenger died when their airplane spiraled out of control and crashed. Remarkably—since one tends to think of midair […]

The C35 Bonanza, N5946C, was cruising at 6,500 feet when there was a sudden loud bang from the engine compartment, followed by a smell of oil.

The investigator concluded that the probable cause of the accident was improper soft-field-takeoff technique.

After decades of faulting pilots involved in collisions or near-misses for inadequate vigilance, the NTSB now officially concedes that see-and-avoid is a highly unreliable system.

When the airplane entered the clouds, there was no turning back.

The facts surrounding this Illinois accident just might paint a different picture.

A look at the NTSB’s report on the February 2009 crash in Buffalo, New York.