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Fatal Cirrus Accident Shows That Some Knowledge Doesn’t Translate

Helicopter pilot’s fixed-wing inexperience proved costly in a desert mountainside crash that killed four.
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Only Assumptions Can Be Made About What Took Down a Curtiss C-46 in Alaska

Shortly after the airplane named 'Maid of Money' took off in December 2000, snow began to fall, and winds picked up to 50 ...
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A Night Flight Leads a Pilot to a Tragic End

Rather than reverse course, a former Marine continued to turn until he was heading into the dark unknown of bad weather in 2020.
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Something Happened: Wind Shear Takes Down a Grumman Trainer

Remember that an airplane does not instantly recover airspeed that's lost in a wind shear.
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Dissecting a Tragedy in the Third Dimension

There's quite a difference between simulated IFR and the real thing.
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King Air 350 Accident Proved to Be Fatal Misstep

The 2019 incident near Dallas exhibited all the signs of a random pilot error.
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Objection Overruled

A flight into poor weather conditions turns out to be a real ‘wash job’ after all.
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A Skymaster Taking Off on One Engine?

The NTSB links a potentially preventable Cessna 337 accident in remote Alaska to an inadvertent stall.
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Twin-Engine Troubles

Nothing else is as good as control.
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A Harmless Prank

A long-ago incident nearly takes down an American Airlines Douglas DC-4.
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