Accidents

Accident investigators outline the sequence of events that led to the CRJ-900 overturning upon landing.

A deteriorating situation in the air can quickly become an emergency for a pilot.

In 1966, the FAA released a report that found that physicians had a fatality rate four times greater than other pilots.

Agency may bar helos from the airspace following a fatal midair crash and repeated safety warnings from pilots and controllers.

A Cessna 140 proved to be a goose among swans in a flock of dedicated STOL.

Rather than reverse course, a former Marine continued to turn until he was heading into the dark unknown of bad weather in 2020.

The AOPA Air Safety Institute and Liberty University School of Aeronautics study delves into 20 years of statistics.

There’s quite a difference between
simulated IFR and the real thing.

Landing an airplane with the gear not securely down and locked is a dreadful experience, but pilots and passengers are rarely injured.

A fatal 2019 King Air 350 accident near Dallas exhibited all the signs of a random pilot error.