Accidents

Lack of experience rarely leads to the outcome of this Colorado mission.

The NTSB cites a lack of pilot experience in the 2019 loss of a Cessna 421 Golden Eagle that killed three people in DeLand, Florida.

One pilot was killed and two others injured Friday during a mishap involving two T-38C Talon trainer aircraft. 

A 32-year veteran of the U.S. Army and Air Force died in an accident while attempting to extinguish the Kruger Rock wildfire in northern Colorado.

Less flying brought fewer fatalities in 2020, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s annual study of U.S. civil aviation.

An unusual pilot’s dramatic crash in the Sunshine State still has investigators wondering what happened many years later.

A Cessna P210 that went down during takeoff earlier this month at an Atlanta-area airport had a relatively recent engine overhaul and conversion, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The October 8 accident involving at Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK) occurred shortly after 1 p.m., killing the pilot and three passengers on […]

In May 2019, two men took off from Tipton Airport (KFME) in Fort Meade, Maryland, for a pleasure flight. They were in a Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter, and had hoped to find and photograph a relative of the passenger who was fishing from a boat in the Chesapeake Bay. The morning was foggy; when the […]

Four people, including the two pilots, were killed Thursday after the business jet they were on board struck a building in Farmington, Connecticut. The Cessna Citation 560X, which was headed to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, crashed around 10 a.m., shortly after takeoff from Robertson Field Airport in Plainville, Connecticut. No one […]

In its preliminary report, Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS) says a police drone caused “major damage” when it crashed into a Cessna 172N near Buttonville Municipal Airport (CYKZ) in Toronto on August 10. The 172, which had an instructor and student on board, was on final approach into the airport. It […]