Accidents

.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The stunning super STOL favorite, Draco, was totaled in a takeoff accident this week as owner Mike Patey attempted to leave Reno-Stead after the […]

There’s a reason pilots don’t train for some inflight failures. Sometimes those failures are so rare that the likelihood of a pilot encountering them is not deemed worthy of more than a mention during ground school. Then there are those failures for which no solution exists, as was experienced by a designated pilot examiner and […]

Remember the last time someone mentioned a bounced landing? Might not have been that long ago because we all bounce them in now and again. But somehow bouncing the landing in a Cessna 172 just doesn’t seem all that serious to most pilots, assuming of course the bounce didn’t begin by impacting the runway with […]

The NTSB has released information that brings some light to the accident that likely induced a lot more adrenaline than race car driving does to 44-year-old professional driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., the son of the legendary NASCAR Hall of Fame competitor Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Earnhardt and his family, who were taking a quick 20-minute hop […]

While the National Transportation Safety Board does not normally determine a probable cause for an aircraft accident for months, or sometimes years after an event, the preliminary report the Board released of a July 11, 2019, accident involving an Icon A5 made it clear the pilot did not understand how to calculate the airplane’s actual […]

Aware that this column will have new developments by the time it goes to print, I hesitated to write about the subject. But I felt ­passionate enough that it would be a ­disservice to readers if this particular ­airline guy didn’t weigh in, especially for ­someone that spent an entire jet career flying Boeing products. […]

Seven people at a scenic overlook in California’s Death Valley National Park suffered injuries after a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed on Wednesday, officials said. Aviation enthusiasts routinely come to see military fighters flying low through what has unofficially been dubbed Star Wars Canyon. Debris was scattered across the canyon as a dark billow […]

Just as ICON Aircraft was celebrating the delivery of its 100th airframe last week came news on Friday that an A5 had crashed during a takeoff attempt in Littlefield, Michigan. This brings to five the number of aircraft involved in accidents and or incidents in 2019, including one that crashed just short of Chicago Executive […]

Family members of two victims of an August 14, 2016, crash of a Piper Navajo have filed a lawsuit in a District Court in Mississippi claiming air traffic controllers failed to provide the pilot with accurate information, data that plaintiffs say could have prevented the accident. The NTSB found the cause of the accident to […]

They aren’t the only ones who have been led astray by incorrect expectations in IMC.