Accidents

With half of 2019 behind and another six months to go, the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) says the U.S. helicopter industry is experiencing a year of fatal accidents. The USHST is calling on helicopter operators, pilots, instructors and mechanics to rely on safety basics and place a stronger emphasis on identifying and managing risk. […]

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were in place at Addison Airport, Texas (ADS) by early Sunday evening to begin their evidence collection duties surrounding the crash of a Beechcraft Super King Air 350 at 9:11 a.m. that morning. All 10 people on board the turboprop – two pilots and eight passengers – died […]

The pilot and a passenger of an Icon A5 light sport amphibian suffered minor injuries after the airplane flipped in the water upon landing, apparently with the gear in the down and locked position. The mishap happened on Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna, British Columbia, on Monday. Video and photos of the aftermath show the […]

A pair of Eurofighter Typhoons collided in midair over northeast Germany on Monday, killing one of the pilots, according to the German air force. German police said they found a body near a crash site after the jets collided during a military training exercise, which local media outlets reported was that of one of the […]

Local authorities on the island of Oahu said Saturday that two more victims were located at the site of last week’s King Air accident at Dillingham Airfield on the northwest corner of the island. The new victims raise the fatality count in the accident to 11. At an onsite media briefing Sunday, NTSB member Jennifer […]

National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene attempting to determine what caused an Augusta 109E helicopter to crash onto the rooftop of a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday afternoon, killing the pilot and causing a fire atop the building that briefly caused panic for those inside and on the streets below. The corporate helicopter, […]

The Russian Ministry of Transport’s initial findings into the May 5 Sukhoi Superjet accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport said the crew received a windshear alert in the final minutes of the flight. Moments later, Aeroflot Flight 1492 landed hard on Runway 24 Left and bounced several times before bursting into flames. Forty-one people on board […]

Two fatal accidents, both involving Cessna Citation jets, occurred within two days of each other last week. In the first accident on May 22nd, a Citation 550 SII crashed shortly after takeoff from Indianapolis Regional Airport (MQJ) killing the two people aboard. The second accident on May 24th involved a Citation 560 Encore being flown […]

The U.S. aviation industry’s hard work to reduce the accident rate of air carriers shows. Over the past decade, Part 121 flight operations have experienced just a single death. That puts the industry safety record just a notch short of perfect when measured by the number of fatalities. But earlier this month, the industry came […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday released the preliminary report of its investigation into the May 13, 2019, mid-air collision approximately seven miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska between a float-equipped de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and a float-equipped de Havilland DHC-3 Turbine Otter. The DHC-2’s commercial pilot and four passengers were fatally injured and the […]