Accidents

Investigators are sifting through the mangled wreckage of a Cessna 140 that crashed about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night shortly after takeoff from a private airport in southeast Florida. The airport, Spruce Creek Fly-In is located in Port Orange just south of Daytona Beach. Witnesses reported the classic metal taildragger never climbed more than 200 feet […]

As the investigation into last month’s wing separation on a Piper Arrow near Daytona Beach continues, the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday issued an update that points to a number of wing fractures. The PA28R-201 was owned and operated by Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University as a Part 91 instructional aircraft at the time of the […]

In August 2015, a Florence, South Carolina, doctor, 51, left his home field early in the morning on a vacation trip whose eventual destination was the Grand Canyon.

A Puerto Rican Air National Guard C-130 Hercules crashed yesterday shortly after departing from the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah, Georgia. A massive fireball erupted as the heavy cargo airplane hit the ground on state highway 21 about a mile from the airport. The airplane was a part of the Puerto Rico Air National […]

A student and examiner were killed in an accident that occurred during a flight exam at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, yesterday morning. Structural failure might have played a part in the accident as one wing of the Piper PA-28 Cherokee departed the airplane before it impacted the ground. “The wing fell […]

An F-16 Fighting Falcon that was part of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds team crashed yesterday over the Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas, killing Slot Pilot Thunderbird 4, Maj. Stephen Del Bagno. A statement from the U.S. Air Force said the accident happened during a routine aerial demonstration training flight. […]

Clouds are mostly harmless, but sometimes they turn on you.

The Flight Safety Foundation says 54 percent of all accidents could potentially be avoided if the flying pilot had executed a timely go-around, simply bringing up the power and returning for another attempt at landing, often because the first approach was in some way unstable. The FSF recently learned that 83 percent of runway excursions […]

Crash investigators are beginning to piece together reports from people on the ground and information gleaned from a flight data recorder recovered from a Cessna Citation I that slammed into an unoccupied home in an Atlanta suburb Friday night. The twinjet crashed about 15 miles north of its destination, Atlanta’s Fulton County Airport, at about […]

The National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report of an MD-83 overrun accident a few weeks ago in Ypsilanti, Michigan, uncovered a mechanical problem with the right elevator of the charter airliner, although investigators say it is too early to conclusively point to the elevator as the cause of the accident. An eerie near-replay of the […]