Accidents

An airplane flying a qualifying race in the Sport Class at the National Championship Air Races near Reno, Nevada, crashed yesterday, killing the pilot on board. The pilot was identified by the Reno Air Race Association (RARA) as Lee Behel, one of the founders and the current president of the Sport Class, who was flying […]

In a preliminary accident report of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 released by the Dutch Security Board on Tuesday, investigators said the Boeing 777 “broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.” The report did not, however, assign […]

The pilot of the TBM 900 that crashed in the sea near Jamaica after straying hundreds of miles off course on Friday twice asked Atlanta Center for clearance to a lower altitude because of an unspecified problem, but the controller handling the flight apparently didn’t comprehend the seriousness of the emergency that was unfolding. Minutes […]

An unresponsive TBM 900 turboprop on a flight plan Friday from Rochester, New York, to Naples, Florida, triggered the North American Aerospace Defense Command to launch two F-15s in pursuit of the airplane after the pilot failed to respond to communications from air traffic control. Instead of making a turn toward the eastern coast of […]

A six-seat Piper PA-46 crashed in Erie, Colorado, around noon on Sunday as it was approaching the Erie Municipal Airport in the northwest corner of the Denver metropolitan area, killing five people aboard. The airplane was returning from a flight to Centennial Airport in the southern part of Denver, the local 9NEWS station reported. The […]

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for the pilot of a Cirrus SR22 that went down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia on Saturday after flying through Washington’s restricted airspace and causing fighter jets to scramble. A fishing vessel near the site of the crash recovered a wheel and engine cowl, […]

The status of the pilot who was flying an F-15C based at the Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts, remains unknown after the airplane he was flying crashed in a heavily wooded remote area of the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia yesterday at 9:05 a.m., the U.S. Air Force reports. The pilot, a […]

An amateur built Loehle 5151 Mustang, designed as a miniature version of the highly popular North American P-51, crashed in Chehalis, Washington, on Tuesday. The pilot, who was the only occupant of the single-seat airplane, died in the crash. The airplane had just departed from the Chehalis-Centralia airport and crashed in a parking lot. Chehalis’ […]

A public relations war of words between UPS and the cargo airline’s pilots union has gotten both kicked off the investigation team working to determine what caused the crash of UPS Flight 1354 in Birmingham, Alabama, on Aug. 14, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board announced yesterday it has revoked the party status of UPS […]

A Beechcraft Bonanza that was lost in Marin County, California, on Monday evening sparked a 40-acre wildfire in a remote area of farmland and open grass fields. Lieutenant Douglas Pittman from the Marin County sheriff’s department told a local CBS station that dense fog in the area delayed the search and the wreckage wasn’t located […]