Accidents

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its initial report regarding an accident that occurred on July 27 in Venice, Florida, in which a man and his daughter were killed. The two people were playing in shallow water at a local beach when a Piper Cherokee made a forced landing. The pilot and his passenger […]

Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed yesterday in the crash of a Cessna Citation XL in Santo, Brazil, shocking supporters as October’s elections approach. Reports say the crew aborted a landing in poor weather after a flight from Rio de Janeiro. They were attempting to head for an alternate when the crash occurred about […]

A Hawker Sea Fury that was flying as part of the Royal Navy Culdrose Air Day in Cornwall, in the southwestern corner of England, crash-landed last week in front a large crowd. Video shows smoke coming out of the engine cowl as the 1940s-era fighter approached the runway. The landing gear was extended just before […]

Two people were transported to a local hospital after crashing in a Breezy Experimental category airplane east of Wittman Regional Airport’s Runway 36R on Thursday morning during AirVenture Oshkosh. The 9 a.m. incident closed the airport for more than an hour as rescue crews worked to put out a fire. Video of the scene shot […]

A Mooney M20L crashed yesterday in a Costco parking lot in San Diego. The Los Angeles Times reported that one of the passengers, an 80-year old woman, died as a result of the crash while the other occupant survived the accident with injuries. No one on the ground was hurt. From the attached video, it […]

Creighton King, the owner of Cassutt Aircraft, survived a traumatic incident on his way to AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. King had completed the AirVenture Cup race, a cross-country race of about 450 nm from Mitchell, South Dakota, to Wausau, Wisconsin, via Mankato, Minnesota, in his single-seat Cassutt and was on his way from Wausau to […]

A man and his daughter were killed when they were struck by a 1972 Piper Cherokee making an emergency landing on Caspersen Beach in Englewood, Florida. Witnesses say the Cherokee landed just feet from the water’s edge, with the wing potentially extending over the water, as the 36-year-old father and his 9-year-old daughter were walking […]

A 17-year-old’s round-the-world record flight attempt has ended in tragedy. The Beechcraft Bonanza Haris Suleman and his father, Babar, were using in their attempt to circumnavigate the world in 30 days crashed today not far from Pago Pago, the capitol of American Samoa. While Haris’ body has been found, search teams are still looking for […]

The NTSB has released a preliminary report on an accident that happened on July 1 immediately after a Piper PA-12 departed from Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. According to the report, a witness who saw the accident said the “airplane’s angle of attack was so steep” that he knew “something was not right.” Another […]

Accident investigators in Poland are reviewing the maintenance logbooks of a 1976 Piper Navajo in which 11 people were killed and one was seriously injured when the parachute jump plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Saturday. The pressurized PA-31P took off from an airfield in Czestochowa, Poland, with 11 jumpers and one pilot onboard. Weather […]