Accidents

As Russian investigators are working hard to piece together the cause behind last month’s tragic crash of a commercial 737 jet, which killed all 50 people on board, fingers are being pointed at the operations of the airline itself. Multiple reports by Russian news media including The Moscow Times claim that Rosaviatsia, Russia’s Federal Air […]

The crash of a Learjet 25 that killed famed Latin singer Jenni Rivera was caused by a “series of factors,” according to a report released this week by Mexico’s General Civil Aviation Administration. The report comes just a few days shy of the one-year anniversary of the accident, which fatally injured all seven occupants on […]

Passengers who survived the crash of a Cessna 208 Caravan near St. Mary’s, Alaska, over the weekend have told investigators the airplane “dropped out of the sky” without warning during the flight in conditions described as low ceilings and freezing rain. The pilot and three passengers, one of them a five-month-old baby, were killed in […]

The operator of the police helicopter that crashed through the roof of a Glasgow pub last Friday grounded its entire fleet of Eurocopter EC135s for a time last year amid serious concerns about rotor hub shaft cracks, according to public records. Accident investigators in the U.K. haven’t indicated that the grounding played a role in […]

Four people died over the weekend near St Mary’s, Alaska, after a Cessna 208 Caravan crashed in conditions described by local news outlets as freezing rain and low ceilings. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the passengers killed include a retired couple, a five-month-old baby and the pilot. Six additional passengers survived with injuries and […]

The investigation into the crash of a police helicopter through the roof of a packed Glasgow pub on Friday night continues as emergency workers sift through the rubble in search of more bodies. At least nine people died and 30 were hospitalized when the Eurocopter EC135T2 went down at about 10:30 p.m. local time straight […]

A medevac Learjet bound for Mexico crashed in the ocean about a mile offshore minutes after departing Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Tuesday night. Officials said two people on board have been confirmed killed and a Coast Guard search continues for two others. An airport spokesman told media outlets that the Learjet 35 was returning […]

Security camera video shows a Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 descending nearly vertically at a Russian airport on Sunday before exploding in a massive fireball. All 44 passengers and six crew members were killed in the crash after the jetliner aborted one landing attempt and was attempting another. Weather does not appear to have been a […]

Miami-Dade homicide detectives have opened an investigation into the case of a passenger who apparently fell to his death into a mangrove forest from the open rear door of a Piper Malibu last Thursday. The pilot called for help, radioing “mayday, mayday, mayday” and telling air traffic controllers that a door was open and a […]

Confidence in the ability of unmanned aircraft to integrate into U.S. airspace took another hit on Tuesday when an Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed on a training flight. Attached to the 174th Attack Wing of the New York Air National Guard, the aircraft suffered failure of its datalink control, and crashed into Lake Ontario […]