Accidents

Residents of an apartment building in Herndon, Virginia, got a rude surprise on Thursday night as a Cessna 177 Cardinal crashed into their living room around midnight. The residents were asleep at the time of the crash in bedrooms adjacent to the living room when the airplane entered through the roof of the three story […]

Four people were killed in a midair collision involving two single-engine aircraft near Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix Friday morning. While initial details on the fatal accident remain slim, a pilot reportedly witnessed the two aircraft collide around 10 a.m. MST about 15 miles west-northwest of the busy GA airport. By the time emergency crews […]

It was a sad day for volunteers of Angel Flight Northeast after a Piper Seneca on a mission for the group crashed in Upstate New York on Friday, killing a cancer patient, his wife and the pilot. The airplane had taken off from Hanscom Field near Bedford, Massachusetts, with the brain cancer patient — whose […]

At the end of February, the National Transportation Safety Board released the findings of its investigation of the crash of a Bell 206 JetRanger into New York’s East River in October 2011. The helicopter, with five aboard, had just taken off from the riverside East 34th Street Heliport when it began to yaw out of […]

The 30-year-old pilot of a Robinson R22 said she was surprised when the engine quit at 3,000 feet above a crowded section of Honolulu. But her training took over and she executed a successful autorotation onto Fort Street, lined with apartments and located near a college campus. Pilot Julia Link told reporters, “First I thought […]

A Learjet 60 crashed into an apartment building in Valencia, Venezuela, on Sunday, killing the two pilots on board. According to local media reports, no one was injured inside the residential building or on the ground. The crash occurred about two miles from Valencia’s main international airport. Local officials said the Learjet was flying from […]

A Red Bull Bede BD-5J single-seater microjet crashed during an attempted forced landing near Innsbruck, Austria, on May 1, killing Flying Bulls pilot Guido Gehrmann. According to a team statement, Gehrmann suffered an engine failure while returning from an airshow performance in Tyrol, Italy. The Flying Bulls are based in Salzberg, Austria. In the statement […]

A 1950s-era vintage Spanish jet trainer crashed into a hangar and exploded in a fireball at an airshow in Spain on Sunday, killing its 35-year-old pilot. Around 3,000 spectators witnessed the crash at Cuatro Vientos Airport when the historic Hispano HA-200 Saeta went out of control and crashed, sending a fireball and thick black smoke […]

Divers resumed their search for a Grumman G44 amphibian that crashed into the Hudson River Thursday evening after finding no survivors at the scene the night of the accident. The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. in Germantown, New York. Witnesses reported seeing an explosion shortly after the twin-engine amphibian plunged into the Hudson, with several […]

Two Cessna 172s collided on Monday afternoon near Calabasas, California, on the west end of the San Fernando Valley near the Los Angeles metropolitan area. While receiving significant damage in the collision, one airplane landed safely on Westlake Golf Course, a few miles west of the crash site of the second airplane, which impacted a […]