Accidents

Over the past several years the FAA has highlighted a few safety concerns designed to stop the most serious mishaps, but the agency has pursued none of these efforts as energetically as it has worked toward putting an end to runway accidents, a focus we applaud. It’s an effort that, unfortunately, has shown spotty results, […]

Three longtime Civil Air Patrol members were killed on Tuesday after their Piper Cherokee Six crashed in a residential neighborhood shortly after taking off from Hawkins Field Airport (HKS) in Jackson, Mississippi. The CAP Mississippi Wing members killed in the crash included Col. John E. Tilton Jr., former member of the Civil Air Patrol’s board […]

Amateur video shot over the weekend captured the dramatic overrun of a Cessna CJ3 trying to land on Runway 35R at Sao Paulo-Congonhas Airport in Brazil. As shown in the footage, the Citation bounced upon reaching the end of the runway before coming to a crashing halt on the perimeter wall that encircles the airport. […]

The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), a government-industry cooperative effort to cut the helicopter accident rate by 80 percent by 2016, is calling for an immediate “culture change” to stem a problem that appears to be growing worse instead of better. The IHST issued its warning after four deadly helicopter crashes occurred this month in […]

A Brazilian appeals court upheld the guilty verdict against two American pilots on Monday for their involvement in the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 that killed 154 people in 2006, but denied prosecutors’ arguments that the men should serve time in prison. After receiving the guilty verdict last year, the two men were sentenced […]

The NTSB’s official accident report on last year’s G650 test flight crash – released Wednesday – blames the fatal accident on Gulfstream’s aggressive test flight schedule and failure to rectify pre-existing flaws in the ultra-long-range business jet’s takeoff speed. According to investigators, the accident that killed four seasoned Gulfstream employees – which occurred after the […]

You’re flying a twin-engine jet transport. The engines are at full power. The wings are rocking, but the heading is steady. The pitch attitude is 15 degrees nose up, but the VSI says that you are descending at 10,000 fpm. The flight director needles command a nose-up pitch. What should you do? It’s hard, isn’t […]

The search for a missing De Havilland DH84 Dragon 2 ended on Wednesday when a rescue helicopter spotted the wreckage of the rare 1934 biplane in the Sunshine Coast hinterland of Australia. Neither the 68-year-old pilot, Desmond Porter, nor the five passengers aboard the vintage airplane survived the crash. The search mission was triggered on […]

A team of crash investigators has completed a compelling documentary that will air this Sunday on the Discovery Channel. As part of the show “Curiosity Plane Crash,” the team deliberately crashed a Boeing 727 with a half-million dollars worth of anthropomorphic crash dummies, g-force sensors and 38 video cameras on the Sonoran Desert (which spans […]

Search and rescue personnel in Australia are currently looking for a 1934 De Havilland DH84 Dragon 2 with six people on board that went missing on Monday after departing from a vintage air show. According to local news reports, the aircraft – which is cleared to fly only in VFR conditions – issued a distress […]