Accidents

The FAA database shows the registration of an Aerospatiale AS355F-1 TwinStar that crashed in West Windsor, New Jersey, on Sept. 15 had expired on June 30. The pilot and sole occupant, a 65-year-old former New York City policeman, was killed when the helicopter, N58030, crashed in a cornfield. One witness, an engineer who was approximately […]

The NTSB has released the preliminary report on the Cirrus SR22 crash we reported on last week in which five people lost their lives in southwest Missouri. The report states that the Cirrus SR22 crashed near Willard, Missouri, at 00:23 central daylight time on Sept. 15 on its way to the Springfield-Branson National Airport (SGF), […]

Investigators are trying to determine whether a flock of birds might have caused the crash of a Eurocopter AS355 in central New Jersey that killed a retired New York City police officer. Michael Scarfia, 65, of Staten Island was identified as the pilot of the twin-engine helicopter that went down in a cornfield shortly after […]

The Breitling Jet Team lost the number two Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros this weekend after an apparent engine problem, which prompted pilot Bernard Charbonnel and technician Raphael Savoye to eject safely from the airplane. The incident occurred while the team was repositioning the airplanes from Den Helder, Netherlands to Kleine Brogel, Belgium. “When we were […]

A Cirrus SR22 crashed early Saturday morning in southwestern Missouri, killing all five occupants. The 2002 SR22 went down around midnight approximately five miles away from Springfield-Branson National Airport, which is believed to have been its intended destination. A few witnesses who were near the crash site at the time of the accident told local […]

It’s hard to say exactly what is going on in this video shot on Saturday over the seaside town of Wassenaar in the Netherlands, but what’s clear is cockpit cameras caught one airplane descending into the top of another, causing quite a bit of damage in the collision but luckily no injuries. According to news […]

North Dakota warbird restorer and pilot extraordinaire Bob Odegaard was killed on Friday evening when his Goodyear F2G Super Corsair crashed at Barnes County Airport in Valley City, North Dakota, while Odegaard was practicing for an upcoming airshow. No one on the ground was injured in the crash, and Odegaard died at the scene in […]

The pilots of a Yak-42 that crashed in Russia last year and killed 44 including the Russian hockey team Lokomotiv were flying illegally, Russian investigators said this week. According to Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s accident investigation agency, the pilots had not undergone the appropriate training needed to safely fly the charter jet and […]

Richard Bach, Flying alumnus and author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” among other aviation-themed books, was seriously injured after crashing in his single-engine SeaRey amphibian on Friday near Friday Harbor, Washington, according to news reports. Bach’s son James Marcus Bach wrote in a blog that his father “hit a power line while landing at a small […]

An L-39 flying as part of the Hoppers formation aerobatics team went out of control and crashed at the Quad City Airshow in Davenport Iowa on Saturday, killing the pilot, Glenn Smith, 59, of Frisco, Texas. No one on the ground was injured, but the crowd could see in the distance the airplane descending out […]