Accidents

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 […]

About 120 nautical miles separate Winchester and Lynchburg, Virginia. But even a nearby destination may prove strangely difficult to reach. The pilot-owner of a 1964 Cessna 210D, a 50-year-old physician with about 300 hours, left Winchester for Lynchburg, alone, a few minutes before 8 o’clock on an April evening. He had made the same trip, […]

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has released its first docket of factual information surrounding the May midair collision of a Beech Bonanza and Piper Cherokee near Warrenton, Virginia, involving airplanes owned by an NTSB and FAA employee. The NTSB has asked the Canadian agency to take the lead in the investigation to avoid […]