Aftermath

In 2018, a Junkers Ju 52 crashed in the Swiss Alps while attempting to cross a 10,000-foot saddle from south to north amid gusting winds.

The NTSB included among factors related to the accident the pilot’s overconfidence in himself—and the airplane.

Examining the aftermath of a mysterious, fatal crash of a 1950s Air Force trainer.

Pilots like to fly low, so what can we learn from this 2017 Cessna 172 accident?

The gospel on turn-backs after a power loss just after takeoff is to continue straight ahead, no matter how uninviting the terrain looks.

A Navion crash in November 2016 could have been avoided by breaking an old habit.

In August 2015, a Florence, South Carolina, doctor, 51, left his home field early in the morning on a vacation trip whose eventual destination was the Grand Canyon.

A go-around from a full-flap approach is a delicate maneuver that pilots are seldom called upon to perform.

Do you know the difference between civil twilight, nautical twilight and astronomical twilight?

A Missouri businessman, 54, and his dog, who accompanied him everywhere, died when his Piper Cherokee Six broke up in flight over Cuba, Missouri, in 2015. The 1,200-hour pilot had filed an instrument flight plan from Branson, Missouri, where he had a vacation home, northeastward to St. Louis. He was cruising at 5,000 feet. When […]