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Investigations are underway following the mishaps in Florida and Louisiana.

Chinese authorities also call for a two-week safety standdown.

Boeing 737-800 aircraft was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members.

Glen de Vries and his instructor died a week after de Vries traveled to space with actor William Shatner.

Blue Origin astronaut Glen de Vries has died in a single-engine airplane crash, police reported Friday. De Vries, 49, was killed Thursday when a Cessna C172 went down near Lake Kemah, New Jersey.

The incident that killed a University of North Dakota aviation student on October 18 was not the result of a mechanical malfunction, the NTSB says.

The University of North Dakota halted all flight activities Tuesday after an aviation student died in an airplane crash that happened during a training flight Monday evening. The accident occurred around 8:30 p.m. Monday in Trail County, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol. The student pilot, identified by the university as 19-year-old John Hauser, […]

The remains of five sailors who died when their MH-60S Seahawk crashed into the ocean in late August have been recovered, the U.S. Navy announced Tuesday. The MH-60S Seahawk, which was aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, crashed into ocean waters while conducting a routine flight operation about 60 nautical miles off the coast of San […]

An investigation is underway after a military training flight crash in a north Texas neighborhood Sunday that left two pilots injured—one severely—and multiple homes damaged, according to military officials. The crash prompted a command-wide safety stand down of the Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft amid the military probe into the cause of the crash. […]

One takeaway from this tragedy: Altitude is the best defense.