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Man Walking Dog Finds Potomac Crash Debris

NTSB to evaluate debris, including what appears to be the back of a plane seat

(Newser) - A casual walk along the Potomac River turned extraordinary when a Northern Virginia man stumbled upon what appears to be wreckage from January's deadly mid-air collision near Reagan National Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board believes the debris—including the back of a plane seat with tray table...

Wyoming Plane Crash Kills Girl, Hospitalizes Her Family

Parents in critical condition after wreck in Bighorn Mountains

(Newser) - A family outing turned tragic in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains on Labor Day when a plane crash claimed the life of a 13-year-old girl and left the rest of her Idaho family hospitalized. Authorities say the Palmer family's Piper PA-28 went down shortly after takeoff at Bighorn National...

This Is What's Left After 2 Planes Collided

Remarkably, 2 people were able to leave the scene on their own; 2 others weren't so lucky

(Newser) - Two small planes collided in the air at a Colorado airport on Sunday, leaving one dead amid a charred patch of earth. A Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 were both trying to land at Fort Morgan Municipal Airport around 10:40am when they collided, the Morgan County Sheriff'...

Medical Transport Plane Crash Kills 4 on Navajo Nation

Medical personnel were on their way to pick up patient in northern Arizona

(Newser) - Four people died Tuesday when a medical transport plane crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, the tribe said in a statement. The crash involving the CSI Aviation company out of Albuquerque, New Mexico occurred near the airport in Chinle, about 200 miles northeast of Flagstaff,...

NTSB Begins Digging Into Potomac Plane Crash

3 days of hearings open in search of what caused the disaster, as well as for possible solutions

(Newser) - Three days of hearings into the equally tragic and public collision in January between an Army helicopter and a passenger plane within a stone's throw of the nation's capital got underway on Wednesday, reports NBC Boston . The National Transportation Safety Board, which won't release its final report...

Passenger Plane Crashes in Russia, No Survivors

Nearly 50 dead after Soviet-era aircraft went down in nation's mountainous far east

(Newser) - A passenger plane from the Soviet era crashed in the mountainous far east of Russia on Thursday, and authorities say 48 people are dead. Details:
  • The twin turboprop, called an Antonov An-24, was en route from Blagoveshchensk to Tynda, the latter described by Reuters as a remote town and railway
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Lawyer: Families Got Wrong Remains After Air India Crash

DNA testing revealed alleged mix-up

(Newser) - Two British families mourning loved ones lost in the Air India crash are now suffering "indescribable psychological distress" on top of their grief, says their lawyer. That's because they allegedly received the wrong remains. James Healy-Pratt, who represents more than 20 British families affected by the June...

Moose Antlers Were a Factor in Deadly Alaska Plane Crash

2023 crash killed ex-Rep. Mary Peltola's husband

(Newser) - A small plane that crashed in 2023 while carrying moose meat for hunters in remote western Alaska, killing the husband of former US Rep. Mary Peltola, was overweight for takeoff and encountered drag from a set of antlers mounted outside, federal investigators said in a report released Tuesday. The National...

In Search for Missing Plane, a Smartwatch Comes Through

Victim's device leads searchers to aircraft that went down in dense forest in Montana, killing 3

(Newser) - Hidden deep in Montana's forests, a downed plane went undetected—until searchers picked up a signal from a victim's smartwatch, guiding them to the tragic scene. According to the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office, rescuers homed in on the wreckage just south of the town of West...

Fighter Jet Crashes Into School in Bangladesh

At least 18 dead and more than 160 injured

(Newser) - A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital of Dhaka shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing at least 18 people, per the AP . The pilot is among the dead, but more details about fatalities were not immediately available. The Chinese-made F-7 BGI aircraft crashed...

Residents Rush to the Rescue After Florida Plane Crash

They 'put their dinner forks down to get out there,' mayor says

(Newser) - A small plane's crash in a Miami suburb Sunday night prompted a swift response from nearby residents. The Cessna T337G, inbound from Turks and Caicos and attempting to land at North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, clipped a tree and crashed just short of its destination, WPLG reports....

In Wake of Crash, India Orders Look at Boeing's Fuel Switches

South Korean regulators, Singapore Airlines also join in

(Newser) - India's aviation regulator ordered on Monday airlines operating several Boeing models to examine fuel control switches, days after an investigation into last month's Air India plane crash found they were flipped off, starving both engines of fuel. India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation stated the directive would...

Investigation: Air India Pilots Cut Off Fuel to Engines

Investigators focus on cockpit actions after deadly midair shutdown 30 seconds into flight

(Newser) - Investigators probing last month's Air India crash say the jet's engines lost power just after takeoff because fuel was cut off from both engines—an action apparently triggered by the pilots, reports the New York Times . According to a preliminary report that comes 30 days after the crash, the...

2 Student Pilots Crash Into Each Other in Midair

Both pilots died in accident at pilot training school in Manitoba

(Newser) - Two student pilots died on Tuesday morning when their single-engine planes crashed in midair south of Steinbach, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Adam Penner, president of Harv's Air pilot training school, said the two were practicing takeoffs and landings in small Cessna planes, the AP reports. He said...

20-Year Search for Plane in Lake Michigan Ends

Northwest Orient crash in 1950 was the worst US air disaster ever at the time

(Newser) - A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board—the worst aviation disaster in US history at the time—after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology. The effort to find Northwest Orient Flight...

Turtle on Runway May Have Caused Deadly Crash

Pilot of vintage aircraft lifted wheel to avoid turtle at North Carolina airport before taking off again

(Newser) - A crash that killed two people at Sugar Valley Airport near Mocksville, North Carolina, earlier this month may have been caused by an effort to avoid a turtle. According to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the June 3 crash, a UNICOM operator advised a pilot preparing to...

Air India Plane's Engines Had 'Clean' Histories

Chair of airline makes first public comments

(Newser) - Air India has revealed that one of the engines on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed last week was new, installed in March, while the other had been serviced in 2023 and wasn't due for maintenance until December. Both engines had "clean" histories, according to Tata Sons...

Runway Lights Had Been Out for Years Before Plane Crash

NTSB issues preliminary report on May crash in San Diego

(Newser) - The runway lights that would have helped guide a small jet into a San Diego airport in foggy weather before the plane crashed, killing all six aboard, hadn't worked since 2022, investigators said. But it's unclear whether the pilot who was based at the airport knew the lights...

She Missed Air India Flight by 10 Minutes Due to Traffic

'This is totally a miracle for me,' says 28-year-old student Bhoomi Chauhan

(Newser) - Everyone understands the stress of getting stuck in traffic on the way to the airport, yet student Bhoomi Chauhan was especially irritated on Thursday when the gridlock in and around Ahmedabad caused her to miss her flight by just 10 minutes. That annoyance has since turned to gratitude, after Chauhan,...

Doomed Air India Plane Issued Mayday Call After Take-Off

Black box has been recovered from Air India crash site

(Newser) - The cause of the first-ever Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash is still unknown but investigators hope to have answers soon. Officials say the digital flight recorder, one of the Air India aircraft's two black boxes, was recovered from a rooftop near the crash site on Friday, the AP reports.
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