4 people killed in Colorado mountains plane crash

December 5th, 2011 | Aviation accident

December 5, 2011 When a small plane crashed in the southwest Colorado mountains on Saturday, all four people aboard died, according to the Washington Post. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official said that the single-engine Socata TB-21 aircraft crashed Saturday around 3 p.m. in an area north of and about one and a half miles… Read More

2 injured in Seattle plane crash

December 2nd, 2011 | Aviation accident

December 2, 2011 A man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s were both injured when their plane crashed soon after takeoff from Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Seattle Pi. A student pilot and a flight instructor were aboard the twin engine Piper when it… Read More

3 killed, 2 injured when plane crashes in Illinois

November 30th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 30, 2011 Three people were killed and two were injured late Monday night when a medical transport plane heading to Wheeling, Illinois, crashed in Riverwoods, according to the Daily Herald. The twin-engine Piper Navajo was headed to Chicago Executive Airport when it went down about 50 feet from a home on the 600 block of… Read More

Answers sought in Thanksgiving Arizona plane crash

November 28th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 28, 2011 Three men and three children were killed in a plane crash in the Superstition Mountains, east of Apache Junction, Arizona, on Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving, according to the Tucson Citizen. Federal investigators say the aircraft flew into a cliff just four or five minutes after it took off. Then it burst… Read More

Maryland father and son crash trying to land plane

November 23rd, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 23, 2011 A pilot and his son crashed while trying to land at Chesapeake Ranch Estates airport in Calvert County, Lusby, Maryland, on Sunday evening, according to Southern Maryland Newspaper. Father and son were flying back from Chicago, Illinois, in a fixed-wing single engine plane. When they tried to land on the paved runway,… Read More