2 Oklahoma State University basketball coaches, 2 others killed in plane crash

November 21st, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 21, 2011 Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) head basketball coach 50-year-old Kurt Budke and assistant coach 36-year-old Miranda Serna died Thursday in a plane crash near Perryville, Arkansas, reports News Oklahoma. Also killed were the 82-year-old pilot and his 79-year-old wife. The airplane was a single-engine Piper that would not meet the OSU team travel… Read More

Arizona family killed in airplane crash

November 16th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 16, 2011 On November 6, a Lake Havasu City husband and wife and their 20-year-old son were killed in a airplane accident, according to the Havasu News. They were flying home in a Cessna 182 from a football game and were expected to arrive home by 8 p.m. that night. When the man did… Read More

Indiana pilot crashes twin-engine plane

November 14th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 14, 2011 On Friday a Centerville, Indiana, man crashed a twin-engine plane into a creek more than 1,000 feet from the Connersville’s Mettel Field runway, Indiana state police said. The 62-year-old pilot was treated at the scene for minor cuts and abrasions. He said he was not sure what caused the Beechcraft Baron plane… Read More

Planes collide near Newberg, Oregon, 1 pilot killed

November 11th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 11, 2011 A new report out this week from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sheds light on a deadly mid-air collision near Newberg, Oregon, that took place on Tuesday, October 25.  The pilot of the downed plane, a 58-year-old man from Beaverton, died in the crash. Aboard the other plane was a pilot and… Read More

2 Florida men heading home killed in plane crash

November 9th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 9, 2011 Two men, 47 and 74, were killed this past week in a plane crash southwest of Gainesville, Georgia. They were heading home to the Spruce Creek community near Port Orange after a day of flying and attending social events, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal. After taking off from a private airstrip about… Read More