Five dead in air plane crash in Missouri

September 21st, 2012 | Aviation accident

September 21, 2012 A small plane crashed on Saturday in southwest Missouri, killing three children and two business owners, reports the Columbia Daily Tribune. The single engine plane went down at about 12:30 a.m., northwest of the town of Willard about five miles away from the Springfield airport. The plane may have taken off from the… Read More

Young man from Ohio killed in small plane crash

September 14th, 2012 | Aviation accident

September 14, 2012 A 24-year-old man died September 1 in a single-engine plane crash at Falmouth Air Park in Falmouth, Massachusetts, reports Cleveland.com. The Bowling Green State University graduate had plans of one day becoming a jet pilot for an airliner. Having loved flying all of his life, he had temporarily relocated to Connecticut, where he… Read More

New Jersey Small Plane Crash Injures Two People

September 7th, 2012 | Aviation accident

September 7, 2012 A twin-engine plane at Central Jersey Regional Airport crashed into a chain link fence, and two men were injured, reports MyCentralJersey.com. The two 44-year-old men were attempting to land the plane when it overturned 200 feet off the runway. About 400 feet beyond the fence are trees that border the outskirts of… Read More

Two men die in vintage plane in Canton, Missouri

September 1st, 2012 | Aviation accident

August 31, 2012 On Wednesday evening at about 9:20 pm, a few miles southwest of Canton, Missouri, a 74 year old man of Carbondale, Illinois, and a 47 year old man of DuQuoin, Illinois, died after their twin engine Piper Apache aircraft crashed, reports the Examiner. The owner of the 1956 light plane was the older of… Read More

Long Island plane crash kills two

August 24th, 2012 | Aviation accident

August 24, 2012 On Sunday around noon on a quiet street in Shirley, New York, a suburb of Long Island, a single-engine Socata TB 10 Tobago light plane crashed, killing two people, reports the Examiner. Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Board are investigating the accident. The plane had just taken off from… Read More