A New Look at The President’s Doomsday Plane

June 7th, 2011 | Aviation articles

June 7, 2011 A new report from ABC News takes an inside look at the virtually infallible “Doomsday Plane” that would transport and protect the president, secretary of defense, Joints Chiefs of Staff, and others, in the event of nuclear war, catastrophic natural disaster, or other unknown emergency. On board the plane with Secretary of… Read More

Washington State Man Dies in Oregon Plane Crash

June 6th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 6, 2011 A man from Ilwaco, Washington, died Saturday night when his single-engine Piper Comanche crashed a mile away from Oregon’s coastal Warrenton-Astoria Regional Airport. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus told The Associated Press that the four-seat plane lost power at 6 p.m., crashing near Fort Clatsop National Memorial shortly after take-off from… Read More

Victim’s Families Push for the “Most Significant Aviation Legislation in a Generation”

July 9th, 2010 | Aviation articles

In February 2009, a horrific crash in upstate New York took the lives of all 49 on board and one person on the ground when a twin-engine turboprop plane stalled and nosedived into a home only five miles from the Buffalo-Niagra International Airport. Family members of those victims have made 30 trips to Washington lobbying… Read More