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

Cause of plane crash could take months to determine

August 17th, 2012 | Aviation accident

August 17, 2012 A single-engine plane piloted by a 68-year-old man crashed around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in Clifton Park, New York, reports The Troy Record. The plane’s 67-year-old passenger died in the crash. The pilot remains unconscious and in critical condition at Albany Medical Center. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrived at the crash site… Read More

What are the FAA and the NTSB?

August 13th, 2012 | Aviation articles

August 13, 2012 When a plane crashes, two federal agencies investigate the causes of the accident: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Whereas the FAA is a federal regulating agency, the NTSB is an independent government agency. The NTSB investigates every civil aviation accident in the U.S. and also has… Read More