NTSB Releases Articles To Reduce Aviation Accidents

March 15th, 2013 | Aviation articles

March 14, 2013 Data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the agency investigates around 1,500 General Aviation Accidents each year. Those crashes result in roughly 475 fatalities and numerous victims being seriously injured. These investigations allowed the NTSB to gather information that has helped the agency to determine what some of the most common causes… Read More

Virginia Mid-Air Collision Kills Two And Injures Another

June 1st, 2012 | Aviation accident

Investigators examining a mid-air collision Monday of two small planes over Fauquier County, Virginia, are still working to determine what may have caused the crash. Read More

1 Dead, Another Injured After Romeoville, IL, Plane Crash

June 27th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 27, 2011 A plane crash Sunday in Romeoville, Illinois, killed a 68-year-old pilot from Darien and injured his passenger when engine trouble forced a crash landing near Lewis University Airport. After taking off from Brookeridge Airpark near Downers Grove, the plane crashed around 2:30 p.m. near Airport Road and Independent Boulevard, according to The… Read More

Small Plane Crash Kills 2 Civilians at Florida Air Force Base

June 24th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 24, 2011 Two civilians died in the twilight hours of Thursday morning when a small Beechcraft plane crashed near a runway at Eglin Air Force Base in Eglin, Florida. The plane was piloted by a retired Air Force Colonel who lived in Shalimar and had rented the plane—a Beechcraft C24R Sierra–through Eglin’s Aero Club.… Read More

NTSB Announces Cause of Last Summer’s North Myrtle Beach Plane Crash

June 15th, 2011 | Aviation accident

June 15, 2011 A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board pinpoints poor weather conditions and a lack of recent training as the cause of the North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, plane crash that killed a couple and their four-year-old granddaughter last July as they were returning home to Kannapolis, North Carolina, from a… Read More