NTSB Joins Probe of Boston Airport Collision

July 18th, 2011 | Aviation accident

A collision between two airliners on a taxiway at Logan International Airport is now considered serious enough for National Transportation Safety Board investigators to get involved. Read More

2 Die in Small Plane Crash in NY’s Hudson Valley

June 29th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 29, 2011 Two men died Tuesday afternoon when a single-engine Cessna 172 crashed at Dutchess County Airport in the Town of Wappinger, New York. The fatalities include a 60-year-old Poughkeepsie man and a 23-year-old Brewster man. Both were unconscious when rescue crews arrived at the crash site. The older man was pronounced dead at… Read More

Alaska Airlines replaces pilot manuals with iPads

June 9th, 2011 | Aviation accident

June 9, 2011 LOS ANGELES — As part of his daily routine for the last 15 years, Alaska Airlines pilot Randy Kleiger hauled his 40-pound airline manuals onto his jet, using them to check everything from routing information and company policies to airport parking. But the 1,000-plus pages of paper are soon to be history,… Read More

4 Perish in Utah Plane Crash

June 2nd, 2011 | Other accidents

June 2, 2011 A single-engine plane crashed along the Utah-Nevada border on Wednesday afternoon, killing all four people on board. The crash occurred at 2:45 p.m. near a Wendover, Utah, airport. Though the cause of the crash hasn’t been determined, the plane went down during extreme wind conditions, says Tooele County Emergency Management spokesman Wade… Read More

3 Die in Cessna Crash Near Reno

June 1st, 2011 | Other accidents

June 1, 2011 Seventy-two hours after a Cessna 172 and its three passengers were reported missing, authorities discovered the plane’s wreckage in the steep terrain of the Peterson Mountain Range at the California/Nevada border. First responders found two men and one woman dead inside the plane. The plane departed on Saturday from a Roseburg, Oregon,… Read More