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

Small Plane Crashes Near Texas Apartment Building, Kills 2

May 31st, 2011 | Other accidents

May 31, 2011 A single-engine plane crashed into the parking lot of a Galveston, Texas, apartment complex on Saturday night, killing a married couple from Cedar Hill who were aboard the aircraft. The 1973 Aero Commander plane took off from Dallas-Ft. Worth and was less than three miles away from its intended destination—Galveston’s Easterwood Airport—when… Read More

5 Family Members Die in Cessna Crash in Anchorage

May 31st, 2011 | Other accidents

Five people died in a plane crash near Anchorage, Alaska’s Birchwood Airport on Friday morning—killing a 46-year-old flight mechanic, his 69-year-old mother, 12-year-old daughter, 12-year-old son, and 11-year-old daughter. At about 10:15 a.m. the single-engine Cessna 180 plane crashed and exploded on railroad tracks located a half-mile from the airport. The flames were so high… Read More

Plane Crash in Western North Carolina Claims at Least 3 Lives

May 26th, 2011 | Other accidents

May 26, 2011 A twin-engine Beech Baron 58 aircraft crashed into mountainous western North Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one person. Crews are still searching the rough terrain in Unaka, North Carolina—about 125 miles west of Asheville—for additional bodies. The first body was found by rescuers on foot after the plane’s smoking wreckage… Read More