Engine Shuts Down During Southwest Airlines Flight to Phoenix

July 1st, 2011 | Aviation accident

July 1, 2011 A Southwest Airlines flight ended with a safe landing on Thursday night, despite operating with only one functioning engine. The plane, which was in route from El Paso, Texas, to Phoenix, Arizona, arrived in Phoenix at 9:30 p.m. and taxied to the gate under its own power. None of the 139 passengers… 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

Disorientation May Have Led to Fatal Tulsa Crash in 2009

June 22nd, 2011 | Aviation accident

June 22, 2011 The plane crash that killed five people on September 5, 2009, in west Tulsa, Oklahoma, was likely the result of the pilot being disoriented prior to the incident, according to a new report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The report says that poor visibility may have prevented the pilot from knowing… Read More

Ohio plane crash kills two physicians from Franklin Lakes

June 20th, 2011 | Other accidents

A well-known neurosurgeon from Franklin Lakes and his wife — also a doctor — died Sunday after a small plane crashed into a cornfield and caught fire near the end of a runway at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, authorities said. Read more. Read More

4 Die in Armonk, NY, Plane Crash

June 20th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 20, 2011 A Manhattan family of three and a friend were killed Saturday afternoon when a single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area of Armonk, New York, just minutes after taking off from Westchester County Airport. The pilot—a 63-year-old art gallery owner—was transporting his 51-year-old wife, their 14-year-old daughter, and her 14-year-old friend to… Read More