Plane Crash in Vero Beach, FL, Kills Brother and Sister

June 17th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 17, 2011 On Thursday, June 9, a 21-year-old pilot and her 24-year-old brother both died when the Cessna 152 that they’d rented nosedived into a swampy, remote area of Vero Beach, Florida. A preliminary federal report has revealed that the plane was out of control before the crash. The brother and sister, who were… 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

7 Survive WWII Bomber Plane Crash in Chicago

June 13th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 13, 2011 Seven people survived after a B-17 bomber dating back to WWII crash-landed in a cornfield in the far western suburbs of Chicago on Monday morning. All seven people aboard the vintage plane survived, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. Only one person was injured and treated at Rush-Copley Medical Center. The… Read More

A New Look at The President’s Doomsday Plane

June 7th, 2011 | Aviation articles

June 7, 2011 A new report from ABC News takes an inside look at the virtually infallible “Doomsday Plane” that would transport and protect the president, secretary of defense, Joints Chiefs of Staff, and others, in the event of nuclear war, catastrophic natural disaster, or other unknown emergency. On board the plane with Secretary of… Read More

Washington State Man Dies in Oregon Plane Crash

June 6th, 2011 | Other accidents

June 6, 2011 A man from Ilwaco, Washington, died Saturday night when his single-engine Piper Comanche crashed a mile away from Oregon’s coastal Warrenton-Astoria Regional Airport. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus told The Associated Press that the four-seat plane lost power at 6 p.m., crashing near Fort Clatsop National Memorial shortly after take-off from… Read More