Airport accident followed flight to L.A.

December 12th, 2011 | Other accidents

December 12, 2011 An elderly woman fell from stairs at the Los Angeles International Airport on November 22, reports Southern Oregon’s Mail Tribune. Her head struck the pavement. The accident took place around 8:30 a.m. after passengers got off a Horizon Flight from Medford and were climbing to the top of the stairs leading to… Read More

Model accidentally walks into airplane propeller

December 9th, 2011 | Other accidents

December 9, 2011 A model and editor of an online fashion magazine, Lauren Scruggs, 23, was seriously injured on Saturday, December 3, at a private airport in McKinney, Texas, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The North Texas woman lost her hand and suffered severe eye, shoulder, and head injuries when she walked into the aircraft’s… Read More

Lake Huron plane crash kills 2 men

December 7th, 2011 | Aviation accident

December 7, 2011 Amazon.com executive Tom Phillips, a 52-year-old of Kirkland, Michigan, and a 29-year-old man died Sunday in a small-plane crash on Lake Huron shore, reports US News. They were flying to a home that Phillips owned on Mackinaw Island when the crash occurred. After a concerned family member called Michigan State Police at 10:07 p.m. on… Read More

4 people killed in Colorado mountains plane crash

December 5th, 2011 | Aviation accident

December 5, 2011 When a small plane crashed in the southwest Colorado mountains on Saturday, all four people aboard died, according to the Washington Post. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official said that the single-engine Socata TB-21 aircraft crashed Saturday around 3 p.m. in an area north of and about one and a half miles… Read More

2 injured in Seattle plane crash

December 2nd, 2011 | Aviation accident

December 2, 2011 A man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s were both injured when their plane crashed soon after takeoff from Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Seattle Pi. A student pilot and a flight instructor were aboard the twin engine Piper when it… Read More