3 killed, 2 injured when plane crashes in Illinois

November 30th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 30, 2011 Three people were killed and two were injured late Monday night when a medical transport plane heading to Wheeling, Illinois, crashed in Riverwoods, according to the Daily Herald. The twin-engine Piper Navajo was headed to Chicago Executive Airport when it went down about 50 feet from a home on the 600 block of… Read More

Answers sought in Thanksgiving Arizona plane crash

November 28th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 28, 2011 Three men and three children were killed in a plane crash in the Superstition Mountains, east of Apache Junction, Arizona, on Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving, according to the Tucson Citizen. Federal investigators say the aircraft flew into a cliff just four or five minutes after it took off. Then it burst… Read More

Maryland father and son crash trying to land plane

November 23rd, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 23, 2011 A pilot and his son crashed while trying to land at Chesapeake Ranch Estates airport in Calvert County, Lusby, Maryland, on Sunday evening, according to Southern Maryland Newspaper. Father and son were flying back from Chicago, Illinois, in a fixed-wing single engine plane. When they tried to land on the paved runway,… Read More

2 Oklahoma State University basketball coaches, 2 others killed in plane crash

November 21st, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 21, 2011 Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) head basketball coach 50-year-old Kurt Budke and assistant coach 36-year-old Miranda Serna died Thursday in a plane crash near Perryville, Arkansas, reports News Oklahoma. Also killed were the 82-year-old pilot and his 79-year-old wife. The airplane was a single-engine Piper that would not meet the OSU team travel… Read More

Arizona family killed in airplane crash

November 16th, 2011 | Aviation accident

November 16, 2011 On November 6, a Lake Havasu City husband and wife and their 20-year-old son were killed in a airplane accident, according to the Havasu News. They were flying home in a Cessna 182 from a football game and were expected to arrive home by 8 p.m. that night. When the man did… Read More