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5 Hospitalized After Small Plane Crashes in Retirement Community Parking Lot

A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Sunday in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, and everyone on board survived, officials and witnesses said. The fiery crash happened …

Washington Crash Investigators Complete Interviews, Probe Plane Wreckage, Flight Logs

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday it has completed interviews with air traffic controllers in its investigation into the collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River …

Near-Misses at Washington Airport Worried Pilots Long Before Fatal Crash

U.S. commercial pilot Rick Redfern was preparing to land at Reagan Washington National Airport about a decade ago when he spotted a bright red Coast Guard helicopter hovering about 50 feet (15 m) above the Potomac River. Air traffic control …

Medical Transport Plane Crash in Philadelphia Leaves 7 Dead, 19 Injured

A Medevac plane that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia killed one person on the ground and left 19 others hospitalized, in addition to killing all six people on board the aircraft, the city’s mayor said on Saturday. “This is a tragedy …

Japan Plane Crash Probe Points to Coast Guard Crew Confusion

Cockpit voice recordings released Wednesday indicate Japanese coast guard pilots wrongly thought they could enter an active runway minutes before being struck by a Japan Airlines Co. jet. The recordings, in a report tabled by the Japan Transport Safety Board …

Rescuers Retrieve 38 Bodies and Recorders From Azeri Plane Crash

Kazakh authorities said that a rescue team has recovered 38 bodies at the crash site of Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer SA 190 aircraft as clean-up efforts continue. As many as 29 people survived the crash and are in the hospital, while …

Two Hospitalized After Small Plane Hits Another at Pennsylvania Airport

Two people were taken to hospitals after a small plane struck an unoccupied plane at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, authorities said. Police in Bucks County’s Buckingham Township said first responders were sent to Doylestown Airport shortly before 12:30 p.m. Monday …

Pilot Dies in Crash of Replica WWI-Era Plane During Upstate New York Airshow

A replica of a World War I-era fighter plane caught fire and crashed during an airshow in upstate New York, killing the pilot, according to police. Brian Coughlin, 60, died Saturday after the Fokker D.VIII replica went down during an …

Four People From Connecticut Die in Small Plane Crash in Vermont

A small plane crashed in Vermont near an airport in Ferrisburgh, killing the four people on board, police said Monday. The Vermont State Police recovered the bodies from the wreckage of the four-seat, single-engine Piper aircraft that crashed Sunday in …

2 Small Planes Crash in Nebraska Less Than An Hour Apart; At Least 1 Dead

CROFTON, Neb. (AP) — Two different small planes crashed into fields in northeast Nebraska Monday and killed at least one person. The two crashes happened less than half an hour apart around 9:30 a.m. A Rans S-19 plane crashed first …