A Cessna Citation 550 struck high-voltage power lines while approaching Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego just before 4 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on May 22. The aircraft was approaching the end of the second leg of a long overnight from New York in instrument conditions and without the benefit of a local altimeter setting—which may become a focus of the NTSB investigation.
A Cessna T207 Turbo Stationair was destroyed April 28 attempting to land at Nanwalek Airport in Alaska, and the NTSB preliminary report includes details that point to loss of control during a go-around attempt.
A Beechcraft Baron never climbed more than 300 feet above the ground after departing Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Colorado on May 17, crashing just over a mile from the runway after reporting an open door during takeoff.
On April 24, my good friend and legendary airshow pilot Rob Holland died in a crash during his arrival at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, where he was scheduled to perform at the Air Power Over Hampton Roads airshow. The preliminary report from investigators shows that this was a preventable tragedy related to maintenance on the aircraft, and subsequent mechanical failure.
The April 24 accident that killed Rob Holland, the most accomplished U.S. aerobatic pilot of his generation, likely began with a loose screw, based on facts reported by the NTSB on May 2.
Renowned airshow pilot and aerobatic competitor Rob Holland died when his single-seat MX Aircraft MXS aircraft crashed while on approach at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia.
A HondaJet HA–420 overran an Oregon coast runway and came to rest partially submerged in Coos Bay on April 7, followed by another into the grass in Florida on April 9—the latest of more than two dozen similar incidents. The owners group seeks to arrest that trend with pilot training.
By the time the air traffic controller finished delivering a low altitude alert, the TBM 700 flown by a Minnesota bank executive returning home from Florida was already through the roof of a Brooklyn Park home.
Two days after their harrowing brush with death, John Murphy, the pilot of a Piper PA–28-235 Charger that iced up after unintentional VFR flight into clouds and crashed near the highest peak of the Taconic Range in southern Vermont, explained the decisions that very nearly killed him and his two adult children aboard the aircraft.
A federal judge on March 10 delayed until October the trial of a Pennsylvania flight school owner and the instructor he employed who was previously charged with manslaughter and providing instruction without a valid certificate.
Five people aboard a Beechcraft Bonanza were hospitalized on March 9 after the aircraft crashed less than a minute after takeoff and slid into the parking lot of an airport-adjacent retirement community in Pennsylvania.
The climbing Cessna 172 was probably not visible from the overtaking Lancair 360 Mk II above it as the two aircraft converged at the outset of their third circuit around the pattern on February 19.
A witness who watched the Van's Aircraft RV–10 depart from Fullerton Municipal Airport in California on January 2 told investigators that the left-side gull-wing door was open after takeoff, and that he saw the pilot's arm reach up to pull it down.
The NTSB determined that the pilots of a turbine-powered Piper Malibu Mirage and a Cessna Skyhawk that collided in July 2022 had a low probability of being able to see each other's aircraft in the final minute of their respective approaches to parallel runways.
While much remains to be learned from the investigation of a fatal January 2 accident in Fullerton, California, the recorded conversation between the pilot and the tower controller suggests that the outcome hinged on a fateful decision made more than a minute before impact.
The NTSB attributed the midair collision of a Bell P–63F Kingcobra fighter with a B–17G bomber during the Commemorative Air Force’s Wings Over Dallas airshow on November 12, 2022, to factors ranging from “inadequate prebriefing” to a lack of oversight by the FAA and airshow industry officials. The investigative agency released the findings December 9, ahead of the final report scheduled to be published December 12.
It’s 3:58 p.m. local time, Monday, October 26, 2020, near Lubbock, Texas. A small airplane emerges below the clouds traveling low to the ground through the freezing mist
During a helicopter lesson, the instructor informed me we would be practicing autorotation. I was familiar with the maneuver, having had it described and demonstrated in a previous lesson with another instructor, but did not have expertise in performing it. The instructor started by explaining what an autorotation entailed and why we practice it.
It’s the evening of June 9, 2020, and the pilot of a Zenair 601HDS, N6402X, is out for a solo flight in the Phoenix, Arizona, area from Deer Valley Airport (DVT) to the Ak-Chin Regional Airport (A39), 43 nautical miles to the south.
A Pennsylvania man who allegedly gave flight instruction 41 times without a valid pilot or instructor certificate was charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of a student pilot.
Two-pilot crews are structured to provide safeguards far more extensive than the obvious redundancy of having a second body in the cockpit if the first falls ill.
I recently had my first emergency in my Piper Turbo Arrow, and it was a great learning experience for me. I made some good choices but also some incredibly poor choices.
As with most flights I’ve taken, this trip started out uneventfully. I had topped off my Cessna 170B in Caldwell, Idaho, and was en route to McCall (MYL) to meet my wife.
Two people died when a Lancair ES crashed shortly after noon on July 22, about 1.5 nautical miles south of the threshold of Runway 36 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
It was just before 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 13, 2022, when the pilot of N79NX—a Pilatus PC–12—prepared to depart Hyde County Airport (7W6) in Engelhart, North Carolina, for a short flight to Michael J. Smith Field Airport (MRH) in Beaufort, North Carolina.
The pilot of a Boeing Stearman PT-17 that crashed into Keystone Lake in Oklahoma in August, 2022, after striking a power line, has pleaded guilty to obstructing a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the accident.
A nonpilot with a long criminal history who crashed an illegally modified Piper PA–18 into a hangar in an Alaska airpark community two years ago faces a lengthy federal prison sentence to be imposed in August for flying without a pilot certificate and displaying fraudulent aircraft registration markings.
An Israel Aerospace Industries Gulfstream G150 was heavily damaged in May 2021 after its two pilots allowed a dangerous distraction into their operation of the business jet.
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