Accidents/NTSB

When a family survived a wilderness crash in California in 1967 in their Cessna 195, only to die while waiting for rescue that never came, their story brought home the need for general aviation aircraft to carry ELTs, says Alaska author Ross Nixon. In his book, “Finding Carla,” now in bookstores, Nixon details what went […]

They say aviation regulations are written in blood, and Alaska pilot Ross Nixon tells a story that makes that clear — when a family was lost in a California crash in 1957, it was ultimately determined they might have survived if only they’d been found in time. Thanks to that somber event, says Nixon, general […]

Three people were killed when two aircraft collided in North Collins, south of Buffalo, Sunday morning. The aircraft, a Cessna 120 and a Piper PA-28, had just taken off from Hamburg Airport. A 60-year-old man in one of the aircraft and a couple, both 69, in the other died in the resulting crash, which occurred […]

Beginning this week, AVweb is introducing a new feature for readers called General Aviation Accident Bulletin. These reports, which will appear twice monthly, comprise the latest preliminary reports on general aviation accidents taken from the NTSB’s initial reporting. They offer enough detail to gain a general idea on what happened in the accident, but do […]

Nobody was seriously hurt when a Delta MD-88 ran off a runway at New York’s La Guardia Airport, in March 2015, but the NTSB said this week the crew made some mistakes in dealing with the situation. The flight crew’s decision to land on the snow-covered runway was “not inappropriate,” the safety board said, and […]

The engine that came apart at altitude on a Southwest B737 last month lost one of its fan blades during the flight, the NTSB reported in an investigative update on Monday. The jet was en route from New Orleans to Orlando, Florida, when the incident occurred, and the crew diverted to Pensacola. They landed safely […]

AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages or our sister publication,Aviation Safety magazine and is published twice a month. All the reports listed here are preliminaries and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause in the NTSB’s website at www.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear […]

Investigators who probed the ditching of USAir 1549 into the Hudson River in 2009 say the recently released movie about the event portrays them in an inaccurate and unfair light. The movie, Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released over the weekend in U.S. theaters. For dramatic purposes, Sully portrays the NTSB investigators as prosecutors […]

Try this thought experiment: Before USAir 1549 splashed down in the Hudson, if you put 10 airline crews in a simulator and ran the same scenario, how many would achieve results identical to the real event? Hold that thought for a moment, I’ll get back to it. Of course, you can’t unknow the details of […]

Hundreds of pilots filled a theater in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on Wednesday to watch a preview of Sully, the much-hyped account of the Miracle on the Hudson. There were some minor quibbles but Sandy Dubrow, who was among the pilots, told AVweb’s Russ Niles the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. Duration: 4:30 File Size: 4.7MB download […]