Accidents/NTSB

Crews have responded to an accident on Runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport involving a Delta flight. Images appear to show the aircraft flipped on the runway missing its wings and tail. The CRJ 900 operated by Endeavor Air was arriving from Minneapolis with 76 passengers and four crew. There were at least 18 […]

The Short Wing Piper Club is proposing an alternative method of compliance (AMOC) that would blunt much of the cost and inconvenience posed by a sweeping airworthiness directive set by the FAA last week. The AD, which mandates replacement of the rudders with posts made of 4130N low-alloy steel, covers almost all 31,000 high-wing Pipers […]

At least one person was killed and at least three others injured when a Lear 35 left a runway and collided with a Gulfstream 200 business jet on the ramp at Scottsdale Air Park on Monday. The Lear was rolling out after landing when it crossed an infield and collided with the parked Gulfstream. An […]

The NTSB has declined to confirm statements by Sen. Ted Cruz that the crew of an Army Black Hawk helicopter had the aircraft’s ADS-B Out transmitter “turned off” when it was in a collision with a PSA CRJ700 at Reagan National Airport in late January. The NTSB said in a media update on Saturday that […]

All ten people aboard a Bering Air Cessna Grand Caravan died when the plane crashed on sea ice about 30 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on Thursday. The Coast Guard found the wreckage on Friday afternoon. It was about 12 miles offshore. The plane had “some kind of event which caused them to experience a […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Investigative Update for Feb. 4 reports that most recent information shows the Army Black Hawk helicopter altitude displayed in the control tower showed 300 feet at the moment of impact. However, that readout is rounded to the nearest 100 feet, the NTSB said, suggesting the helicopter altitude could have […]

The National Transportation Safety Board Preliminary Report (posted below) on the Jan. 2 crash of a Vans RV-10 in Fullerton, California, confirms earlier reports that multiple witnesses observed the pilot’s side clamshell door swinging open on takeoff. The report further reveals that Vans sent the builder-owner a retrofit kit for a secondary door latch in […]

The NTSB says it will have to build a timeline for the data obtained from the flight data recorder on the Blackhawk helicopter involved in last week’s collision in Washington because the data wasn’t time stamped. The Board had hoped to get definitive answers on the discrepancy between the radar data and the FDR and […]

Philadelphia officials are asking anyone who have not heard from friends or relatives who may have been in the area of a plane crash on Friday to report them missing as they try to finalize the search for victims. All six onboard the Jet Rescue Learjet 55 were killed as was a person in a […]

It will be properly recognized as a Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) “save” but the occupants of an SR22 in California more accurately owe their lives to the heroics of a state highway patrol member and a couple of bystanders. The California Highway Patrol member, identified in a news release as Officer Ayala, had a […]