Accidents/NTSB

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its final report on the deadly midair collision that killed all four aboard two aircraft over North Las Vegas Airport in July 2022. The report targets pilot error (one aircraft lining up for the wrong runway), controller mistakes and controller staffing shortages as probable causes in the […]

Photos of the internal damage caused by a drone strike on the wing of a CL-415 waterbomber in California 10 days ago show that even tiny drones pack a punch. The drone, pieces of which were recovered from inside the wing, has been identified as weighing less than half a pound. The impact over Pacific […]

Authorities in Nevada say they won’t be able to reach the site of a plane crash in the mountains of southern Nevada until spring because access, even by helicopter, is currently impossible. It’s believed the body of pilot Michael Martin is inside the plane but that won’t be confirmed until a recovery team can navigate […]

The pilot of a Citabria survived its crash and entanglement with high tension power lines but later died when he fell 150 feet from the suspended aircraft. The mishap occurred Sunday afternoon about 2:30 p.m. local time near Batesville, Arkansas. Not many details were released by local authorities but White River Now reported the pilot […]

South Korean officials are investigating how the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on Jeju Airlines Flight 2216 stopped recording four minutes before the 737-800 smashed into a concrete antenna structure at Muan Airport two weeks ago. The prominent theory being floated so far is that the aircraft somehow lost all electrical power, which is […]

The part needed to fix a CL-415 water bomber damaged in a drone strike in Los Angeles on Thursday was on its way to L.A. on Friday. The aircraft could be back in the air as soon as Monday. DeHavilland Canada, which holds the type certificate for the so-called Super Scooper and supports the worldwide […]

More than 200 passengers and crew used the emergency exits and slides to evacuate a Delta Boeing 757 that aborted a takeoff at Atlanta on Friday morning. An engine caught fire while the plane was on the roll on an uncharacteristically snowy runway, and the pilots hit the brakes. The aircraft had reached about 85 […]

A Tecnam P2006T was unable to maintain altitude on one engine when a flight instructor tried for a freeway landing in Larkspur, Colorado, last June 16, according to a preliminary report from the NTSB. The instructor and student took off just after 6 a.m. in the four-place twin, which is powered by 100-horsepower Rotax 912 […]

A father and 16-year-old daughter have been reported as those who died when an RV-10 crashed into a furniture factory near Los Angeles on Thursday. They were identified by Sports Illustrated, citing social media posts, as Pascal Reid, the registered owner of the plane and his daughter Kelly, a prominent high school athlete in their […]

There were no serious injuries when a PAL Airlines Dash-8 suffered a left main gear collapse while landing at Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia, late Saturday. The cause of the gear collapse wasn’t immediately known. The aircraft was operating as Air Canada 2259 from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. There were 73 passengers […]