Accidents/NTSB

Almost half the people aboard an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 survived when the plane crashed on what appears to be the infield or an area outside of an airport in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Christmas Day. The aircraft departed from Baku and was initially en route to Grozny in Russia but diverted to Aktau, Kazakhstan. Remarkable […]

Yesterday (Dec. 16), a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter crashed on the U.S. side of the Mexican border near Tijuana, Mexico, while on a border security mission. According to a CBP statement, the pilot and sole occupant of the 2009 Eurocopter AS350B3+ Ecureuil was killed. The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m. PST. According […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says fuel exhaustion led to a twin-engine Piper Navajo making an emergency landing on a road in Victoria, Texas on Wednesday. Video footage of the incident was shared on X. The FAA’s preliminary report noted the aircraft struck two vehicles before splitting in half at a busy intersection. Victoria police […]

The NTSB is recommending that airshow bosses be required to undergo recurrent training and that FAA inspectors be better trained in what to look for when monitoring airshow operations. In the synopsis of its forthcoming final report into the midair collision between two American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum warbirds at an airshow near Dallas in […]

In a final report that seems scripted to prove the old adage about aircraft accidents resulting from a series of seemingly minor mishaps, the NTSB has determined that pilot actions, not turbulence and later a trim issue, as was widely reported at the time, caused an upset that led to the death of a passenger […]

The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) preliminary report on a HondaJet crash last month, which killed four on board the aircraft and one in a vehicle, offered little insight into the cause of the accident. The crash occurred Nov. 5 at Falcon Field Airport (KFFZ) in Mesa, Arizona, where the jet was headed for Provo […]

Robert DeLaurentis, well-known pilot, author and entrepreneur in aviation circles, was involved in a crash-landing Monday night at Felts Field Airport (SFF) in Spokane, Washington. DeLaurentis, speaking to local news station KREM2, explained that he was flying from his home airport on Whidbey Island when his engines lost power just 100 feet above the ground, […]

A nighttime emergency highway landing in Utah left an instructor and student pilot uninjured, but the subsequent traffic pileup injured several drivers. One of the motorists subsequently died from injuries sustained in the collision. About 8:15 p.m. local time Monday night (Dec. 2) over Payson, Utah (about 60 miles south of Salt Lake City), a […]

One pilot and a photographer were killed and the copilot injured in the crash of a Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182 in Colorado on Saturday. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued a statement identifying the deceased as pilot Susan Wolber and photographer Jay Rhoten. The injured copilot, Randall Settergen, was airlifted to a hospital. The accident […]

The FAA will likely issue an emergency AD in coming days directing pilots of Boeing 737 MAXes to shut off bleed air from at least one engine during takeoff and initial climb to prevent bird strikes from filling the flight deck with smoke. The Seattle Times has obtained a memo from FAA investigators to their […]