Accidents/NTSB

FAA order cites lack of sufficient management personnel.

The rotors, transmission and roof beam were recovered from the Hudson.

NTSB says it still hasn’t found the rotor assembly and other smaller parts of the Bell LongRanger.

Six people were killed in the crash of a helicopter into the Hudson River on Thursday.

A HondaJet went off the end of the runway in Oregon April 7 and into the ocean.

A new accident reporting system will streamline data collection for investigations.

At least one person, believed to be a banking executive, aboard a TBM 700 was killed when the aircraft crashed vertically into a house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Saturday. U.S. Bank said the dead pilot was Terry Dolan, the bank’s COO and Vice Chair. Local first responders didn’t even realize there was a crash […]

A pilot and two girls were rescued after a chilly night in the Alaska wilderness Monday. The unidentified group were found on top of the wing of their Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser after it went through the ice on Tustumena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula. A Good Samaritan apparently spotted the trio about 10:30 a.m., […]

Pilot actions, including an excessive rate of descent, may have contributed to the Feb. 17 crash of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, according to a preliminary report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. The TSB report noted that the aircraft descended too quickly, striking the runway and causing the right […]

A Bering Air Cessna 208B that crashed on Feb. 6 in Nome, Alaska, killing all 10 people on board, was found to be more than 1,000 pounds overweight, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The report stated that the plane’s estimated gross weight at departure was approximately 9,865 pounds, […]