Accidents/NTSB

A Cessna Citation 680 business jet carrying former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife, Amy, and their 1-year-old daughter, Isla, along with two unidentified pilots, overran the runway at Tennessee’s Elizabethton Municipal Airport (0A9) on Thursday. No serious injuries have been reported, although the family and pilots were transported to Johnson City Medical Center […]

An Airbus A321 operated by Ural Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing in a cornfield near Moscow, Russia, shortly after takeoff when an encounter with a flock of seagulls caused an engine failure on Thursday morning. All 226 passengers and seven crew members onboard were able to evacuate the aircraft via the emergency […]

Carbon monoxide poisoning likely played a key role in the fatal accident of a 1984 Piper Malibu carrying soccer star Emiliano Sala, according to a special bulletin issued by the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) on Wednesday. As previously reported by AVweb, the aircraft went down in the English Channel 22 NM northwest of […]

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

A Minnesota pilot who pulled the parachute on his Cirrus SR22 over a wilderness area of Quebec says he hopes his well-documented account of his experience can help others if they find themselves in similar straits. Matt Letinen, the CEO of a Minnesota mining company, was flying back from a mine his company operates in […]

The NTSB has issued a Safety Alert asking jet fuel providers to take measures to prevent fuel contamination by diesel exhaust fluid (DEF). The board warned that the addition of DEF to jet fuel can cause a chemical reaction that forms crystalline deposits in the fuel system, increasing the risk of engine failure due to […]

When I first started training to fly multi-engine airplanes, it was solemnly explained to me that there were a few things the CFI and weren’t going to do. Yes, we were going to do stalls, but only from 5000 feet AGL or more. They all would be straight-ahead and power-off to the pre-stall buffet, followed […]

A Senate Appropriations Subcommittee questioned FAA officials about the agency’s oversight of the certification of the Boeing 737 MAX and its responses to the fatal crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopians Airlines Flight 302 last March during a hearing on Wednesday. Citing articles recently published by The New York Times […]

The U.S. Navy has confirmed that the pilot of an F/A-18E Super Hornet was killed when the aircraft crashed in California’s Death Valley National Park at approximately 9:50 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Seven park visitors reportedly sustained minor injuries as a result of the accident. The pilot has been identified as Lt. Charles Z. […]

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