Category: Aircraft crashed

US Naval Training Aircraft Crashes in Texas, No Injuries Reported

A U.S. naval training exercise ended in a crash Tuesday as an instructor pilot was approaching a Texas air station, Navy officials said. The pilot was flying a T–45 Goshawk and approaching Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville at about noon on Aug. 16. “The aircraft went down in an empty field just north of the airfield….


Navy Helicopter Crashes, No Fatalities, a Day After 5 Marines Died in Aircraft Crash in Same Region

A Navy helicopter crashed in the rural Southern California desert Thursday evening with no fatalities, just a day after a Marine Osprey aircraft went down in the same region, killing all five onboard. “This evening at approximately 6 p.m., an MH-60S Seahawk crashed near El Centro, Calif. while conducting a routine training flight from Naval…


4 US Marines Die in NATO Drill After Osprey Crashes

HELSINKI—Four U.S. Marines were killed when their Osprey aircraft crashed in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to Russia’s war in Ukraine, authorities said Saturday. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere tweeted that they died in the crash on Friday night. The cause was under investigation, but Norwegian police…


US Military Plane With 4 on Board Crashes in Norway

A U.S. military aircraft carrying four people has crashed in northern Norway, the country’s  rescue coordination center announced Friday. A V-22 Osprey aircraft—a multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing—belonging to the U.S. Marine Corps “has hit the ground,” said a spokesperson for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Norway. The spokesperson…


Small Plane Crashes Off the Greek Island of Samos, Two Dead

ATHENS—Two people were killed on Monday when a light aircraft crashed into the sea close to the Greek island of Samos, Greek authorities said. The small private aircraft, that was flying from Israel to the Greek island with two persons on board, crashed close to the island’s airport. “We recovered two bodies from the spot,”…


2 Men Die in Homebuilt Aircraft Crash in Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore.—Two men from Albany, Oregon, were killed when a homebuilt trike aircraft they were in crashed near Millersburg on Friday night.The Linn County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened before 9 p.m. in a field behind Deciduous Avenue. When they arrived on scene they found the pilot, 57-year-old Charles Kizer and his passenger 49-year-old…