Category: plane crash

Plane Hits Hangar Where People Were Sheltering in Storm in Poland; Pilot and 4 Others Killed and 8 Injured

WARSAW, Poland—Five people were killed and eight others were injured Monday when a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a sky diving center during bad weather, authorities said. The plane’s pilot and four people sheltering in the hangar from stormy weather died in the afternoon crash in Chrcynno in central Poland, firefighters spokesperson…


Authorities Identify 6 People Killed in Plane Crash in Southern California

MURRIETA, Calif.—Authorities have identified the six California residents who died Saturday when they were on a small plane that crashed after a flight that started in Las Vegas. A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration, Mina Kaji, told The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California, that the Cessna C550 business jet took off from Harry Reid International…


At Least One Person Dead in Fiery Small Plane Crash in South Carolina Beach Resort

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—A single-engine plane carrying five people crashed Sunday near a golf course in the South Carolina coastal resort community of North Myrtle Beach, killing at least one person, police and federal officials said. The Piper PA-32 went down northwest of the city’s Grand Stand Airport shortly after 11 a.m., the Federal Aviation…


Plane That Flew Over DC Crashed Almost Straight Down at High Speed, Report Says

An unresponsive business jet that flew off course over the nation’s capital plunged in a “near-vertical descent” into a Virginia mountain at a “high velocity” before bursting into flames, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The preliminary findings shed little light on what might have caused the June 4 crash, which killed four people….


Oldest of 4 Siblings Who Survived Colombian Plane Crash Told Family Their Mother Lived for Days

BOGOTA, Colombia—The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died. The kids, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to…


4 Colombian Children Found Alive in Jungle Weeks After Plane Crash

BOGOTA—Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to…


Plane Crash Kills 2 Men in New York State

Two men are dead after a small plane crash in a field in western New York on Tuesday. A pilot and his passenger died in the crash and resultant fire. The incident took place about 10 minutes after the plane had taken off from the Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport around 1:40 p.m., according to Sheriff James Quattrone. The…


Plane Crash in Swiss Mountains Kills 3

Three people died when their light aircraft crashed on Saturday morning in Switzerland’s Ponts-de-Martel area close to the French border, the Swiss police said. The crash occurred around 10:20 in the morning local time (0820 GMT) in a forest near the village of La Combe Dernier in the canton of Neuchâtel, the local police said….


Plane Crashes in Croatia, Rescuers Search for Crew

SARAJEVO—Rescuers found the remains of a light aircraft that crashed on Saturday in the mountainous region of the northwestern Croatia but could not confirm if any crew members were found, the HINA state news agency reported. The search for the “Cirrus 20” aircraft that went off radar after noon during a flight from the Slovenian…


Plane Crash Leads Safety Board to Call for Better Heart Screening in Pilots

An investigation into the crash of a small private airplane in 2021 has led a federal regulator to call for better screening of cardiovascular health in pilots after finding a potential mid-air heart attack could have played a role. In its investigative report into the events released on March 14, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB)…