Accidents
News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.
A Let L-410 operated by Brazilian regional Noar Airlines crashed soon after takeoff from Recife, Brazil, on July 13, killing all 14 passengers and two pilo
In a board meeting Tuesday, the NTSB <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2011/butte_mt/synopsis.html">pinned the blame</a> for the <a href="news/singl
Both the U.S.-registered business jet and turboprop segments worldwide experienced more fatal accidents in the first half of this year, compared with the s
When Robert Barnes, president of the <a href="http://iaftp.org/">International Association of Flight Training Providers</a>, read the initial BEA report on
When the French BEA released a partial cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript of the Air France Flight 447 accident in late May, pundits wasted no time un
The NTSB’s final report on the fatal 2009 accident that killed a New Mexico State Police (NMSP) helicopter pilot and the hiker he had just rescued is sharp
The NTSB is investigating the forced landing of a vintage B-17 Flying Fortress near Aurora Municipal Airport in Illinois last month.
Preliminary Report: Global Suffers Wing Strike on Landing
<b>Bombardier Global Express XRS, Teterboro, N.J., April 21, 2011–</b>While the twinjet was land
French BEA accident investigators on May 27 released factual information they have found in reading data from Air France Flight 447’s recorders, in hope of
In an astonishing verdict, Brazilian federal judge Murilo Mendes on on May 19 found the air traffic controller most involved in the September 200