News tagged with 'Accidents and Near Misses'

Plane Crash Takes Five Lives A small plane that was attempting to make an emergency landing crashed into two homes this morning at around 8:40 a.m. Five people were killed and three others were seriously injured. Only two names of the dead have been released, one being Dr. Bruce Kennedy, who was a Dayton

The crash of a Cessna 414 in Greene County, Tennessee Thursday killed four residents of the Tampa Bay area. John Saunders, founder and president of an investment and employee benefits company, died in the crash along with the pilot, David Jochman, and two employees of Saunders Advisory Group, Laura Jones and Hani Bout

According to an article published in Tuesday's USA TODAY, a major jetmaker failed to report vital information about a near accident in 1997 that may have prevented the fatal November 2001 crash of an American Airlines A300 jet. Airbus, a global manufacturer of commercial airliners, reportedly failed to inform governme

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials investigating last week's crash of US Airways Express Flight 5481 are focusing on a mechanic's adjustment of one of the plane's cables connecting the control column to the elevators on the aircraft's tail. According to an article in Tuesday's Charlotte Observer, th

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are focusing their investigation of the US Airways Express/Air Midwest commuter plane that crashed Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina on maintenance conducted on the aircraft two nights before the accident. According to a NTSB spokesperson, the Beech 1

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials investigating Wednesday's crash of a US Airways Express/Air Midwest commuter plane in Charlotte, North Carolina have found the airliner's vital voice recorder and flight data recorder. According to NTSB head John Goglia, the voice recorder contains 34 minutes of "v

A US Airways Express/Air Midwest commuter plane crashed at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport Wednesday morning, killing 19 passengers and two crewmembers. Flight 5481 was departing for Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport when it crashed on takeoff. A spokesperson for US Airways told aviation offici

According to a new draft report published by Federal investigators this week, a lack of grease on a tail fin mechanism caused the January 2000 Alaska Airlines crash that killed 88 people. The report, which will be reviewed Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board, says insufficient lubrication of the tail f

Two crewmembers died yesterday when their PB4Y air tanker crashed outside of Denver, Colorado while attempting to drop fire retardant on a 1,200-acre wildfire. Witnesses told investigators with the U.S. Forest Service and the National Transportation Safety Board today that after erupting into flames, the plane's left

The children of a 75-year-old woman who died from injuries she allegedly sustained while riding on a monorail at Tampa International Airport have filed a lawsuit against the airport and the county aviation authority. Adele Simpson fractured her hip in December 1999 when a monorail that transports passengers from the a

The families of fifteen people who died aboard American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12, 2001 have filed lawsuits against the airliner. The suits allege American failed to adequately train employees to work on the aircraft and neglected to properly inspect the jet before it took off from New York's Kennedy Internat

A Federal appeals court ordered a new trial last week in the case of Nancy Chu, a victim of the 1999 crash of American Airlines Flight 1420. The jetliner, with 145 people on board, crashed while landing during a thunderstorm at the Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas. Eleven people were killed, including the pil

The families of victims killed in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off Nova Scotia will not receive punitive damages according to a Federal judge's ruling. U.S. District Judge James T. Giles dismissed several hundred claims after determining that the crash is covered by the Death on the High Seas Act of 1920, whi

A National Airlines jetliner traveling to Newark, New Jersey from Las Vegas was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon after the plane's cabin filled with smoke. A spokesperson for the airline told reporters yesterday that investigators had traced the source of the smoke to an overheated refrigerator.

The wreckage of an Ecuadorian commercial jet that disappeared Monday morning was found late yesterday afternoon by local farmers and troops combing the Colombian border. Rescuers searching the peak of Nevado de Cumbal, a 15,721-foot-high volcanic mountain near Cumbal, Colombia, discovered what remained of the plane's