News tagged with 'Plane Crashes'

Continental Airplane Commuter Flight 3407 that crashed three days ago in Buffalo, New York, appeared to be flying normally until just 26 seconds before it came down, said the National Transportation Safety Board.

Friday was a somber day as family and friends remembered the victims of the crash of Continental Flight 3407.

A Continental Airlines commuter plane crashed into a house in Buffalo, New York late last night. The crash killed 44 passengers, 4 crew members and one person on the ground, in the home.

Two passengers on the Continental Airlines jet that veered off a Denver runway last month have become the first to sue the airline over the crash. The civil suit alleges the pilot of Flight 1404 negligently aborted the flight shortly after takeoff, crashing into a nearby ravine, where it caught fire.

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