One passenger survived the crash of an Air India plane bound for London that killed at least 240 people in Ahmedabad, India, one of the country’s worst airline disasters in decades.
A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes.
Everyone aboard an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members that collided with an Army helicopter was feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century.
An American Airlines flight was inbound to Reagan Washington National Airport at an altitude of about 400 feet and a speed of about 140 miles per hour when it suffered a rapid loss of altitude over the Potomac River, according to data from its radio transponder.
The crash involved a plane owned by Auburn University.
The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed near downtown Nashville told air traffic controllers he could see the runway they were clearing for an emergency landing. But he said they couldn’t make it.
Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in Florida.
One person was killed after a plane crashed on or near a dirt airstrip in a field in Cullman County, a coroner said.
Wetumpka Fire Chief Greg Willis said the single-passenger plane crashed on Hwy 231 near Jasmine Hill Road.
The plane flew directly over the nation’s capital, though it was technically flying above some of the most heavily restricted airspace in the nation.
