“A veteran Colorado pilot known for helping the local sheriff’s department with helicopter rescues was killed Monday after his chopper [Bell 206] tangled in power lines and crashed near rural Silt. Doug Sheffer, owner of DBS Helicopters based in nearby Rifle, was among three people killed around 11:18 a.m. during a survey of power lines […]
read more“Authorities are investigating what caused a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter to go down near Falfurrias. The CBP Air & Marine helicopter went down in the La Copa Ranch just southwest of the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint around 8:10 a.m. Friday. CBP officials said two air interdiction agents and one Border Patrol agent […]
read more“A member of an elite Army helicopter unit was killed and two crew members suffered injuries when their aircraft slammed into the ground as they tried to land at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, a military spokesman said Thursday. The MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was returning from a routine training flight when it made a […]
read more“A Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday in Atlantic waters off Virginia and the lone pilot was in critical condition after he ejected and was rescued, the Navy said. The crash comes a week after a Navy helicopter plunged into the ocean in the region, leaving three dead. Both aircraft were on routine training missions. Cmdr. […]
read more“A Cessna Citation I/SP corporate jet, registered N452TS, crashed while on approach to Trier-Föhren Airport in Germany. All four on board were killed. The airplane was approaching runway 22 Trier-Föhren Airport when it struck an electricity pylon at a height of about 8 m above the ground. [The runway is approximately 1200 meters in length.] […]
read more“A U.S. Air Force helicopter on a training mission out of an eastern British base crashed in a bird sanctuary Tuesday night, killing all four U.S. crew members on board, British and U.S. military sources reported. The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter went down near the village of Cley-next-the-Sea, in coastal Norfolk County, shortly before 7 […]
read more“One crew member is dead and another remains missing after a Norfolk, Va.-based US Navy helicopter and its five-man crew went into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia Beach this morning. Four crew members of the [Sikorsky] MH-53E, which is assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14, were pulled from the water and […]
read more“A Canadair Challenger 601 corporate jet, reported by Flightaware to be N115WF, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, CO (ASE). The airplane came to rest upside down on runway 15. The right hand wing had broken off and a fire erupted. Three people were on board the airplane, the Pitkin […]
read more“A Delta Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-90, registration N960DN performing flight DL-1751 from Minneapolis,MN to Las Vegas,NV (USA), was enroute near Flagstaff,AZ (USA) when the aircraft encountered turbulence causing minor injuries to 5 occupants. The aircraft continued to Las Vegas for a safe landing. The FAA reported 5 persons on board received minor injuries when the […]
read more“The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office has identified one of the two people killed in Tuesday night’s crash of a business jet in northwest Atlanta as Peter J. Mallen, 67, of Atlanta. Mallen, a licensed pilot, was the CEO of Norcross-based Mallen Industries . . . According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Mallen Industries was […]
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