Accidents
News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.
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Tuboprop safety declines as bizav activity picks up
As U.S.-registered business aircraft have begun to fly more hours compared with last year, accidents (at least those involving turboprops) have been on the
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Preliminary Report - CHALLENGER DAMAGED DURING DE-ICING
Bombardier BD-100-1A10, Wheeling, Ill., Feb.
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Preliminary Report - Flight In Poor Weather Claims Helicopter
The helicopter was destroyed and the commercial pilot and one passenger killed when it crashed following inadvertent flight into IMC.
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Preliminary Reports - CRJ Lands Without Nosegear
At the conclusion of an uneventful Part 121 flight from San Francisco to Ontario, the crew attempted to lower the landing gear.
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Preliminary Reports - Socata Damaged After Power-Off Landing
The pilot made an emergency landing after the turboprop single suffered engine and instrument failure during a Part 91 flight from San Luis Obispo Airport
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Preliminary Reports - Sovereign Pummeled by Turbulence
The CitationAir Sovereign was substantially damaged after an encounter with turbulence during cruise flight.
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Final Reports - Pilot Failed to Deploy Landing Gear Manually
The pilot’s failure to follow the proper manual landing-gear extension procedure caused the gear-up landing, which resulted in substantial damage to the Ki
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Final Reports - Turbine Blade Failure Blamed in Fatal Crash
Loss of engine power during landing approach due to a fatigue fracture in a power turbine blade caused the fatal helicopter crash, according to the Board.
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Final Reports - Citation II and Tractor Collided on Runway
The NTSB has ruled that the air traffic controller’s failure to monitor the runway environment properly caused the accident between the landing Citation II
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Factual Reports - Pilot Forgets to Lower Turboprop's Gear
The pilot told investigators that after takeoff he experienced a primary trim failure but continued to his destination airport using secondary trim.
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Factual Reports - TBM Crashes After Loss of Control on Landing
The single-engine turboprop was destroyed but its ATP-certified pilot was unharmed when it departed the runway after touchdown at Montgomery County Airpark
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Factual Reports - French King Air Makes Gear-up Landing
Following an electrical system anomaly, the French-registered turboprop twin, operated by Air Alizé, sustained substantial damage after making a successful
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Factual Reports - Tire Damage Eyed in Runway Excursion
The Mexican-registered twinjet was substantially damaged when it departed the runway on takeoff from Eagle County Regional Airport en route to Chihuahua, M
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Preliminary Report: King Air Suffers Damage in Hard Landing
Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Sioux City, Iowa, Jan.
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Preliminary Report: EMS Helicopter Crashes Minutes from Base
Eurocopter AS350B3, Brownsville, Tenn., March 25, 2010–While returning to base on a Part 91 positioning flight after delivering a patient, the Memph
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Preliminary Report: King Air Damaged After Gear Collapse
Hawker Beechcraft King Air A90, De Kalb, Ill., March 2, 2010–Owned by Eagle Air Transport, the King Air sustained substantial damage after its left
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Preliminary Report: S92 Sheds Panel in Flight
Sikorsky S-92A, Galliano, La., March 22, 2010–While operating in wind gusts of up to 21 knots, the helicopter was damaged when an environmental cont
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Preliminary Report: Gulfstream Hits Fuel Truck After Missing Taxiway
Gulfstream II, Seattle, Wa., April 8, 2010–The twinjet sustained structural damage to its left wing when it collided with a fuel truck while taxiing
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Preliminary Reports: MU-2 Strikes Fence on Runway Excursion
Mitsubishi MU-2B-26A, Princeton, Ky., April 3, 2010–The Part 91 personal IFR flight ended with the turboprop twin substantially damaged, when the pi
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Factual Report: King Air Crashes on Takeoff
Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Punta Chivato, Mexico, Nov.
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Final Report: Hydraulic Failure, Pilot Error Caused Mayhem at FXE
Sabreliner NA-265-80, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Feb.
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Final Report: Landing Difficulty Blamed in Fatal Meridian Crash
Piper PA-46-500TP, San Antonio, Texas, Jan.
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Final Report: Pilot Decision at Fault in Learjet Runway Excursion
Bombardier Learjet 45XR, Telluride, Colo., Jan.
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Miracle on the Hudson prompts safety review
Although the outcome of US Airways Flight 1549 could not have been much better, the accident nevertheless prompted the National Transportation Safety Board
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Stabilizer Failure Caused Grob Crash
The November 2006 fatal crash of the Grob G180A SPn prototype was caused by failure of the twinjet’s horizontal stabilizer, which “suffered an in-flight br
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FAA Denies Sanctions Against Midair Pilots
The FAA rejected a request from Brazilian politicians to revoke the pilot certificates of the two U.S.
