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BOSTON—A small plane carrying three people crashed in a remote, wooded area of Massachusetts on Sunday morning, authorities said. Police reported multiple fatalities. The twin-engine Beechcraft Baron 55 crashed near Leyden, Massachusetts, with three people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Massachusetts State Police Trooper and spokesperson James D. DeAngelis said multiple agencies were […]

Five people have died after a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft collided with a commercial passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Video footage shows the passenger jet completely engulfed in flames after all of the passengers and crew had managed to evacuate. Police have not uncovered any evidence of either terrorism or political motives in the […]

SAO PAULO—Fourteen people on a small jet died when the plane crashed in Brazil’s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the state’s governor said. The accident took place in the Barcelos province, some 400 kilometers (248 miles) from the state capital, Manaus. “I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two crew members who […]

Three U.S. Marines have died and 20 others have been injured after their aircraft crashed in northern Australia during routine exercises, the U.S. military said. According to a release from Marine Rotational Force Darwin, a U.S. Marine task force, the Boeing MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory, […]

President Joe Biden said on Aug. 23 that he wasn’t shocked to learn that the Wagner Group chief, who revolted against Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, was on a plane that crashed near Moscow. The president, who had just finished a Pilates class in Nevada while on vacation, reacted to the news with a […]

UPLAND, Calif.—A pilot and two passengers were killed Sunday when a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar and burst into flames at a Southern California airport, authorities said. The Beechcraft P35 with three people on board crashed during departure around 6:30 a.m. at Cable Airport in Upland, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said. San Bernardino […]

WARSAW, Poland—Five people were killed and eight others were injured Monday when a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a sky diving center during bad weather, authorities said. The plane’s pilot and four people sheltering in the hangar from stormy weather died in the afternoon crash in Chrcynno in central Poland, firefighters spokesperson […]

MURRIETA, Calif.—Authorities have identified the six California residents who died Saturday when they were on a small plane that crashed after a flight that started in Las Vegas. A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration, Mina Kaji, told The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California, that the Cessna C550 business jet took off from Harry Reid International […]

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—A single-engine plane carrying five people crashed Sunday near a golf course in the South Carolina coastal resort community of North Myrtle Beach, killing at least one person, police and federal officials said. The Piper PA-32 went down northwest of the city’s Grand Stand Airport shortly after 11 a.m., the Federal Aviation […]

An unresponsive business jet that flew off course over the nation’s capital plunged in a “near-vertical descent” into a Virginia mountain at a “high velocity” before bursting into flames, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The preliminary findings shed little light on what might have caused the June 4 crash, which killed four people. […]

BOGOTA, Colombia—The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died. The kids, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to […]

BOGOTA—Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to […]

Two men are dead after a small plane crash in a field in western New York on Tuesday. A pilot and his passenger died in the crash and resultant fire. The incident took place about 10 minutes after the plane had taken off from the Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport around 1:40 p.m., according to Sheriff James Quattrone. The […]

National security spokesman John Kirby provided a briefing to reporters on the approximate timeline of the events of the aircraft crash over Virginia. The aircraft was en route to Washington and was then intercepted by fighter jets from the United States.

Search and rescue crews have found no survivors at the wreckage of the small plane that went silent, triggering a national security response in D.C.’s restricted airspace on Sunday afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled F-16 fighter jets in an attempt to reach its pilot when authorities saw the plane flying erratically and without […]

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—Two people were killed when a small plane headed for Hawaii crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Northern California, federal officials said Sunday. The Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter crashed around 2:15 p.m. Saturday in the water about 40 miles off the coast of Half Moon Bay, California, the […]

Three people died when their light aircraft crashed on Saturday morning in Switzerland’s Ponts-de-Martel area close to the French border, the Swiss police said. The crash occurred around 10:20 in the morning local time (0820 GMT) in a forest near the village of La Combe Dernier in the canton of Neuchâtel, the local police said. […]