Tag: After the Accident

on march 17, 2023, at 11:37 a.m. CDT, a Beech Baron lifted off from Runway 35 at Lubbock Executive Airpark in Texas (F82). By 11:40 a.m. it had crashed in a fallow cotton field half a mile from the airport and...

a picture is worth a thousand words, they say. But a recent crash shows you shouldn’t always trust a picture, even if it’s a compelling next-generation digital color presentation. The pilot had planned a day trip for himself and two passengers...

The pilot took his first lesson one month before the accident. Flying several times a week, he’d accumulated 44 hours of experience, about seven of those solo. On May 25, 2021, he planned a multistop, solo cross-country around the Tennessee countryside....

Waiting in a desert canyon outside Las Vegas, photographers stood ready to capture the adrenaline rush of high-speed, low-level aerobatics. Instead, they became eyewitnesses to a fatal crash. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report on the...

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. They were inverted in a Florida marsh, and the brackish water was rising. Airport emergency trucks couldn’t drive into the swampy...

“Out of gas in air. God help us,” texted the Cessna 172 passenger to a family member. It was what the British call Boxing Day on December 26, 2021. The pilot was the passenger’s boyfriend. They were flying at 4,000 feet...

“MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY…Cessna 9 [unintelligible].” Another pilot on the frequency replied: “14A, how far north of the shoreline are you?” “Right in the middle. I’m out here by…there…there’s a boat going by… there’s a tanker getting drug. I am out in...

At 3 p.m. on August 4, 2021, a beautiful bright yellow T-6 took off from McCharen Field Airport (M83) in West Point, Mississippi. The sky was blue, with no clouds or obscurations to visibility. It was 88 degrees, with a light...