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Small Plane Crash in Kan. Kills 4 on Easter Trip

TOPEKA, Kan. -- A small airplane carrying a young couple and their daughters on their way to visit friends for Easter crashed in a muddy Kansas corn field Friday, killing all four, officials said. The six-seat Beechcraft plane registered to Precision Ag & Seed Services LLC in Scott City went down about noon roughly 3...

NTSB Investigates Aborted Landing of First Lady's Plane

WASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the aborted landing of a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama earlier this week. While aborted landings are not unusual, and Mrs. Obama apparently wasn't in serious danger, the episode has become another embarrassment for the...

Air France Plane Crash Parts Found in Atlantic

PARIS - Underwater search teams have located pieces of an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, French investigators said Sunday, offering a surprising new glimmer of hope in the protracted hunt for clues to what happened. Previous extensive and expensive search efforts proved futile in attempts to shed...

4 Dead in Crash of Small Plane at New Mexico Airport

ROSWELL, N.M. - Four Gulfstream employees were killed Saturday in a fiery crash of a test twin-engine luxury business aircraft at an airport, authorities said. Officials with Savannah-Ga.-based plane company confirmed that two Gulfstream pilots and two flight-test engineers died in the crash. Their names and other...

Five Dead in Small Plane Crash at California's Long Beach Airport

Five people were killed today when a small twin-engine plane crashed and burst into flames at California's Long Beach Airport, officials said. Steve Yamamoto of the Long Beach Fire Department confirmed to AOL News that five of the six passengers died in the crash. The sole survivor was taken to a hospital. The Beechcraft...

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New Mexico Governor OK After Hair-Raising Plane Failure

A spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says she and her husband were not injured when a small private airplane carrying them to Santa Fe landed without its gears down.

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Plane Slams Into Front Yard (VIDEO)

A pilot was released early Tuesday from a hospital after suffering minor injuries when his single-engine plane crashed into a neighborhood, downing power lines but avoiding homes, authorities said.

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Crashed Superjet's 'Black Box' Found

Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of an Indonesian volcano, killing 45 people.

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$1.3 Million Discovered in Plane Wreckage in Ecuador

When Ecuadoran authorities arrived on the scene of a small plane crash on a rural hillside they expected to find a broken up plane and dead bodies.

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Saskatchewan Plane Crash: 2 Planes-Air Touched Wings Before Deadly Crash, Say Investigators

A transport official says marks on the wreckage show that the left wings of two planes touched in a mid-air collision over Saskatchewan.

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05/27/12 3 rescued after small airplane crash in SW Idaho Source: Post Register Online - Idaho Falls ID An Army National Guard helicopter on Sunday plucked a husband and wife and their adult daughter from a remote area in Owyhee County in southwest Idaho after their small airplane crashed.
05/27/12 Four Killed in Single-Engine Plane Crash at St. George... Source: MYTV - KCSG - St George UT The four men killed Saturday in an airplane accident near the St. George Municipal Airport have been identified.
05/27/12 4 killed in plane crash from S. Utah Source: Columbus Telegram - Columbus NE An official says the four people killed in a plane crash at a municipal airport in southern Utah were from the St. George area.
05/27/12 EAA officials focus on education for safety of... Source: Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh WI Officials from the Experimental Aircraft Association say education will be a key strategy in applying new safety recommendations for homebuilt aircraft issued last week by the National Transportation Safety Board.
05/27/12 2 injured when plane crashes in Greenfield Source: The Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis IN Greenfield A pilot and two passengers escaped serious harm Saturday morning when their small plane crashed on the east side of Greenfield.

Background on Aviation accidents and incidents

An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as al such persons have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.

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