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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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Man's Hair Set On Fire On Plane As Prank, Flight Diverted

Roughly 90 minutes into the flight, cabin crew smelled smoke and the pilot decided to turn the plane around and land at Gatwick , The Telegraph reports.

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Bus-truck crash kills 8, injures 20 in Argentina

At least eight people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus collided with a truck in Misiones, a province in northern Argentina, officials said Wednesday.

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The Day a Plane Crashed on Our Street

It is a house like any other on our street.

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Emergency Landing In Toronto

An Air Canada Boeing 777 passenger jet made an emergency landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, after it declared an in-flight emergency.

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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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06/01/12 UPDATE: Fiery plane crash at Salinas Airport kills one Source: The Californian - Salinas CA Dave Teeters, owner of Airmotive Specialties located at the airport , said The pilot was taking off and crashed.
06/01/12 Widow Sues Dead Pilot For Plane Crash Source: FOX - WJW MyFox - Cleveland OH A Canadian woman whose common-law husband died in a plane crash after a drunken passenger allegedly kicked the pilot's seat forward, jamming him into the instrument panel, is suing the estate of the dead pilot in a British Columbia court.
06/01/12 Oklahoma businessman dies in Mississippi plane crash Source: The Oklahoman - Oklahoma City OK An executive of an Oklahoma gypsum company was killed Thursday when the company plane he was flying crashed in eastern Mississippi.
06/01/12 Widow sues dead pilot for plane crash allegedly... Source: La Verne Community Newspaper - La Verne CA A Canadian woman whose common-law husband died in a plane crash after a drunken passenger allegedly kicked the pilot's seat forward, jamming him into the instrument panel, is suing the estate of the dead pilot in a British Columbia court.
06/01/12 Helicopter crashes in B.C. with three people aboard Source: The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada A helicopter with three people onboard has crashed outside of Terrace, B.C., and it's unclear if anyone aboard survived.

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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