According to testimony at a hearing conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Boeing failed to maintain an adequate inspection schedule for its planes. Unfortunately, regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may have also failed in their responsibilities by allowing the more lax inspection schedule. This may have contributed to a deadly accident [...]
A person was reportedly killed after being struck as a Frontier Airlines plane attempted to take off from Denver International Airport (DEN) on May 8, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Passengers aboard the plane were subsequently evacuated, in part due to a reported engine fire, although no one else was seriously harmed. The [...]
A potentially tragic accident was narrowly avoided on April 14 after a UPS plane nearly collided with another plane as it attempted to land in Louisville, KY. While tragedy was avoided this time, it brought up the unfortunate specter of an accident involving a UPS plane that occurred this past November. It also highlights the [...]
A small plane unexpectedly departed from a runway at an Arizona airport on April 8 as it attempted to land, resulting in the death of the pilot and their only passenger. Notably, the main runway at the airport was under construction, and thus was unavailable for landing. Information about the deceased individuals has not been [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its final report on a small plane crash that occurred near Pulaski, TN in 2023. The crash, which killed both the pilot and the single passenger on board, was allegedly caused by an error on the part of the pilot. Additionally, drug testing found that the pilot had [...]
Four Tennessee residents were killed in a plane crash that occurred outside Denver, CO, just after midnight on February 13. The cause of the accident is currently unknown, although the bodies of all four people on board were successfully recovered.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident, and a preliminary report is due [...]
The FedEx Corporation has said that it plans to keep using its MD-11 cargo planes, even after a major accident involving the same model plane late last year. By contrast, UPS announced that it would be retiring its own MD-11s, substantially reducing their fleet until replacements could be found. This has raised concerns that FedEx [...]
According to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Boeing knew of the structural defects that caused a UPS plane to crash in Louisville this past November. The crash ultimately killed fifteen people, with numerous others having required medical attention. Questions remain as to whether Boeing did enough to prevent this crash, or [...]
A small plane crashed at an airport in Cape Cod, MA, resulting in the death of the plane’s pilot. Thankfully, no one else was on board, and no one else was injured in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the cause of the accident, with a preliminary report due out in [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered all McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft to be grounded until further notice, after a deadly UPS plane crash in Kentucky on November 4. This order is an expansion of a previous directive that also grounded the MD-11, the model of airplane involved in the UPS crash, and which is [...]
