Accidents news
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August 22, 2026
Three days after the accident that severely damaged the DH.88 Comet «Grosvenor House» at Old Warden, the Shuttleworth Collection has promised: the winner of the MacRobertson…
Romania destroyed an explosive-laden maritime drone near the Neptun Deep gas project after another drone crashed inside its territory during a major Russian attack on Ukraine. The post NATO…
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An American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas Fort Worth was forced to make an emergency landing at DFW on Friday evening after a passenger’s laptop overheated and caught fire as the plane was…
On 12 January 2025, an Airbus AS350 B3 helicopter was severely damaged during the rescue of two climbers in a remote mountain location. No one was injured, but the accident…
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August 21, 2026
A small civilian plane carrying eight people and contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crashed Aug. 20 near a remote Alaskan radar site managed by the Air Force in support of NORAD, killing…
Cessna 441 goes down in foggy conditions in remote area.
British Airways trainee Chloe Williams, 19, died in a preventable M6 crash after a truck failed to stop in Cheshire. The post British Airways Crew, 19, Killed in ‘Entirely Preventable’ M6 Crash…
A United Airlines captain accidentally broadcast profanity-laced complaints about flight attendants over the plane's PA system.
Pilot was attempting to avoid bad weather, agency says.
A Cessna pilot died after his plane collided with a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter. Two troopers on board survived.
Eight people were killed when a chartered Cessna 441 crashed while approaching a remote US military radar installation… The post Eight killed in Cessna 441 crash near US military radar site airport…
Flight simulator A flight simulator is a system designed to mimic the experience of flying an aircraft. These systems range from basic software applications on a desktop computer to highly…
The charter flight was operating from Anchorage to a remote Air Force radar site at Cape Newenham.
On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia.
Probable Cause: A failure of the left fuel valve, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a total loss of engine power.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is calling on Transport Canada to strengthen its oversight of how railways assess whether employees in safety-critical roles are medically fit for…
Ambulance aircraft suffered in-flight upset after entering low cloud in darkness just after departure from Philadelphia. US investigators probing the fatal medical Learjet 55 crash in Philadelphia…
A Cessna 441 Conquest II charter aircraft (reg. N128EZ) crashed near Cape Newenham in western Alaska on Thursday, August 20, killing all eight people on board. The aircraft, operated by…
A charter plane crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at a remote military radar site in western Alaska,... Read More »
Scheduled passenger air transport in Brazil ended last year with no accidents or fatalities, with a total of 914,000 takeoffs according to the 2025 edition of the Annual Report on…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- The crash occurred on the morning of 20 August 2026, as the aircraft was flying over mountainous, hard-to-reach terrain during a tourist flight between the reserve…
Newly released body camera footage from the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office depicts the moments after a US Marine… The post Bodycam shows aftermath of Marine F/A-18 crash in Washington State appeared…
August 20, 2026
A serious air accident between a light aircraft and a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter left one person dead and two officers injured on the night of Wednesday, the 19th…
A SpaceX Falcon upper stage crashed into the Moon on August 5th. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of the crash site from different viewing angles and with different sunlight…
A Cessna 150 pilot was killed when his airplane collided with a hovering Pennsylvania State Police helicopter while… The post Cessna pilot killed in collision with police helicopter in Pennsylvania…
The case has caused a huge stir in the United States, much less so on this side of the North Atlantic. This Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at dusk, a Cessna 150 light aircraft collided with a helicopter…
A Venezolana de Aviación MD-83 passenger aircraft, registration YV-3499, suffered severe damage on the ground this Thursday, August 20, at Libertador Airport in Palo Negro,…
A drone entered Romanian national airspace and crashed in an uninhabited area of Tulcea county early Thursday morning, according to a statement from the country’s Defence Ministry.
Aviación Digital, Sp.- On the night of August 19, 2026, the sky over Carlisle Airport (Pennsylvania) was the scene of one of the events general aviation fears most: two aircraft…
A NetJets Cessna Citation Longitude made an emergency landing without its nose gear deployed at an Ohio airport. All occupants escaped injury.
