One person died and another was injured when their helicopter crashed Thursday onto a frozen reservoir in southeast Idaho, authorities said. Multiple agencies responded to the Ririe Reservoir east of Idaho Falls in the late afternoon, the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. First responders traveled to the site using snowmobiles and found…
Delta Flight 4819’s landing seemed routine — until it wasn’t. For the 80 people on board, the world lurched immediately after the wheels hit the ground at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. The plane sparked and burst into flames as it skidded along the runway, then it rolled onto its back, its right…
There was drifting snow. There were strong winds coming from the west at about 29 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 38 miles per hour, around 2:15 p.m., the time of the crash, according to the authorities. There was also drifting snow in Toronto, which was struck by two snowstorms in the past…
How the deadly 2009 Colgan Air plane crash became a turning point in U.S. aviation – CBS News Watch CBS News The crash was the 14th fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in 15 years, and families of the deceased led the calls to reform airline safety. Sixteen years later, the recent midair collision ended…
Last month’s mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., was the first fatal American commercial air disaster since shortly after 10 p.m. on February 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 fell out of the sky and crashed into a house near Buffalo, New York. It was the 14th fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in 15…
A midsize business jet collided off the runway at a private airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Feb. 10, 2025. @donniefitz2 One person was killed and at least three others were injured in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a business jet crashed into another plane after it landed on Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Learjet 35A…
Top officials at the Federal Aviation Administration, including then-Administrator Michael Whitaker, pushed last summer to close one of three runways at Washington’s Reagan National Airport following two close calls between airliners still on the ground, multiple sources told CBS News. Whitaker, who resigned as FAA administrator ahead of the transition to the Trump administration, and…
The Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system to send real-time safety alerts to pilots late Saturday because its primary one was “experiencing a temporary outage,” the Transportation Department said. “The primary NOTAM system is experiencing a temporary outage, but there is currently no impact to the National Airspace System because a backup system…
Medical plane crash in Philadelphia neighborhood kills at least 7 – CBS News Watch CBS News A medical transport jet carrying six people crashed into a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia Friday night, exploding into a fireball. At least 7 people were killed and 19 were injured. Madeline Wright reports. Be the first to know Get…
In a Thursday press briefing, President Trump criticized his predecessor for his management of the Federal Aviation Administration and suggested, without evidence, that diversity initiatives at the agency could be to blame for a deadly crash between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. “I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the…