The NTSB preliminary report is out: LAX08LA266 for N3156B Though we'll probably never know, my wild guess from the description and the fact that his last medical was in 1997 is that he opted for one last ride while he was still able to get in the airplane. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to...

I'm currently in "ground school" and hope to begin my actual flight instruction soon. I will need to keep a close eye on the costs involved. Some classmates are tossing around the idea of us purchasing a plane as a group, doing our training, and then selling the plane. When our training...

Just plane C172 fun :D I was a back passenger during a precheckride lesson for a student and was invited along for the ride. Normal takeoff, stall and fall and Forward slip to no flap landing featured in this video. Needless to say, being in the back seat of a Cessna allows for a unique view out...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473498,00.html PALESTINE, Texas — Federal investigators are looking into an accident involving a small plane at an eastern Texas airfield that injured a 6- year-old girl. Palestine fire officials said the girl was alone in the Cessna 150 when her 81-year-old...

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On the news wire 1 hour ago - "A plane with 80 people on board has crashed at Nairobi airport, according to Kenyan authorities. The plane was flying from the Democratic Republic of Congo. More follows." And then 30 minutes ago "Kenyan air authorities briefly sparked panic on Thursday by announcing...

http://www.wlfi.com/index.cfm?action=dsp_story&storyid=63161 http://cgi.jconline.com/cgi-bin/resend/printPage.pl?storypath=/lafayettejc/news20050328/200503281local_news1111986477.shtml The plane crashed about a half mile from our house. I can see the (woods surrounding the) site from my...

A good friend is grieving the sudden loss of another friend from a plane crash about a week ago. Neither the pilot nor the sole passenger survived. With very little information to go on with... I'm wondering what could have had been the possible factors into such an accident. I am sure the NTSB...

AVweb is reporting that a plane crashed in the DC ADIZ after ATC told him that he had violated the ADIZ and ordered him to land at Tipton. According to ATC tapes he asked for an in-flight IFR clearance, was told he had violated the ADIZ and that he must land at Tipton, then he crashed. It will be...

http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4038264 I found this link in alt.binaries.multimedia.aviation. I thought you guys should see this. After seeing this clip, I wonder why the pilot would begin a takeoff rollout with all the vehicles on the side of road. The risk factor would cut down...

"Ron Lee" wrote http://tinyurl.com/ymqbj9 Apparently lost power when attempting nightime touch n goes last night around 530 PM at Meadow Lake airport (00V). Pilot walked away from the aircraft with no apparent serious injuries. That is one of the strangest...

It was a case of being at the right place at the right time for the U.S. Coast Guard and the pilot of a small airplane that crashed into the water near the San Carlos Airport last Saturday. The pilot was flying a single-engine Cessna from Oakland to the Palo Alto Airport when, "for some reason,...

Without warning or reports of turbulence, an Air Canada flight en route to Toronto dipped and rotated violently, on early Thursday morning, causing injuries and confusion among passengers and the crew. Strangely enough, flight experts are still unsure about what caused the accident. "What...

Don't know if there are many NASCAR fans here, but one of the teams planes crashed today. Right now there seems to be some conflict of the names of the passengers, but here is one of the news stories.

Local Birmingham, Alabama FOX news station just reported a small plane down in Etowah county, east of Birmingham. No details yet.

It's been reported that a single engine plane went down in the Hudson River today at around 11:51am EST near the Yonkers Pier. Two people were reported rescued.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/25/2009-08-25_small_plane_crashlands_in_new_jersey_mall_parking_lot.html Good outcome.

Local radio reports a plane down alongside I-70 on Vail Pass, Colorado -- elevation 11,000 feet. Anyone hear something about this? Seth N8100R

Good photo of a 182 being towed down the road! Based on the METAR data, conditions were certainly conducive for carburetor heat, but were they really too extreme for carburetor heat to be effective? --------------------- No one is hurt in an emergency landing not far from Carlisle Airport. The...

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