GREENVILLE — Three people died Monday when their plane crashed into a field near the Greenville Municipal Airport. The victims’ names were not immediately available, Greenville Police Chief Jeff Pomerleau said at a 3 p.m. press conference near the scene. Pomerleau said his department received a phone call from the Federal Aviation Administration at about […]
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Passenger plane crashes near Moscow, Russia; no survivors seen
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian passenger plane believed to be carrying 71 people crashed Sunday afternoon near Moscow, shortly after takeoff from one of the city’s airports. No survivors were immediately reported. The An-148 regional jet disappeared from radar screens a few minutes after departing from Domodedovo Airport en route to the city of Orsk, […]
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Medical transport plane carrying four crashes short of runway in Presque Isle
A medical transport plane carrying a patient, a paramedic, a nurse and the pilot crashed while landing Wednesday at the Northern Maine Regional Airport in Presque Isle. The aircraft, owned and operated by Fresh Air LLC, is leased by the Aroostook Medical Center to transport patients to higher levels of care at different hospitals. According […]
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U.S. Navy plane with 11 aboard crashes into Pacific; eight rescued
In this March 14, 2017, file photo, a U.S. Navy C-2 Greyhound approaches the deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during the annual joint military exercise called Foal Eagle between South Korea and the United States at an unidentified location in the international waters, east of the Korean Peninsula. A similar type […]
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Two Maine men injured in Ohio plane crash landing
LOUDONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crash-landed in a northern Ohio field, leaving the two men on board with minor injuries. Investigators say a father and son from Maine experienced engine trouble while flying Sunday evening and tried to land in a field near Loudonville, roughly 60 miles northeast of Columbus. The […]
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Pilot uninjured in Fryeburg ultralight crash
FRYEBURG — A pilot was uninjured, but the ultralight aircraft he was flying was damaged when it crashed in a wooded area off Porter Road around 6 p.m. Saturday. Police identified the pilot as a 56-year-old Media, Pa. man. He was flying his Aerolite 103 single-seat ultralight aircraft out of Leavitt Airport in Albany, N.H., when the […]
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Maryland woman, 2 young sons among 6 dead in plane crash
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Residents of a suburban community adjacent to a small, regional airport said they don’t give much thought to the jets that fly over their homes daily. But the sound they heard Monday — a plane flying much too low and struggling to remain aloft — was different. It was followed by a […]
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NTSB files preliminary report on plane crash that killed Gray pilot
LIMINGTON (AP) — A preliminary report by accident investigators into a fatal plane crash indicates the single-engine plane clipped trees shortly after taking off from Limington-Harmon Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board said the 1942 Culver two-seat airplane flown by 52-year-old Clarke Tate of Gray appeared to stall before hitting trees on the side of […]
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Pilot dies in a plane crash near Limington airport
LIMINGTON — A pilot was killed when his single-engine aircraft crashed 200 yards away from the runway of the Limington-Harmon Airport Saturday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Portland Press Herald. The pilot was identified as 52-year-old Clark Tate of Gray, according to WMTW. He was the only passenger on the plane. […]
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NTSB recovers engine part of NY plane crash that killed Rockefeller’s great-grandson
PURCHASE, N.Y. — Federal investigators have recovered a piece of the engine of a small plane that crashed and killed a member of the Rockefeller family in suburban New York. Richard Rockefeller, the great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, was killed in the crash on Friday. The Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop plane went […]