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Cessnas Collide in Midair Over SoCal

One pilot dies, the other lands on golf course

(Newser) - Two Cessnas collided over Southern California yesterday afternoon, and those aboard one of the planes miraculously survived. That plane managed to land, with its landing gear still up, on a Westlake Golf Course fairway; the three people on board reported only minor injuries. But the other plane, also a single-engine...

Pilot Ejected From Airplane by Mistake

Student wasn't wearing a seat belt when aircraft nose-dived

(Newser) - Freak accident in Tennessee: A student pilot was ejected from his plane during a lesson and fell about 2,500 feet to his death, NBC News reports. The man, as yet unidentified, flew out of the plane during a malfunction yesterday because he wasn't wearing a seat belt. Neither...

You Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying
You Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying
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Feb 12, 2013 6:59 AM CST

You Could Fly Every Day for 122K Years Without Dying

Statistically speaking, it would take 123K years of flying to be in fatal crash

(Newser) - Knock on wood, but the US hasn't seen a fatal commercial jetliner crash in exactly four years —a new record. And no stat encapsulates just how safe flying has become more than this one: A US passenger now has a one in 45-million-flights death risk, which statistically means...

Plane Blows Tires, Veers Off Runway

No one injured in that Newark incident

(Newser) - A United Express plane from western New York blew four tires as it landed at Newark and veered off a runway last night, authorities say. A Port Authority spokesperson says Flight 4480 from Rochester was landing in New Jersey when several rear tires blew. He tells the Star-Ledger that the...

Rivera Plane Owner: Pilot Must Have Had Heart Attack

Christian Esquino Nunez says he is not to blame

(Newser) - Christian Esquino Nunez, an executive of the company that owned the plane that Jenni Rivera died in, says it's "fair" for authorities to look into his shady past . But, though he was once imprisoned in the US for two years for falsifying maintenance records of planes he bought...

Marine Dies Pulling Friend From Plane Crash

Austin Anderson credited with saving Hannah Luce

(Newser) - When the Cessna he was traveling in with four friends went down in a Kansas field Friday, 27-year-old former Marine Austin Anderson managed to pull friend Hannah Luce, 22, from the burning wreckage. The other three passengers, including the pilot, died at the scene, while Anderson and Luce were somehow...

2011 on Track to Be Airlines' Safest Year Ever

But experts warn that we must keep working on safety

(Newser) - Assuming nothing terrible happens between now and Saturday, 2011 will close as the safest year ever for commercial aviation. For every 7.1 million fliers around the globe, there was about one passenger death, which will break the previous record of one per 6.4 million, set in 2004. But...

Model Talking After Propeller Accident

Lauren Scruggs making progress, parents say

(Newser) - Lauren Scruggs, the model who suffered horrific injuries when she walked into the propeller of a small plane , is making good progress after undergoing several surgeries, her parents tell ABC . "She didn't speak right away," her father says. "I said 'Lauren will you say hi...

Model Walks Into Propeller, Loses Hand

LOLO blogger Lauren Scruggs, 23, severely injured in accident

(Newser) - A young blogger and model returning from an aerial Christmas-lights tour walked into the small plane's propeller, which severely slashed her face, arm, and hand. Lauren Scruggs' left hand was amputated at a local Dallas hospital, and the 23-year-old model has undergone several other surgeries since the accident. Scruggs...

Oklahoma State Coaches Killed in Plane Crash

Kurt Budke, Miranda Serna were on recruiting trip

(Newser) - A tragedy out of Oklahoma State University: The women’s basketball coach and assistant coach were killed in a plane crash in Arkansas yesterday. Kurt Budke and Miranda Serna were on a recruiting trip when their single-engine plane crashed in steep terrain about 45 miles from Little Rock. The AP...

Russian Jet Explosion Kills 3, Injures 43

Fire began in an engine before takeoff

(Newser) - A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded today, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said. Most of the passengers and crew were evacuated before the explosion, though people on...

Plane Crashes in Utah Neighborhood; Pilot Survives

FAA looking into cause of accident

(Newser) - A pilot is in critical condition following a fiery plane crash in Utah, and investigators are trying to figure out what happened. The Cessna 210 single-engine plane went down in a residential neighborhood last night, ripping into pieces as it fell. Pilot Clayton Roop, 46, had been cleared for landing...

Why the Airbus Engine Explosion Should Scare Us

Shrapnel hit the wings, and that's a bad, bad thing

(Newser) - An Airbus A380 operated by Qantas made an emergency landing following an engine explosion this morning—and this is really scary stuff, writes aviation expert Clive Irving for the Daily Beast. Passengers reported hearing a bang and seeing smoke pour out of one of its Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines....

15 Hurt as JetBlue Flight Catches Fire

Tires pop, flames erupt in rough Sacramento landing

(Newser) - Fifteen passengers were injured yesterday when a JetBlue flight caught on fire during a hard landing in Sacramento. "Get out, get out, get out!" flight attendants yelled as they deployed escape chutes, recounted a passenger. "I looked back under the plane, and it was on fire, and...

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