Tag: plane
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Woman dies after backing into plane propeller while taking picture at Kansas airfield
A woman died on Saturday after backing into plane’s propeller while trying to take a picture at an airfield in Kansas, officials said. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office reported that the woman was critically injured in the incident and later died at the hospital, according to NBC News affiliate KSNW. The sheriff’s office did not…
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5 dead after small plane crashes on Catalina Island
Five people are dead after a small plane crashed on Catalina Island off the California coast on Tuesday, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday the twin-engine Beechcraft 95 crashed shortly after it departed from Catalina Airport in Avalon at around 8 p.m. Soon after, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said their Avalon…
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Multiple dead after plane crash at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport
MANTEO, N.C. — Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport, the National Park Service said. The crash occurred at 5 p.m. as, according to eyewitnesses, the airplane was trying to land at the airport, the park service said in a…
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Pilot killed in midair small plane collision in California
A pilot died after two single-engine planes collided midair on Sunday in Southern California, officials said. The planes, a single-engine Nanchang CJ-6 and a single-engine Yakovlev Yak-52, collided near Lancaster, in northern Los Angeles County, around 1 p.m. PT on Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Only the two pilots were on board the aircrafts…